Litchfield enquirer., 1832-03-29
< To the Electors of the 18th District.

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 To the Electors cf the 18th District.
 Fellow Ciiizens-The time isapproaching when it will become our duty to exercise the privilege of free men in carrying forward the institutions of State Government. Long familiarity with the inestimable blessings of free government seems to have lulled the people of our country into alarming state of torpor relative to the manner of exercising the highly responsible duty of eeclor. It is in vain to look for perpetty ip political institutions, if the peo- pe will not with untiring vigilance, in voting Tor our rulers, exercise the duty in hones intelligent and independent manner. It is from the caFeIess and cor rup, manner in which this duty has been discharged that the fair fabric of our National Government s at this very .ime threatened with aanihilation. In no
 instance probably have the people oi this State been called on for vote having more important bearings
 aa that which s originate the Senate in our next Legislature. We a this district have presentedt to us three candidates. Two of them,' although citizens of fair character have been brough, forward by par ly opposed and hostile to the political principles and views of great majority of the state, and of the dis trict To act consistently therefore, elector who does not adhere to Jacksonian politics give either of them his vote. We have also presented to us for our sufrages Wim. c. Waliams, Esq, a gentleman possessing high qualifications for the office, and on whose political principles, as being in accordance wiih those of majority oi the state, may be placed
 the most implicit reliance. Is there then man in the dstrict who does no, wish the ot Connec- forced into the Jackson ranks, who consist enily, under existing circumstnnces, withhold his from Wm. G. Williams? asks AN HECTOR.
 'Ths reflection upon Gen. Abernethy is unmert- Ad Ha ;s q IacL ms r--s nd ,hn nr hs bo ving been nominated by the convention at Wolcott- vile argues nothing in this case, it is well under stood that tho Jackson portion that convention have abandoned him because he is no, sufficiently pinbIe for their purposes, and taken up Dr. Phelps.-Ed.
 Electors fthe 18th District BeiUare
 The plo, by which the Republicans of this district were ts be deceived is at length disclosed. The last number of the Hartford Times announces lJthe peo. pie of the 18th district that small number of Jackso nians held . meeting at Winsed, under the especial direction of certain ,conla6e great man of that yil- age, and resolved that Launcelot Phelps should be your Senator. And to make his election more sure, they will have t that Mir. Phelps ought to be reward ed. Poor man! He has been kicking and spurring, and been spurred and kicked in the Jackson ranks for three four years, and alas! he has secured of fee. The poor man needs pity" But the objsct of this nomination is manifest. Two candidates were already before the people of the district and it was supposed that by secret combination between the Jacksonans of the several towns, ihsy could take ad vantage of this division in the Clay party, and thus carry Phelps by plurality of votes. The friends of Clay ought therefore to unite. By union the enemy may ne defeated.
 Gen. RussEL c. ABEREzrHY s the regular candid ate. Nominated in the Dislrict Convention, he is known to he genuine Republican, warm support CT of Henry Clay, unyieIdng advocate of that Sys- tenn which brings wealth to the farmer, and protection the mechanic faithful to your interests and to your prime pies, and abundaniIy competent to represent this district with honor 10 himself and ad- vantage to his constituents. or Mr. Williams but lit- ,le need be said. He is respectable lawyer, nomi- mated by little knot fpersona friends in NewHart- ford-wholly inexperienced in legsla.on--a man to whom as legislator the citizens of the town where he is best known are unwilling confde their inter- es,s. His principles have long been known, and the Republicans of this State have declared them such they cannot approve. ro the Republicans of this dis trict, therefore, Mir. W. be any other than private gentleman. up Y.
 Query-Will not his friend, tie Secretary of State that was to hes have compassion on him and resign in his tavor7
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