Litchfield enquirer., 1867-04-25
LITCHFIELD

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 sermon. Without any rhetorical display he gave frank expression to the thoughts of an honest, patriotic, and intelligent American upon the moral and religious aspects of the duties of citizenship. He commented se- verely, and at length, on the trickery and iniquity of our political elections, and upon the necessity of careful scrutiny into the private characters of candidates, and re- lection of the unworthy. Hespoke strong ly, also, of the injustice of countenancing, in our constitutions and statutes, distinc- tions against color; taking the position that the suffrage was privilege which it might not be wrong to withhold for reasonable cause, but not from mere prejudice. To the duty of respectable men to uphold the cause of temperance, he referred several times, incidentally, and reprobated in the strong est terms, the practice of furnishing liquor to voters on election days. In considering the suffrage privilege rather than right, the gentleman has, we admit, large ma iority of the people with him, but we, by no means, believe in the correctness of such a view. Not half @ century since, Liberty was looked upon, practically, not as right but as privilege. Now, no one, not even a Confederate, denies the right. We conf dently believe that in less than fifty years the suffrage will also be conceded to be the rigA of every American citizen of full age, not 8 criminal, imbecile, or lunatic.
 On Sunday, being Easter Day, the chan eel of the Episcopal Church was tastefully adorned with flowers, and several anthems were performed by the choir. The chief of them was the Kyrie from the Farmers Mass, English words.) In the afternoon was the Sunday School Festival, the order of exercises be- ing nearly the same as heretofore. Each class marched in under its appropriate ban ner, and their respective standings in schol- arship, attendance, &c.. were announced. Contrary to general anticipation, the "Stu- dents at Law" have not yet become 'sAttor- nies." The reports were very satisfactory and reflect great credit on both pupils and teachers. One fault we have always no- ticed in the choral singing of our Sunday School, wherein it does not greatly differ, we presume, from the like performances of other Sunday Schools about us. This IS the entire want of that force and anima- tion which are the first requisites in chorus singing. The reason of this, no doubt, is, that our children receive no instruction in music of that description. Nor is the Sun day School the place to teach them. They require regular, thorough musical train ing; and we have noticed with surprise how little attention is paid to instruction of that kind, especially in our Episcopal Parish. During the fourteen years of our residence in Litchfeld, they have had but one Singing School that we re- member, and the natural and inevitable consequence is that there is scarcely na- tive of the parish under middle age, capa- ble of taking part in ordinarily difficult church music, and we do not know a single male singer among them who could be relied on to pei form even the simplest music, without being taught by rote. Of the regular attendants in our choir, only two were born or raised in the parish, and inasmuch as the present incum- bents will eventually become disqualified from age, if from no other reason, it seems to us that some provision should be made for filling their places
 - The nomination of MT. G. H. Hollis ter as Consul, at Havana, has been rejected by the Senate. The prevalent feeling among Republicans here was in favor of his con- 1 firmation in fact, we have,seen no one who desired his rejection. The cause of his re- jection was simply this The Senate believ- ed that Mir. Hollister owed his nomination to the fact of his having, last year, support ed the President against Congress, and they did not feel inclined to join in rewarding him for doing so.
 - In the Superior Court this week. the following cases have been disposed of :- William G. Foster vs John Stillson, iudg- ment for plaintiff to recover $294S and costs. Town of Morris vs. Town of Ply mouth, reserved for advice of Supreme Court. Calhoun c. Fyler vs. Joseph Tebo Judgment for defendant to recover his costs
 In our report of the case of Treichman vs. Hart of last week, there were some mistakes of fact, which we correct with pleasure. The accident was not occasioned by interlocking of the wheels of the plf's and deft's wagons while the latter was pass ing, but by one of his horses striking against the plaintiffs wagon. Neither was the wagon overturned; and child in the wagon with the plaintiff was neither thrown out nor injured
 :. ROXBURY.