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Litchfield Enquirer
Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut
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One hundred and sixty Democratic electors in Lewis County, who voted for Van Buren in 1836, publicly dissolve their political ties to the party, including influential figures like John W. Martin and Gen. Geo. D. Ruggles.
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS have come before their fellow-citizens with the reasons which "compelled them to dissolve the political relations which bound them" to the Van Buren party. These Republicans all voted for Van Buren in 1836. Among them are several influential politicians—the men to whose efforts the "party" has long owed its ascendency in Lewis county. We recognize the names of John W. Martin, First Judge of the county and Post-Master at Martinsburgh, Gen. Geo. D. Ruggles, a former Jackson member of the Assembly and many other leading democrats. Will the Argus say of these men as it did on another occasion, that the party was happily rid of "your Flagg's, your Tallmadge's, your Birdsall's, your Graham's, your Hammond's, your Sanford's, &c. &c?"—Albany Journal.
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Lewis County
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160 democratic electors dissolve political relations with the van buren party
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY DEMOCRATIC ELECTORS have come before their fellow-citizens with the reasons which compelled them to dissolve the political relations which bound them to the Van Buren party. These Republicans all voted for Van Buren in 1836. Among them are several influential politicians including John W. Martin, First Judge of the county and Post-Master at Martinsburgh, Gen. Geo. D. Ruggles, a former Jackson member of the Assembly and many other leading democrats.