Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1853-06-16
The Wooster Monument.

INTHE HOUsE ON FRIDAY.
The report of the Committee on the
Wooster Monument, favorably 10 the APP
preparation ni fifteen hundred dollars for
the erectmn of monument to the memory
nf Gen. David Wooster beng under con.
sIderaiiOu-
Mr.. Phelps nf Simsbnry, inquired if il
had been pr"posed to raise like SUM by
suhscrIp'0u
Mr.. Waterbury or Darien, said that the
subject had twice been before our Nalmnal
Legislature aud he had no doubt that II
reasonable SUM was appropriated by this
Legislature, il would be stimulated 10 ap
proprlale a Ike or even larger sum.
r. Berkwi,h of LnchfieId sad The
resolution now under consideration recon
me nds an appropriation for The erection Of
q suitable monument TO the memory Of tie
brave Gen. Wooster who fell a martyr IN
liberty IN the evenl(nl days ot our hev"ln'
linnary struggle aud ilniiiurlallZed the place
where he fell and made it con>ecra'ed
ground. am no, disposed to infcl 4'h
OF July oraiiDn upon the House nor enter
at lenuih into HE details of that hlmMiv
cunh CT or The oft repeated story of those
deeds of heroic vaiur aud malC'lleSS brave
~, Which achieved our indt pendance.-
they are as familiar as Household words.
Cnr STATE hiss exhibited comlnendahle
Iiberalny in making the appfnprla atoms she
has made 10 the memory Of the early de
lenders al our State, aud hope these APP
p,upriatinl y are not YET TO stop. There
are many worthy graves il our palrlnl c
State, over which ] should love To see p ain
al ,bSi NH ;ol la.
last Legislature made an appropriation for
repairing tie lofty mnnnmtn, upon Gr"l"n
Higgins, erected by our fathers 10 tell the
passing traveller that we hold dear, the
| memory of all martyrs To liberty ON thar
| field Of blood and cnrnTge. We LIKEWISE
| Appropriated $500 To aid tie CT, ZenS u
Milford IN erecting a beautiful and state
monument commemorative alike Of 'h'
kindness and sympathy manf; Sled by the
fathers Tor SIXTY sick and dying soldiers
| " n ~ death found n resting place IN On'
common grave, and were 10y stranger
hOnOsed and strangers nnnrDed. Whn
we should do for Ger. Wooster we shoul'
| do inr others equally meri"rons, VIII" were
sacrificed upon the same altar al American
iheriy-and II We cannot afford HE tuI
sum recommended in the resnlu: ON, le
$1,000 he appropriated which with the
| sums raised by local asSOcia, tons, will erec1
suitable and substantial monuments, ia
beautiful keeping with the Stern republican
sympathy, and unbending integrity of llIa
evenlln period of our early history.
Mr.. Smith Of Sharon, said -
Mr.. Speaker-Ii is easy to advocate a
cause wilen one IN conscious that tie feet
,ngs, sentiments and sympa rhes Of his an'
dlence are IN unison with those than AMI.
maze himself, and that their hearts beaI
responsive with his own. l. is a hight aud
yra'eim task 10 support such r, solution,
nv the one. bci;,re us, ~ the presence "t HE
descendants of thar daun,hss ytnmanry
~ HON British gold could nm buy, nor Bril-
,sh promises stdnce, nor British hayoneI>
,nilm,da,e. The episode al the RevoIu
heart ni a true sou 1T her soil Ia beave with
strong and proud em"l0D. and, rehearSed
~ Sung or story, silrs up his blood like the
blast Ui a trumpet. III The opinion Of her
intelligent population, u WAS eninenIlv a
war Of principle, struggle between the
great aniayOnslic inrces, arbitrary power
on the one hand, and civil aud religious
Liberty On the other. So far an size WAS
concerned, the Revolution served only q
nominal tie, but effected no organic change,
either in the structure ar the action Of her
government. From the first CONNIE noes
meni, when the three plantations al Har,>
ford, Windsor, and We,hersfieId. coEslnm
Ted the whO.e nf the infant colnny, it's
Quiet Magistrates were chosen, not ny the
authority al the Cr"wn, IS in her sister
COLONIES, bu: by the suflrs0es of her inds-
pendent people, and their PLAN and simple
style Of living was never ShNcked or insults
ed by the display "f regal po'np in the
person Oi some panpere.l mental al royal
master. "Tnere is M State in the Uhmn,"
says Bancroft, The American G,bhrn, :. in
wll,se early history, il I were citizen, I
could fluid more al which Ia be proud. and
less that | sisOnld wish Ia blot" Mobile
irsiinuny To n"hle truth. Under en,lenl aud
reheilinus from the start, rs u c,'!Ony, II was
natural tia, Connecticut should have beet
among the InreHOS, Ia sever the last lInk
thai bound her To foreign power. Three
times had The gallan, ln,le Republic. wi lie
vet ia the cradle, dared ~ provoke the
WI" III Of the mighty nnmarchy al England.
and IN ofen had she iriumphed by he,
undaWn,ed resolution. She refused !" de
liver up the Judges &c Charles the Ers,.
aud il.''se Noble eX,hs. thanks To her here
's'n, spent in que, repnse the evening oi
their 'll"s'rinus lives. Wh0 has W" he ard
m the concealmpW, Vr her TlnrmM Charle,
in the hisi"r,c monumental Oak !-anh her,
! cannm b", express my earResi hope, THAI
the gifted Rnn U' Tie State. aver whns.
alum's' stretch ita mighty arn,s.
may be inspired by ia daily v.snn ~ write.
ma he well eau write, the annals Or he,
history, aud thereby gain ~
Hnlv the las'in1 gratitude and admiration
if each aud oil Of her children, but eIec, Il
he own fame q monument mute enduring