Litchfield enquirer., 1855-09-27

=..=..--.s=---=s .X. No. 22. Whole 10. 1loo. gle is sll that now remains of the edilico
 erected y hin, and perhaps comprises all
 tha, was inclsded in his plan. Edward the
 Confessor found the building in ruins, and ] not only restored it but greatly enlsrged 1t.
 Large additions were made to ths structure
 by Henry TIL, but il was nos until the time
 of Henry VII. shat the abbey assumed its present magnificent dimensions and form.
 The $ Poets Corner" appears to be the
 most attractive spot 10 the mass of visitors
 to the abbey. \ deep path is here worn in
 the soiid stone floor, by the feet of pilgrims
 iron every part of the civilized world, who
 come 10 pay voluntary tribute to departed genius. The names of Shakespeare. Sheri-
 dan. Spencer. Chaucer, Butler. Milton, ,Gold-
 smith, Addison. Clifford, and others equally
 familiar, are carved each on its appropriate
 monument; and the dust of most of those l who bore them is buried beneath the build ing cr m the adjacent churchyard. Another
 department of the abbey is allotted to the
 monuments and remains of the Kings and Qaesns of Eagland; and another still, to her military and naval heroes. Statesmen, and men of learning in the varinns depart
 ments of science and literature, have also
 here found an honorable burying-place and
 name side by side with those of royalty
 itself It is fitting place to muse on the
 vanity of human greatness, as we'll as on the superior excellence Of virtue and indus
 try over the shallow pretence of wealth and hereditary rank. The latter may deck an unknown name with an endless variety of titles. but they cannot make that name ven.
 erated and loved. The most familiar names in Westminster Abbey--those which the
 world has most delighted to honor--belong
 not to that privileged class who inhen. their
 titles of honor as they do their horses and
 hounds. In England, as we'll as in Ame.
 rica, the brigh.est names in her annals are
 ofmen who have made tkemseives great by
 honorable efforts or noble deeds. P.x.K. DoN'T LIKE PoPeRy.--1'ha editor of the
 Louisville Joulnal, in doing service for the Know Nothings, has got into controversy
 respecting the merits of the Catholic Church
 and deals his blows without millens. He says: 4ssSs ss.sss e& ss sa g $. Roman Pon,itfa ara known to be both
 kings and priests. They unite with the | tiara tse imperial diadenl They hold the spiritual sword of Jesus. the temporal sword i. of Cesar and both the keys of St. Peter. With The two swords they havrcloven down
 the spiritual and temporal rights of man. 1, kind. With the two keys they have locked ] up heaven and opened hell. They have l disposed of crowns and kingdoms. lorded for twelve centuries over Gods heritage,
 and gotten drunk on the blood of the
 saints. Their principles and their praciices have ever been destructive to the civil and religious rights of mankind The most | ample lime has been afforded for the trial of Popary After reign in Italy for twelve
 or fiirrn centuries. no good fruit has ever been hornr. Freedom of thought, of speech. and of religious worship. is crushed in the very sea, of emriIe On his own dunghill. and al his o.n home. tke Head of the l Hierarchy mocks at the sacred Tights of mankind. He restricts and punishes them systematically, pnrposely, and avowediy upon the principles ofhis religious corpora.
 tion. No predecessor of his has ever done otherwise through ages upon agrs. Ii tho long series of sovereign desposs were truly
 commissioned ny Jesus as Head of His Church. then Popery is divine. the Declare
 ton of Independence Is He. and the con-
 siituiions of America are usnrpatlons on
 the divine rights Df Kings. II fthr principles of our constitutions afe correct. every Papal l Poniif has been mere usurpef and ltyrani. No true American can love and re- were ihe character of Poniifcal Tyrant; nor can the heaTi take n distinction between
 s,is kingIy aud lis ptIestIy nature. If the kingiy part sf him were beheaded the priast- 1 ly part would hardly be spared. lt is im- possible to deifst and pay homage to the
 same person. We cannot revere in one man the psiYst, while we hate the tySaht.--- The sanctity of the pontiff is utterly lost l in ilie asrocity of the Despot.
 IF Just complaints made brcahse' mage azinss are ofien pubIished WillI uneut ieayes.
 The time lost in opening them singly is
 enormous when considered in the aggregate. Publishers would loss nothing in public estimation by saving tl,eif readers this pro-
 sokiog tfooblp- particularly when we reflect
 at what insignificant costit may be done by l them.
 IF Louis Napoleon kissed Queen yicto. ria when she landed in France. When
 Louis Napoleon was special constable in
 London, if he had presumed to kiss the Queen lse would have had his brains knock. ed out with blow from " billy by some of his conssabulary broshsfs.
 U A modem philosophefs taking the motion of the earth on it's axis at seventeen miles second, says that if you take off l your hat in the street to bow to tfiends ! you go sesrnseeu miles bafeIseaded, without