Litchfield Enquirer

THE ENQUIRER,
LITCHFIELD, MARCH 26, 1835.

The Ticket. In our last paper we gave the nominations for State Officers, and Members of Congress made out by the Whig Convention at New-Haven last month, together with the names of the candidates for State Senate in the different districts of this county- and shall continue to publish them until the election. We trust the electors will not require much urging to come forth on the first Monday of April and give to the Ticket their zealous and efficient support. The time for action preparatory to the contest has arrived. Every whig elector should take it upon himself to become personally informed whether his neighbor intends to be at his post, and to advise him by all means to be ready. The Van Buren corps are exceedingly active and thoroughly trained-they will leave no stone unturned to delude into their ranks such as may be considered wavering, or not firmly fixed in principle. With proper vigilance, or with half the industry and zeal of their opponents, there can be no question that the whigs will achieve another glorious victory. But if they become weary in well doing—if they relax their exertions, they may depend upon it the Van Burenites will not; but, taking advantage of their supineness, will fasten upon them the plagues of Van Burenism for a whole year to come before a change can be effected.

Up then, whigs of Litchfield county! to the polls, and all will go right.

From all parts of the State we hear that the Whigs are arousing themselves for the coming contest with the hordes of Van Buren. Hartford and New-Haven counties will we are assured give larger majorities than last fall, and old democratic Fairfield, instead of giving a Jackson majority, as she then did, will go strongly the other way. In one district it is said there will be a difference of 400 votes. Windham and Tolland will also do better than in the fall, and New-London and Middlesex will at least hold their own. The Whigs have every encouragement to persevere in the glorious cause, and a signal and triumphant victory awaits them. Though the Van Buren missionaries from N. Haven and Hartford counties who have been scouring the state pretend to give encouraging accounts to their masters, it is done with such chop-fallen and elongated countenances that the marks of despair are distinctly visible. They proclaim that a "panic" of the worst kind has seized upon their followers.

If we have not declared our confidence, from week to week, of the complete success of the whole whig ticket, it has been for the reason that we were willing the Jackson men should so alarm some of our whig friends by their boasting as to excite them to their whole duty. But we must now be permitted to say that we do not believe there are ten intelligent Jackson men in the city who have any hope of carrying the State provided the Whigs make a general rally. All their hopes have been founded on the belief that we should be caught napping. Since they have found us wide awake and on duty, they have grown peevish and dispirited; they know their fate will be sealed on the first Monday in April, and they already act like conquered and desperate men. We did not believe until about a fortnight since that some of them indulged a hope of electing one or two of their Congressmen, but we have seen enough the past week to convince us that all such hopes have been abandoned.

New-Haven Palladium.

We have within the past week seen and conversed with Jackson men from Hartford and New-Haven co's, and they all speak with less confidence than heretofore about their prospects-they have no expectation, if the whigs are on the alert, of carrying their Congress ticket, and the faintest sort of hopes of carrying their Governor, or any thing else. They indeed continue to bluster and talk large about what they shall do some years hence-always achieving a victory in anticipation. They have sent their political missionaries throughout the country; and they begin to find that, with all their noise and gasconade, instead of having an effect upon their own subjects, they have already "waked up" many of the "wrong passengers." They find there is a spirit abroad that will not submit to their dictation, but that freemen will go forward to the polls and do their duty by voting the true republican ticket headed by Samuel A. Foot.

Some of the Van Burenites in various parts of the state, just before election, pretend to be exceedingly anxious for the welfare of the poor workingmen, as they denominate the hardy and intelligent farmers and mechanics, and make a great ado about supporting lawyers, hypocritically pretending that they would not support such a class of people: Now to show how much reason they have to prate about such things, and their utter hollow-heartedness, let us institute a little comparison between the two Tickets at present in nomination. Each of them of course comprises ten names, to wit: Governor, Lt. Governor; Treasurer, Secretary, and six members of Congress. The Van Buren ticket has these names, all of which are lawyers--Edwards, Stoddard, Hinman, Toucey, Ingham, and Judson-six out of the ten are lawyers. Now look at the other side, or the whig ticket: -Ellis, Day, Trumbull and Young-only four out of the ten are lawyers. Gov. Foot is not a lawyer, nor are but two on the whig Congress ticket lawyers. These are facts—indisputable facts. And yet the Van-ites cry lawyer! lawyer! as though their political salvation depended upon making up an entirely false issue, and palming it upon the people as the truth. We don't profess to have any antipathy or prejudice against lawyers or any other particular class of persons-we have none—but we do despise this eternal ding-dong about proscribing one class of persons when they happen not to belong to "our party," and supporting them with equal vehemence when they do.

It occurs to our mind that at the present time there are in this county already in nomination for the lower house of our legislature at least four lawyers by the Van Buren party; while by the Whig party we have not heard of-a single one.

A Caricature!-A Van Buren paper in the eastern part of the state, the editor of which possesses a "personal acquaintance" with the subject of his notice, says "Royal R. Hinman is the candidate selected (for Secretary); in opposition to Mr. Day. Mr. Hinman is a middle aged man, (very important,) and but little known in public life-not a renegade! not a soldier!! not a worn-out and broken-down political hack!!" Reader, don't smile--this is the portrait drawn not by an opponent of Mr. H., but by a professed personal and political friend.

It appears to trouble the Jackson printers amazingly that the Whigs do not arrange the names on their Congressional ticket just as they wish. This is a matter which the whigs can regulate to suit themselves. But why all this anxiety on the part of the Van Burenites? why do not they publish the names on their ticket in the order of the counties? why do they all, Times, Patriot, Register, &c. place Lancelot Phelps at the top of the ticket, when in the order of counties, it should come before Middlesex and Windham? Is it because he is the feeblest candidate or because-this county is not entitled to as much respect as Windham?