Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1846-01-29

! If&TIF IVA :
| When saw the immigration of the Pill
grims from the chalky shores of England
in the night fleeing from their native HON,
so dramatically and ably pictured by Mr.
Webster in his celebrated Grafton when ia,
ther, mother, brother, wife, sister, lover
were all lost, by those melancholy wanderers
"stiding," in the language of one Who Il
immortal in the conception, "the mighty
hunger of the heart" and landing amidst
cold and poverty and death, upon the rude
Rock of Plymouth have ventored to
think that the will Of Deity was there!
When have remembered the Revolution
of T6-the seven years. war-three millions
of men standing in arms against the most
powerful nation of history, and vindicating
their 1ndepenpence-I have thought that
their suAeriugs and death were not in vain |!
When ] have gone and seen the forsaken
hearth-stone, looked in upon the le;feld,
upon the dying and the dead-heatd the ag-
onizing cry, "Water, for sake of God! wa
tsr'-seen the dissolution ofthis being --pale
lips pressing in death the yet loved images
of wife, sister, lover-I will not deem all
these in vain! cannot regard this great
Continent, reaching from the Atlantic to The
far Pacific, and from the St. Johns to the
Rio del Norfe, a Slave Empire, Barbarian
people of third-ratc civilization! 40 + +
Like the Roman who looked back upon
the glory of his ancestors, in great wo ex-
claiming, ..--.r-IE =. =. -,.-,-- h., !
"Great scipio's ghost complains that we are
And Pompey's shade walks unavenged among
u.s.
the great hover around me: LAWRENCE,
"Dont give up the ship"-HENRY, "Give
me liberty or give me death"-ADAMs,
Survive or perish, am for the Declare
tion,"-ALLEN, elm the name of the Living
God comet" d.!
Come, then, thou ETERNAL! who dwellest
not in temples made with hands, but who, in
the City's crowd or by the far forest stream,
revealest myself to the earnest seeker after
the True and the Right; inspire our hearts
give us undying courage to pursue the
promptings of our spirit; and whether we
shall be called in the shade of life to look
upon sweet, and kind, and lovely faces
as now-or, shut in by sorrow and night,
horrid visages shall gloom upon us in our
dXing h2q H. SQaHkh MY copHr"v' '''""
MT. OLAY HdVlHS COuCluuCu AhS ASAA"A" S
amid deafening and prolonged acclamations,
three resolutions, handed up to the desk,
were read by H. Greedy and submitted tothe
meeting. They were Immediately spirited
away by se!nne Ct Cur contemporaries, but
their purport was as follows ts7 .-....
RESOLVED, That we regard the destruction
of the True American Press by mob at
Lexington, KY, as a direct attack on the
Rights of Free Speech and the Rights Of
Man, and that the authors of that outrage
are deserving of the severest apprehension.
RESOLVED, That we tender to CAssrUs M.
CLAY our fervent gratitude for his struggles
and sacrifices in the great cause of Univer-
sal Freedom, and we trust his devotion will
vet be crowned with the amplest and mos
gratifying triumph.
| Resotued, That we are deeply indebted tt
Mr.. Clay for his Address this evening in IA
vor of the great principles of Justice am
Liberty, and we assure him that our arden
sympathy will attend him in all his futur
efforts in behalf of Universal Emancipation
Which Resolutions were unanimously a
dopted, with six unanimous cheers for Cas-
sius NJ. Clay and the Freedom of the Press
The meeting then g l-2 o'clock) adjourn