The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-10-29


congress from Connecticut belong to
the New England illuminate, and obey
the president of Yale, who rules with
the united power of a teacher and &C.
cleslastic Mr.. Hillhouse guides the
state treasury so far as to gain unlaw-
full and unconstitutional grants of mon
ey for the illuminate"
"The wives of Messrs, Dwight, Hill
house and Davenport of congress, are
cousins; Messrs. Goodrich's are broth
ers; Messrs, Wolcott of the Treasury
and Griswold of congress are cousins;
as are Messrs. Griswold and Hillhouse;
Mr. Chauncy Goodrich married the sis
ter of Mr.. Oliver Wolcott; and Mr.
Eleazar Goodrich married the sister of
Mr. Allen, late of congress"
THUS are church and state, and the
ties of blood and marriage, united to
form an hierarchy and aristocracy in
Connecticut, which some fail not to call
a monarchy, controlled by DR.. Dwight.
A desire for place, favor and power
conducts this system. Mr.. Tracy and
his son-in-law at home are seeking for
money and influence through this I'M
ion.
Mr.. Tracy wishes to be foreign en-
voy. Mr.. Eleazar Goodrich is looking
for the place of collector of the customs
in New Haven.
President Dwight has a host of
brothers, sons and cousins who want
employment His brother Theodore
wants to be a district attorney and to
have a seat in congress or the upper
house in Connecticut.
Tapping Reeve, one of the illuminate,
and one of the judges Of the superior
court, is a promoter of the tyranny
assumed by the members of congress
from Connecticut, in order to obtain
the place of district judge.
The above is the clue to the sedition
law; certain gentlemen did not wish to
have their conduct and designs investi-
gated at home; for this cause they have
wished to destroy the editor of the Bee
and introduce a system of terror"
call such extracts mild because they
do not descend to the vulgarity and Ii
belous scandal so prevalent at the
time
These preliminary remarks seem ne
cessary for the proper understanding
of the circumstances surrounding the
first personal encounter in congress he
tween members. The special interest
for Connecticut people lies in the fact
that one of the actors was member of
the house of representatives from Con-
necticut.
Congress in 1898 sat in Philadelphia,
in Independence Hall. 1t was the same
session at which the famous, or as they
We're soon regarded, the infamous allan
and sedition laws were passed. The
actors in the quarrel were Matthew
Lyon of Vermont and Roger Griswold
of Connecticut, both of them men noted
in their way, but very diverse in their
personal characteristics as well as in
their political opinions.
Lyon was born in Ireland, and was at
this time about fifty-six years of age.
He came over from Ireland in 1855 pen
niless and friendless, and was sold to
pay his passage, as the custom was in
those days, to Mr.. LiversWorth, at
Cambridge Mass, the price paid being,
as is said, "a pair Of three-year old
bull stays" Liversworth was a Yer
monter, and Lyon was taken to his
1OtIl6. Tie SSINeu Out HIS Lille, ItCelNCu
some New England schooling and
pieced out his lack of education by
good nature and enterprise. The wild
and fierce spirit of the Vermonter of
those days seems to have been imbibed
by Lyon. He became an officer in a
militia company stationed on the from
tier under command of General Gates.
Just before the battle of Saratoga
and as Thanksgiving approached, the
men began to depart for home, and in
a little while the officers followed them.
They returned after Thanksgiving, but
the result was a court-martial, in
which Lyon was cashiered by General
Gates, a circumstance the connection
of which with the personal fracas in
the house of representatives will here
after appear
He became a paymaster in Seth War
ners regiment. but got into a quarrel
| with brother officer, left the army
and returned to Vermont, where his en-
terprise was manifest in starting the
| business of paper making, type casting,
| printing, publishing a newspaper, dig
| ging ore and the casting of iron-ware.
The general assembly of Vermont au-
| thorized him to raise by lottery "six
| hundred bushels Of wheat" which was
| the current money of those days, to
enlarge his furnaces SO as to cast flat
irons, spiders, bake-pans and dish
kettles" He also made nail rods and
| many other articles. He very nearly
made the discovery of utilizing woodsin
the making of paper. The paper upon
| which his newspaper, the "Scourge of
Aristocracy and Repository of Impor-
| tant Political Truth" was printed was
made from the bark of the Eastwood
| tree.
He married the daughter of Gov.
Thomas Chittenden, of Vermont and
was elected to congress just in time to
take part in the legislation of the last
two years of Adams administration
He signalized himself upon his entry
in congress by asking to be excused
from joining in the procession which
should attend upon the President to
present the answer of the house to his
annual message, as it was the custom
to do in those days. The speech which
he made in support of his motion was