The Litchfield County post., 1827-02-23
DISTRICTING.

trictlng the State for the choice of State SEN
ators and Representatives in Congress. The
people seem to he awake upon this subject, g.
to require that bill should be passed by the
next legislature, giving to the freemen of each
county, or district the whole right of nomina-
ting or choosing their Senator, Or Senators,
and member to Congress. The advantages
of such course, over the present mode of
nominating and electing such public servants
need not be enumerated at the present time {;
our object in mentioning the subject this week
is to excite the enquiry whether the advocates
of this bill wish to extend it so as to choose
the electors of President and Vice President
also by districts, instead Of the general ticket
mode We suspect that not few of the ad
vocates Of this bill are Jealous for the meas
ure, solely for the purpose of giving two or
more of the votes of the electoral College Of
this state to Andrew jackson. The State of
Connecticut, united, will never give him a
vote for the presidency; there is too much
virtue, intelligence, and love of country, a.
mong the great body Of the people, to wish to
exalt " military Cheftain" to the station of
president of the U. s. in the place of John
Quincy Adams, United, the influence of our
little State may be felt divided upon the
presidential question, and our influence will
be destroyed, and the voice of the majority
will not be obeyed. We shall pursue this sub
ject hereafter; IN the mean time we wish that
the advocates of the bill would openly inform
the people whether they wish the hill to en-
brace the electors of President and Vice Pre-
sident, or not. If they do, we shall attempt
to show that such feature in the bill, ought
to destroyit.
Mr.. SMITH,
SlR-We perceive by an article in your pa
per Of the 9th INST. signed Investigator" that
the honesty and fairness of Mr.. Sterling's
nomination is not admitted by the friends of
Mr.. Merwin, and that an " exposition Of facts"
is promised in relation to that subject. Now
sir, us we were members of that meeting,
which nominated Mr.. Sterlng,w we will on our
responsibility furnish Investigator" with
certain clue to the honest investigation of the
subject he has SO much at heart, which may
save him some labour. The following towns
in this county were represented at said meet
ing, that nominated Mr.. Sterling, by the gen
tlemen, whose names are hereunto annexed,
with their respective occupations, gi=.
Litch6eld, Morris Woodruff, Chair. Farmer
Barkhamsted, Sam'l Munson, Farmer
Canaan, Nath'l Stevens, Merit 8, Far.
Asa S. Brewster, Merit & Far.
Colebro0k, Rufus North, Farmer
Goshen, Giles GriswOld, Farmer
Ne,O- Hartford, George c. Kellogg, Farmer
Neac- MsJoTd. EIihu Marsh, Farmer
RorbuTy, Elisha Patterson, Farmer
Salisbury, Newman Holly, Merit s. Far.
Silas Reed, Farmer
Sharon, Horatio Smith, Farmer
Corn:oau. Peter Bierce, Merit s. Far.
IOrringtOn, Uriel futile, Former
Warren, Salmon Weston, Farmer
Washington, Nathan Newton, Former
Winchester, Human Wakefield, Plus. g. Far.
Woodbury., Peter F. Peck, Farmer
unrepresented at said meeting, because accor-
ding to the usual custom of Republicans, Fed
craIists have not been requested to attend
their political meetings,-and further Inyes-
tigator" will find, that the towns unrepresen-
ted have 1905 inhabitants and the whole
county ,967 Northumberland we further
state that the meeting, which nominated Mr..
Sterling, was held on Thursday, the day be-
fore the Legislature adjourned, and when the
meeting was called, we did not know for
what purpose the members had or were con-
vened. not having heard that MIR. Church had
declined his nomination to Congress, which
had been made at a previous meeting, and
that neither of us had any conversation with
with Mr.. Sterling, directly or indirectly,
touching the subject of his nomination, nor
have we reason to believe that any other per-
son had, and that Mr.. Sterling received IL
votes, and Mr.. Merwin only 4.
PETER BIERCE.
HORATIO SMITH,
NATH'L STEVENS, ed
SALMON WESTON.