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 majority ofthe IIouse.and in compliance with the acquisitions "f the constitution, they have been sent forth with the laws for the cOnssde- ration Of the people.

 The resolutions having heen many months brfnre the puhliC, and every eleCtOr having had an ample opportunity to give them an attentive examination, comment either upon general principles or minute details, is helie- ved to be entirely unnecessary. There is probably few individuals who have not form ed a settled opinion upon the subject; and if we do not much mistake the indications of public sentiment, great majority have come to the unalterahle conclusion that these prop ositions ought to be made part of the Con sttution of Connecticut.

 Such being the case. it is manifest that the members of the House of Representatives las well as of the Senate) ought to be selected expressly with view to carry these amend mpnts into effect. Every individual present ed as candidate to discharge the responsible duties Ofa legislator, should be brought to the test of the question, whether he will support the amendments ulder consideration. If he is found silent in relation to subject of such vitalimpOrtance. or even deClaiming in favor of districting upon general principles, with half expressed doubts as to the expediency of these propositions, he should be consider ed as an enemy In disguise. .and rejected with out hesitation. Neither should the electors allow themselves to be influenced in the slightest degree by obsolete distinctions, and grounds of difference which are no longer such, and which ought as early as possible to be buried in oblivion. Those who have here tofOre been esteemed FederaIists, should with !rankness and cOrdiaity support sound, or thodox republicans. who now contend for the great principle for which Kirby, Judd, and their patriotic compeers struggled in vain.- It can not be necessary to add that there should be reciprocation of berality, where circumstances make it proper to bring for ward men whose sentiments were formerly of an opposite character.

 If districting cannot now be carried, it is 1, feared that the good cause must be abandon ed in despair. It is admitted on all hands that the subject is envirOned with difficulties, and can never be brought before the public under circumstances more suspicious than the pres ent. Let then the electors of every class u- mite, and by vigorous effort put to flight the corps of unprincipled politicians who are Op- posed to districting, and who, under the goise of Federation, have concentrated in u cir hands all the power, without scarcely deibn- ing to ask the people.

 Districting is the only remedy for the alarm ing evils with which the state is at present af- flicted. Its tendency will he to compel can didatea for office to appeal to their neishbors and acquantances for support, who will can vassth claims, and give integrity, honor. and capacity, fair chance of success ito break down the control which the House of Representatives has exercised over the Sen ate, which has long been entire as to a. mount almost to an annihiation Ofthat branch of the Legislature ito confne both Senate and House of Representatives to their appro- priate duties, to the business of making gene raI law, and adopting measures to promote the common welfare :-to vest more com, peteIy the appointing power in the hands of the people. and to give them the real dispos- ton of offices of which they have been sub ssantiaIIy deprived, by virtue of certain legis- lgtive arrangements and in short, to invigo- rate every branch of the government, to ele- vate its character, to give it stronger hold up- on the confidence of the community, and to enable it more effsctually to accomplish all the great objects which liberal institutions are intended to secure. AN ELECTOR.