Litchfield enquirer., 1859-10-06
Whole No. 1902.
A MIGHTY cIrpE AL

at the house of a friend, when one Of them ex.
claimed:
:" All, depend upon it, soft answer is q
mighty cure-all"
AT this stage of the conversation, a bow
who sat behind, at table, studying bis Latin
Grammar, began to listen, aud repeated, as be
| thought, quite to himself.
soft answer is mighty cure-all."
les, that's it," cried the gentleman, start
Ing and turning around to see where the echo
Came from Yes, that's it, dou't you think
so, my lad ?"
The boy blushed little at finding himself
so unexpectedly addressed, but answered.
IL don't know whether / understand Won.
| SIR" J0"'
Well, I'll explain, them" said the gentle
man. wheeling round his chair "for It is a
principle which is going to conquer the world y
The boy looked more puzzled than ever and
thought he should like to know something
equal to Alexander himself.
" might as well explain" said he. "bv
telling you about the first time it CONQUERED
NE. My father was an officer, and his notion
was to settle every thing by fighting if boy
gave me saucy word, it was,
Fight 'cm, Charley, fight 'em /"
By the by, was sent to the famous -
schoo, and it so happened that my seat was
next to lad named Tom Tucker. When 7
found lie lived in q small house behind the
academy, began to strut little and talk
about what my ,father aoas but as he was a
capital scholar, very much thought of by the
boys, besides being excellent at bat and ball
We were soon on pretty good terms and so it
went on for some time. After awhile, some
OF the fellows OF my stamp and l with the
rest, got into difficulty with one of the ushers
and somehow Or other, we got the notion that
Tom Tucker was at the bottom of ito
Tom Tucker who is he ?" | cried anpi-
~. I'll let him know who am |" and We
ratified on until we fairly talked ourselves into a
parcel of wolves. The boys then set me on to
go down to Tom fuckers and let him know
what he had to expect. Swelling with rage.
l bolted into his yard, where he was at work
with Trip and his little sister.
ri teach you to talk about me IN this
aoay," Numbered, marching up to him.
lie never WINGED or seemed the least fright
ened, but stood STILL looking at me as mild as
lamb.
"Tell me-" I cried, throwing down nv
BOOKS, doubling up my fists, and siding up to
him, tell Inc, Or pll-kill you," was going
to say. for murder was in my heart.
He stepped one side, but answered firmly,
yet mildly
you ps as;s' Y0R In maE strike me as much as
again; fighting is poor way of settling d df
ilcultles. I'm thinking when you are Charles
Everett, I'll talk with YOU"
y, what an answer was that F.! how it
cowed me down $50 firm, and yet SO mild
felt there Was no fun in having the fight all
on one side. was ashamed of myself, and
my temper, and everything about me long
ed to get out OF his sight. | saw what o
poor foolish way mig soay Of doing things was.
telt that Tom had completely got the better
OF me, and there was power in his principles
superior to anything l had ever seen before;
aud from that hour Tom Tucker had an nhu.
ence over me which nobody else ever had be-
fore Or since it has been good too. That,
soft answer.
81 have been about the world great deal
since then ; and | believe" said the gentle
man, that neurly all, if not all the bicker-
ings, the qu.rrels and disputes, which arise
neghborhoods, churches or even nations, can
amsaoer for the Scripture has it, A soft IN
ssesr turmetA aaoay acrnM."
Mr. SEwARD's IRREPREss1BLE CONFLICT"
The declaration laid down by Mr.. Seward,
in his Rochester speech, that there is such an
+" irrepressible conflict" between the institu-
tons Of slavery and free labor that one or the
other must ultimately prevail throughout the
Union, has been denounced by Douglas and
others as bloody and reasonable heresy.
Mr.. Everett, however, in his last GRAFTON on
Webster, intimates that Mr. Seward is brand
ing borrowed thunder, and that the doctrine
in question had much less heretical origin
Mr.. Everett says:
"He Mr.. Webster] not only confidently
anticipated what the lapse of seven years since
Ibis deccase has witnessed and is witnessing,
thar the newly acquired and newly organised
| territories of the Union would grow up into
| free states :; but, in common with all or nearly
all the statesmen of the last generation, he be-
licved that free labor would ultimately prevail
throughout the country. He thought he saw
that, i'll the operation of the same causes,
which have produced this result in the Middle
and Eastern States, it was visibly taxing place
in the States north of the cotton growing re-
gion !; and he inclined to the opinion that there,
| too, under the influence OF physlcal and eco
| nomical causes, free labor would eventually be
i found most productive, ana Woulo therefore be
ultimately established"
| A Southern paper, abiding to disagree
nents between the organs OF certain party,
concludes with the following quotation !" b.
hold" as Shakespeare feeling observes, show
pleasant o thing it is to see brethren dwell to-
gether in unity."'
Mrs. Darlington asks very Indignantly, if
the bills before Parliament are not counterfeit,
why there should be SO much difficulty in pass
| ing them. a.