The organ of the temperance reform. (Cincinnati, O. [Ohio]) 1852-1853, 1852-12-24
Editorial OorrsspOndenoe.
NEW LONDON, CoNN.,
Dee. 17th. 1852.

laDlbS. ne COiNiCtiOh helFO iOAS
that Connecticut was one :
If the hardest States in the Union to
.rouse on the subject Of Temperance,
has been strengthened by this tour.
Nv labors have been confined to the
places of the greatest commercial inn
portance, which are always behind the
rural districts in moral progress. My
lectures have been we'll attended, and
the prospect Of a Maine Law in the
State, at an early day, isquite encour-
aging. The New England States are
now all moving in the right direction.
When the Maine Law has been en-
forced long enough to have history
to refer to, there will be no difficulty, |
in any of the States, in striking a |
death at the traffic.
The Vermont Legislature has just
passed law of prohibition, subject to
the approval Of the legal voters in
February next. l have an earnest
desire to aid in the canvass in that
State, but must forego the pleasure.
[ learn, by a despatch this morning
from Concord, N. Hampshire, that the
Legislature, notwithstanding the Sim
pressions" ofthejudges of the Supreme
Court, has refused, by the decisive
majority of tloen'g.hOo, to indefinitely
postpone the Temperance bill.
What preparations are the friends
in Ohio making for the great Conven-
tion at Columbus, on the 5th Of Janu.
ary? l trust there will be u great
gathering of the people at that time,
and that measures will be adopted to
have the entire State thoroughly can
vassed by competent lecturers. Bros.
D Cough and Jewett are both laboring
in this State, and the war will be
I, waged with increasing interest unit
after the election in the spring.
The weather here would be consid
cred warm in Cincinnati at this sea
son of the year. To-day we have ,
drizzTng rain, and everything look
b. gloomy. New London is an old place
tn having been settled as early as 164f
r It received the name it now bears b
1g order OF the Assembly in 1868, and
in at the same time, the river was calle,
y the Thames. The object was, to us
n the language of the Assembly, tina
,e e they thereby might leave to poster
lg ity the memory of that renowned city
le of London, from whence we had oul
s. Transportation" The city is situated
.e on the west bank of the river, near its
entrance into the sound. It has one
: of the finest harbors in the Union, and
= is a place of considerable shipping
v The population is now about 1000
t. The whale fishery and sealing bust
: ness is an important branch of theil
IF commerce. This place was rendered
is conspicuous by its sutferings during
K the revolutionary war In 1881, il
Y was laid in ashes by Benedict Arnold
q the traitor. A bloody tragedy was
70 enacted at Fort Griswold, on Grotar
Hill, on the east bank of the river, the
troops being put to the sword on thu
surrender of the Fort. The wounded
were loaded into a wagon and rur
" down the precipice, the enemy frin,
10 at the wagon as it ran. The igno
= minious end of the traitor, Arnold, an,
"' the melancholy fate of his family con
nections, will stand out through a
C. coming time as a warning to traitor.
he A cousin of Arnold, the last Of tn
re family in this country, a female of 9
Ity years, died quite recently in the poor
his house at Norwich.
ms 1t is a source Of great satisfactio
IN to me to visit the old cemeteries
He New England, and read the NOM
,iII mental Inscriptions. especially as
,ds recognize, among the departed, tn
=: ~ ancestors Of man. of my friends
Dis the West.
nts Before set my face homeward.
IN. expect to lecture here and in Norwicl
Bridgeport and NorwaIk.
1t is my purpose to attend the Coz
IL yention at Columbus.
,e, Yours, for the Maine Law,
tie S. F. C.