Litchfield enquirer., 1855-09-20
.Nisceiiapy.
TOWN AND COUNTRY.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.
 The jsaloosy between town and country appears to be ainssr ss old as civil society isself. The interests and empioyments which per,sin toahese tws casAiiions of humanity are widely Alfssem. spd seem destined to maintain, ! perpetual rivslry with each other. Each has at different periods been ju the ascendant, and the caase q each has heen espoused and naiaaisca hy rival schools 0f phibsScpbera aad posisicai econo- suisls. The aaciua4 Romaa delighted in cities, and 1eessed the couatry fit for the permanent residence only Of sSicsissral slaves; while the conQues0ss ef Europe, who rave bisth &o the (ssslxl system. bulk their castles and skongtsosds ia the unoccs- pied country, and from thence sent out their robber hands to piilage the despisea bargh- err of the tnwas. Adxn Smith, the assthov of the Weatsh f Nations. psonounces the cultivators Of the coil 10 Se ste only prod3- cers.aud au othes clsssesef society, whether inJustsioss q idse, so ke merely consumers of the products that farmers create. ia ac- coedauco with shis idea ,someof his followers have coatended ahsk sllshe advantages aad exemplioas which government has se 6e- stow saesAd ae given to them. whise the chamrinae of an opposite school have as- serted that aoshin2 ever requires ssse pro section os nd q goserameat hut commerce and manufactures, aad that if these are llouiishing. all othes shiays will Of necessity shvive.
 With these doctrines, however, w~ have at pressut aolhiag to io. We have aosasing to say about she question betweeu town and country historically, as t stou.l in the times when bAroas aadsmerchants debated it with halbeu and pike--nos economically, as it was argued by Adam Smith and his op- ponents-nor yet politically, as tt used to be understood in Rhode Island in the days when Ward aud Hopkins headed the two hostile pasiics--or in thoee latter days when Ar.hus Fenner united them in temporary coalition. and secured the federal coastitu- ,ion. Wa merely wish to call attention to the impressive and really alarming taci, that country life and labor. country tastes and manners, ara fast disappearing from among us, aud that town aud its int~sesss and wsys are everywhere usurping their place. Especially is this true in all our older Ssa.ss oe the Norsh. The country is either ~bandoaee fos the town by increasing pro postions of every successive generation, os what is neasly the sasne thing, the town is sprealinF its influence and controt over the cous,sy, and setsing ID its wre,ched aitars for msmmon worship-its vanity faiss ol fashion and exsravaRance on tho spots which sill lately have been sacred to rural industry so frugal happiness, to unsainted morality and unsuphislicated nature. Great cities arc everywhere advancing in population al ssspendous rates, while agricultural district srs as rapidly declining -savs. perhaps whese Inc population is concentrated ia oves-rrown villagrs that sspire 10 ilnitat, shs yices and folIies, the exiravagance ans idlencss ot tho distant city. But this is no all. Even whers the people remain h th' country md sre ostensihly engaged inagri eultunal employments. they no loager se ersmhle that amcieut yeOmAnry oC the lAnd-- such d as 6rss hsstled wish tha ladiAna md sllsrwasds mus,ered wisk simple-heast "a heroiam ia. the fxhta n Conrosd m, Quaker Hill. They srs all strangesy eii.6s1 They ass aftaid of bsing consides~d rasei and uncoath. They asrire to tho aoccm pljshmenss and the fashions. They sr sshamed of their proper einpioymenss, sa , me too cfirn eager to chauga ths suFa auiet of their county homes ios Inc timsI UO 0U3ttD4 SuO 0AsxsA &x@s N9ysA kSss<Nts - ths lsncied sass aad flendof of she tows
 Ws eoaless we sSe sosry to perceive . uany unmissAkeable evid%ncesi in onr nosill esa Ssasss oG the deelins of the old fashina eAeosairy Efe. We know nok uhas n | hseone of cilies swhrn them 1ceases u .avs eouRtsy. All vigosous eoasiiastioal all hssois sptsiis sad ssardy vistsss tend t evissbly so decline aud extiarsioa amidl ehe Iaxnsy cd self.induleencs, tlss huslis nna lsserisk lile of gIesl sOwas. and the reauiss to hoolien saovsurd by fsrsh iu possaiions fsom ths simpler elements of rsmi ,pApulstioa. Bus st ths Pfesent III tkesa can ho no doubt thaa ths pvoeess sssihilstioa bsswrea tho iuhskinnta sown sa1 coanssy h far too spid for the Ee wsli kalex If eiskar--and that many q . cisies, taslead q heing modified snd v provsd. - ihsy aseht b U, by scoessipl ftun the p0psiaeioa II the Fpnl dlstslel ass ea shs ocasrasy exlsn1ing tAeis esil |
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