as to say a little latin," The young fellow we may sometimes "wander round the immediately arose; and with the most world," our readers, whether at home or solemn and deliberate manner exclaimed-- abroad, may rest satisfied that we shall, as Cowper did of his country, exclaim"Connecticut! with all thy faults, we "Eelo muddo-moonum shinum, "Loafo disho--oxum stivum; Tentum hookum-rentum splitum, "There," said the father, "don't my son know something about Latin?"_ Much more than I do," said the parson, "for I cannot understand a word the boy says." ANOTHER. love thee still." As it is to late to put spring wheat into the earth, our correspondent must excuse us for omitting his interesting communication at this time. "Lucidas" must also excuse us for not complying with his request concerning "Night," as we are so much engaged, night and day too, that we have hardly time to think abstractedly upon either. An eminant scholar who had become delirious, and for many years wandered about Connecticut, arrived in Hartford; and told a notorious and illiterate wag We have received a poetical address that he could talk latin with Doct. Strong, "To a Coquette," but we no more dare or any body else. "You talk latin!! meddle with it, than with a 66 Coquette" You lie, you curse."—"I can," said the herself. We will however say, that a few maniac. "Well then, talk with me."— days since, two intimate friends in Hart"Go on with your latin," said the unfor- ord, agreed to submit to a third, which tunate scholar. "Well, Sir-Quante- of them would, impromptu, write the best quanto; what's that mean?""There definition of a Coquette. One gentleman is no meaning to it," answered he.-instantly defined her to be---" A Girl "There! there! I knew you didn't know who leads many after her-deceives the latin; I can tell you what quante, quanto whole, and is true to none." The other means it means, you ought to have a mas- gentleman's definition was-"A female ter, you darn'd fool, you." who professes love for different persons-on each of whom, in the absence of the other, she pretends to bestow her undivided approbation and attachment." The third gentleman said-" Dictionary-makers must decide this question." COMMUNICATED. A gentleman travelling in this state, stopped at a public house, in Windham, and was ushered by the landlady, into a parlour, kept for her best company. The should give a "Summary" of "Legislative We mentioned in our last number that we gentleman noticing an elegant clock in Proceedings;" but as the legislature is the room, stepped up to it in order to still in session-and as the weekly gazettes regulate his watch; but discovered that have been crowded with reports, we think, it wanted its most useful quality, i. e. mo-to go over the ground again, would be-tion, and turning to the lady, remarked, that her clock did not go. "No Sir," said she "it is like a great many men, it has no brains." 66 And it is also like a great many women," replied the gentleman, "it has a very pretty face." EDITOR'S CLOSET. like a tale twice told to a drowsy man"'-and that it would, (to quote again,) "fall in the ear profitless as water in a seive." "Zembo and Nila," is contained in a later edition of Montgomery's poems than we had seen. IN this Number we have a great diverAn "Elegy" upon those who "Died sity of matter, which we hope may gratify in Fight," shall grace the columns of No. the great variety of our readers. We still V. adhere to our original plan; and shall continue to confine this Journal to Connecticut History, Biography, Agrictlure, and Manufacture; and although in our Miscellaneous and Poetical Departments, This number contains one fifth more in quantity than our terms proposed; but we hope that our encreasing patronage, will justify our encreasing expences.. Historical Department. 66 HISTORY-PHILOSOPHY TEACHING BY EXAMPLE."" ORIGINAL. MINIATURE HISTORY OF CONNECTICUT. (Continued from page 44.) ture History of Connecticut ;" and shall persevere in this difficult and laborious undertaking as long IN the first Number, an at- | attempt to continue the "Miniatempt was made to present the readers of this Journal, with the commencement of a mere miniature history of Connecticut. It as the favour of our patrons will was continued in the second; but give continuance to the Rural Main the third and fourth was omit-gazine and Farmer's Monthly Muted to give place to a miniature of JAMES MONROE, our universally admired President. If the reader cannot discover a likeness, the seum.] Ed. Having shewn, with a brevity almost inconsistent with the magnitude of the subject, the leading motives of Englishmen to emigrate to America, I attempt, still more briefly, a sketch of NEWENGLANDERS. They owe their origin to the ancient Saxons, the most brave, magnanimous. warlike. and jeal 19 146 Miniature History of Connecticut. ous of all the ancient tribes that graded vassals of a perverted once composed the "Northern power, conceived and executed Hive" of Europe. They compo- the perilous undertaking of seeksed the van of that myriad, who, ing in a distant world, the enjoyin the fifth century, precipitated ments of those liberties and privithemselves upon the Grecian and leges of which they were depriRoman empires, and entirely sub-ved, in the land of their nativity. verted them. Whatever this tribe They landed as pilgrims upon the might have been, in the dark ages rock of Plymouth. They encounof the world; however gross tered and overcame every obstamight have been their idolatry, cle which a severe climate, feroor blind their superstition; from cious savages, and wasting sickthem, Englishmen and Americans ness, presented to their view. have descended. The wilderness, by their unceas Originally unrestrained by the ing industry, was converted into positive institutions of civilized productive fields; the ocean, by society, centuries rolled over their their daring enterprise, was whiheads before they could be brought tened by their canvass. The to submit to regular govern- classical and eloquent Burke dament. Possessing themselves of red to pronounce their eulogy bethose countries which now con- fore their oppressors, in the revostitute the British empire in Eu- lutionary struggle, in his gigantic rope, it was not, until the reign effort to produce "conciliation" of the great Alfred, that they between the British crown, and were brought to blend the rights the American colonies. They of man, in a state of nature, with became the objectand the wonder the salutary restraints of law. of the old world, and excited the They surrendered a portion of jealousy of their mother country, their rights, that the remainder the powerful mistress of the ocean. might be enjoyed in security. But acknowledging no superiour but the God of the Universe, The aspiring ambition of Feu- and resolving that the last piece dal chiefs began to encroach upon of the soil of freedom that should the rights, they were bound to be wrested from them should be protect. A long succession of their graves, they nobly dared reprinces kept constantly assuming sistance. The blood of their brethnew prerogatives; and as they ren was shed upon the fields they augmented their power, the pri- cultivated; and with one accord, vileges of the people were di- they changed the harmless impleminished. In the sixteenth cen- ments of husbandry, for hostile tury, the subjects of the British weapons, to repel the invaders of crown had but few rights re-a country "dearly their own." maining; and amongst them was Conquest hung upon the banners that of emigration. The ancestors of her embattled sons, and her of New-Englanders, remember- plains and mountains echoed with ing their exalted origin, and de- the shouts of victory. They covtermining no longer to be the de- ered themselves with glory, and Miniature History of Connecticut. 147 conquered a peace. They wit- moral power. But, that the "Pilnessed the establishment of a grims of New-England" should constitution securing their rights. attempt to restrain any portion of Then commenced the progress their brethren, from the power of of her commercial and navigating loco-motion which they had themglory. Her sons were seen in selves exercised, occasions senevery clime; from China to Cali-sations scarcely to be expressed. fornia, from the arctic to the an- It is, however, no no new axiom arctic circle. While the nations in the history of man, that they of the old world were contending will, after having endured the for dominion, the enterprising oppressions of unauthorized powsons of New-England became the er, (when the tables are turnCarriers for the world. Sudden ed,) exercise the same oppressive wealth was the fruit of their un-power themselves. paralleled exertions. Its gaudy An attempt was made, amidst charms dazzled their eyes and in- the agitation created by this ancreased their importance. cient embargo upon men, to call Amongst the race of men thus in the then unbounded influence faintly described were the origin- of the clergy to aid the civil armal founders of CONNECTICUT. and the Rev.Mr. COTTON, preachWith that never-ending spirit ed to the people, the peaceable of energetic enterprise which has doctrine of" passive obedience and ever characterised them, they re-non-resistance." But THOMAS HOOKER, the great, solved, after having overcome most of the obstacles, and endu- the good, and reverend father of red most of the privations of es- the town of "Hartford and the Cotablishing a colony in Massachu- lony of Connecticut," was not to setts, to commence a new one in be diverted from a design he had formed, and which his admiring Connecticut. At this period of the world, it followers were prepared to aid excites feelings bordering upon him in executing. With the unthose produced by indignation, conquerable energy of a great that the "General Court" of Mas- man, a dignified christian, and an sachusetts should have presumed unyielding freeman, he arose, in to restrain their subjects from emi- all the majesty of civil liberty grating to Connecticut river. and religious freedom; and, pourThat an imperious Parliament ing out the effusions of his exaltof England, should then, as it does ed and sublimated soul to Heanow, exert its power to retain its ven, for the successful and happy whole population, is not surpri- termination of the arduous entersing. The emigration of good and prise, he prepared himself and his true men, from any government, associates to commence it. is a diminution of its physical and (To be continued.) Department of Manufacture. MANUFACTURES-THE ARTS OF ELEGANCE, AND THE ARTS OF USE. (Continued from Page 121.) Ed. [IN this Number, we conclude of our large manufactories to comthe justly celebrated" Address of municate to us upon this interestthe American Society for the en. ing and highly important subject.] couragement of Domestic ManuWe cannot refrain factures." from expressing our unqualified est, the natural remedy is to contract as admiration of this masterly pro. far as possible our want of her producduction. It evinces the compre-independence than that of manufacturing tions. And if there be no other way to will not take from us the produce of our "If it clearly now appears, that Europe soil upon terms consistent with our inter for ourselves, at least for our own consumption, it is hoped that the prejudice against home is not so strong in the mind of any American, but that it may be over come. The encouragement, besides, of domestic manufactures will encrease the capital of the country, as the manufactured article exceeds the value of the first mate hensive views of the statesman, the patriotic language of a lover of America, and points out the sure road that will lead our rising Republic to a state of complete independence. Its length may have rial; sometimes one hundred fold, withfatigued some of our readers, who out speaking of the saving of all extra charges of shipping and reshipping, in prefer the light rattling of a run- creasing in proportion the value of the ning fire to the solid thunder den in supporting the expences of the gov land, and easing the landholder of his burartillery; but in our opinion, ernment. It has been exultingly asserted by a great statistical writer in England, is, from the careful examination that one man in a factory maintains four of such productions that our coun-three hundred German mercenaries. soldiers, and one steam engine subsidizes of it trymen will be brought to think upon their true interest, and to act in a manner calculated to secure it. It is our intention to incorporate into our subsequent Numbers, accounts of the origin and progress of the various manufactories in Connecticut; and to enable us to accomplish it, with the greater accuracy, we invite the proprietors Having discussed the various topics of argument, as far as the time allotted too ur labour would permit, we shall set forth the titles upon which we presume to solicit universal co-operation. In the first place, we can safely affirm, spring of selfish or party combination, nor that our society is not the diminutive offthe foundling of accidental caprice. It the legitimate birth of circumstance and occasion, and has burst forth into existthe Goddess of Wisdom from the brain of ence spontaneously and full grown, like the great progenitor; for it is the child of mighty and irresistible necessity. Its object is to give to national industry the impulse it is susceptible of, by all the means within our power, and to en |