Litchfield enquirer. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1829-current, 1839-03-14

concent1atinGa great central pOwer atsWashington,
absorbing and drawing within its vortex all other
parts Of our SYSTEM and creating species of cOnsOI-
idation, much more frightfuI than that which was
dreaded by the republicans of 49,
RESOLVED, That in order to check the evident ten
dency OF our government towards such consolidation
is important that the Overshadowng patronage Of
the President should be forthwith curtailed and that
we conceive it important effect this object that the
appointments OF the Secretary Of the Treasury and
Postmaster General be conferred upon the Represen-
tatives of the People.
Resolved That the Bill introduced by the Hon. J. J.
Cr:tenden to the consideration of the the u S. SEN
ate for Furnishing the interference of officers of the
United States, with elections, is admirably adapted to
carry out the purpose which General Jackson avow-
ed in his first inaugural address, see that the pat
| ronage Of the General Government was not brought
into conflict with the elective franchise - and that
regret that our Senators in Congress should have
been actuated by such an anti republican spirit as to
give to this sautary measure strenuous resistance.
ResolUed That the necessity of this law is evinced
by the astounding fact recently disclosed under OATH
that tax has long been levied upon U. s. Officers,
apportioned to the of their salaries and appro-
priaed to the support Of the administration and the
control of our elections and that we have good rea-
to believe that the sums thus raised have been
enormous and that the Peoples money has been free
ly used to deceive, mslead, and corrupt the People
themselves.
Resolved That the course of the leaders Of the ad-
minstration party in respect to the subject Of Execu
tive patronage, has been and is such as to prove that
they no longer Jackson men, lin the original sense
of that phrase,) nor they the Peoples but
they should be regarded as horde Of intruders who
have eonspired together secure themselves mo-
nopoly Of spos and who intend to subsist not "up
the bread Of careulness but by eating the SUBJ
stance the people,
RESOLVED, That we deprecate the appointment of
members of Congress to office as much as General
Jackson proessed to do in his celebrated letter to Mr.
! Monroe and that his prediction contained in that
letter. is amply verified in the fact that corruption
has become the order of the day.
Resolved That the title by which we hold our right
to the public domain is the TOLL treasure and blood of
our ancestors most profusey expended in the war Of
the revolution and that we will battle for this sacred
right with all the spirit Of Lexington and BunkerHill
Resolved That the votes given by our Senators
in Congress and the Representative from this county,
on the graduation BILL recently passed by the Senate,
evnces total disregard to the interests of their
suents, in this particular; and that should have
been much better pleased with a spirited protest
against the passage of such bill from our more i'm
mediate representative from whom we have never
had the pleasure of hearing in this way since his ele-
walton to the station he has occupied.
Resolued, That the continued prevalence of polti-
cal wickedness in high Places and the recent exposure
the works Of darkness in the Treasury indicate the
necessity Of again burning over the stubbe field Of
Loco Focoism; and that the fire should be kept at
ferven, heat until our anthracite Sinnior' and his
! Infant colleague be consumed.
| RESOLVED, That we have entire confidence in the
talents and integrity of TRUMAN SMITH. Esq. to
represent this district in the next Congress of the Uni.
ted States, and do therefore recommend him to the
united support of all Independent electors in this
ty and that we regard the unanimous expression Of
this Convention as an earnest of THEIR success and
his elevation.
Resolved. That as cheerfully recommend to the
sufrages of the Wing electors of this county ALBERT
SEpewIcK Esq. as the candidate for Sheriff Of said
county-in whose ability and integrity we also have
entire confidence.
Voted That the proceedings Of this Convention be
signed by the officers thereof, and published in the
Wing papers Of Litchfeld. Hartford, and New-Haven.
D. B. BR1NSMADE, Presidens
BENJAMIN SEDewIcK,
WALTER BooTH, ~: p.,
JOHN BUCKINGHAM,
! JOSEPH Fl: BELLAMY,2 Ss.~s,,.;..
| ROBERT W. SMITH, secretaries.