Litchfield enquirer., 1848-09-14
. LITCHFIELD, (coNN.) rnURspAY SEPTEMBER IA, 1a4a

courage that he had made late escape from the vortex of ruin. None but pa> rent or n wife can appreciate their anxi cites for his reformaIion-,hrirj joys when they heard he had burst the chains "r tbs. bcasily habit and gave s:gns of return to q sober aud industrious ii,c, and theIr apprehens ;OnS lest he should fall
 Leonard Cutting became so'er man. His wife was made happy y-his friends hoped and fearrd-his children. tho too young to know what they had lost when the monster laid his whitening hand on their father, or what they had gained when the chain was broken, now opened their es on brighter prospects. An aged fa> ther' whose gray hairs lnOEed with sorrow to the grave, dared now hope that all was not blig hted in ignomy and dealh. and ns hope gltamed through :he dark cloud. was there hea,l that d Id not re. j"re! Musl we he!ieve there was hu man being. so callous, SD selfish. as not 10 rejoice it Leonard Cutting might cs. cape the precipice which had so nearly been his rum. Was there a being in the shape of man. capable, If he oud, ot ar> rts'mg the prrgrrss of a reformation, traught with so much good, and nothing but good, while he knew ,ha, the oppos,te course was only evil! Yes,-lhough we blush 10 own he kindred-ihere are su-h degenerate plants ot human kind. We have awful evidence of Il here. Our les. t.H,ony lies in that cotfin-:he record of misery and blood in wonder grog-shop.
 Leouard Cutting should not be a ,em. perale man-aud why! He could not be incorporate. IL Was cunceded on all Sides that drinking would kill hnl-wouId soon Ri hun. Why then, no, let hum be lenprrale? But, no, il was decree,i, ana could not be; trough all that is sw. ct in life pl, al t"r hts rxpmp ion; though the wants and woes uf wife aud four d,a, babes plead that he nigh, be sparcd.- 1t could no, be-il was decreed-the rumseller had decreed it-h,s rum drinks ing companions had !ecreed it, and would have it so.
 The Temperance Society, too, mus, needs be opposed-ihough it be at the expense of making destitute widow and casting her innocent babes on the cold compassinns of the world Leonard Cut ing became devoted man. He had de serted the ranks of their king. He must return. or dle. Thy ply him with sheer, with sarcasm, call hnn .. a cold water man." slave to the priest, u dupe nl pricstcraft. They revive old scenes, take him 10 oIt ficquented places and into the company of the wrelched inmates of the bhr-room and the grog-shop, and defy him once more 10 be man. They know the Inflama bIlty of his tIndered appetite, and if they can touch it with the fire oi alcohol in any of it's forms, they have gained their po'nt. He Was not leio- taler. They know the vulnerable point attack him wuh wine, and he falls Some say, however, that they haslened theIr work by cIandestinely n,ipgIng ~hiskry with the wine. Whether dUne in thus par. licuiar instance 1t is unnecessary to firm, but that lhIs IS mode of attack pract,>. by the enemi' Of the Temperance Rr- form in this place. is fac, yon canno contradict aud expect io be credited.
 Suffice II to Say. Leonard Cutting wa. overcome. He had long been the ave ot appe,ne. We stop uoI 70 inquire t"w much guilt he Inrurrrd in forming The appet,.e, but contemplate hlm only as Inc v,clim of it- held fast ID it's iron feiters
 had nooiy burs, his fellers, and many heart r'joie!tl!, i4 h.s freedom. Bul lh. toe lay 'n ar1'> ''"s she had rtSris'd "nd iakrn in their murderous .-. An! w.s t not n,nrderous! He had escnpeh iron ,he wreck of sinking veSsel-lhe raging blI flows spared him, but hs own spccies- h s friends, devuurcd h'm on ,he shore.
 He resumed his old habits, and soon fol- lowed anulh+T "f his fits. He survived this drank again> became intoxicated, sls pt Of ihe fumes, rose on the fol owing mornins te ore his fellows, Che s,ep. that ght or the beach) took skif 10 go to his fishing boat, but never reached it. The skiff wa! seen floating with the paddles alongside l but no one in it. The unforluHate mar was found dead in the water not two fee deep No me doubts that his system, sti! l uemu.ous and unnerved by ihe potons 0 the preceding night, became the easy pre-, oi another fit, and he fell helpless victim in the water. Ats ' '"
 We are now prepared to inquire, where are we io charge the gull. of this untime ly death! There is enormous guilt some where. Had he remained temperate man this would DO. have happened. , We may say he opghl 70 have remained so-every induce me urced h in 10 s'ead in til