Litchfield enquirer., 1863-04-30


 THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1863.
 A Prince of Copperheads.
 NC supposed, we knew something Of the shame and disgrace which attached 'tselt to our ytats and County, by the bo d utterances of reasonable and copps,head doctrines, be- fore the recent election. We had supposed that the meansst and vilest and dirtiest and most venemous had been brought to light, and their fangs extracted by that glorious and com plsse victory on the 9th of April.
 Bot it seems thore was one, in an out-of-tne- way corner of cur County, whose slimy ana hatsfal wriggles were covered up by lis vesy obscarity. yet whose poisonous fangs were darting to and fro, aud are darting now' for a'i ws know, under the broad light of heayen' in ths free air of this God-fsaring. loyal State nay, from the very altar itself, aud within the waIIs of sanctuary dedicated to God.
 That Sur readers may bs better informed as toths subject of this notice, and this matter to which ws refer. ws would state that we have before us . pamphlet, in birthstone colored binding. bearing the following title
 "A Sermon preached by the Rev. James Nor
 ton. in St. Marks Church, Brldgewater, Ct.,
 On the l6th of January, 1863. at the funeral
 of Sidney Thompson, of Bridgewater, a
 Federal Volunteer, who died on the l6tn : December, 1864. of wound received ID the
 assault on the Notifications at Fredericks-
 burg. Va, the 18th of December His age
 was nineteen. His Regiment was the 18th
 tmistake for l7th) Conn. Vols.
 The pamphlet bears the imprint, naturally, ef "Pomeroys Steam Press, Farmer Ofiee' corner Wall and Water sts., Bridgeport, 1863 1; and the sermon purports to be printed by the author. 'to gratify the numbers who have again and again entreated me (the authorl to send it to the press, that such as heard it might read 1t for themselves, and that such as had been disappointed from attending the funeral might sAtisfy thsir curiosity to see it." The follow. ing extracts will show the nature of this dis course, thus delivered, from the pulpit of a Christian church, over the remains of one of our brave volunteers, in our own County, in this year of grace. 1863:
 s.It has not been enough for men in high places, under the abeminabls and wicked plea of necsssity. to be tampering for the past two years with the constitution of their country. More monstrous and abominable yet, they have besn trying to tampsr with the covenant of our God. They have been trying to change the oati iuo ia Co the children of Adam. To die fighting for your country; to die with your hand and soul ssainsd ssifk ths blood cf q people fghting tor sxistsnes, and ersrytking that makes existence c Siessiag to die covered with stains,it matters not how many, so long as they are caused by s!svshodsr: blood snS :O 1ana t is drained from slaveholdsr's heart; to dle in the fanatical effort to turn three to five mil liens of race, ill adapted by nature to pro vide for themselves, at large to roam idly like sn army of devouring locusts through coun- try which hitherto they have helped to culti- vate and enrich to turn them loose, perhaps, to,follov every brutal instinct and gratify ev- ary diaboliesl passion; to expose them cer- tainly to the vengefnl tary that would be nat urally excited in return; to die in the fanati- eal effort to leave . race. which has hitherto been sontsnsed and happy, in discoutent and
 
 been clothed and cared for. naked and desti tuts, to leave race which has heretofore been docils and obedient, lswless and savage; to lsavsa race which has hitherto been brought up under tutors and governors, to starve or steal for lack of the accustomed eye to over ssos of the accustomed hand to feed to die in the amidst of the changing tide and surge-like rear of battle |; in the midst of broken limbs and mangled bodies in the midst All SlnaI and af nriaa and oroon, of esths and eursss; in the midst of sights and sounds that seem to speak rather of fends than of saints, and 10 belong to scenes in hell rather than scenes in saint-land--to die thus, we have been told by men wearing the gar5 ot ministsrs of the gospel. by men whose lam guage would. in the dark, bespeak Q recruiting cheer. is the most glorious of deaths. To die thns, we are told by men whose enthusiastic panegyrics over the deceased soldier are un- saddcued by any reference to the sin that is in the world generally, unqualified by any remi- nisesnses of the traits of evil that darkened the character of the dead in particular-is to die preparei to die secure of titlc-deed to heavenly glory to die with certain hope of entering into the joy of our Lord to die as sured of the consummation and the bliss be- yond the dark river of death"
 sTs the substitution by parties who would have known better if they had studied the gospel of the Lord Jesus little more, and prayed for the guidance of the Holy Ghost a little efleuer. of . creed, which contains the essence of hsathenism, for the true faith of tered by che gospel to the Christian-to this it may bs in great measure attributed, that these remains. disintsrred from the soil of Virginia. are to day to be inferred in ceme- tsry of this town. We may well believe, kaoEing as we do the influence thal was brolsxhf to bear on the imagination of the youth, and the direction from which that in husucs came. that the eiitteripg but delusive thought that, should hs die, death to the fede ral volunteer would be, r6t only . passpoft to Che temple of famc on earth, but title 10 the city of ihe first born the Nv Jerusalem abovs-we may we'll believe that this was among the lsading influences which brought about this untimsiy end Out on thee, Fame, thou chsatt What to him that lies here ripe ntnx for the worms, that thou art said to have temple where thsu dost set the names ef heroes ip lstters of goldf How much of shat gold will gild his humble names Hsw many { hearts, outside his fathers and his npther's bosom, Nill keep his memory fresh upon their tablstsf But suppose he had the kfrhsss pl4cs In Rsms's proud temple; sup pope his name vas aiming out in golden capi- 1a1s rupnose he could De gratefully rcmen,