Litchfield enquirer., 1836-11-24

Times as well as to the mendacous print to which particularly alluded .-
 TRUMAN SMTH.-The annals of political warfare do not present q case of elaDder more foul venOmoui and disgusting than that heaped upon this gentleman by the Van Buren papers in some parts of this State We should suppose their readers would be tired of the continual weekly OutpOurng of gall upon the head ol one man, when that man is acknowledged to he in pE vate hte good nelghb0r and generous friend-wh0se integrity his worst foes dare not impeach and whose only sln Is that Of opposing with manly rmness the nVaslonS ot our rulers upon the rights of the people,
 Since we have witnessed the abuse he has received at the hands of his enemies we are anxious for an oppor- tunlty to advocate his claims to almost any office in the gift of the people of this State The malice with which he Is pursued by certain politicians commends him most strongly to our respect and confidence. | Maryland Recusants.-The 2l Whig Electors of Se- nate convened again at Annapolis the 18th inst.- They were joined by Jfue of the recusant Van Buren Electors, making the constitutional number requisite 10 choose Senate. A ballot was shortly after gone lnto when the Senators l5 in number) were chosen. They are all Whigs-having 2l votes, the five recusants casting blank ballots There were fourteen Of the recusants who still adhered to their determna- ton not to join their fellows in organizing the govern ment Thus, notwithstanding the efforts of the Van Buren men to destroy it, the state government of Ma ryland is again established. We should not be sur prsed if the Van Buren party throughout the Union should pretend that they were alrays opposed to this revolutionary movement of portion of their par ty. But what will be thought of their sincerity?
 False stdtenaents.-With pleasure we copy the fol. lowing rebuke from southern paper. It has been ex- ceedngly difficult at times for to obtain from the New-York papers, of either party correct information respecting the elections as they came in. Each party would publish. apparently, the favorable to themselves, only, and omit those which were adverse Thus, for instance, in regard the Pennsylvania cleo. tion, the whg papers would publish such returns as seemed to warrant the belief that the state certainly had gone for Harrison by or 5000 majority while, on the other hand, the tory papers would claim l5 or 9OOOO majority, and would give such figures as would l seem to warrant such conclusion. Where the truth lay could not determine, but were rather inclined to believe the whg papers, because our ,pises conci- ded with their statements. When the truth came out (as come it must 6nay) we found that neither was to be depended upon so long as their own election was pending. But to the extract:
 False Reports.-The Alexandria Gazette calls up- on the Whg press of this city to denounce in becon- ing terms the BASE and LYING frauds which have been practised upon the public, and of which the press as well as the people, were made the dupes That the false reports which brought this city and ere dited by EVERY BODY, fabricated by set of CAME LERs tor the purpose of winning money, both here and m New York, we have not particle of doub and we think we could name the men who had a hand in and prOfted by these frauds. We know some of them, though we have not as yet that kind Of evidence of to the public We may do i. .hereaiter.@Piiad Her ALL HAIL! NEw.JERsEY.
 We have at length something to Ha'' for! New below The Wings lave S carried @ that State, % s they could have done Pennsylvania and Connecticut, by a mere effort Hit IS our fate to be dscomfitted in this powenng voice of the people, but to our own supine- ness and indifference. Three thousand more votes, which staid at home in Pennsylvania and Connecti- and secured the election of Gen. Harrison Mr. Van Buren, believing that New-Jersey held the odd trick, sad ,o dsS S. es ey o & hS %
 Men. money, ornnibusses, carriages, &c. &c. were Overin abundance every thing was done to bring up yoters-to outbrag and drive the Wings from the quered. few more such in Pennsylvania and Con- necticut would have ended the contest gloriously.
 The American has rebuke for those who have gone the ballot boxes and recorded their wish Richard M Johnson Vice President of the U States, which is as bitter as it is justly deserved We have lect the substance of the sentiment to which al- ude and we wish to assist in mpressng its force up- the S' %cGa ss, the cSSu Speak
 
 for Mir. Van Buren, the American remarks, that the Virginia collar men, though they went to the polls and voted for that genteman had too much respect Jor he seues they le home besfoD Aeir sufTages upon ssan ,cho has carried practical datgaMasiOn into his
 No-VTginia-even Van Buren Virginia, could not spurned the nomination of Richard M Johnson, even after it had been thrown upon her by the Baltimore Convention nor do we see hoy the people of any State-peope, mean, who feel particle of selfre spect or respect for their famies-coud have wrought for that individual. There s moral and social dc. basement about it too gross for any man but an aboi tionst and we do not how the abolitioniss them selves could vote for Col Johnson; since they, believe, not favorers of amalgamation, contra Co aw, and without the intervention of marital cere amalgamation simply, but twenty years connection with black woman to whom he was not marred-or not married until she became the mother of his large family of children.-N. Y. COGr.
 Whatever way the Presidential question may be settled one thing is already certain, that it is one of the best contested elections ever held in this country If MT Van Buren obtains the TOWER which he seeks, will be stronger array of the peopSe against him than any other President ever yet encountered upon his introduction to office. Indeed, the closeness of the votes generally has astonished us. And see, too, mnisaon candidate in the we very @ strong holds of the Administration. The Pennsylvanis majority of 25, | Oo0 reduced to or 4.00O-the Baltimore majorities
 pc 3 n Ss% maiorities not reduced merely, but revou6onized- turned into Whig majoes, to the entire prostraton ren carries he gets only some few hundreds as ma iority as in the case of Connecticut. Well may Mir Dallas have acknowledged to his friends when they came to congratulate i'm upon the result of l. Penn kard fight" and that although they had triumphed, they had been run so ciose as almost tc be frightened incl fo tl. .T