Litchfield enquirer., 1832-03-22

 accident it fell inte the hands of nas of integrity who is opposed to the ntrguss of certain managerS in this district, and who thiakp lhas the eopteniS should be dscIosed to the public. IL has ever been considered honorable io use with freedom political letters when they happen to get into the possession of an opponent; but if re.otherwiSs, asa general r6le the character of this letter s sucbthat oughs to constitute m exception. In order that there may be no douht as to the authenticity of this dOcumen send by the bearer the original letter peIf whichyou may exhibit any one acquainted with the hand wri ting of MT. JudsOn bu. please retain it in your pos session. AN ELEcToR.
 Isth District, Mareh 16th, 1ss2.
 74.s,- x sg s sEsssgs Feb 3d, 1887.
 Sir-faI have expected to visit your place for Sev- eraI days past, but fearful that shall not see since December Court indeed have not seen any oit dcegates appointed out of my own townexcept Is Rss who a sg s n N. s sS 2lL JS 1P ON MITCHELL land beg khs priUiiege O RIDING HIM into the Senate at Once--aDds upon the whole e but do no, feel crazy about it to have hin, nominated before we get together. While at New Haven saw several Plymouth people, who are lead ing repubIiea"s .ners and ihey did no. feel so much Indeed should not be surprised # le should not get the vote of all the Plymouth delegation at first. ,hink it mpor,sn. taa. wsnl go there SSDpoaEad T and ct told that he thought Merwin and his apsOcates would moi attend the meeting at WoodbuTy, but that he believed that he tM Foad be Instrumental in get. ting up candidate in opposition 10 the one that shall he nominated meeting, let 1t be who will. (gt
 believe that they intend to denouDce it as Jackson Convention and claim that :he candidate who shall be nominated is pledged to further the n,ereais of the fSsnSes Dsmsg fItossd who the Le1s. paper contains ti( notice sgaed by ORANGE MER- WIN, oLD DADDY Coz, and several others, calling vp- the friends of Henry Clay and all those opposed to the present administration 10 meet ai Litchhed the first week of Febrnary Court to nominate state os- cers and make all such arrangements as is necessary defeat the election Os any Jackson men, or sUp- pose any set or supported by 'he Jackson nen Indeed Merwin is deiermined so set up busine's his hook, and not unite with even :O eecta man of his own ~ have some reason to think that he intends be up in this district himself by the Clay men, Federalisis, and sABti-Masons. (nSl nun very glad to have him come ONt some WherO that we prepare meet him in fair field fight If all this pro phcsyng and guessing of mine should be correct,
 n) may be the best policy to take Mitchell out the hands of Merwin, as he is well known in the part of district Adams republican, and sues a republican Merwn prctended 'o be one year ago. But hope whateverwe do at Woodbnry will be done- undersandngly and in cordial manner, and whoev~ CT is nominated, let>m be unanimously supported by the influence and votes of all the delegates: Yours, O. A. HUDSON. ss (o) When person is about to write commentary
 on any treatise, il is usual to commence with some &C.,
 count of his author of his life. his principles, "nd his
 character, ina, the reader may the more readily enc
 ter into the spirit of egemarks and criticisms sug-
 gested by the text. In the present instance, howev-
 CT, it will be sufficient to state that the author of this
 interesting essay, which gives such thorough inc
 sight into the of the Jackson political tactics,. .--A-.-.--E u1IIuty WUd mas.
 ter oi the post-oce at Washington, who in this let-
 ter seems to be addressing himsefto some compauion
 and friend, probably residing in neighboring own.
 upon the business of manoeuyerng the Jackson pha.
 anx at the election then approaching, as to achieve if possible victory and certainly Mr. Judson ar- pearsto understand very we'll the employmen, in which he had embarked.
 (b) Who is referred to by the questionable appella. ton of" Smth' in this letter. it may be dificul, so de. eide but as there is gentleman residing no, thou. sand miles from the post-ofce in Nsw-M Milford ofthas name, who we are informed is distinguished for mod eraton sentiment, mdness Of disposition and gen. 'eness of manners, and who has been sirewdly sus- pscted of slight inclination to Jacksonism, it is probable that he is the individual actually intended
 te) The unceremonious introduction ofthe name Of Phelps" into the next sentence doubtless indicates worthy Counsellor at Law residing in Woodbury who during the late ayowed federalist, and q firm adherent of the Hartford Convention, and who. discovering the lights of ToIeratioD suddenly turned upon his heel and deserted his former friends; and who, in more modern times, has pretended to besin favor Of Henry Clay and the American System, while he has secretly eorresponded with the Jacksonans to give an ascendency this bad cause n the l6sh die. trict; and wbo having received the most signal hvors from Calvin Buter Esq. is maniiesling his acess- toned ingrastude by abusing him through the col. umns of the Columbian Register. e'e
 (d) The author of the letter having thus brough. be- fore us prominent parsonage next proceeds 10 tell us what" Phelps thinks or says" doubtless supposing that the mere pse dirit of Judge Phelps will control the political destniss of the 16th district. s8
 Farmers! Merchants! Mechanics :! .s. fs
 Bow your heads low !!
 For Judge Phelps thinks SO and so!l! ~
 (e) "Ho (mearing Phelps) thiaks there is no other way but to all jump upon Mitchell, and beg the priyi- Iege of riding him into the Senate at onee.' When we first read this sentence we were incned to give it literal construction hut it occurred to us that any man would cut singular figure ny entering the Sem ate chamber ih tke Judge e Protats r the district f Woodbayy actually meSnted on his shomidess--and therefore concluded that inc language bs eensi- cred as mere metaphor, smanating from fstsd im- agination. Hence it is proper to examine this sub- lime sentence in some detai and perhaps is is hid. a sa h.E asL