Litchfield enquirer., 1863-03-05
YafaI aud GnnttD Seivs.
LITcHFIELD.

1nfal aud Gunnty Neivs.
 LITCHFIELD.
 March came in like lion, on Sunday, and . Clustering, raging one It that. More snow fell on Sunday night, and now we hase toler- able sleighing upon the hill, but little.out of the village.
 The Wolcott Library Association, and Rev. Mir Richards, give up the contest with the elements. The Course of Lectures is postponed till June.
 < REV. NE. SALroNsTALL's SERMoN.-On Sum- day evening last, according to announcement, the Rev. Thos. L. Saltonstall.a retired Miller- ite preacher, delivered the first of series of sermons at the Town Hall in this village. The body of the house was well filled with boys, admiring copperheads, more boys,. and a few Republicans who had been attracted by curi- osity to hear what the Reverend copperhead had to offer. Our reporter, who was present, has furnished us.- with full report of the "sermon," which was such unmitigated bosh, that, if published, would appear to be the ra- wings of a lunatic, but the evident insanity of which apologies for its unblushing treason. The fact, however, that the Reverend mounte- bank is supposed to represent the principles and arguments of the copperheads of this town, induces us to give Q few extracts from the choice discourse.
 He commenced by saying that he was . plain Millerite preacher. wagon maker, dimmicrat and disunionist, aud he was going to preach against the Administgatiou and the Republican party. He then took as his text Romans, 18th chapter, first seven verses, and from the 22d chapter of Natthew, ssRender unto Caesar the things which are Cmsar's. !" He said there were two C@sars, one at tn a head of eur Nation, (Lincoln,) and one at the head of our State (Buckingham). After this elaborate exposition, he proceeded to preach from copy of the LITcHrIELp ENQUIRER, of Feb. 14th, 1861, which paper contained 8 dialogue, copied from the N. Y. Tribune, and purporting to have been held in Wall street, in New York. The substance of the article was to let the South go then, if they would, before any blood was shed. This was some two months before the firing upon Fort Sum- ter, which put decidedly different complexion upon affairs, but the Rev. Thomas said 'sthose were his sentiments aow, and the sentiments of the copperhead party" "Let this unholy war be stopped" shouted the new apostle. ''Let the South go! Let thom take all our Forts, and hold their slaves as they please, bring them North if they wish, but atop this war You can't conquer the South, let them go! They never will come back, so lang as we have Republican government, but put copperheads in power, and guarantee the South that hereafter she may do just as she pleases, and they may come back, but if they won't, let them go"" Thus spoke the Prince of copperheads, and all the leading copper heads present exclaimed Amen, ,and swallowed it all as law and gospel.
 The Reverend Millerite went on in this strain for two hours and half, jumping from one subject to another with the incohercncy of lunatic, complained of the arbitrary, unlawful and unconstitutional arrest of one Snobble, in Morris,'' and condemned the Government in the loudest and strongest terms. He remarked that, in his opinion, the Government had no business to arrest Snobhlc! He also alluded feelingly to the Bridgeport Farmer having been cleaned out on account of it's secession proclivities, and tearfally told how he had paid his quarter 8 postage for it in advance, at the Post Office, and had to lose it. He then mudded himself and his audience over the revenue and the taxes, which he confessed himself entirely incompetent to understand, and, finally, after | tiring everybody out of the house, tired out himself.
 Wepresume the copperhead party of thi. town will at once see the propriety of taking up this powerful and eloquent advocate O their doctrines, as their candidate fer repre- sentative this spring.
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