Election Results
Charles C Burleigh; William H. Burleigh
The Unionist 1834-04-10
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ELECTION RETURNS.
BROOKLYN, Septimus Davison
Ashford, Daniel Knowlten, James Trobridge
Canterbury, Festus Baldwin, Isaac Clarke
Chaplin, John Ross
Hampton, Dyer Hughes, Jr* (* = Jacksonian)
Killingley, Asa Alexander, Alexander Gasson
Plainfield, Jonathan Goff, Isaac Knight
Pomfret, John Holbrook, Frederick Averill, Jr.
Sterling, ______ Smith
Thompson, John K. Greene, Parley Jordon
Voluntown, _____ Gallup
Windham, Justin Swift, Benjamin Hovey
Woodstock, Silas H. Cutler, Oliver Morse
HARTFORD, Wm. Hungerford, Truman Hanks
NORWICH, Charles W. Rockwell, Roger Huntington
Griswold, Samuel C. Morgan
Lisbon ______ Allen
In the 13 th Senatorial District George Spafford has a majority of between three and four hundred over Philip Pearl, Jr. the Jackson candidate. The 1st, 2d, 8 th , 14 th and 21 st districts have elected anti-Jacksonian Senators. No returns have been received from the other districts.
From a letter received by a gentleman in this town we gather the following returns: Hartford, Monday Evening. Hartford, 1 st Rep. W. Hungerford 965 to 833; 2d “______ Hanks 932 to 798 both Anti Jackson men. In E. Hartford, E. Windsor, (majority 140) Enfield, Manchester, (reported) Wethersfield, Middletown, Durham, Winchester, Coventry, (reported) Avon, have gone Anti-Jackson. Southington doubtful. Glastonbury, Suffield and Mansfield are reported to have gone for Jackson candidates.
THE ELECTION.—The returns so far as received, give strong indications that Jacksonism in this State is prostrated. Last year every town in the 13 th District was represented by Jackson men, now only one Jackson man* goes from this district. The 14 th District had two or three representatives who were either wholly Jackson men, or sometimes acted as such; now we believe not a man goes from that district who is not decidedly Anti-Jackson. Last year the Jackson party carried one of the Senators in this county. This year both Senators are Anti-Jackson, and elected by decisive majorities. Instead of a respectable majority for Pearl, as was the case last year, the 13 th District now gives more than 300 majority against him. The intelligence which we have received from other quarters is of much the same character. Hartford, represented last year by Jackson men, has now elected the Anti-Jackson candidates by nearly 150 majority. In several other towns from which we have heard, similar changes have taken place. There is scarce room for doubt that Governor Edwards will be elected—to quit the office as soon as his present term expires, and that the whole Anti-Jackson State ticket will succeed, if not already chosen by the people. We would not affect an indifference which we do not feel at this result, for it is the accomplishment of the wish which we expressed in our prospectus, that the rule of the present dynasty might be brief; but though we rejoice, we feel no disposition to indulge in extravagant exultation at the defeat of Jacksonism.
* With the exception of one, who, however, if we have been rightly informed, generally acted with that party in the Legislature.
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Philip Pearl Jr. was defeated in his re-election bid to the State Senate, a blow to the public legitimacy of the Black Law. The Unionist happily reports that "Jacksonism in this State is prostrated." The editors refrain from "affect[ing] an indifference which we do not feel at this result, for it is the accomplishment of the wish which we expressed in our prospectus, that the rule of the present dynasty might be brief; but though we rejoice, we feel no disposition to indulge in extravagant exultation at the defeat of Jacksonism."
