Litchfield enquirer., 1872-07-18
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From the Witness. T xo;sz,a The Roll of Honor. --r.. lisaHgh up among Etheo Connecticut hills the cool breeze is blowing away the mem ory of New York heat and the perfume of New York dust. This old town is So prim= tive and still thatI find it ehara to be- s Hsye that only this morning I was rattling over the payements of the great huge city. The tall eiems dfoop above the broad strip l of turf which boardeFs the streets, and old-fashioned white roses and red peo- nies blossom in the old-fashioned oar- dens as l'xuriantly as they did century ago. The very houses in their quaint style of building, white walls, green blinds, and small square pains of glass, speak of times long anterior, to those when old Ly- man Beecher here brought up his young flock of future celebrities, and the first law school ever established in America sent out such men as John c. Calhoun to make the name of Litchfeld power in the land. Tf ee
 Everything is old except the tall monu- ment which stands on the Green in the very centre of the yillaaA. It is shaft l of pure white marble, on whose southern face appear the words sspro patria, while the other sides contain lists headed "Ron of Honor. Here, interspersed with such wyrds as 'sAntietam, GettYsburgh, Culpep- per, Hatteras, New Orleans, stand closely crowded together the names of those who went forth from this town and it's vicinity with flying colors and beat of drum, and who were next heard of in the newspaper lists of ''killed, wounded, and missing" There are over hundred of them, and the reality of the war comes over me as it l Il 1~.~ R- fact that the country was saved, but also the vast price that w;s paid for it's saliva 1 tion, become living realities as stand in 1 this center, surrounded by white homes l in almost every one of which is a 'svacant chair, and think of the many fresides, even in this little place, whose light went out forever in that night of terror which desolated our land seven or eight years ago. And when, too, I remember how all the hill tops of Connecticut, the valleys of i Vermont, the, mountain of New Hampshire, the harbors of Maine and the stony villages of Massachusetts, poured forth their best and noblest to crush out the rebellion, I feel that we, as nation, are guilty of great ingratitude in so shut ting all thoughts of them out of our busy lives. We citizens rush onward immersed in our absorbing occupations, and feel as If these things were no more to us than the history of distant countries, or far-off ages, but New England, in her out of the way hooks among the hills, embalms their names, and keeps their memories green. .. ....'r ac..e,
 But another thought is suggested by these ''rolls." All were not "killed in action." Chattanooga, "Georgetown, ," libby" and "Andersonville, speak of long weary hours of patient suffering, whose endurance gave at least an equal right to honorable rememberances and pitying regret.
 There is "Ron of honor'' awaiting each officer and private of the vast army enlisted to fight in the strength of the Lord of Hosts against the rebellion of sin and the arch-traitor who has instigated it. l Our battle fields are various, our enemies multitudinous, and of different form and name, but it matters not whether we fall in the first brush of the conflict, or mark ed with the scars of dozen hard won fields. Faithfulness to our cause and obe- dience to our leader will of themselves en- sure to us our rightful place in these hon. Orable rolls. -' -' .-~ i-a- --s - Nay, may it not even be that over his heart whose own victories were won rath- CT by suffering endurance than achieve ment, will pass deeper thrill of emotion as he fnscrlbes there the name of some whose laurels were gathered in the prison chamber of sickness, the weary encamp- ment of waiting, the hospital ward of sor- row and pain?
 Litchfeld, June 24th. NEW.
 The Baltimore correspondent of the New York Times, after recapitulating the recent record of the democracy, puts in the following nut shell it's present pur- pose: 'With this past behind them, with these undeniable facts of their party his- tory staring them in the face, these dele gates come together to nominate Horace Greeley for president of the United States. If there was any evidence that there had been in these men change of heart as we'll as change of tactics, there would be more encouragement in this fact than ill any other event which has occurred in this decade. But have found no such evidence. The only reason which can be heard everywhere among these men for taking Mir. Greeley for their candidate is that of expediency. They admit candid ly enough that they can elect no man of their own, and by that admission confess that the nation justly abhors them. They don't pretend that they have gone to MT. Greeley. They don't care to know wheth- CT MT. Greeley has come to them, so far as any principal is concerned, but the drift of their talk is that if once MT. Greeley can be elected by their votes it will prac- tically result in handing the government over to the control of the democratic par ty. They make no promises of what they will do with it when they get it. I have talked with many of the leading men who are here, and while I have not space to give their conversation in detail, this is the gist of it: Democracy means to get the government by a false pretense, because it is evident that it cannot obtain it by fair nAeans.
 Here Is new process in engraving des- tined to bring about revolution in illus trated journalism: "A glass plate is pre- pared with white etching ground on which the subject to be drawn is lightly sketched with a very soft pencil. The glass is then placed on piece of dark cloth, and with g common steel etching point the drawing IS cut or scratched through the ground to the glass, each line as produced appearing as black as an ink line on paper When the work is com- pleted, the picture is before you, as sharp and brilliant as an impression from a copper-plate, and skillful artist can work more rapidly with these materials than with pencil on paper. Here the artists labor ceases, and in couple of minutes he can be shown permanent print from the glass, by the aid of which he can put on his last touches, or make any needed alteration. From this glass plate, by a chemical process, a transfer is placed up on sheet of prepared zinc, which is plunged into proper etching bath, and the engraving is done by corroding the white spaces between the drawn lines, the latter being firmly protected by the mate rials used in the transferring, and, where necessary, by adding various compositions not affected by the acids"