Litchfield enquirer., 1868-05-07

'iAoit hc Mits SOOu cItlZen, an hon SSt man, and perfect gentleman. fn his melancholy desease, society has lost one oi its brightest ornaments, and a gloom is cast over our whole community. but especially over the domestic circle of Mrs. Jones's clearinghouse, where the eligible room 1 which he occupied, and in which I said be- fore, he received every care and attention from that estimable lady, is now, alas! va cant for the balance of the season---r'.t q. '' MT. Speaker a member of the Oppo- sltlon here interrupts I rise to pint of order" ia:ht@3.s' -5t s7pttE "
 The Speaker requested Mr. Slaken to state his p int -..s-, Y ;r 1T want to know, MT. Speaker, if it is in order for any member of this yer House. in his speech onto Me memory o,f q dead man, 70 ring in a boardin' house hept 6y has cant, 1 and furnished by himself, on sheers? It may be parliamentary and ell right, but ] | don't see it!'' ...I t-c .r .-.D t.. !, The Speaker, with whitening glance at Slaken. decided the pint to be not we'll 1 taken. f t"a "a i "Ah! this is too sollum q occasion, for me, Mr. Speaker, to take notice of any slch lmperdence and side remarks as that ar! fully expected some infamous hye- na would be out here to day, bowling round
 
 at the mouth, gnashing his toothless jaws, and droolin' out bis intellectual and impo- tent rage. With his hide covered all over with welts, all sore and disgustin' from the lash and the hot poker of terrewth, which his insolence has brought upon him pretty much every day durin' this session, he rolls over and over, and bites and tears and soils himself, till he becomes justly offensive to every eye in this House I'll see that ~his goose is cooked for him hereafter, suayable, and that on no melancholy occasion nuth- CT. To resume Me deceased: Whatever kin be said of him by friends or enemies. no man at least kin deny that he wasn't pa triot. Look back at his political record, Mr. Speaker, and see what's thar! for, as the poet Watts feelingly remarks, By their record shall ye know me- Mr. Speaker what is that record? Virtue is it's own re- ward, MT. Speaker; and no great action was eyer done in the world but what the man that done it was parked and yelped after by somebody. But the deceased, in- trenched in the galorious armor of patriot ism, with his hand on this yer record, could look the American eagle proudly in the eye, and defy chain lightning in any shape or from whatever quarter it might come; and when prostrate and emaciated, he died at last on his prostrate bed at the pleasant boardin' house of Mrs. Jones on the hill the thoughts of this ere armor, and of that ar record of his'n, come to his wounded sensibilities like heavenly angel, and even Death himself couldn't set him Aalf q tu'm back. close this affiicting duty, Mr. Speaker, by moving that committee of this House be appointed to report these resolutions on the deceased, and to attend his funeral, and 'that Leonidas Blizzard, of Athens, be the chairman of said commit gorgeous heavens has now opened to re- ceive his mortal spirit, and that his earthly remains will be buried at three o'clock to- morrow afternoon, sharp, from the pleas ant boardin house of Mrs. Jones' on the hill, where, under the late rulin' of the Speaker, deem it eminentty proper for me. to remark. and do it emphatic tho mat ter aohose corns are trod on). that the eligi- ble room which he occupied is now vacant, and will doubtless be let to any other mem Der of this House, very reasonable, for the balance the ensuing season-PEAcE BE TO HIS ASHES"