Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1851-01-16


New York Evangelist, speaks thus of the
travellers experience:
"I am in another woodland not a.
new world but as l ride out every eve
ming see the wreck of nation hun>
dreds of years older than Christianity.
see the river that flo we'd through Par
adise, and so in our streets venerable gray
boards daily present themselves, like frag.
ments from the wrecks of the oldest>born
of nations. I see many Cain, and there
comes along, now and then, stately fig
ures, like Nimrod, the mighty hunter ;.
or like him who sold his birth. right. I
seem to have dealings with the brethren
of Joseph; and while Abraham has not
appeared to me, yet many Lot walks
before me. My Arab steed was sold to-
to me by Ishmael, himself, in all the rich
and graceful costume of a wealthy child
of the desert. On the whole, however,
must confess chat I think the godly
have ceased from the earth, and the spec.
linens see of antedeluvian and patri>.
archal men and manners, are certain.
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| I am in world from which woman is,
guarded and excluded. / see, indeed,
certain yelled forms passing through the
streets, and now and then bright eyes
flash quickly. but there is no woman. but
only many beasts of burden, bearing up
on human forms huge donkey-loads Of
straw and grass, and weeds and brush ;,
and besides these, few Gagged birds,
taught they have no souls, and that Par>-
adise is not for them. Alas, who shall
find a woman here conscious of her birth
right, pure and upright, bearing an an
gelic impress upon her features. and
walking right on up the narrow path to-
the portals of glory!
am in another world. Everything:
is turned wrong side out; mothers cover
their faces, and 60 barefoot, while their
little children run naked through the
streets. The rear of the house is thrown,
upon the street, and the public gardens
and trees are in the centre of private
dwellings. We live out Of doors in open
"lewans - we make s'surdaubs" or sum-
mer retreats in the cellar; our parlors.
and the housetop our bedroom. Indeed,
I SO far exceed the natives, that put,
my horse in an old oven to sleep. Should
/ enter your sanctum as / now am, with
a glazing red Turkish cap, with it's gay
blue tassels, and dignifed with a beard
Of six months standing, / think you
would gather up your papers. and per-
tiny ,VVNo mt hn ckw
and l fnre no better from the crowd
when there.
This is a slow world. Has not the
Tigris been running since Adam cultiva-
ted Eden, and yet it has not passed by.
Why should we hurry. Let the poor
people born yesterday in American woods
hustle and make haste to catch up with
the stream of time. To get anything
done is like digging to the central earth
and laying foundations for the Alps and
Rocky Mountains. TO get at the deed
of to-day, | must go back to Noah, at
least, and trace the race down. need
ed house simple matter when hun
dreds arc going to decay. o simpleton,.
look again! The approval of the Bishop
is requisite, and his reverence was not
disposed to tolerate my stay in Mosul;
anathemas hang like the mountain storm.
Woe to the luckless blacksmith that.
dares lift hammer for me. Woe to the
witless carpenter that shall draw the.
plane. Woe woe! woe to the wight
who shall rent house-and so render
his soul forever portionless Treaties
are TO be formed, councils to be held, and
moved with the ponderous roll of world
creaking upon its rusty axle, the affair
moves on; a month of negotiation !, FL
nally. ! may find house and propose my
terms. Four families are Interested thew
assemble, fires flash, there was not more
passion nor words in council of Jupiter
and his Peers but / was spared the
hearing and the result was favorable.
Now what had to do but move in Z?
Pause, American You have gone back
some centuries, and here men move, CAL
culating, at least. upon the days of Me-
thuselah. Blot out the word 60 ahead
from your vocabulary. Well, what nextl
See. here are donkeys in the best room,
and not little hay. straw. brush, stone,
and other refuse. See, the walls arc
bare.
Allow, at least, one week for cleaning
and repairs Let me hire masons to
complete the whole /! No. indeed. They
will assent to no such terms. You must
buy lime for them, and when the work is
all done. then first will you know the
cost. So lime is brought, and water to
mix it from the well, and each night, you
pay off all hands, going from the head to
the least boy, quite in scriptural style:
and notice, you pay even a certain toll
for the rope and bucket with which wa
ter is drawn.
The carpenter who comes to make the
book-shelyes. expects you to pay the por-
ter who brought his boards on his head
and shoulders. instead Of wheelbarrow
and as he sits at work. fat on the floor.
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