Litchfield enquirer., 1863-04-30

from blnshing fer the holy cause for which patriots will not fight unless on ccmpulsion, that this war is coming to an end that the rebellion is tottering to its downfall that we shall soon have better constitution than that written on the ss old sheepskin parchment ;" that we shall soon have more glorious union than that which was diMmsd with the tears of slave; that the greatnsss of Columbia in days to como shall more than eclipse it's form CT splendor. Bat cannot tell you this. As herald of the Prince of Peace, it is not for me to advocate any warfare with earnal weap- ons. Weak must be that cause which looks to the pulpit for support, and asks the ambas- sador cf peace to be the advocate ofwar Nor is it for me, a minister of the truth, to speak lie. Alas! can see but one result to this war. Ibavs seen but that from the begin ming could see no other were taken to every window in every fort in the United States and commanded to reconsider the ques- 4 Alas! alas my country: i.
 But we are keeping these remains from their last bed, and, if it be true what others say, from their repast of glory. Oh, if there be any glory to compensate to him for the life lost on the battlefield; if there be any glory to break through the shadows of an untimely grave; if there be any glory to come between the worms and woman's first born; if there be any glory to make this mother dream that her boy was not murdered before those batter ies at Fredericksburg-the let me say no more then lot the rays of glory come and shine around this clay.
 Slow, slow toll the bell. Low. low lay the coffin. And let the dead sleep on in all his glory.
 Could any thing be colder. more venomous, more traitorous than this7 What mockery of woe! What commentary on religion per- verted, pulpit defled, and the last rites of . departed soldier made the occasion for tirade against the Government, for whose protection and preservation the young soldier yielded up his life Could bitter malignitY, or low hy- pocrisy. or loathsome falsehood, or covert and cowardly treason, find more fitting expression
 We are net surprised to learn that the au' thor of this discourse is an unnaturalized Irish man. In one thing we agree with him. He does not consider himself fit to become citi zen of this country, and has therefore never taken out his first papers. An alien and a foreigner, he dares to stand up" in the garh of minister of the Gospel" and abuse and vilify the Government, that gives his cowardly person its protection. Worse than this, he dares to stand up thus. and villify and abuse the memory of one who went forth in his na- tive lands defence, and whose very bier is the best protector he has from the averaging weapon of his own right arm. Should we wonder if the bones of the brave young volunteer had stirred in his coffin, before the very altar, while this oration was being pronounced above him ? Words fail us to express the utter contempt and loathing we feel for such mockery of a man. Safe in his insgni6cance, we cheerful ly leave him to pander to the appetite of those who choose to crowd the gates of the chapel where he ministers, and in a town where the vote for Thomas H. Seymour at the last cleo ton. was more than three to one. He may poison the atmosphere he breatbes and pollute the pulpit he desecrates; he may wear his copperhead pin as a blazing badge of his in fanny, and peddle his reasonable utterances for whatever price he can gain for them lie may bawl out his hypocri.ical ejaculations to his Country" while he disowns that Country, and that Country disewns him; but we pre- test, in the name of all that is holy and just and decent, in the name of the brave m en of this County who are even now offering up their lives for their Country's cause, by the memory of that lifeless clay he so fouliy iu- suited. by that mothers heart he 50 cruelty wronged, that never again shall he be permit ted so to exhibit his foulness and his wicked ness over the coffin of another Union Volun- teer.
 better that the remains of young THOMPSON rested to-day where he fell, safe at any rate from the shafts of such reviler, than that they should have been borne to their final home, in his own village churchyard, by mourn CTS whose ears were ringing with the sound of such curses and malediction. Better had that sorrowing mother never looked again upon the face of her irstborn, than that her last thoughts of him should by poisoned by such chalica held to her quivering lips. Better, even, that that lifeless form had never received the last sad offices of a Christian burial, than that the Church of Christ should have been SO polluted.
 In the name of just God, who looketh down upon this struggle, in sympathy for the right. are even the Churches of Connecticut to be turned into such hotbed of treason and infamy?
 S9 Some men are born great others have greatness naturally thrust upon them upon some, greatness, or the reverse, is conferred by a chance item in their village or county newp. per. Some weeks ago, we had occasion to mention certain names in the l7th Senatorial District, who were talked about for the posi-. ton of State Senators, and who would make unexceptionable nominees. Among them, we