Litchfield enquirer., 1865-05-25

Adjourned.
 SENATE-T Thursday, May Is. The resolutions on the death of the Presi- dent were taken up Il o'clock. MT. Hodge of the 18th addressed the Senate as follows: -.
 MR. PRESIDENT Tt is always becoming in us to pay respect 10 the dead. How to dis charge that duty most appropriately people may differ.
 Some years since, while travelling in the West Indies nearing the coast of the most important of the Great Antilles. had pointed out to me in the distance the Matanzas moun- tains rising far into the etherial regions. remember how beautiful the green foliage, upon the summit appeared while dark clouds lowered around and below. It seems much so when we approach anl attempt to scan accu- rate,y a great character. The dark surround ings lift higher and cause to shine brighter, the pure and more lofty attributes. Abraham Lincoln, whose loss the whole civilized world now mourns, could not be fully appreciated while living. The dark pail which his death has thrown over the land, appeared to De necessary that we might better understand the pure heart of this truly great man For years the free spirit of the North had been insulted and treated with scorn and con tempt LovejOy had been murdered for at | tempting to publish an antl-slavery paper The venerable Samuel Hoar had been mobbed and driven out of South Carolina, for pro- posing to contest in her courts the right of that State to imprison colored seamen from Massachusetts. John Quincy Adams, "the old man eloquent" had been threatened with ex- pulsion from Congress for daring to present val trU South Charles Sumner had been waylald and stricken to the floor of the United States Sen ate Chamber for presuming freely and truth fully to represent his State. Border ruffians had invaded the State of Kansas, and driven peaceful citizens from their quiet homes. The life of his predecessor in office had been at tempted by poison His own existence was threatened. Treason was proclaimed aloud in the National Capitol, while every depart ment was filled with spies and traitors, inc minOns of slavery.
 It was under such circumstances that MT Lincoln entered upon the discharge of his du ties as President
 He lived to sec the rebellion crushed aud its instigators flying from the wrath of the people. But with the hour of triumph came the nations vail for the loss of this great leader in liberty's cause. Yes, the sun which went down over n restored flag upon Sumter's walls raised amid the shouts and exultations ? of a race made free by the ediets of emancipa- tion, set forever upon the life of the Chic Q Magistrate of the Republic. When the lead
 CTS of Israel were struck down in the midst 0
 their services and their renown. the patheti
 lamentation, How are the mighty fallen y
 went forth from among inc people. We'll may we at this time repeat that national wall. x : : No one who reads the story of the battle O
 Marathon, by which the liberties of Athens
 were rescued from despotism, stops 10 ask te which party Miltiades belonged. When WI ) read how Demosthenes moved all Greece tt resist the common enemy, we little think o , enquiring who were his political associates f So it will be when our children study the his tory of the times in which we live, and learr , how Abraham Lincoln called the people tt ar ms. crushed 2 mighty rebellion, and gave freedom to four million of slaves. Let Il! teach those children to honor his name anG emulate his example.
 Mir. Harrison, Mr. Smith, Mir. Bugbee and Mr. Waite spoke in favor of the resolutions which passed unanimously.
 Adjourned.
 HOUSE-Thursday, May IS. 1, Report recommending passage of bill givin. precedence in courts to cases brought by soldier or his wife or heirs 10 recover bourty passed.
 Message from the Governor stating thu Judge Duttons term is about to expire, m, transmitting the Judges letter referred. Pet of L Woodford for elease trom Stat, ] Prison; referred.
 Two remonstrances against the same ;- referred.
 , Bill authorizing towns to appropriate money for erecting monuments to the memory O i, daad soldiers--conditionel that one half mus be raised by subscription referred
 Bill increasing salary of members of tho House 10 $4 per diem; as also clerks and tho Speakers to S5 per diem; referred. The Constitutional Amendment was called up, and the time for taking the vote changed to Thursday, May 9, at 12 M.
 Adjourned.
 ATE-Fs.iday, May l9.
 Mir. Harrison, chairman of the committee on the death of the President, offered resolu- ton asking Henry c. Deming to deliver m address before the General Assembly, June z, in Allyn Hall adopted, rules suspended, and resolutions sent to the House.
 Message from the Governor accompanying a letter from Judge Dutten, de the expiration of his term of office; referred
 I Report unfavorable to change of charter of Litchfeld Mutual Fire Insurance; accepted and res. rejected.
 T Adjourned. -.. | Fliday, May l9.
 Report of commissioner of the School Fund referred. ---- .1
 | NEGRO SUFFRAGE.
 On motion of Mir. Pratt, the report was taken up. MT. Johnson of Wallingford, spoke against the amendment. This government was formed to encourage virtuous principle, not those barbarous qualities; an ass or mule might be naturalized for the same reasons. In my town no negro has gone to the war they do not want to vote; they are privileged class. protected but not burdened: ....
 Mir. Comstock of New Canaan, deemed some of the statements of the minority report dis graceful to the age, and utterly false, and cited many instances where the negroes had ex- celled in trades and professions.
 Res. inviting H. c. Deming to deliver an ad- dress on the death of the President, June 7th passed. .. - Adjourned. ....s . We learn from Havana that the rebel ram Stopewall reached that port on the morning of the llth inst. Her arrival caused considerable