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    and in the parishes where the voters live . Bribery is not known there , nor does any one offer himself as a candidate for any office . Should any one presume to do that , for that reason he would not be chosen . All that serve in public offices are called to them by the suffrages of the people . The votes thus taken in the several parishes , a copy of them is sent to Hartford to be all

    counted over again , that it may be known in whose favour the majority of the whole lies . The governor , the lieutenant-governor , and the twelve counsellors , are called the upper house . . The representatives are all chosen at the same time ,

    in the several parishes , separately . The smallest parishes send one , some of the larger two members . Their number is about two hundred ; they are called the lower house . They are chosen every half year , and meet alternately at New-Haven and Hartford . The salaries of

    all their public offices are very small . The governor came to Hartford the day before the election in the common stage , without any attendants ( not even a servant ) excepting that a few gentlemen went about 10 miles to meet him . A small party of the military , with a multitude of the people , met him at the

    river , to conduct him to townV On the election day , the votes being counted , and publicly declared in the sta , te ~ house , the procession [ to the meetinghouse ] began . It extended more than a , quarter of a mile . A band of music

    went before , then two companies of the , governor ' s guards , ( called the militia ) all in uniform ; the governor , the lieutenant-governor , the counsellors , the representatives , above " one hundred clergymen , a long train of citizens , with another band of music . There was a

    party of horse parading on each side of the procession . The meeting doors were kept shut till the procession began to enter , and as they took their seats , the congregation in general followed

    and took theirs . The place seats 1500 people ; there must have been aooo , as great numbers stood all the time . One clergyman took the whole service , which was serious , but nothing extiaprdinary . The music , vocal and instrumental , was

    excellent ; there wftrq one . . hundred per ^ former - After the service wav over , th > compaoy separated , for dinner . The cjeigy

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    on election day have a dinner provided for them at tjhe expense of the state . I was of course invited to dine , with thera , but I rather chose to dine with Dr « Strong , the-minister of the parish ; one of the ablest , most pious , laborious ^ and successful ministers that I know .

    There was the largest collection " of people a £ Hartford that I have sec © since I came into this country-. Nothing of the kind could be conducted with greater order and regularity . I did not see one man intoxicated , nor hear one oath , nor do I think one was uttered . I heard of one man being in liquor , but he was clapt into prison , and there kept

    till the effect of his excess was gone off .. At ten o ' clock at night the streets were perfectly quiet . Governor Trumbull is a polite , convertible , and sensible man , about sixty years of age . * J was often in hi 6 company , and went with l \ im tqi a country box belonging to his son-inlaw , Mr . Wadswortjh , with whom I

    have been well acquainted from my first coming- into the country . It stands on a high mountain about 9 miles west of Har , tford , and commands a most extensive prospect . It is fitted up in imitation of the gothic style . I preached on the sabbath at Hartford and as the governor and assembly were

    there , the congregation wap large . The steeple of the new meeting is much admired by connoisseurs * Hartford contains from 3 to 4 , 000 people . Thjerc are two congregational meetipgs ; an episcopal church , and at small Baptist

    society . Dr . Strong ' s fe by far the ** largest . The governor , and many q { . their leading characters , are not only men of sobriety an 4 integrity , but at $ o of exemplar y piety . The whole st ^ tc contains about ^ oo ^ oco people , and is like q ^ well-regulated and religious family .

    Th& lieutenant-go vemor Tread well , 1 ^ I am to id , a singular character . Ha was originally-a tin pedlar . Happening to be out disposing of his wares in a place where a court was sitting , he went in . to satisfy his curiosity , in seeing an 4 hearing what was going forward . He

    listened with great attention to the evidence of the witne ^ es , and tftc pleadings of the tewye s , till the cause was dcte ^ mined , when he exclaimed hat one of the lawyers di& not knQW ivhat fa was ^ about , and that he hamjscif conJd have set the cause in * a ckar * £ aftdiiwtog

    * He 1 $ since , dead

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    Intelligence . — Civil ctoidI Religious State of America . 45

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1810, page 45, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2400/page/45/