Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1843-03-09

| clan valor were here most signally display.
ed, but that Greece herself was here saved.
| 1t is because to this spot, and TO the event
which has rendered il immortal, he refers
all the succeeding glories Of the rspuhlio.---
y is because, fthe day has gone Otherwise,
Greece has persisted.
| "If we conquer, said the Athenlan com.
mander. on the norning of that decisive day
| IF we conquer, we shall make Athens The
greatest city Of Greece. A prophecy, how
we'll fulfilled 1t God prosper US, might
have been the more appropriate language Of
our Fathers when they landed upon this
Rock-it God prosper US. we shall here be-
gin work which shall Lust for ages we
shall plant here new society, ia the princi-
pies Of the fullest liberty and the purest reli-
gion; we shall Subdue this wilderness which
is before us; VIC shall fill this region of tho
great continent which stretches almost frons
poll to poll, with civilization and Chrisii-
ty the temples of the true God shall riS0
where now ascends the smoke of idolatroua
sacrifice fields and gardens. the flowers OF
summer and the waving and golden harvest
of autumn shall extend over thousand hllG
and stretch along thousand valleys, never
vet, since the creation reclaimed to the use
Of civilized man. We shall whiten this
coast with the canvass Of IA prosperous COM
merce we shall stud the long and winding
shore with a hundred cities. That which
we SOW in weakness shall be- raised in
strength. From our sincere, but houseless
worship, there shall spring splendid temples
to record Gods goodness from the simplic-
ity of our social union there shall arise wise
and polite constitutions of government, full
uf the liberty which we ourselves bring and
breathe; from our zeal for learning inStitu.
tons shall spring which shall scatter tho
light OF knowledge throughout the land. and
in time. pay ingsback where they have bor-
rowed, shall contribute their part to the
great aggregatesof human knowledge; and
our defendants, through all generations
shall look back to this spot, and to this hour.
with undated affection and regard"
ator was prophecy fulfilled, twenty two
years siNce, what shall be said Of New Eng.
land at the present time, when we consider
the advances that have been made in popu-
lation. wealth, Improvement. and mentat
cultivation.
New England now comprises territory
Of about sixty thousand square miles,divide6
into sixty lone Counties and over thirteen
hundred towns, which are again subdivided
into villages aud hamlets. The population
which, in 1920, was less than one million
seven hundred thousand, had increased, in
1910, to two millions two hundred and thirty
been made, Notwithstanding many adverse
circumstances, in Agriculture. Manufactures,
Commerce and the Arts, and the aggregate
wealth of the people of New England, prin-
pcipally invested in those branches IF indus
try cannot he esttEaated at less than one
thousand millions Of dollars. For Religious.
Moral, Literary and Educational institutions
tho Now EnglHnders havo always been dis
,nguished. Within the bounds of these
aLa. Hhav,
temples dedicated TO the worship of the Most
High nineteen colleges, sir hundred and thir-.
~ academies and thirteen thousand three hum.
drea and tscenly-nine common aud primary
schools, devoted to the education of YOUTH,
Literary, scientific, moral and benevolent
Societies abounded in every State. if not in
every town and village. Surely, the world
has seen nothing like this.
Internal improvement followed the es--
adjustment of the present Government
More has been done within the last thirty
years than in all our former history. In tho
first Of these particulars, few countries exc
Gel the New Egland States ;''-said Mr..
Webster in 1920. At that time Railroads
were unknown in the United States. Now,
more than four thousand miles of these
worksAave been constructed and are in OPP
GRAFTON, of which over seven hundred miles
are within New England territory, cOmmu.
nicating with others of two or three times.
the same extent TO the South and West.
In taking view Of the progress of that
branch Of the Anglo-Saxon race which first
settled the Eastern States, commencing at.
Plymouth 222 years ago, we must recollect
tina. the population has not been confined 10.
former limits but breaking over imaginary
barriers. many years since, the tide OF pop
ulaton has flown steadily 10 the West,
" Two thousand miles westward from the
rock where their fathers landed, may now
DC found the sons OF the Pilgrims, cultivating
smiling fields, rearing loves and villages
and cherishing the patr:mOnial blessings Of
wise institutions, OF liberty and religion"
Advancing generally, north OF line drawn
through the 4Oh degree Of north latitude. the
descendants of Puritan ancestry now pre-
ponderate in the northern and western parts
Of the states Of New. York and Pennsylvania.
northern Ohio. Indiana and Illinois. and all
parts of Michigan and Wisconsin. II mag
safely be asserted that in these states and
territories the population Of New England
stock amounts to at least. three n1'!Iions OF
souls. Nor do rivers mountains or seas
resist the progress ofiDdusiry and enterprise.
Ere long the SONS OF the Pilgrims will be ON
the shores of the Pacific. The imagination
hardly keeps up with the progress Of popu-
latio,, improvement and CIVILIZATION. we
take no account in these observations 81
those numerous emigrants, who from spirit
Of commercial enterprise or other causes
swell the population Ut cities, or seek their
fortunes in southern and foreign climea.
Estimate Of the present Population Of the Northern
and Western States OF Ne"-E-ngiand AncestFy OF
White Population Of tie N. Eng. States