Litchfield enquirer., 1836-12-08
THE ENQUIRER.
LlTCHFIELD. pEC. 6, ls30.

 nos, and Arkansas of decidedly definite character. Both parties at the South as yet claim Louisiana and Mississippi, the former by the vantes because the cE JciaI returns cannot be received in time from two three parishes to give it to White even should he Ob- tain majority of votes. With respect to the others it is rOba though not certain, that they have gone for Van Buren. Michigan has also elected Van Bu- ren Electors but they have more right to be recei we'd than from Florida or Wisconsin.
 The Electoral votes throughout the country were to be given yesterday, and few days will determine how they are all cast If Virginia and AIabamas vote for MT. Smith, whom they have nominated for Vice President, Richard M. Johnson cannot be cho- sen by the people. The question must then be deci ded by the Senate between him and MT. Granger vo- ting individually instead ofby States, as in the House for President.
 The Gopernor's Proclamation.-W this day publish this document as we find it in the Hartford papers, What the reader asks upon reading it. is the object of it? For aught that appears, is issued simply to shew that he has the pO,Der conferred upon him of convokng the legislature Not is given other than that |" the person administering the office of Governor is authorised to doso. What is the obect therefore, is to be gathered from out-ofdoor conjecture. One says, and probably truly it is to take for the ception and distribution of the share of the surplus of the public to which this state is entitled But suppose it had remained in the hands of the govern ment until May next-woud any body have been in- ured by it? will the extra session of the legislature this inclement season of the year cost vastly than any other period? Then wherefore this haste? Another person suggests that the main object of the session may be poiical-that the Governor has some thing to communicate to " the party' which may be of particular importance them in preparing for the ensuing April election; and therefore, by virtue of his "authory," he will call them together to consult up- on their and has welfare. But we will not speculate further-the legislature will soon be together, and then "we shall know what we shall know" Here is the precious document
 By HIS ExcELLENcY HENRY w. EDWARDS,
 G0UernOr of the State 0f COnnectiCat,
 A PROCLAMATION:
 WHEREAS by the Constitution of this State, the per-
 administering the office of Governor, IS authori
 zed on special emergencies, to convene the General
 Assembly; and whereas one of these emergencies
 IS deemed to have occurred,
 Therefore the General Assembly of this State is re- quesed to convene at the State House in NewHayen, Wednesday, the twenty first day of December next, at nine of the clock in the forenoon of said day. to re- ceive such communications as may be duly submit ted and to transact such business as may be proper and of this all whom it may concern will take due tice.
 Given under my hand and the seal of said State at
 New Haven, this twenty-eighth day of November,
 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hund-
 red and thirty-six, and of the Independence off
 HENRY W. EDWARDS. By His Excelency's command, ...
 ROYAL K. HINMAN, Secretary. ---
 "The Dictator. and Truman Smith are still the cry of the Hartford Times Nearly all the change of public sentiment in this state-the reduction of tEe 5000 majority to 60O is attributed mainly to the nu- ence and exertions of Truman Smith. We grant you, MT. Times, that this gentleman did his duty fearlessly and faithfully He possessed of spirit whichis easily subdued-t rises with the weight which is at- tempted to be thrown upon it. He advised with his frends-he exhorted them to do their duty-he told them that with suitable exertons the state might be carried for Gen. Harrison-and most of them herea- bouts determined to make the attempt; but enough remained ncreduous in the state and absented them- selves from the polls to give the enemy the victory Had we possessed hundred, or even fifty men, scat tered throughout the state with the same energy the same zeal and perseverance in the renovation of the state from the hands of the spoilers that characterised the efforts of Truman Smith-if, in the language of the Times, leach whig in the state had been as di- gent as he was in Ltchfed andits vicinity to encou-
 
 of being beaten by the meagre majority of 600 votes glorious triumph to the whgs would have been the result.
 The Times and some other kindred prints insinuate that the Dictator" they in the exubeFance of wit and smartness call Truman Smith, writes editorial articles for this paper We tell them all to their teeth we have before told the Times it is falsehood-a wiiful, deliberate, and known falsehood. Mr. Smith neUer wrote article for this paper without having attached to 1t signature without its being pa- ced under the head of communications" That he has occasionally written communications for the En- quirer, admt-though not to near the extent that many people pretend to believe. We have in the whg party of this county goodly number of able wri- ters, whose productions have graced columns du ring the periods of excited elections; and have lament that they do their pens for the edica- ton o our readers at other and less bosterous times
 The Hartford Times still continues to harp long and loud upon the subject of the late election in this state charges the whigs with working secretly-having a "secret organization, and all that of thing-and in this way tries account for the large whg vote, and its absences to the Van Buren, Now this is all sheer nonsense and the editor knows it to be sohe knows that his own paper, well every other tory print in the sate were constantly prating about the whgs being determined to make a raly-admonish- ing his readers and the party be constantly on the alert and bring out their whole strength, or they would be overthrown. His paper was full of admoniton- all methods of coaxing and driving were made uFe of message despatched to Washington to have high government functionary come on to Hartford to drill