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FOR THE COUNTY POST.
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 Mir. SMITH,

 SIR-1n your paper of the 18th ult. I read with no small degree of surprise, an enquiry, signed $ A Farmer" asking you the reasons why the Hon. Ansel Sterling was nominated last spring as aScandidate for an election to the next Congress instead of the Hon. Orange Merwn. My surprise was not occasioned by the request merely, but because it seemed to Sterling. As none of your correspondents have enabled you to comply with the request of the Farmer. I shall myself attempt it, and this I feel myself competent to do, because unless am much deceived, the reasons are known to me. In the first place, Mr. Stir ling has long been known and esteemed as one of the most intelligent, frank, and fearless re- publicans of the County, and has ever been found most faithful friend and able surpor- ter of the present administration ofthe State. As a member of Congress, Mir. Sterling it is believed gave universal satisfaction to his con stitucnts, and an attendance of four sessions seemed to point him out as equally, if not bet ter, qualified to discharge the duties of rep resentatiye in Congress than any other person in the County. It would seem that these req sons were asufIicient justification of the nom ination of Mr. Stirling. But it has been inti- mated inprivate circles that an undue inllu- ence was exerted to produce the nomination. The suggestion is dishonourable imputation upon the intelligence and independence of the respectable republican representative of this County in the last legislature. The facts are these; at the first meeting of the republican members ofthe County, Samuel Church, Esq. was nominated as candidate for member of Congress; a few days after this, Mir. Church gave notice to the gentleman who olIiciated as clerk to the meeting, that he should decline the nomination which had been made of him. self, not having before that time intimated to MT. Sterling or any one else, his determina- ton on this subject. And on tue same day and within few hours afterwards "a second meeting was convened at which nineteensre- publican members were present, when Mir. Sterling received IA votes without having re- ceived any previous intimation of the wishes or opinions of the gentlemen composing the meeting.

 This sir is correct statement of the trans action and the reasons of it, and affords evi- dence of the high estimation in which Mir. Stirling is held by the republicans ofthis coun- ty. ANOTHER FARMER.

 To the Editor of the County Post.

 SlR-I observe that you have published in your paper of this week, the resolutions a. dopted by the late meeting of republicans in Hartford county, with an editorial comment upon them. Although may differ from you in opinion, with regard to the expediency and propriety ofa measure proposed by that mee-