Litchfield Enquirer

Afraid of the People.—There is no better evidence than the Van Buren managers, alias the patent democrats, are afraid to trust the people, than the intriguing and aristocratic method in which their nominations for State Officers are to be made. First, the troops are ordered to send four delegates from each town to the Senatorial Conventions. These Conventions respectively select three long-tried and well known man worshippers for the State Convention, who will there play the farce they have previously rehearsed under the guidance of Niles and Welles. Their nominations will be in fact the nominations dictated by Niles and Welles. and, were it not to save appearances and cover their deception, might as well proceed directly from the Hartford Post Office. Never having succeeded before the people at large, they dare not trust an assembly which immediately bears the popular voice. Hence a conclave must be gathered together, which is removed by at least two degrees from the people and is not strictly responsible to them for their doings. This may be democracy, but if so, it is democracy of the patent stamp, which sacrifices the many to promote the interests of the few.—Hartford Rev.