Litchfield enquirer., 1854-04-06
Nisceiiapy.
A ROUGH PICTURE FROM LIFE.

Itis fine thing 10 be conservative of the benevolent east. Inhe,iling a fine old mansion, amid orchards. and gardens, and lawns, and surrounded by oId trees, whose mighty arms waved joyfully when he was born. and have discou,ed noble music to his ear ever since-the happy, kind, even minded dreamer dreads all in- noyalion. His net is snug. and he is afraid 10 lose single egg by the hand of thieying innovation. In the sunny parlor he reads his daily conservative journal, ratlfes its curses, and thinks he hates all whom it sligmatizes. His sides grow fat, his face 'g,ows round, his head grows bald, his heart g,ows mellow 10 all who know its sunny side. #
 Meanwhile the schools must be sup. portsd-yes, schools are ancient ins,iiu tons, and he paironizes schools. The academy must be bu'lt-and there are cen: ury old prectdcnls for acdemies--so he approves of them. All the boys are exho,ted to go to school, and all the maidens are ihere 10 keep them out of mischief. Now it will never do to cdu cate Yankee lad and lasses, if it is q sin 10 think, and if thinking er,s when it leads to action. Accordingly. SO many gils are growing ur. w!o. finding ihem- selves able to govern their parents, as. rile 10 be teachers of schools and so many invec,iye. thinking boys a,e brew. Ing schemes and improvements, that. in a laIf.sco'e of yeats. our kind old con. finds much mys,erous mischief abroad. Where il sLcu!d have come from lie cannot imagine. +
 IT ere are new fashions and :cw arch. itectu,e, new halls and new churches, new ministers and rev lawyers, Meanwhile the neighboring valley. child of n noun tain gorge ltt!e back. and borrowing its Do, k. has sLo~in signs of evil. A dam has raised the bl ook 10 an enormous pond, Which trout fcorn and frogs love. Gaunt mills go up. shanties abound. Irish fai'ics are digging under ground and over gsolLd. in tie wafer and out of the wa> fer, Iowder entering rocks and splitting them open with surprise. Alas !! there is no more quiet for our kind old heart ; his walks are circumscribcd. this influence wanes. his p'ejudices glow his quails and ] is cartridges. lis spring blackbirds, bis b'utb.rds and robins, are driven into close quarters or utterly dispersed.
 Ten thousand daily feelings vex bis soul. The factory village eats up his quiet. It's longhness. it's various impe,> tinences. its nigbt and day chatter. all oG> fend him. He retreats more desperate ly to his paper. and holds back with all | is might. But lime has a temptation for him that he did not estimate. His own grounds are wanted. Through that exquisite dell which Aknis along the north ern sides of his estates, where he has wandered book in hand thousand times. monarch ofsquirrels, blue jays. and katy aids, his only companions and subjects are seen peeiing and spying those execra- b.s men that tam tue world upside down. civil engineers and most uneivil specula- tors. Alas. the plague has broken out.
 His ground is wan,ed-is taken--is de- filed-is daily smoked by the passage oi that tbunder-dragon. dragging i's trail of cars. A jury of his own iowns,nen after ,gsaseIy estimating the case and consid- esiug his demand for ten thousand dol la,s damages. frankly admit the claim. but offset it with a judgment that lis pro> perty is increased in value at least twenty thousand. But that will never pay for Lis ,obins. his quails, his sa,umnsl quiet. hs evening s,roIls and his trout book. They have spelled one of Gods grandest pictures by tlashing it with laiIroad.
 but declare that the frsme has been enough improved to make up for the picture.
 Who that has spark of nature or the
 love of nature in him. would not be con. servative :? Alter this we quite enjoy to
 hear him drub the world in general and all modern improvements in particular.