Litchfield enquirer., 1844-09-12
pntKISH ORGIES.

POrNSH ORGIES.
 Mn. Epuroa.-It has always been a custom among barbarUus nations to make unnatural and EevClting sacrifices to their deities. The Hindoo mOthers from time immemorial, has thrown her dnrling child into the Ganges. TheGreeks caused altars to smoke with horrid incense to Venus, and the heather Roman dedicated his bull to Neptune And, in thisday of idOlatry and superstition prepared for the erection of any shrine. But, Sir human law is instituted for the protection of all peaceable and well-Ordered citizens, and according to the maxim of the great Jefferson, when once it has become subversive of those rights, it is the privilege and duty of the oppressed to spurn the bonds of the oppressOr. One of the most rev0lting instances butchery that ever stained our New England annals, happened in this village on Saturday the 7th inst. A young and faithful de- mocrat, whose whole life had been devoted to the cause of democracy, seized and brutaly slaugh- tered upon that very altar to which he had hereto fore ministered. It was in vain that he pleaded his past believing and services in the democratic cause.-the blind mob, regardless of that principle of clanship and honor that is said to reign even among thieves, executed upon him itheir fendish designs, and upon the night of Sunday barbarously roasted him over slow fire-a sacrifice to the de- mon of party. Oh, monstrous ingratitude! oh, foul reproach !-when hands of brothers reek with the blood of brother. To enter more into partic- ulars, sir: these Democrats had formed the cann- bal design of eating him and with this view the corpse was preserved we'll as it might be ethrough the whole of the next day and night, and on the the morning of the 10th, was deposited, like the body of French convict, in an OK cart, with noth- ing to screen it from the rays of burning sun ex cept the black flag of Texas, which was thrown over it in a sort Of demoniac mockery, from the sight of which enlightened human nature shrinks away in disgust and horror. The execntioners then proceeded to transport the manged carcass 10 the spot where the tables were spread 10 receive it, and here, sir, imagine yourself standing for the moment upon the ground, witness of the grim spectace the cart is stopped at the end of one of the tables, and upon the removal of the black pail you behold the shrivelled and blackened remains tof the victim. About thirty of the hungry broth- .erhood crowd around with open mouths and eager eyes bent on the deceased. The body, from the extreme heat of the weather, is already putrd and emits miasma that would nauseate the stomach of an ostrich a condor; it sweats and reeks with that decay which temperature of twenty degrees might be supposed to work upon it for the long period of week. But famine has never been re- snarkable for dantness of appetite-they fell upon Nhe carcass with knives, and fingers, and teeth, until nothing but the bare grinning skeleton was ef to tel. that the orgies of democracy were over ~ So 6ercely they mnunbled the bones of the dead, >Iill they scarce could arise from the spot where
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 After the repast, ,the few who were not 50 sursc;tcd as to be virtually unfit for ocomoton, again depo- sitcd the otial in the cart, and after having lost considerable part of it by rio and limb, piecemeal j, the public street, consigned the rest to its final abode.
 '. Thus ended such sacrifice as never delighted 4he hearts of Moch or Pluto in the darkest realms of their gloomy dominion. such is the embodi. sncrit cfthe modern democracy of Litchfeld coun- y, as it sends forth its rank vapor to pollute the sure air ofThese roet.bonnd hills. Such is the n- eensc, pungent with the slaSeryof Tcxar and spi- eed with the sromatics of repuaiation and nolif- Sa,icD that rises in the nostrls of the citizens of Connecticut. Such is The sacri6cih smoke that
 seends to deform the fair face of one of the love est days of the year. Let none ever after make harsh mention of the French teyoluton, or spesk roughly of the murder of Joan of Arc.- Nor let the Greek be blamed, ot the Roman be i'm. smpunsed-or any mortal speakUf the tender mer- ~ies of the Hindoo mother, save with 6 smile of spprobation.
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