Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-08-23
LITCHFIELD CELEBRATION.

There was great Centennial Celebration of the
settlement of Lichfed county, Connecticut, at the
village OF LITcHFIELD, last Wednesday and Thurs.
day. The usually quiet little town was thronged
with the sons OF Lichfeld, from all parts of Con-
necticut and other States and the event they met
commemorate was the occasion of elaborate histor-
cal dlscourses, poems, sermons, speeches. anec-
dotes, and all the usual accompaniment of such
meetings The orator of the day was Chief JUS
tice CHURCH, Of Connecticut; the sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. BUSHNELL and the Rev.
JOHN PIERPoNT was the poet. CONNECTICUT, as
every body knows, has been kind of mother hive,
sending out swarms Of her children to people other
States. A very large proportion of the population
OF New \ ork, Northern Ohio, Michigan, Indiana,
and other Western States look to the "land of
steady habits as their ancestral CRADLE If, as
JEREMIAH Mason said of New Hampshire, Con-
nectcut Is great State to emgrate from, her sons,
by their industry virtues, and intelligence, do credit
to the principles she seduously and successfully
indicates A correspondent of the New York Ex-
press says:
LIrcHrIELD has furnished perhaps, of the public
men Of the State than any other county and here let in
roduce you to few who known in our New York
home Three Of the four Judges of the Court Of Appeals
were born In this county, Messrs Jewe Rugsles, and
Fooe and the fourth born out Of the State In the Su
prene Court Judges Munson and Parker both born in
this county Ambrose Spencer was also Litchfeld man.
So also ex-senator Dickinson and The Collier family are all
from this county. So also Professor Church. Mr. Bsrstow
late State Treasurer Amasa ]. Parker of Delhi Judge
Buell. and George Gould, Of Troy Mr.. st. john of the
Bank Department the Pumpeys and Hawleys, Burnside,
Of Onondaga; Chancellor Whuesey, Dr. Backus, of Ro-
chester; the Talmadges Of New York the Seymour family
G. b. butcher, Of Columbia county Theron r. Strong
Judge Woodruff, Of the New York Common Pleas Rev.
solymsn Brown, Of New York city Judge Boardmsn, of
New Haven, and know not how many Others were born
here.
The town Of HMpersfeld. in Delaware county, New York.
part Of the Western Reserve, Ohio, and know not how
many other quarters Of creaton settled from this coun-
IT, Vermont has got Of her ables from this
y Of whom may mention Judges Phelps and Church also
members Of Congress by the score.
The old Litch6eh Law School, which commenced in 1884
and ourshod for thirty years, turned out though all
tves Vice President three four Judges Of the Su-
peme Court, many Senators in Congress- forty Representa-
tives in Congress- and Foreign Minister'S State
Judges and eminent mon without number Mr. Calhoun
used often to refer his visit residence and studies here
with very great pleasure and had he more Of New
England, the North and West in later life, am sure he
or at least he would have hated the free States less Starting
with the idea that he dsked at the Norh-a very ero-
idea, by the wayhe recprocated with hate and died
with extreme and bitter preudces against section of
try which sked the man. but the sentiments he pro-
mulgsted No man would have been received with more
respect or kindness than Mr. Calhoun the North had
he consented to come among
have mingled with number Of Georgians who were born
here and who make this their quarters. Connect-
cut fancy, conservative State, because 80 many Of her
emgrans They visit the country the world and
become berazed and chsanzed by travel and free in
tercourse with the world Connecticut. too State Of
manufacture and barter and commerce. whether upon land
water is always element Of intelligent conservatism
The same correspondent thus sketches some of
the speaking after the more formal exercises of the
celebration:
sNEw YoRK was honored with great number Of calls
for speakers who among the emgrants from the
y and who hold honorable positions in the Empire State,
for which Ltch6eld mother be truly proud
Ex-senator DICKINSON the first called upon after
number Of interesting letters had been read from the absent
Of the county, and of whom sent their replies
from the far off South well from quarters home.
There good letters read from Hon. JUIIus ROCKWELL
and Hon. ELISHA WHIrTLEsET, both natives and Of
considerable length and high republican and patriotic sen
meet from JAMES r. LAWRENCE, the marshal Of the North
District of New York. As Litchfeld man, he nvok-
ed upon the good people here hearty acquescence in the
compromise measures of the last Congress- final settle
of the vexed questions which have divided the country
letter from TaImadge, Ohio, recorded the names Of
x,yone settlers from Litch6ed county, Connecticut An
other from Richmond Kalamazoo county, Michigan almost
recorded like result, there in small township,
fory.one individuals hailed from these hills and valleys
The speech of Mr. Dickinson was prepared one but
very fine in sentiment both in the expressions of local
tachmens and upon the subject of public duties Mr. D..
left the county oyour years ago. He traced the progress
Of Government and what he held be public duty under
such Constitution He maintained his old opin-
ions with dignity and respect He had found he said the
sentiment Of Frederick the Great be one which
was that providence always helped the Of the best
disciplined troops"
Mr. PARKER, one of the Judges of our State Courts,
made chase and beautiful speech Of home and of childhood.
the remembrance of the familiar places Of childhood such
the old wallis often the defensive breastwork for
boys Of the shadow Of native the hearthstone and
Of home and than ALL Of parental instruction and the
principles Of school and domestic life. One incident he
lated was that when in Congress- few years SINCE less
than nine of the Representatives from the Empire State
corded themselves born in Connecticut. N
Recorder TALLMADeE, of New York, "a native, too as is
his brother the marshal also made humorous speech,
which much applauded, and delighted all hearers He
gave striking picture of the old schoohouse and the old
choomas of the rod which he did escape and had
forgot and pointed his old Latin and Greek tutor Mr.
ROBINS who the white tops and who had prepared