Litchfield enquirer., 1856-08-07
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 any man at all. He was great man, and a
 Senator from Missouri, with a house at Wash ington, when John C. Fremont was a poor
 draugbtsman and mapist. Fremont would not have dared to propose to Col. Benton to run
 away with him. Such a thing would not have
 occurred to him, for he regarded Col. Dcntoa
 with becoming awe. But Col. Benton he'd q daughter, a sweet and amable girl, of whom 1 young Fremont was not at all ill ave- He
 had passed many an evening in her company,
 and the oftcner he saw her the oftencr he wish 1 ed to see her. Love oyercame tim;dity, until
 one day he found himself, hat in hand, with heated breath, in the presence of the great Tom
 Benton, asking him for his daughter. But Tom Benton would not do it. He was inexorallc, and he refused to do what in few days after 1 he was ready to do-Tom refused to give ! him Jessie" He also forbade Fremont the 1 house hut that the draughtsman cared little 1 for, because 1t was not the House he wanted. i Finding all persuason useless, the young couple determined to be married claIdestinely, ard so | they set about the preliminaries. They found
 the protestant clergy oyer-awed by the awful dignity of Col. Benton and afraid to act, but
 they found catholic priest who stood in 10
 such fear, and the knct was tied. Just before the decisive step was taken, and while her last
 step fingered upon the paternal threshold, the sweet daughters heart yearned for the mother
 who she was thus abruptly leaving, perhaps
 forever and she hung her head and sobbcd ;
 the carriage door stood open, the horses pranc- ed, another moment and all might have been lost "Go it Jessie" was the word from the bridegroom, the bound was made from Benton to Fremont, Ca great leap at that time, the
 horses tore the pavement in theh flight :; the
 night wore on. "They'll have fleet steeds who foIiow," thought the young GraughtSman,
 as his arm cncircled Jessie, and he looked at the moon under which so many strange things
 have transpred. Col. Benton walked ill the morning, descended to the breakfast table lut found no Jessie. Her room was explored but
 no Jessie was found and her bed had rot even been occupied. There was the great Col. in a
 great rage, sir ! He frothed and foamed, and
 roarcd and ranted perhaps he swore. He promised he'd give the rascal cowhiding- he'd give him six years in the Pentcntiary-
 he'd give him--" Yoa had Jetfer gire h;m
 Jessie" was the quiet suggestion of the mother -perhaps she was above half right.
 One of the groSseSt accusations brought against Col Fremont is running away with Tom Bentou's daughter yet, after all, there is much to be said in extenuaton. He admired the family, and felt that he must have a member of it. To have run away with the old lady would
 have caused great scandal and to run away with the Colonel himself was out of the qucs- tion--hc took the only one of the family he could get
 Old Cardinal R;chclieu said to Louis NIII, when that monarch fell in love with Julia De
 oc& IL love somebody, Sire, tcrc ms!" Beuton was still more unreasonablc--he shut his doors against Fremont, and fcrha,ie him to love any of the family. What could he then do but what
 he did
 Every pro-slavery newspaper from "54-4O or
 fight" down to 22-30 paradcs before it's read CTS the damning fact, that Fremont had the au. dacty to run away with Col Benton'S dau1I- ter, in order to be married to her. That llc
 told her to "Go it, JcSsc,' at the very lDo- ment of her departure. This fact is mentioned with an air of dccis.vcucss, as if he Lad run away with Col Bcuton's pockctbook, or favor itc racchorse. In this country, society. the
 laws, and public opinion all make a broad dis tncton, and so it stands, in respect to all their tribunals, that Col. Fremont isneithcr more
 nor less fit to be President of the Unitc,. States
 upon that account and lis wife is neither
 more or less fit to dispense the lospitalties of the Executive mansion. He will rot receive q l vote less because of the fact, which is of such
 unchalenged notoriety that denial is useless. AroLoGUE-A poor laborer, in q certain village died, after a long illness and having escaped the turmos Of existence, presented
 himself at the gates of Heaven, where he found he had been preceded by rich man of the same locality who had inst died, and having previously knocked, had been admitted hy the Apostle Peter. The laborer, who stood with
 out, was enchanted by the ravishing sounds of singing, rejoicing, and sweet music which ar- pcarcd to hail the entrance of the Dives and
 having knocked in his turn, was also admitted. I But what was his astonishment at finding silcacc
 where seraphc sounds had so lately been joyous
 lv uttered ! How is this ?' he demanded of Peter "whcn the rich man entered, heard music and singing is there, then, the same 1 distinction between rich and poor in Heaven as on earth ?" Not at all ;" replied the Apostle, |" but the poor come to Heaven every day.
 whereas it is scarcely once in a hundred years 1 that rich man gaIns admission"
 
 l PERSONAL APPEAL-A minister of the "kirk'' l of Scotland once discovered his wife asleep in the midst of his homily on the Sabbath So,
 pausing in the steady and possible somewhat
 monotonous flow of his oratory, he broke forth 1 with his personal address sharp and clear, but very deliberate Susan v
 Susan opened her eyes and ears a. twinkling,