Morning journal and courier., 1881-02-24
Connecticut and New York.
The Boundary Settled


A Washington dispatch of yesterday says :
Senator Conkling, from the Judiciary COM
nlittee, reported favorably. without amend
ment, the House bill concerning the settle
ment of boundary lines between the States of
New York and Connecticut. 1t was put on
the calendar. Subsequently the bill was taken
up and passed. The bill now only awaits the
signature of the President, as the House
passed it before the holiday recess.
Centennial i'm Naugatuck.
The one hundredth anniversary of the or
ganization of the Congregational church in
Naugatuck was celebrated Monday. Rev. S.
G. Leonard made an address of welcome,
and historical address was given by Rev.
G. S. Sherman of Nassau, N. Y, a pastor
of the church for period of nearly twenty
years. The church was made up of 16 mem
bers of the First church of Waterbury. Rev.
Mr.. Fowler was the first pastor, taking
charge in 1855. There have been 922 persons
upon the roll of the church, and 962 persons
were baptized, 156 of them being adults DIR.
Anderson, of Waterbury, told how the church
came to be and how it got its name, and
there were other addresses among those who
spoke being Harry Stevens. Frank S. Andrew,
s. N. Beecher and Dr. Henry Pierpont, of
this city.
The Kent Club Lecture.
The fifth lecture of the Kent club course
was delivered in the Common Pleas court
room last evening by Rev. T. HARDWOOD Patti
son, of Albany formerly of this city. There
was very large audience, many of the pas
tors former parishioners being present. In
1774, said the speaker, it was very hard for
Wing or a non-Conformist. 81 shall al
ways believe said Dr.. johnson, that the
first Wing was the devil" These passionate
utterances against America by DIR. johnson
reflected the popular feeling of the English
the Tories, could i'll afford to lose America.
England was a nation of shopkeepers, and
the American trade made up fully third of
her commerce. George the Third, like
most dull and stupid men, had that
quality which in mules we call
stubbornness in statesmen consistency. Be-
side such men as Washington, Adams and
Franklin, GO Farmer George sinks into ig-
nominy. The day on which George the Third
assembled the throne was the birthday of
American independence. At the breaking
out of the revolution, the intellectual supe-
riority of New England showed itself by in
dependence in politics and dissent in the
church To be dissenter in the mother
country was then always a blunder, some
times crime. Why" said Mrs. Grundy,
- should q man START q re18lOn when the
State has established one for him ?'' -Four
regiments - said George the Third, " will re-
duce America to submission" But all the
kings horses and all the kings men could
not accomplish that feat. The condition of
the elective franchise in England at that
time was as bad as it could be. The great
middle class was unrepresented. 1t was from
among these political and religious dissenters
that America found her only friends, it was
these that constituted the minority in the
mother country. The cause which Franklin
and Adams were fighting for in America was
but another phase of that for which DIR.
Priestly and DR.. Pryce were striving for in
England. The struggle was for religious
freedom on the one hand and civil liberty on
the other These men who were insulted by
Tories and patronized by Wings, who suffered
a hundred times more and gained hundred
times less than America should not be classed
with those who were for making war upon
this country in 1774. This non-C onformist |
party was one which the proudest monarch |
ought not to have despised or the most pow |
erful nation ignore. Throughout the whole |
war the soundest wisdom and loftiest patriot |
ism of England sided with the colonies |
This minority is more, there is greater |
Britain now, but Great Britain still holds her |
own. The ties which unite England and |
America are growing stronger and stronger
every day It would be hard to tell which
country has benefited the other the most.
The lecture highly enjoyable from
first to last, and at its conclusion was warm
y appIauded. The last lecture of the course
will be given next Wednesday evening By
Prof. Cyrus Northrop. The subject is The
Lawyer and the Orator. !"