The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1826-10-03
2 BY order ofahe Board.
.s..lR. G. GURLEY, Res. Agent.

,4sSy BY order ofAhe Board.
.lR. G. GURLEY, Res. Agent.
$50 [CoMMUNICATED. -..
mr.. Smith when you commenced your
paper in this county became subscriber,
and have ever since been hearty and warm
supporter of your establishment. My object
in troubing you with communication at this
time is simply this. lame democratic repnb-
lcan, warm supportersof our present state
government Among many d. my political
brethren Jealousy has arisen that your paper
is in reality federal, and that its influence is to
be lent to the building up of thatsparty to the
expense of the dominant power in the state.
True your columns have given no such init
nation; yet such sentiments have gained, and
are still gaining ground. The ruling party in
this county wish to support your press-Can
they do SO with confidence? do not ask you
whether all thelmeasures of theparty will find
in you warm and hearty supporter; but can
they confidently believe that your press will
not be used as an engine against them? You
have political sentiments-eycry man has,
are you then a democratic republican, or are
you federal republicans hardly dare ask
you-for it would seem as though no think
ing man could dissent from the principle
whether you prefer our present constitution to
our old English charter? I do not ask you
whether your columns are to be ofthat heated
isliberal partizan kind which has characterized
SO many papers, and which has produced very
injurious effects upon society; trust they
will not be. will here remark-I have been
satisfied with your course thus for, and wish
that the same general spirit may mark your
course in future; but your friends wish for
some pledge, that your press is not what it
has been accused of being, stool or organ
for the old federal party" A notice of this
will oblige A FRIEND TO THE Posr.
RemGrks.-Thcre is a criterion in politics
as we'll us in Religion, or in any other of the
professions and duties of life. A departure
from this criterion, either by an overheated
zeal for party, or in the neglect of those dn-
ties which devolve upon US as members of
any particular party in the great republican
family, will almost invariably produce re-
acton injurious to the cause we would sup
port.-By profession we are democratic re-
pnblican--such are the sentiments which we
have ever claimed as our own, and such are
the principles which we are determined shall
characterize our laboars as an editor of a pub
lie journal. An avowal Of such sentiments
wchave never shrunk from; and to act under
the influence of such sentiments is a course
which we by no means fear to pursue. But
we.shall not pin our faith to any man, or any
set ofmen. At the present day, such is the gen.
eral political liberality, which is felt by all cas-
ses throughout the union, together with the
diversity of sentiments upon miner points
which is found among the dominant national
and state party, that, we cannot give any
pledge as to the course we shall pursue in the
support of, or opposition to, any of these mi
nor points. In state politics we are satisfied
with the general principles which the ruling
party have acted upon, and while this party
pursues such liberal national republican
NVufStS IL SIldl ECCcNcsOufC OFuldl support
As to TIE charge preferred against US by our
neighbour Wells that our press is "a federal in
disguise "a tool for others to advance their
interests WITH, we can emily say that the
charge is too contemplate to deserve a serious
notice; it is one which our federal friends feel
as deeply injured and insulted by as ourselves,
Ia charge as to course Of proceeding which
high minded men would ever revolt from.
We established press here without the So
licitation of any man or set Of men our mo-
tives were pure and honest.-they were not
10 keep alive party spirit, if it were now in ex-
crcise, or to excite whirlwind of party strife,
il it were allayed. Being friendly to the
principles which now predominant in this state
it was our determination to support and as
sist to Perpetuate them. True we have found