Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1842-06-23
From tie Neo- HsivsH PNN0diMHa.
THE SPEAKERS SPEECH.

"When shall we Ihree meet again IA "S"~s'
"s"'''s' Scene Of tAs Witches in Macbeth.
PAGERS abroad make cruel work in the
dissection Of Mr.. Speaker Wightman's beau.
tiful speech. The Norwalk Gazette says
Qua LEGISLATURE adjourned sine die on FRI
day last at IL o'clock. Its proceedings uPt0
that time will be found in another part OF this
paper, together with the pathetic, subduings
melting and absolutely dissolving valedicto-
ry of Speaker Wightman. The thought
makes US languish, and our eyes grow Ieeky
as it suddenly visited by a spicy breeze
from Wethersfield.
The Bridgeport Standard says
Thanks were voted in due form to Mr..
Speaker Wightman. In acknowledgement.
MIR. w. made most heart rending speech
spoke of the arduous business of the Assem-
Div, said that they had devoted themselves
admirably to its telicitous termination and
then informed his 'compartners' that in the
opinion of their unworthy fellow citizen n
most interesting moment had arrived. The
unworthy citizen proceeded as follows:
| when shall we all meet again! When!
an! when, indeed, shall we meet again
| Never never !! no! never shall we all
meet again. &c.
Very pathetic all this--it will do with an
onion 1t is not at all probable that any
such assembly will ever meet again. If
the 'compartners' had not met at. all. it
would have been quite as well for the inter-
ests of the State.
The Editor of the New. York Comsaercfal
devotes over a column to u review of this
pathetic speech. When he sat down to write
the article he determined to dip his pen in
aqua FORTS but he was so overcome by the
Speakers affecting ebullition that every
feeling Of anger and resentment at the acts
OF unprincipled destructiveness which he
had been contemplating died away. and
soothing influence stole over him like the
sweet tones of Chateaubriand's flute when he
charmed the serpent ut Niagara Falls"
Nothing short Of careful analysis can
disclose its many talent beauties, and the
dewy gems, like tear-drops, glistening in eve
cry line, which so touchingly illustrate the
sweet exclamation of the poet
There's bliss in tears!'
Proceed we, then, in the friendly discharge
Of our critical office, to select for peculiar
admiration few of the most precious intel
lectual gems in this tender performance.-
How stately and solemn the commence.
lnenl
"The present is solemn, an interesting
moment 1t is the moment Of separation -
We have met, we have spent several weeks
together in our fiduciary capacity. We have
formed fresh acquaintance, enkindled new
friendships, and revived the attachments Of
by-gone days. And now the voice Of destiny
rings in our ears the unwelcome mandate
that we must part. In obeying her sum-
mons''
Our admiration of this passage is such
that we scarcely know how to give it utter.
ance. The opening reminds US Of the dirgi-
cal paraphrasc OF Watts, BEGINNING
I" Hark from the South doleful sound.
Come, Jacob, toll the bell! !"
ADMIN cannot fnrheaP in
phrase, 10 make the sad and significant in-
CURRY" When shall we meet again ?''--
When ah when ended, shall we all meet
Ihgain!! Never never! no never! shall
we all meet again.
"How musical How melancholy !"as the
cricket said to the kettle. Fa;k 30 more Of
the notes of the dying swan 10 us. Indeed
we have halle mind to weep over it our
selves--and perhaps might do 81, were this
not terraqueous globe-three- fiflhs made
up of salt tears already. B4, then iks
thonght that such precious set of fellows
WI! never never ! no, never !" get tugeIh-
ef again in Connectcu:-how sad must it
make the people feel! How the Wethers-
field folks will weep over their onions
But let us examine this charming produc.
ton little farther -
| Soon, ali, very soon, the hour will CONF
when we shall pass away aud be forgotten
gnu iHCSc SEATS III Va tlitl
now knows us, will know Us ho more for
ever!'
This IS exquisite-yet ravished AZ wo
are, we have nevertheless half IL mind 10
suggest that had the weeping statesman
commenced this pathetic sentence with the
very fresh quotation
IT you have tears prepare to shed them now!'
1t would have been an Improvement. Better
still! would it have been, had he recited u
leaf from good Doctor Harvey's Medita-
tons among the Tombs," or in the I" Flower
Garden, no matter which for the Doctors
sentimeniaiities are all very much alike,and
abound with O's Abs! and Aliases with
sharp exclamation points sprinkied through.
out, enough to satisfy u dying Connecticut
Speaker. 40" what \ sad hour" will that
be toT poor, forlorn Connecticut, when this
great paragon of d Speaker shall be forgot
ten !" What an aching void do we feel
even now. that we do not remember his
name! AM! then that those " seats" IN New
Haven State House "shall know" him and
the bright luminaries by whom he has been
surrounded for the long period of four NOR
tai weeks, "no more forever! How terri.
BILE is that word "forever !-especialy TO u
man going out of office-and when too no
sees nc stands but poor chance of getting
back again!
! "These seats, in this temple of freedom,
that now know US, will know US no more for.
ever!"
All ! but we think we can almost perceive
a smile of joy playing upon the countenan-
ces OF some thirty thousand malicious Wings
IN Connecticut, at the very thought Of be.
ing rid of the man and h 10 vroofoS Hho&