Litchfield enquirer., 1844-10-24

M. EDrroa.-In your paper II the 10th inst. ID
communication over the signatare of " one Of he
demOIished'' pretending to give the proceedings Of
the annual town meeting in Cornwall, and as you
have SO generously offered your columns for any
correction of mistatements Iwish'to avail myself
of the opportunity and to give so far az am capa-
BILE a true history Of the proceeding from Official
sources. could state that the number of voters
was much larger than had been known before to
attend town meetings and the invariable practice
has been to organize our town meetingsby nonlina-
ting moderator, but at this meeting when the See
lect men enquired how this meeting should be or
gained, Mr.. N. Hart (Whig) called for the APP
pointment of Moderator by Ballots-the meeting
proceeded to ballot two or three times without q
choice. Mr.. Wheaton and Mr.. B. Sedgwick were
the prominent candidates and few scattering votes
After proceeding thus far it was proposed to adopt
the usual mode Of nominating the moderator, which
was done. Mr.. Wheaton was nominated and af-
ter dividing the house it found that could not
accurately be made, and the tellers were placed at
the door, and those in favor of the nomination Of
for ,and 1877 against the nomination. Mr.. Sedgwick
was then nominated and Mr. Berce moved that the
meeting ballot again which was DONE The result
was I'll for Mr.. Wheaton, 1865 for Sedgwick, and
Scattering that prevented choice. The meeting
again proceeded to ballot and before it was compile
ted it was proposed that the Select men designate
the moderator, lbefore this lat motion was put Mr.
tok ho ok orf|
if nominated) the whole house apparently voted
for the motion and no objection was made to it,
Mr.. Bierce was then designated by the Select
men and took the place of Moderator, he called
for votes for first Assessor, and in the of
the balloting the votes Of Catlin Q.oco) Ford
CWhig) Hurlburt and Thomas (Loco) were chal-
lenged, all of which except Thomas voted on the
previous ballots for moderator, and all being legally
entitled to vote except, Ford (whig) and Thomas.
The moderator after hearing each case admitted
their votes, theresut was, 165 for Hart (whg) ia
! Hindman tloco) and scattering. On ballot for I'd
Assessor, Shepard (loco) had ITS, Hart (whig) Sc,
Miner (whig) IS and scattering; for Board Of Re-
lief, Rogers loco) had 1865, Gregory (whig) 14s and
scattering, I'd Beach Qoco) TIA. Cotton( whig)l33
and scattering, and Sd chosen by almost the same
majority. The next rally was for select men, Har-
rison (loco) received 175 votes, Rogers (Whig) $50
and scattering, the contest ended with tn ballet
and the locos had their own way.
WHAT THEY REALLY THINK OF TEXAS.
In 1897, Gully 12th,) the Eastern Argus, then
and now the leading Locofoco paper in Maine, had
the following Editorial:
" enumeration of 1eras to the Union-We see
it stated in several of our exchange papers that
strenuous and concentrated effort to annex Texas,to
the United States is to be made at the ensuing seq.
sion of Congress, and that the intention of the SOU
thera states which favor the measure is TO steal
march upon the North, and carryit through by
coup dezuGss II such be the case it is time that
public attention called to it, and That measures
were adopted for mapping in the bud project, the
consummation of which would be scourge and a
! curse to the country. Wewant no such an enlarge
ment OF territory and least of ALL such enlarge
ment as Eexas would bring We cordially wish
the new New Republic all the prosperity its citi-
Zens can hope for-we can look upon its onward
progress to power, however rapid that progress may
be, without single feeling of envy or regret-but
we trust there is good sense aud patriotism enough
in Congress to put down promptly any and every
step towards until the interests of the two RI
puhlcs, and adding to our population gener-
ally SO depraved as that of Texas. From such
consummation may God, in his infinite mercy, pro-
tect the American nation"
.N0,o that same paper is a vehement advocate Of
Annexation! .