Litchfield enquirer., 1836-03-24
Senatorial Nominations.
COMMUNICATIONS.
TO the Electors cf LitchfeM Count

after shall have ceased 10 act. You aware tha, it will devove upon the next Legislature elect two individuals represent the people of Connecticut Tor six years in the Senate ot the United States. Who shall they bel what shall be their character? are questions of solemn moment. Shall they be, like Niles, the mere scavengers of pariy-lhe tools of
 action-he mas representatives of the descendants of the puritans? Or shall they be those who will stand by the Constitution, and sink only with the last plank Shall they be men who will boldly and successfully contend for those principles and which have grown with growth, and which are fundamental to prosperity? or, who will aid in pros'rating that system of American legislation which has already made us one of the most powerful and independent nations on earth These questions, a-mportant and momenous as they are, will be answered by the re- suits of,he coming election.
 The altering of the Constitution, 20 that our Su- preme Court Judges shall be chosen once in years, is another serious importance If any thing can be appropriately styled the sheet anchor" of our Iber,v it is an enlightened and independent Judciary Let our Judges be made the sport of popular caprice, by frequent eIectons let them be pnrtizan Judges; le, them depend upon electoneerers and demagogues for their offices, and our rights gone forever. It n eSSeHES0L lO Ue ETeSeTVnton ot CNH the Iawa and the decisions of highest Judicial tri bunal, be uniform, and consistent with each other. If decided this year, is 10 be overhrown next, involving, every ndjudcaed case does, important principles. affecting citizens universally, how we know in what to act? How can we know when we are safe ? And who does DO, tha, con fuson of decisions would necessarily ensue l say eessariy for history, and human experience both teach a., ,ha, the majority of those who depend upon popu- lar favor for livelihood, station, very apt to go as their interests, for the time being. dictate.
 @ Another consideration of momentous concern is de- pending very much upon spring election. a'lude Go the choice of Presidential Electors. We may clude, with considerable certainty, goes the spring election 90 goes the State the Presidential q"es- ton. If this is so does not most SOLEMN DU- TY rest upon every Whig Eec,or 10 ACT; and to permi, nothing but sickness death to keep him from the Polls? Our State never a crisis of such vast importance, as the one approaching. Shall we be ruled by the tools of Van Buren! Shall Connecti- cu, the birth place of the WoIcos and the TrumhuIl, resume her once lofty and glorious eminencc-or be mnde lhe sport of the vile and selfish ofice-seeker, and ahuiilecoek to be banded to and fro, as shameful and shameless admin nsiration may desire Eleco,s o Li,ch6ed Coun,y ye prepared for this humiliaiug coudi,ion7 Willye lamey surrender your rights into hands grasping and unprincipledl Will ye, ye, through inac.ion suffer the desoating tide 10 roll you, and sweep away all 'ha, is dear i" possession n, and glorious in prospec,7 No-a thou sand times, No Every freeman's heart lhrobs to the noble deiermnation-NO!
 A FRIEND OF EQUAL RIGHTS.
 MT. Adams-We are asronshed at the indifference that seems 10 prevail among he People of this State in relation to the ' Public Lanas." Our fathers, by ,her dee eds o concession the General Government conveyed away immense tracts of western territory which belonged to Connecticut by their Charter re- ceived from Charles 2d in 1862. This was done 10 aid the General Government in paying the National Debt, aud sustain ,hs general interests of he Fed. era Union. The National Debt is paid. and there is a surplus fund in the U. $. Treasury of $30 OO, O00 $20, GOO of this fund the avals oi the Public Lands conveyed above by this and the other Atlantic States to the U. $. Government And il ap. pears from the report of the committee that the in- come of the year, from these Iands will be S2O. .OO0, ,OOO-so that next December there will be way distributed. Tue hill now pending before Con-
 
 annually among the several SIa,es according to their representation in Congress this revenue from these lands. Let iks bill become law and fhe portion of Connecticut ,pould be $5OO0OO doOn and he same a. mount nnnualiy for many years to come.
 Bu, it is q melancholy truth, that so indifferent 10 lhe clams of jusice-so reckless of the true interests oG the several States, is the party in power that hs bill receives their unyeIdi"g opposiIion In order to secure votes to Martin Van Buren, the present ad- mnsra'io", and the party which supports t, are de- lermined that these Public Lands," part of which secured by the and blood of fathers, shall all be divided among the Western States Even one of our Senators, John M. Niles, has so entirely lost sight of the interests of that he vo. ted lew days snce against any consideration sohateu. sr of this bill. Is this the who proeeses to love ,he poor7 Freemen of Connecticut, John Nj. Niles s be,rayinR your trust. He is striving to defeat a bill which would raise State 10 height of prosperity nsver before a,tained-a bill which would relieve us from al, taxatou-increase the fund consecraied tu the education of our children-open new sources o Weath-give fresh VigOr 10 all branches Ot industry and confer dignity State Government. l; M time for you 10 act in this maer-your SOce must DC beard through your next Legislature. Send men therefore to that body, who will consider the prosper < Sy Of Connecticut of paramount importance to the selfish ends Of pary-men who wall De governed iH z their appointment Of U. 5. Senators, and all then s acts only ny patriotism and their conscience. REPUBLICAN.