Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 7, 1909, Page 3

"+ our self identifying travelers' chel companies at low rates. a before placing your Are You Going Abroad? ‘Before doing so obtain a supply l:: . =payable anywhere—and let us insure, your baggage whereyer you mayebe. B. P. LEARNED & (0., Down Stairs in The Thames Loan and Trust Co. Building. WHY NEED YOU WORRY about, your policy for' FIRE INSUR- ANCEV' ‘when WE write it ? The only| man to Wflml thejone we haven't a policy for, Is'it YOU ? If so, get a move-on in time. Richards Building, 91 Main Street. sysdar Norwich, and its life and of 1 for some. aft- erwards, it is my, part to descr ‘Nine Miles Square. - ' . The “nine miles " wag pur- Chased and settled by.a ult-?ammd company, As a community, it cut the forests, geubbed the by tilled the ; ‘lanched the shallop, then the &loop, and fikally the ship. It the community also that turned the s to_bridle paths, and thén to wagon roads. All this it did with perséverance, in the fear of God,.and with honorable ~ self-respect. ' The d their descendants to the tion were no mere hewers of wood and drawers of water. - Who they were,-we know. What they did, we' can never know, in spite of far more abundant data than most towns can boast. The glory of their achieve- ment we can well appreciate, but nev- er can express. No address, even as eloquent and complete as that to which we have just listened, can do it, and our fathers, justice, Of someythings, however, in the of ‘Norwich, weé are sure. We. know that.the figures of these fathers and mothers of ours do mot bulk unduly large in retrospect, magnified by the mists of time. Mason and Tracy, Fitch; Lefingwell, and their companions, were men such as our im- aginations now paint them—the out- lines correct, the colors in proper tone. We must not forget that our fathers called this place a “plantation.” Here they settled as a community. As a company ‘they bought this land. The government of England to them—was it a shadow, or not? Historians and lawyers can debate for days upon that subject, but there is no tribunal to determine it. ‘But of the relations of the plantation to the colony there can be no difference of opinion. At when taken ture. 1Is there any reason, for instance, ‘why Norwich should not have the right {5 manage its private 4 , a8 dis- tingt its public dutles,, on the Galveafon or Newpert plan, or to fol- low any other new idea in -city gov- ernment, if it so desires? . Ancther Disadvantage. Universal suffrage on questions where a city Is acting in a private capacity is' another disadvantage. Funds ‘must be provided by the tax- pavers, although the control of an election may be with persons having no pecunfary interest in the result. Well studied and general legislation providing for larger local control of the private affairs of local communi- ties, and restricting the right of de- cision on such matters te property owners, i3 today one of the greatest needs of American cities. The memorialists of 1783 spoke of the “late war.” We must confess that the results of the war were not as ruinous as the petitioners stated. To be “sure, Norwich had given freely of her substance and men in the long con. test: Samuel Huntington, in the Con tinental’congress, at one session its president—and some day a proper de- fense of that congress will be written: it has suffered too long the sneers of hostile critics; ph Trumbull, dying for his country as loyally as if on the battlefield; Jabez Huntington, the fa- is ‘blind f democracy, that -ummflfififi:um of the party admitted that it would be de- sirable to. ele ;’m com wof men all wdl? n dl"kéco in, and; a large number of our best citizens for Some weeks before the, meeting flattered themselves that the new ticket would succeed, but when we came to the trial '.Iu:h 4 ‘which h;- long blasted our appeared, and Sam Charlton ‘and n Case carried all ‘before them, giving the old senators a majority of sixty in this town, and I fesronr neighbors are not muth better ot b can history are in general so unfair to New Ei sentiment between the French Revolution and 1815. Go over the Jist “of captures and confiscations of Norwich' vessels prior to the war of 1812; ong ‘after another they fell into the hands of the British or French or both, 4Often -the crews’are impris- oned, blit' the moment they strike the rortheérn shore of the sound again they resembark in other, ventures. Three Reasons for Choice. One wonders ot courde,’ why Ney: England, in spite of impressment dur seamén’ by the mother country and her renunciation of a well settled ship- ping rule, was so lukewarm in its.an- imésity ageinst her, and so hostile to depths of the ocean lay the coral foun- dations of uprising islands. In the end comes the §01id land, the olive and the vine, the habitations of man, the OF e soa A Ships rling A% ahohon riding at anchor. But the busy toilers which ‘laid the ‘beams 9f a continent in a dreary waste REMBVAL - John F. Parker FIRE INSURANCE " OFFICE CHAPMAN BUILDING BROADWAY \ Telephone 894 N. TARRANT & GO., 117 MAIN STREET. Fire, Accident, Health, and: Steam Boller . .. Norwich Union Fire Insurance Socisty, g u. 8, Assots 275942210 Westorn Assurance Co., U. €, decl1a . ATTORNEYS AT LAW. AR0WN § PERKIR, it law over First Nat Sapk tucket St Bntrance Btairway, nex: to Thames Nat Bunk. Tel. 38-3. 170TH DIVIDEND. Office of The Norwich Savings Soclety. Norwich, Conn., June 12, 1909. ‘The Directors of this Society have declhred out of the.earnings of the cur. Tent' six months 4 semi-annual div, dend at the rate of FOUR PER CENT. per annum, payable to depositors ent] tled thereto, on and after July 15th, 1969, COSTBLLO LIPPITT, daw Treasure: Trunks, Suit Cases and Traveling Bags “ A large ‘stack of finest quality at werydow prices. The Shetucket Harness Co 283 Main Streef. WM, BODE. Eluphnna 321-3. Jjun26d LEWANDO'S Fzench Dyers and Cleansers FINBST WORK in the United States. We use none but the ¥rench method. All work Guaranteed. More ‘than 900 customers here in Norwich. Marshall's Agency, 464 Main St, with Nor. Cir. Library. jun24ThSTu The Norwich Nicke! & Brass Co., Tableware, Yacht Trimmings Refinished. €9 to 87 Chestnut $t. Nerwicli, Conn. octdd DOMINICK & DOMINICK, 7 115 Broadway, New York City, Bankers and Brokers Members of the New York Stock Ex- A change. . Bonds and Iligh Grade Investments, Orders executed in Stocks and Bonds, Wheat aod Cotton. ‘ Norwich Branch, 67 Broadway © . Telephone 901 a session October 3, 1661, Major Mason, deputy governor, presiding, the generai court ordered “the secretary to write a letter to Norridge to send up a committee in May next, invested with full power to issue of the affair re- specting settling that plantation un- der the government”; and in May fol- lowing ‘the freemen from Norwich were presented and - accepted and sworn by Major Mason. The general court granted.title to lands within the plantation itself. Indeed, it was orig- inally called upon to confirm Uncas’ deed to the company, provided “thaf it shall not prejudice any former grani to our worshipful governor or others.” Yet it is still claimed by some ac- cepted historians that Connecticut was a confederacy of towns. P 1t was In 1783 that 175 freemen of the town of Norwich, then containing Bograh, Franklin, Lisbon, and a p#rt of Prestox as well, petitioned for the incorporation of the Landing and the uptown district as a city. Their rea- sons were stated in their memorial as follows: “That your memorialists, from their local circumstances, are not able to gain a subsistence by agrical- ture: That, therefore, they have for many. years past turned their atten- tion to commerce and mechanical arts That, during the late war they have been’ unfortunate in their navigation, having the greatest part captured by the enemy and burnt and destroyed by them when they were at New Lon- don.” The memorial goes on to com- plain that the. internal police system is_defective; that good wharves and stréets are jacking; and, finally, that they must have a court of their own. I shall not attempt to detail the subsequent changes in the local gov- ernments of the various parts of the original town plot. They have been lately fully chroniled; but they have more than a purely historic, interest, for they illustrate the imperfect rela- tions which have always existed be- tween the’ state and the municipali- ties. Of course, Connecticut Is not pe- culiar in this 'respect, but she has yielded, on the whole, mors than her sister states to temptations to special legislation. Reason for Town. The Connecticut town exists prima- rily to take care of roads and bridges, and paupers within its limits. It must be of sfich convenient size that its voters can often meet at some central place. The original nine miles square, split, as it were, by two rivers, was too farge. If town meetings were fre- quent they absorbed too much of the voter’s time in coming and going. The incorporation of the city, and of the three northern and western towns was approved by a large majority of the dwellers jn the original township. La- ter legisiation, actual and proposed, to alter local boundaries, met vigorous opposition, In the late years of the cighteenth and the early years of the nineteenth centuries, it was apparently the policy of Connecticut to regulate municipalities through general Ilaws. That practice has unfortunately fallen into abeyance. A city, in 1800, was ther, at home rushing men and “sup- plies to the ever-changing fighting line; and his sons, Jedediah, Joshua and Ebenezer, in. the field, and Andrew as ecommissary at home—Jedediah o brigadier general, Ebepezer a colonel. And we must not forget Chapiain Ellis, Colonels Durkee, Throop and, Rogers: the two captains James Hyde, Cap- tains Nevins, Jedediah Hyde, Simeon Huntington and Elisha Prior, or Dr. Turner, the beloved and untiring phy- sician and surgeon, or the two broth- ers, Christopher and Benajah Leffing- well. “We ought not to pass by others equally brave and efficient; but the name of Benjamin Huntington stands among them almost pre-eminent. He was notgat the battlefront, but in mat- ters of fervice at home, in the general court, as agent of the town—in all things most sensible and helpful, Nor- wich owed him much during the Revo- lution, and more later. Location a Protection. But Norwich was protected during the war by her location. Her position also ‘gave her a good chance for pri- vateering and blockade running. Jede- diah Huntington's letters to his father from the army show that even his ab- sence did not present him from joining eagerly in that dangerous game. With the treaty of peace came the commer- cial opportunity of Norwlen. The West India trade flourished briskly. Horses, mules, sheep and swine were carried between and on decks by thou- sands. One wonders where they all went to. Eath issue of ‘the Connecti- cut Courant of those days calls for “sprightly” or “lively” youlg horses, and hard monéy would sometimes be offered in _exchange, and profits rose by bounds.” Indeed, Connecticut was so much engaged in‘meney making after the war-and before the constitutional convention that ithe necessity for a more._ stable form of national govern- ment was ot as apparent to us as to some of our neighbors, When Ells- worth hurried from Philadelphia . with- out signing the instrument which he and his Connecticut: colleagues had been sa -instrumental in framing he found a general assembly very indif- ferent to his persuasions. But Con- recticut was federalist to the backbone. Roger Sherman in New Haven, the Wolcotts in Litchfield, the Champions in Colchester. William Samuel Johnson in Fairfield, Ellsworth in Hartford, the Frumbulls and Huntingtons in Norwich —the state was under an oligarchy in- deed; and so it continued until the al- liance of foleration and democrats finally overtlirew it. How incomprehensible it was to an old fashioned federalist to see Norwich follow strange gods fs shown by a let- ter of my great-grandfather which 1 found the other 'day. He-was writing to his so: “The result of the election (April, 1817) you know. Democrats are on tiptoe. “What they will - attempt when the legislature meets no one can tell. I think in Governor Wolcott they have got a Tartap’ and will not find him exactly the man they wish,” What the democrats attempted and carried through was the state constitution of _FINANCIAL AND DULL AFTER THE HOLIDAY. Prof onp) Speculative Elamant DI appointed-Smgll_Business on 'Change. New York, July 6.—The profession- al element in the speculation hoped that today was to\witness a revival of active interest inthe stock market. That hope was disappointed, as the meagre total of the day's transactions sufficiently shows. North ™ Aderin STOCKS. Norihern, Facine - o ! 30 Deone Ratmsan 7100 Amal._ Copper . 83 8 100 Feo. Gus & C. 1400 Am. Beet Bugar 4% 5% 810 Pressed Steel C; 1500 Am. Can . 12% n% 12 5 Do. ptd . 200 Do. pfd .. . 2% 2035 Quicksilver 900 Am. €ar & Foundry. 5. 490 Do. _pld 1300 Am. Cotton Ol Tdl | 32600 Reading ... 100 A iae s e lo0 ok i $00 Do. pfd ..... 2 800 Republic Iron 800 Ao " Securi 30 D pia 300 Am: Linseed. Ol 11700 Rook ™ ieiani G 60 Am. Too Do 1ot ot . e por 00 B L B igha 8 Am 50 *Dor“ 28 pra 1o, 0! (o100 Am. $o0 507 "5, i 50 oo 0000 Soutbern” Pt 900 Am. 218 wd sion A 3500 Boauneen sta % 1400 Am. 09 Do. o8 A ] :n fin. \}/ a0l Dl‘fl G e 18 12000 Atchison. w : ‘l|l“ A % 900 Do. ptd 105 40800 Unlon Pacific 3000 Baitimore & Ohio. 183" 184 100 Do. st pid ... 17 130 Central of New Jersey...189% 189% 289% | 5415 United States Steel.lll] s0ig 400 Central ‘Leather a1 31 | 2400 Do. pra 2 % 200 Do. ptd . 1043 1043 | 1000 Ttahn C % 1109 Ghesapeake. 6% 6% 76% |+ 100 Wabaeh 1% 100 Chicago. & Altan. €% 694 9% | 2200 Do. pid 6% 3300 Chicago Great 1% 1% 1% | 5800 Westen 2 Tox 100 Do. pra_X. 5% s 100 Western Tnfon Tel, ... 7214 900 Do. pra B« % 4% | 390 Wisconsin Central ;... 58% 5600 Chicago. M. 100 Do. pid -4 300 Do, 200 Cotorado E 1t pld o Products . pid 2w, EEEw 500 Do ptd . L3 “COMMERCIAL 200 Long Taldnd 200 Loulsrille & 100 Mackay Ca. 200 Manhattan Beach 1400 M. St P. & 8. 8. M. 200 Do. 3dpld 100 Do pfa 2800 Mo, Kan. 100 Do. ptd .. 500 Missourt Pacific 800 National Lead 100 N. R, Mex. Ipfd 8200 Do.. 34 ptd ......... 1520 New York Alr Brake... 1900 New York Central.... X Y, 0. & W.. 300 Nortolk & Western 2900 Do. ptd 100 Dnited . States 8. 100 United ~ States Reall 500 United §tates Rubi Total sales, 400,432 shares. COTTON. New York, July 6.—Spot closed qul- et, 15 points higher: middling uplands 12. middling gulf 12.00; sales, 700 New York, July 6,—Futures closed very steady.’ Closing bids: July 12.26, August 12.24, September 12.27, October 23, November 12.20, December 12.36; January 12.34, February —, March 12,34, April 12.34, May 12.88. MONEY. New York, July 6.—Money on call easy; 11-2@1 7-8 per oent., ruling rate 133, last loan 11-2, closingbid 13-4, loans very soft and dull; sixty days 2 per cent., ninety days 21-2 per | cent, -#ix months 3 1-4@3 1-2 per cent. Papers—Tributes to Many Prominent Men, g Judge Prentice made’the concluding address, which *was heard with deep interest and received merit- ed applause. He said: " \ Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: 1t is my allotted task to take up tie threads' of the story of this ancient town at the point where the bicenten- nial celebration in 1859 dropped. them. The half “century which has passed since that time lies within the memory of not a few who are before me. Its most significant events are familiar to most of you. It would, therefore, in- serest you liitle, and profit you less. it T should attempt at this time to com- pile a record of them. I will leave that task to the local historian of the future who shall undertake to speak of the things of the past to a generation whose knowledge of them {is drawn from a more distant retrospect. But history (and I must jiot forget that he part assigned me hfre is an historical one) concerns -itself with ~something more than the bare record of events. These are but the result of the play and interplay of forces, human and superhuman. Even those events which are reasdnably familiar assume an in- terest when the human factors in them are brought under review, and ~the parts played by the chief actors in them and ‘the personalities or tnose actors are recalled. It chances that the period concersiing which I am asked to speak, save only a few of its earliest years, is within the range of my personal recollection. True, some of that recoliection is. made WAUREGAN HOUSE, CORNER BROADWAY AND MAIN STREET . France. The reasons are three: In the first place, the French privateers of the, West Indies and their depredations on New England commerce; secondly, Jefferson was at the same time a French adherent and the author of a commercial policy the stupidest con- ceivable from our standpoint. - He had called a halt in navy making and had forced on_the country tle embargo and non-intgrcourse acts. But the third reason was by far the most im- portant, viz.: The feeling in every real New England man that Great Britain was fighting the battle of Christendom: against Bonaparte. “Suppose England has changed her maritime rules,” our fathers said, t us in at the game, no matter what rul she makes. Give us seaway, and give us a port ahead—we will find our way in. Never mind the cruising frigates or the blockade, actual or on paper. If we are caught, ours the loss,'{ The thought that, after all, old Eng- land might not win hung like a cloud over every New England hamiet. Open the limp sheets of those old Connecti- cut journals. Bven in our actual fight- ing ‘days, from 1812 to 1825, clippings from the English papers that slipped in via Halifax were what people want- ed most to read—not news of Chippe- wa and Lundy’s Lane. Wellington and Napoleon were the real figures on the world's stage. _And our = grandfathers Judged righ Such were the feelings that gave birth to the Hartford convention. Have we in Connecticut anything to apolo- gize for in that gathering? If so it dpesn't appear in its journal—and Theodore Dwight was an honest man Do we wish- it had. never met? If that page were taken from New England history, we should always miss some- thing—a rare sample of her sober courage/ ‘her' four-square view of things as they are. 1f other evemts— the treaty, ahd Jackson at New Or- leans—had mot come near at the time of its_adjournment, its name would never have been spoken with a sneer, or written with' nullification in . the context. Representatives Were Uptown Men. During those days the Landing took second place and the town plot came once again to the fore. The repre- jsentatives in ithe general assembly were uptown men. -But with the trea- ty things changed. The federalist party® was dying. It must needs be that the established church, Yale col- lege, and the stafe, as a triumvirate in Connecticut, must surrender their power. The era of Norwich enterprise in water. traffic gave way to ventures in manufactures;- -~ men who worked with their hands were drawing close- iy togather. Tt was. not yet the day of buying labor, but of laboring together, apprentices in the shop and in the family “as ‘well. They were not al- ways likely boys, of course. An ad- vertisement ‘in the Coufl:fi a run- away ‘apprentice _ironic: tells the public that' his master will pay one cent, and no more, for the boy's re- turn, The .girls_of that day appar- ently needed yo training. Indeed, in the- Connecticut Courant of = July 5, 1789, 1'find_this item: Stocking 106ms are now making at Norwich by thet self-taught, ingenious man, Thomas .Harland, already well known for the excellence of his fire engires’ (that: s, fire irons). Cloth shears Superior to the imported ones have been made since the peace in that neighborhood, and that place is likely to be_the Shefield of this coun- try. "Pwo girls at Norwich by ithe name Roath, one of 12 and the other of .14 years of age, without any in- structions respecting that article, or are entombed in their work and for- gotten in their tombs” There is no necessity, even if time permitted, to speak of many others to whom Norwich is indebted, and of whom we are proud—Mrs. Sigourney and Mrs. Sarah Eunticglon for in- stance. To be sure, one can 'hardly find Mrs. Sigourney’s name in a mod- ern list of American writers, but when they were written her memorial verses cgrried comfort to many afficted hearts. The names of Senator Fos- ter, Governor Buckingham and of Dan- iel’ Coit Gilman will undoubtedly ke mentioned in a later address. Political Life of Norwich. The political lite of Norwich, after 1820, seems to have been a steady con- trol by the tolerationists until the sturdy youth of the whig party, about 1835. Then Norwich became a whig stronghold, until the free soilers came to the front. After all, the’ politics of the past play but a small part iR our common and soparate family traditions.” 10 is our own great grandparents, of our grandfathers and “grandmothers, and of their children that we are thinking; of the tem parties of those days, the neighborly dropping in of evenings, the quiet talks on shaded porches, the strollings and whisperings of lovers under the elms: of the Loys steall from pool to pool along the alder shel tered trout streams; of th¥ir breathi- less climbs up the Tidges along the line of the patridge’s whirring flight; of friendly. groups about the “winter evening - fireside, the leaping flames sinking into_glowing ashes, and the lively tallk broken by sympathetic silences; of the ghort Saturday nights, and long Sundays, and the goodness of the white haired men and the sweet- ness; like the drupping rese petals in their gardens, of our gentle grand- mothers. And later we come to the burden of the national prohlem—of slavery and its extension, the claims of the south, and finally the roar of the guns against Sumpter and the spring to ‘arms. - Fifty years ago Norwich's jubilee was silent on what must have been an undereurrent in mang minds. Some of you here present were there. We to whom the feeling of those days is lost in the flood of household tradition, in mingled stories of joy gnd sorrow, of sparkling wit—for ‘jarring notes dis- appear with the years—we prefer the silence also. To us_who have found home tles elsewhere, Norwich is the place of our dear ones, many of whom we never saw, jbut whose names, fames and memdries we love—for whom we name our children, and to whose kind and steadfast eyes. as they look down up- on us from their duiling frames, We submit our questioflings. Forebears all, we greet you! We make. no promises_for outselyes—we Have fallen short of what you would have us to be. For the little we have done, for the more we have tried to do, we owe much to an honorable pride in you, our ancestors of Norwich. If we cannot promise for ourselves, wo can undertake somewhat for our chil- dren, ‘The tri-centennia! will sce them returning as we have come today, and they wil assert a larger and nobler influence than even we dare claim for their down and our,tawn, Ne h. The audience recefded his addres with much applause. Poem by Rev. Anson G. Chester. Chajrman Williams announced that Rev. Anson G. Chester, of ‘Buffalo, N. Y., has- written a poem for the bicen- tennial which was used on the officiai ‘badge, and for this celebration he has up of the impressions of boyhood and youth. True, much of it is not drawn from a direct participation in whay has transpired, or from an intimate per- sonal contact with the more. promihent figures concerned. But I am obliged to confess that I am old enoligh to be able to bring under review from mem- ory the events of a large portion of the period in question, and to, have re- ceived very distinct impressions of and concerning most of the men who have been the chief actors upon this J§cal stage during that time. I shall, ther fore, take the liberty of giving expre sion to some of these impressions, and of bringing into special prominence the personal side of the last half century’g history here. Stirring Times. The -beginning of our period takes us back to times which stirved men’s sauls. The great, national struggle over human slavery was mear its height; the people of the country were aligning themselves for the momentous political conflict which the ‘next year was to witness; and events were fast rushing on to the dread climax of War. It is difficult, I imagine, for.those of us who have lived in less gtrenuous times to faithfully picture to outselves the conditions which were then exist- ing. The conscience of the nerth had been *profoundly moved by the specta- cle of human bondage, and the efforts which were being made to extend the sphere of the influence of slavery, The issue which hadibegn joined was in its sight iess a pol than a moral one, and meén beeame inspired with that ar- dor and zeal and determination which a moral issue alone can arousé." This was peculiarly true of those of the old New England stock who had been- bred and nurtured under the influences of a Puritanism wiich had not passed away, but still lingered amid the bomes of the fathers to be deeply stitred. by its sense of wrong, and to be slirred to action which knew no ceasing, Here in this town and in this eastern Con- necticut the blood of the Puritan flowea in scarcely adulterated streams. The influences which he created were still potently present in this typical, New in 1869, were in| was busy with. the slave states, in *October his abortive attempt ‘\r ' One of the 3?1‘- mmma a tractive pérson: ‘among the mem- bers of Brown's d band was born within the limits oM anclent Norwich, and lived hercuntil his enlistment for the Mexican war, and his family’ were parishioners of the Uptown church at the_time of his death He was Aaron D Btoveds. THe' @8 plibire o 4 men erculean proportions—gracely an comely. He bad played a leading part in the Kansas struggle, and there had come into intimate relations with Brown. He walied to the scaffold at Charletewn in March, 1860, with as umaunted courage as he had on many another occasion faced death for the cause which lay nearest to his heart. ¢ Community Wrought Up. These events and others coming, as they did, in rapid and overwhelming succesasion, had wrought the mind of the nmorth ‘and of this community into a fever heat, The call of the dnti- slayery agitators to a redress of the wrongs of an oppressed le had reached ‘the hearts of some. That (o stay the aggressions of the slave po er, and to save a vast expanse of vir- £in's0il to freedom was earnestly heed- ed by others. The contest was on, and it was being waged with all the in- tensity and bitterness which a chal- lenge of the righteousness of u great and tong established soclal institution can engender. These calls had been heard here and hefeabouts, and the Tesponse had beén no uncertain one. And there were not lacking effective local agencies to reinforce the grow- ing opinion, which %ad grought the re- cently formed republican yarty into being, and a local leadership to give it shape and effectiveness. The Morn- ing Bulletin_ had been established in December, 1858, Isaac H. Bromley was its_editor. In that place of vantage he brought to the service of the cduse of freedom all the enthusiasm - of youth, and those rare abilities which Jater won for him golden laurels in the flelds of metropolitan journalism. ator Foster resided here. He had tak- en his seat in the United § ate in March 5 member of that body until 1867, to become its president pro tempore @and after the death of Lincoln its pre- siding office: He earnest! espous the cause of the new party influential in its councils. Ga ingham resided here. He twice mayor gnd twice governor. The influence of his strong hand and per- sonal populirity was of great service to the cayse to which he attached him- 4clf heart and soul. Amos W. Pren- whose contributions to the wel- of this town during a long and lfe were manifold and untiring, or, and he was always to be found in the forefront of the advanc- ing battle line. Here was He H. Starkweather, then a young man at the bar, with the promise of a bright future in his profession. His tastes soon ‘afterward drew him aside into public. service. in which he remained until_his death in 1876, while serving this district in his Aifth term in con- gress. He attached himself to the fortunes of the new party with all the ardor of his nature, and was ceaseless in his labors in its behalf. Dr. John P. Gulliver occupled the pulpit of the Broadway church. He was a man of marvelous power in the moulding of public opinion, and rare in his’ ca- pacity for leadership. This town has seen few of his equals in that respect He wds she uncompromising foe of slayery and outspoken and persistent in his denynciation of its evils. There was gathered in his congregation an unusual group of - public leaders Through them, and through his own | forceful “personafity reached out into this community in a way that made a deep impress upon it - Hut these men who held, or later came to hold, public or quasi-public places were not tile only leaders in the move- ment of public opinion, or in effective propaganda and _organization. The ranks of the professions and business furnished many others The Mst in cludes such mmen as the brilliant Ed- mund Perkins, Willlam P Greene, Hen- ry B Norton, Moses Pierce, John Breed, David Smith, John F. Slater, Hugh H. Osgood, John T. Adams, Dea- eom Ho e Colton and others These were all men of wide influence, an3 they were as firm In their faith, as unfaltering in their allegiance and as unsparing.in their efforts as any others. ry Gov. Buckingham's Campaign. At the April election in 1860 Gow- ernor Buckingham a candidate for re-election. Great importance was at« tached to the resuit by reason of its bearing upon the greater presidential contest soon to follow. The opposing candidate was the magnetic Thomas H. Seymour. The @emocracy had not theh suffered the division which soon befell it. All of its members, what- ever their, differing shades of opinion, joined in theemost energetic efforts to stay the progress of the principles which the republican party had es- poused. The contest was desperately waged. The democratic leadership héreabouts was' In_no mean or inex- perienced hands. It included John T. Wait, James A. Hovey, James S. Ca- rew. John W. Stedman, Willlam L. Brewer, Willlam M. Converse, Chris- topher C. Brand and others. Wait was by the war, which at Antletam c | him his only son, carried into republi- can léadership, and for ten years he was the representative of this distr! in congross, succeeding Starkweathe Hovey was a lawyer of high abilities who in 1876 became a judge of the su- perior court. Carew was mayor dur- ing the stirring years of 1860 and 1861, Stedman was the proprietor and editor (Continued on page six.) NOTICE! A Special Meeting of the Pollcy= hoiders of the New London County Mutual Fire Insurance Company will be held at the office of thd Company at No, 2§ Shetucket Street, Norwich, Connectit, on Monday, July 12 1909, at 2 o'clock In the afternoon, the following purpose: To accept the Amendment to Section 14 of the Charter of the Company in relation to the elimination in its Poli« cy-contract of the clause regarfiing liability of Policy-holddr~ to assess- ment, made under Substitute for House Joint Resolution No, 145, passed by the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut at its January Session, 1909, ‘ W. F. LESTER, Secretary. Norwich, Connecticut, July 3d, 1909, yaa There Is Time Enough Now To get anything you may need in the Furniture Line for your guests be- fore the Celebration. We are making very low prices on practically everything in our store. 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