Litchfield enquirer., 1856-02-14

MR. EDiroR A stream never rises higher tI,ai, its tountaiu-and from Oriha's article in your last Enquirer. we judge his ca- pacity ,o be of ,l,e genus " lniinitesimal."
 From his pigmy emiuence of accuHIu!a. ted wisdom and observation, he breaks forth into lamentations over the desolation, deprivation, and darkness that brood with shadowing wing over the households of the "Li:chtield farmers"
 The creeping insects in our path were created by Infinite Wisdom. and have a destiny to fu6ll--and we doubt not that Orha is striving with equal vigor to achieve some purpose corresponding with his abili. ty! But he has already gone beyond his strength of wing. (n,ade of q goose quill ) and while re-adjusling his soilsd pluinage. ruffled by his flight over the well titled fields, broad meadows, and clover feckrd pastures of our benighted farmers wonld advise him to chant songs of Thanks. giving that the " lines have fallen 10 him in pleasa nter places'--and that he has more intellectual heritage!
 Some of Onha's assertions are sn faIse, that way-faring man, though fooI," could not be deluded into belief of such statements. The intelligence of our far. mers and their families needs no panegysis to establish so palpable fact--and ven- ture 10 say that some of our professional gentlemen fl brought to test, would ba compelled to acknowledge that among them they had found their equals and their peers. Ortha also states "ihere is not one tanners son in town, that is brought up in the place, tha: makes it his residence after he is twenty.one." To prove the untruihfui. ness and ignorance of the writer, one need not go over three miles from our village to find at least thirty farmers who are suc- cessfnlly and respectfully cultivating the very acres their fathers sowed and reaped, long before they ever " saw the light of day"-and in more than one instance can we point to the fourtf, generation now fe- joicing in the ownership of the homestead bondage or |" such dread of tho old farm!" If Ortha Jeff the paternal do- main "in disgust" let him not on tho principle that .' misery loves company" aver the same of others.
 That to some extent, the sons of our farmers einigrste cannot be denied circum- stances and tastes vafy-lhereiore home and fortune is sought elsewhere. If Litch. field is depreciating we regret it--evssy hamlet cannot grow into city, nor every village contain all tic good things iis dweIIers may covet.
 orlhawould doubtless be benefited by . change of air and more enlightened nsirk- bors VaIenie- voiente.
 Litchfeld, Feb. 6
 Ma. HyArr-1n your notice of the out- rage at Kent last week. observe an er- roneous statement. Only fioo gentlemen ware in light. one horse sleigh wiih me. instead of three as stated. So far from myself or the gentlemen with me, (excspt Mr. Sperry who can speak for hiinself) having been "wafned what to expect,rl | affirm that we had not had the slightcst in- stimation that any acts of violence ware contemplated l am informed that shs ;. Border Ruffians." :" and their sbsitofs have very industriousIy circulated such rspofs. They well know that had such washinR been given, certain precautionary meseuses would have been taken. which would have efIectnally prevented them from accomplish. ing their vile purposes.