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Litchfield Enquirer
Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut
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In Vermont and Maine elections, seven of eight members who supported the New-Jersey outrage and Sub-Treasury bill were rejected by voters, while five Whig opponents were re-elected with increased majorities totaling 14,000.
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It is a remarkable fact, and one that should inculcate an important lesson to the servants of the people, never again to defy and trample upon popular rights, at the beck of mere party recklessness, that, of the eight members from Vermont and Maine who dared to aid in consummating the New-Jersey outrage, and the passage of the Sub-Treasury, but one has been re-elected! John Smith, Isaac Fletcher, Joshua A. Lowell, Virgil D. Parris, and Albert Smith, have each been rejected by the people whose confidence they had abused! Davee and Anderson were not even candidates for re-election, and the constituents of the former have proclaimed in a thunder tone, by a change unprecedented in a New-England district, their displeasure at his career of political infamy.
On the other hand, the five Whig members who opposed to the utmost both outrages, have each one been re-elected by increased majorities, in no case less than a thousand, and by an aggregate majority of fourteen thousand.—Boston Atlas.
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Vermont And Maine
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seven of eight members rejected; one re-elected; five whig members re-elected with increased majorities totaling 14,000.
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Eight members from Vermont and Maine supported the New-Jersey outrage and Sub-Treasury passage; seven rejected by voters, including John Smith, Isaac Fletcher, Joshua A. Lowell, Virgil D. Parris, and Albert Smith; Davee and Anderson not candidates; Whig opponents re-elected with larger majorities.