Litchfield enquirer., 1849-06-14
No. 4. WHOLE No. l21l.
Henry Clarke Wright.

Human Life: Illustrated in nv Indi-
 vIdual Experience as Child, Youth,
 and Man. By Henry Clarke Wright.
 Boston, 1s49."
 MT. Wright is a remarkable man, but
 there is little that can be called remark able in the record of his life as oiven bv
 himself; and it strikes us that he has been
 lather premature in taking Time by the
 1oreiock to publish his autobiography.
 lie IS but fifty years of age, and being a
 progressive of the most active order. he
 may yet live another life, which will read
 oddly compared with the past. But it
 IS not for us to look gift horse in the
 mouth. When a man voluntarily piyes,
 his secret history to the world, it is the
 part of the world to receive it gratefully.
 Every man should be allowed to know
 best whether there is anything in him, or concerning him, which the world will be
 the wiser or better for knowing; and as
 MT. Wright is one of those sincere per.
 sons.who act up to the dictates of then
 consclences, it is to be presumed that ha
 was induced by honest convictions of du. ty to publish his individual experience. There is much that is profitable, and not a little that is merely amusing, while there IS hardly anything that is positively ob. Jectlonable, except on the score of good taste, Tn these personal gossippings. Mir Wright informs us that he was born, of rather that he began to be-" in Sharon, County of Nrchfield, State of Connecti. cut, August 29, 1797. When he was four years of age his father moved into the wilderness of Western New York, and lived on farm; here Henry work ed as most lads do under similar circum- stances; he tended babies, helped to do :, the work of the family. mixed cows, took care of the cattle, and performed his part m cultlvating the farm. The record of ms boylsh life is written in style of easy simplicity and frankness which reminds us strongly of Cobbet; it is the pleasant est and most profitable part of the vol, ume and forms as characteristic a picture of American country life as we have ever read. Our author worked on the farm until he was old enough to learn trade, when he was apprenticed to a natter; at the age Of seventeen he experienced re- llgion, and afterwards studied Latin and Greek with view to becoming minis. ter; in due time he entered the Theolo gical Seminary at Andover, was ordaine minister. and preached to a congregs ton in Massachusetts seven years. Bu DcCdIIIU ~ UUI1IO of the extremest school. He is an ad- vocate of the largest conceivable libertys and a non resistant of the meekest order MT. Wright has travelled much in Eng land and is well known to the reformers of Great Britain, not only from his per sonal labors among them, but by a me, moir of him which was written by one of the Howitt's and published in their Jour- nal. Interspersed through his volume in promiscuous manner are divers let4 ters to William Lloyd Garrison. which are a blemish upon the book, although well enough in themselves, because they vios lently interrupt the flow of the narraa tive. MT. Wrightis, undoubtedly avery jealous reformer and man of strict in tegrity, but he has been guilty of some extravagances, such as his pamphlet at tempting to prove that General Taylor was no better than mercenary assassin. which we can hardly understand how a satie and honest man could commit.