Litchfield enquirer., 1866-11-29

think decidedly the bess aaking the ne- gro, properly, it assumes him the protection property always receives frpm an owner. The style of serfdom the south have desir- ed to established since the abolition of sla- very, is, we 'think, worse, than slavery itself. It takes away the right of the negro to pro- tect himself, yet makes it the interest of no one to protect him. It would, We have no doubt, bring about the speedy extirpa- tioh of tie African race, as indeed 1t would that Of any other race under like sseircum, stances
 The other mode of treatment, which we 'sRadica1s'' or s'Abohtionists'' advocate, ik that which puts whites and blacks on a per. feet political equality. Then if. the negro is a man his race will live. Otherwise il will die; and whatever measure of protee. tion he may need in commencing life as g freeman, will be much safer in the hands of his radical friends, than in -eithe, those of ex-slayeholders, or of gentlemen holding the views expressed in the forego, ing extracts. s,si!} q U 2t ..t"lsiA .l, l. otp1l ---4i4..4L-!y .--4L---.9 ali ti'' Bar For the benefit of those who take an interest in the Temperance cause, we reprint the following extract from the Su
 perior. Court files of our County. In these days we either write great deal more and drink a great deal less, or else, things gel mixed up in the bills. We wonder if a careful scientific examination would, detect the presence of alcohol in those enormous o'u items for stationery which swell our legis' lative expenses so heavily? 5 ,.5.'' '' 'n .'is
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 flo ninety-nine Dinners for the Court .4..d $4Y.5C s To 21 Bottles of Wine at los, ', 4 IT 35;5l
 To Brandy, Sugar, &c. r Days, at 4s Cd. t12:7s
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 To paper. L'&-..9sE s,aiy yssJs2- sgh. .o.zS |: c ga. .# aLs lla.i1 tfaAi .5.Hi 4 soo zi SaHN sEa; ,e an AaNM .7...iI laEi1 'sa1 1ff''F'. / Book Notices. .%.>, >,.t. '$71' .'-! FREDERICK THE GREAT AND HIS COURT. By t < l.. Muhlbach. 1 Vol, 12mo, Pages $40 If Price $2.fH 5A jaF'3en ai3. ad3 enH .,dt iLa Mrs. Muhlbach, the writer of the forego- ing ing; novel has already become well known to the American public through ,transsla, i s tion of "Joseph II andihis, Court. i" This work resembles her former one, weaving in to an historical romance the events connect! ed with the early life of Frederick the Great. It commences with his youth, while his father Frederick William I was yet on the throne of Prussia. n The peculilafitHies Ii of that royal nadman are carefully, and we think, correctly portrayed; his brutal treatment of his son and of all about him, in, his queer fancy for overgrown grena4diegrs, CTS, and his hatred of all refinement, are repre- sented as those who have read Joseph 1T would expect them to be represented. At last & merciful Providence removes the old king, and Frederick II succeeds to the throne. Then came that marvellous trans formation of the poet, musician, and savaaat. into the polite, unserupulous statesman. Nothing equals it in history, unless it be the traditionaryt change of the rollickinlg ? Prince Hal into Henry ". Macaulay, in his essay on Frederick the Great, has viv- idly sketched what is here tdelineated eli in full. .s's @@ ,.f9asaus o.8 -4;s
 'Worls of this kind serve very good purpose in literature, They introduce the great men of history to.a class of readers who would never otherwise make their ac- ut1urain tance; while; for the better informed, they clothe the dry historical sketches ioi kings, statesmen and warriors found in or dinary chronicles, with the flesh and blood of human nature. Scott is the oldest mas ter of this species of art after him came a perfect deluge of mixed fact and fiction, till finally under the auspices of Mir. G. P. R. James, the public experienced 9 surfeit from which they may never recover: ! -'j
 Mrs. Muhlbach has won g high reputa- tion in her native land, and although any work of art must suffer much in transla- tion, we have no doubt her merit will be appreciated in this. country. A proof, 5opf 5of the great popularity of her Joseph III, is furnished by the curious fact that a trans lation of that novel was one of the few works published at the South during the war '' .8i1 l 'A.-.,.5i.I-'i 9t.5 k 'a@@
 The present work will we are assured, be followed by others from her pen.e. .aat
 SoIoN RoBNsox's NOVEL. -So1on Robin- son, the veteran Agricultural Editor, has written novel for the, New York Weekly Tribune. The publication will commence on the fifth of December, 's |.s .., ...'S ,.a,t ------------>---- -----7--.,tis a..ie
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