Litchfield enquirer., 1881-11-03
Hartford.

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 As the teachers convention and the ceremo.
 mes of unveiling the Seymour monument
 were both announced to be on the s7th of October, the cars coming into the city on that day, were crowded with Knights, Military people, Musicians and Teachers The special trains were too early for our purpose, and we did not enter the city till about noon: bu. two bands and many Masons were on board our cars in full regalia; 80 that we looked very gay notwithstanding the badges of mourning added to the adornments of the officers. At one. point there was long delay, for we were behind time. and a southern bound train had the right-of-way. A testy old gentleman said to an officer standing near him, what are we waiting for, to geton more toggery 4a'No" 'was the pleasant reply. I've have tell on'
 The day was very fine and many particips- ting in the ceremony at the tomb were warm personal friends of tEe lamented hero whom the statue personifed. That was especially true of the veterans in the procession Cedar Hill Cemetery, where Gov. Seymour was in tered. is three miles southwest of the city and from it the views are strikingly pictures4ue. Mt. Tom in Massachusetts, forty mileI dis tant, is distinctly visible, and the Bolton mountains, fifteen miles east. are to be seen. On the west, ten miles away, is the Talcott mountain range. Looking towards the south, the Connecticut Valley and Glastonbury Hills are in view. 3@r t
 Among thirty or more fine monuments. the Seymour one occupies conspicuous position It IS a plain shaft thirty4three feet high, with . base eight feet square. About eight feet from the ground is the bronze medallion head and likeness If T. H. Seymour On one side is inscribed . brief record of his public life, and on another are masonic emblems. Quite near the Seymour monument ex-Gov. Morgan of New York is having built family tomb and monument combined. The tomb is hewn from granite and a shaft of Italian mar. bIe rises thirty feet above it, surmounted by maltese cross. It is to be hoped that politi- clans will not hurry the old gentleman to that refuge prematurely. 5o ae.ar [
 As our old friend George R. Smith, once q sojourner of Washington, is now Mrs. Harry Beach. my attention was attracted to the Beach family monument, one of the finest in that grand collection. It was sculptured in Italy and purchased there for twenty-five thoueand dollars. It was then safely trans ported and erected in Cedar Hill Cemetery. In the htany of the prayer book one of the most solemn invocations reads, By thy cross and passion, by thy precious death and burial, by thy glorious resurrection and ascension- good Lord deliver us" Each side of the shaft illustrates clause of that prayer, and no sermon preached by man could impress those awful events upon the heart, as do these pictures. The passion is represented by A kneeling figure in the most abject attitude of wee, over whom plying angel is lowering as she hears the final, "Thy will be done [" On the next side, the sorrow stricken disciples are bearing the lifeiess form to the tomb; and next, He is emerging therefrem Lastly they are gazing steadfastly upward while the clouds recieve Him ont of their sight -,
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