Litchfield enquirer., 1862-10-23
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NATHAN RASSPTT

Ma. HUMPHREY Tt would seem that proper regard for the memory of the venerable palri- arch whose decesse, in a neigboring town. was published in recent number of the ERoUIRRR. mlght Justify some further notice of the man, anu or ms character
 nit IS fact thsl l.' The eviI that men do. lives "'er .nem and that the .s good is often in- 'e'ieu Ni'n their hones;'' it is also declared, upon aner authority than that of the Bard of a'on-'ha' the memory ofthe just is blessed; ont the name of the wicked shall rot"
 "hite some are spoken of after their death. as Natures Nobemen ,'' s,hnrs there have been, who, though never holdiHSR po.;,;oD nor. ticuarly high in public life. might fnr ,b";- honest independence of thought and action. h. justly denomlnated Goss Frsemea Such . man, h the estimation of those who kneW him pest. man both noble and independent. was NArHAE BAssErr. As bs has lived to the age ot ninety three. there are but co uparatively few now alive who remember himas he was fifty and sixty years ago. He was then, and until the oou,iy innrm,'ies Of ''three score years and ten'' admonished him to cease from active lahor an lnhabitant of this town, in the society of Milton. VI
 There are thousand localities in this christ ian land, where with much that is good in manners and morals, there is more perbans that IS evil, but te these, it may peradventure be: that Milton is a blessed exception Still it is possible that the evil might have been far iess' anu the good vastly greater, even in that community. had every man possessed the char- sotsr :And acted out the prin ;iplss which marked the lte of our vsnsrsted friend.
 Without the faculty, or the desire of being popular, in the common acceptance of that term; and never popular with the crafty and intrix- ning nor with the vicious and immoral, he was none the less, but the more esteemed by those who could appreciate the high-tOned and inplsxibe integrity of his purposes and his life. There are those nova days who think it manly and smart to speak sneerinsly of the Puritans of the olden time; of their rigid theoiopy.- their stiH morality-theiri uncompromisine re- gard for religious law and order Nathan Bassett was of Puritan deseent and edueation.
 Tracing his lineage back 10 enc of the early Pilgrims who dwelt in the Eicin nifty of Plymouth kock-we need not wonder that there was soms- thing akin to granite in his composition and constitution nor that, as being himself of Pu. rltan blood and bone, he was never ashamed of ancestry. He rss man of robust frame, and | large heart man to be relied on in all the | affairs and relations of life 8 astaunch advocate of temperance, and friend of the poor slave
 h politics he was the christian Patriot in re- l'glon-ths christian soldier. If sometimes blunt in the expression of his views of right ana wrong, he was yet msu of the kiRdest | spirit, towards those whose honestly cherished opinions differed om his own and with au accepted Theology of the strictest, sternest Bi. bie type,-too strict and stern find fa avar with the various latitulinar n sms of tho present day, he "aS still the ;um lie dl ple of EsU. .ChRrsr | d lover of the Gospel, liberal supporter of its | institutions and now that he is yone,-this man who never bent the knee to any Being sx- c'p his God.--it might be inscribed on hi.
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