Litchfield enquirer., 1845-10-02
A PAYING MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY.
LITCHFIELD- WHAT TT WAS, IS, AND
 SHOULD BE.

Below we give an interesting letter from z. D. .Namsfeld, Esq , the able editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, which we copy from his paper of the 18th of September. Like most other visitors to our little metropolis, he speaks in glowing terms ofthe beauty of its location and general appearance, and proceeds to descant upon its departed glories-ts once hourshing schools-and its great men of oth- CT days. But, in very truth, we are becoming wea- red with the too fashionable mode of speaking and writing, when Litchfeld is the theme. That there IS much truth in what is thus said, we do not deny--but why harp forever on a Jrokcn string, though it does disco 1rse ofwhat is too iteral ly true? Why does not some one who is compe- tent to the task tell of the superior natural re- sources which this town affords, and show what it might become if they were rightly improved There is available water-power enough within our limits for second Lowell-and wealth enough, too, to build it, if we only had the enterprise and public spirit to apply that wealth. Many of our moned men employ their capital a6road-and why should it be so, when large portion of it, at least, might he pr,ftably invested at home' There is scarcely better stream in the State, for manufac-
 
 not be long before some one will discover and ap- preciate its advantages -four own citizens do not, strangers will. Agents of wealthy men from abroad have the season past been making |" tour of ob- servation" through the northern and northwest ern part of this county, with view of noting the water privileges; and we know of at least one of
 the privileges which has been fixed upon by them 6ol1 1of E,t,, ol point of fact, possess half the advantages of loca tion, fall, and bulk of water, which is afforded by streams iE this town.
 Again-there is no more suitable and delightful location for Schools at the north, than this. Gen. temen at the south, and elsewhere, are becoming more and more dissatisfied with the short lived fashion of sending their sons and daughters to our northern cities for the purposes of education-and very general preference for pleasant retired coun try villages, Is felt All that seems to be wanting notc to draw students of both to this place, in numbers equal to those who were wont to gath CT here half century ago. is the establishment of Seminaries of the right stamp, and the employment of competent teachers in all departments of Sci ence and learning usually found in the most ap- proved institutions of the kind. Shall they not be established In point of taste and neatness in its outward appearance, our village has vastly impro- ued since the palmy days of which we hear so much; and the general intelligence ofits citizens is certainly equal to what it then was. And if we cannot point to as many distin guished names among them. we have nevertheless in our midst, men who will one day be appreciated--whose posthu- nous honors will be as great as those now are who lived in the-generation before us. ,,
 If there has been retrograde step in our histo- tory, is it not time for us to make all effort to re- cover what we have lost! Instead of telling what we hGue been, should we not strive to see what we can be?
 But here is the letter to which We alluded above: