Litchfield enquirer., 1836-11-10
IHe COmmissioner slernlr Rebuhsdl

1ne CoaDlsssi0neT sses7ltN xtetaatea!
 The 3ss votes that were rattled into the balOtbOx in this Town on Monday lastin opposition to the Com missioner of the SchOU Fund as candidate for high and honorable O6iee cannot fail to produce lively tand as we trust very salutary) impression on the mind of that gentleman, he has one particle of sen. sibity left. It is only few short months since the Commissioner possessed the entire confidence of this community, was unanimously supported by our citi- zens in his administration of am important department of our public finances who did not fail to applaud him on every proper occasion. He was then supposed to occupy the dgnfed position of neutrality in respect to the political conflicts of the day, or ifhs entertain ed opinions or felt pedectons it believed that he was disposed to speak and act wish moderation in latiOn to such subjects. ...,..-
 But yearor two ago knot ofpol6cal desperadoes in Hartford conceived the wicked purpose Of making this sacred Fund subservient to the accomplishment of their vanous schemes personal aggrandizement and to convert the Commissioner into an active cleo toneerer. This part the present incumbent had not hitherto acted, but on the contrary voluntarily decar ed to respectable gentlemen in this village, when he entered upon the duties of his office, that he never would 30 act while he remained Commissioner. This resolution the Times junto resolved to reverse. They
 
 polluted print and threatened him with deprivation of office. The Commissioner turned pale he began to quake the horrors of the private station," which is often the post of honor began to him in the face and in an evil hour he came down from the high place of impardalty and reserve which he had so long and so properly occupied, and plunged with all the immense influence of two millions of dollars into the arena of party strife. His first operation was to set up with others print in this village of unexam- pied scurrity he subscribed money, he loaned more money, and took mortgage on the press which 1t IS believed he holds to the present moment He scrib- bled articles with view to political excitation; he
 aversed our streets setting up the deusve and fraud ulent cry of democracy! democracy! he stigmatzed our most esmabe citizens as aristocrats he exhort edin caucuses and drew picture ofold federal per secutions, which had about as much to do with mod ern politics the story of John Rogers in the pifmer and in short became profoundly engaged in all the operations of desperate faction that many supposed that the 92OO0OO0 could not possibly receive at hs hands all the attention which the we'll being of the State imperatively demanded. Such conduct fired multitude of our citizens withindgnaton They con- sidered it case of the blackest ingratitude; they found themselves stung to the quick by the adder they had warmed into life by receiving it into their bosoms. While they did not feel and do not feel the least disposition to prosecute the Commissioner while they would not touch the hair of his head if he would con- fine himself to the duties of his station; while they would not deprive him of the sacred right of suffrage of opinion and of speech, they were resOlved-they are still resolved-hat they will not submit to the a. bominable abuses which must assuredly result from an administration of the School Fund by partizan Commissioner. 4 e4 sa.. a4-.s
 Whatever may be heintenton of the individual hold ing that delicate office, they know full well thatit ism possible for him to be an active politician without bringing the influence of the 100000 in conflict with the exercise of the elective franchise This they are determined to prevent and dtoscourge the Hon. gentle man back to his appropriate sphere. On Monday lasf the people laid this object of merited inic tion stree hundred and ninstyssUO lashes. How did the unhappy man suffer on the occasion! There he sood pale ehasy. and the very picture of desoation and despair. The will of the people seemed to enter his very soul like iron. But this is not the endif he continues to pursue the career which he has enter ed he will experience other rebukes equally stern at the hands of the truly Republican Electors of Ltch field. But we beseech this gentleman to abandon the thorny road which he is treadng; to turn upon his footsteps, and to devote the whole energies of his soul (where surely they must be needed to the duties of his office; and if he cannot command the confi- dence of his felow-czens to the same extent he for merly did he sha at least be treated with hberalty and respect. AN OBSERVER
 TEMPERANCE NOTICE.
 The Temperance Society of Litchfield County held