STATE TICKET. DURING THE SESSION OF THE SUPERIOR COURT AT HARTFORD, FEBRUARY 1820, AT A TIME WHEN THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE WERE ABLY REPRESENTED, BY GENTLEMEN OF THE FIRST DISTINCTION FROM EVERY COUNTY, WHO, TO SAY THE LEAST, WERE SUFFICIENTLY INTERESTED IN THE WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE - THE FOLLOWING NOMINATION WAS UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTED AS THE ONLY DENIER MEASURE BY WHICH THEIR DESTINIES CAN BE AVERTED, FROM THE AWFUL VORTEX TO WHICH THEY ARE SO RAPIDLY BORNE. JOHN COTTON SMITH, GOVERNOR... TO THE SUPPORT OF WHICH TICKET WE HONESTLY AND ZEALOUSLY CALL FOR THE UNITED EFFORTS OF ALL GOOD MEN.
[Hartford? 1820]. Folio broadside, 7 1/4" x 12 1/4". Light old folds, Near Fine. The Federalist Party, which dominated early Connecticut politics, was aligned with Connecticut's established church, the Congregationalists, to which all residents were required to pay tithes. Other denominations, deeply resentful, formed the Toleration Party in 1816, comprising..... More