The Litchfield County post., 1827-10-11

70 hi: friend, and the other his wife, who was
ding IN the.counry and then placing the two pistols
to his head, he blew out his brains.
We should notshave noticed thc.vugar attack made
upon by the editor of the Hartford Times in his pa
per OF the LIST inst. for certain inaccuracies
in point Of fact which are to be ound his article
Hesays,our late notices ofhm induced simply on
account of the course he pursued just previous to the
last state election. :" Because would fno support
Benedict and Huntington, and other ederalists, for
sooth their creature is att work, and for months
has been snarling at us like hurt schoOlboy" 'lfwe
were to inquire into the of these attacks, we
should refer to certain communications received by
last spring from the Litch6ed junto. These commu-
nications were by us disregarded, and Notwithstanding
they were couched in terms haering and even super
cilous they not noticed. Fair words and smooth
letters did induce abandon the republicans of
that county, and hence the ire of the Post" 1t will
hardly be credited bythe friends of truth that the above
are literal extracts from the Times ,; but such, we
assure them, is the fact How it COMFORTS with truth,
let the readers of paper during the last election
eering campaign Judge; or how an editor OF paper
can set down and write such wiful falsehoods-the
extracts will not bear mider phrase-and publish
them to the world truths, unable to divine.
He saws that communications sent to him urging
his support for Benedict and Huntington and other
federaIits," and "because he disregarded them,"
"hence the ire" &c. This would imply and indeed
it virtually says, that supported those gentlemen
for Office Mr.. Wells knew this was false when he
wrote it-he could not have been mistaken about it,
there was no ground for a mistake. He knew that
the Times and the Post both supported the same mea-
sures at the time referred to-that nearly the same
men were upon both tckets-that not one federalist
was named upon our ticket-that neither of the gen
temen named were mentioned in ourpapcr candid
ates for ofice-that wherein the Times did dierfrom
us in the support Of candidates, it afterwards acknowl-
edged its error, by saying that Mr.. Boardman ought
to have been elected" and that "Litchfeld County
has noby done her duty We will not further pur
sue the subject in proving that the editor ofthe Times
must have known the above extracts be false when
he wrote them.
We will now say one word in relation to the motive
of the editor of the Times in pursuing the he
did last spring. Judge Niles, his favourite candidate
for the Senate,is jackson man-hs opponent against
whom the Pines aboured most necessarily, is friend
to the Administration. Judge Niles once the ed
or and proprietor of the Times and how deeply hei
still interested in the establishment leave for 9TH
ers to decide. To bring him into the Senate every
former pledge to the party and all former precedents
ofmpcit obedience to caucus dication,wer violated
and forgotten, and the Times appeared to feel deeply
interested in the support of honest political policy
and its honesty would never have been calledn ques
ton, at least by U.s. had not the editor afterwards pub
lshed his disgracefu nsncerity. His patron lost
lliselection-the protegee had received liberal
support from candid politicians, and threat
ened by his former admirers; and TO himself, he
virtually denies having pursued the course mentioned
by ashing his brother editors for supporting the very
measures he pretended to love. We opposed egsla-
tive caucusses-so did the Times; advocated dis
tricting-so did the Times; we supported candidates
for the SenaSe named in county meetings, called
so did the Times; have never been ashamed of
our cause, the patronage Of certain ind
viduals padded off to different measures,-thus
it not be said of the Times; have never been so
egregiously Inconsistent to attack acotemporaryfo for
advocating like doctrines with ourselves,-the Times
has; and if all this is not evidence of political de-
pravty-rottenness at the hears, circumstances
words could be adduced as evidence of it.
To be plain, we have felt any uncommon de-
gree of dclicacy in noticing the Hartford Times. We
established the Post upon acknowledged correct prin-
cipes-we not to be Influenced by old party dis
sincons---tke names Of democrat and ederalist
net to influence US, the period when these names
a ralying point had completely passed by, and
new names and new distinctions had already taken
their place-the freemen throughout the country
arranging themselves under the banners of Adams
and the American SYSTEM" jackson and the
ti-tari polcy;" and these parties like ARROWS rod,
had swallowed up all others. Governed solely hv
these correct views pursuing the even ten
Of our own way" when the puere editor of the
Times, entirely without provocation undertook to in
sruct the people that this press ownedby "ede
raj Junto," that the individual whose name stands at
the head OF the paper its editor, the tool
ofths "Junto," and that lie pretended to die
tate what should be published, this business being en-
tirely governed by others. This boyish black
guarding has been kept up for the last down
his paper of the LIST instant when he says at would
not be difficult for ascertain the cause of the
relenting attacks made this paper, by the little jun
to Lchfeld HILL through their creature the Post"
When read this last paragraph really felt like
laughing fifteen minutes by stop watch. Poor boy
his paper must be run by ''tie junto LitchfeId
hi when there is other paper printed in either of
f-he three counties bordering upon this but what is