Litchfield enquirer., 1844-02-22

ceding, and no when he finds it operating against
 his plans, he discovers ill it a monster.
 There is one other thing in the regulation or1s42 to which he should have objected which is |" No premium may be awarded by any Committee to one of its members" He could then have got in his Northfeld farm, without any trouble at all, which farm he did enter, in the name of his sons under 2l years of age, he being member of the awarding Committee. "Posslbly this alteration was intended 10 be personal" In its application It proved to be so, that's all
 In ISll Mr. B. complained much about what he was pleased to term !" the peaking system" which was, that members would bring their cattle within a short distance of the field, and stay them while they could view the cattle entered and if any de- partment was deficient or ill-supplied they would enter their cattle and carry off the premium, and that the owners of cattle living in the vicinity of the exhibition pursued this practice. To obviate
 this difficulty, it ruled That entries for pre- mlums on stock, be made to the town Committee Tn each town, or to the Recording Secretary in Lltchheld the day previous to the Cattle Show'
 How do we find MT. B. observing this rule On the day of the exhibition he is coming ir from tune to time, to examine the book of entries, and being asked "what will you enter MT. Blakeslee ?'' he replies will let you know soon, and returns a9ain to the field. At Il 1-4 o'clock the time having expired in which the town Committees are to report the entries made the preceding day, Mir. b. comes III and requests the entry of pair of working oxen. Here he may learn why he was disappointed in his premium. The case was im- mediatey reported to the Executive Committee and they voted unanimously ss That the Commit tee on Working Oxen be instructed to report Mr. Blakesee's cattle as not having been entered ac- cordlng to the rules of the Society," But to return to the writer under consideration. He eneuires on what principle was premium granted to Ralph G. Camp and John A. Merriman &c It was un on the same that the Committee gave S2 to Jacob N Blakeslee for sample of Wheat which he ex- hbted the January previous and for which no premium had been offered.
 Ralph c. Camp received discretionary premi um and 1t was so reported by the Committee who awarded it. ..+
 The writer goes on to congratulate himself az having given history of the origin, progress and decline of the Ltchfeld Co. Agricultural Society, would like to know where he discovers symptoms oi decay! And on what principle of logic he can show its decline? Does he think he discovers it in the annual Cattle Shoac and FIai,.? Never has there been better exhibition than the last These veral departments of Manufactures were well SUD- piled with both elegant and useful articles, and in the field the exhibition of good breeding animals has never been surpassed The stocks of neat cattle and the pens of sheep and swine showed well the deep interest which the farmers of the county take Tn the subject and the beautiful Oxen which were there to be although they were almost as fat as they could be made, showed no symptoms of decline. No none any where ex- eept in the heart of the writer under consideration Read the report cf your Committee on Agricultu- ral Products and you will discover that they ex- ceed any thing ever before reported to the Society The wonderful discovery of the gentleman that the Constitution and Bylaws of tho Society onght to be fettered,* he must have been led to by his own perverseness. An Executive Committee that should have no power to enforce the by laws and of the Society! An Executive Con- mittee, that should have no power to prevent fraud being practissd, and could not secure to the members of the Society their just and equitable rights It would be an executive in name on1y.-- It is because he could not evade the regulations, that he finds them too rigid. It is because he wished the Committee to make rulessto control others, which should have no bending force upon him. If Mir. B. sees himself looked down upon, the course which he has taken above alluded to, will explain the cause I very much doubt whet- CT Mir Hurlbut will give the writer many thanks for the use made ofhis name. It s net true that a strong prejudice is indulged against Mir. Hur1- but;' he is liig}l esteemed member of the SC- cietv, and that any should have lIgged man of his unexceptionable character into prcduct;nu of the kind for the purpose of giving credance to his nelarious designs, is base indeed. When an evil minded individual wishes to asnersc the tion, and whose reputation is attained by worthy action, scurrillity and ridicule have ever been the weapons made use of to produce an effect, and used too, under the shield of anonymous. It was 30 with those who wished to asperse the charae- ter of the Immortal Washington! but their foul shafts fell upon their own heads. Let this hidden teacher beware of the hand ;,poa He Jj'uU.
 J. C. AMpLER
 Bethlem, eb. F13th 1874.
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