Connecticut

Tho friends of equal rights in this etato re determined to do something in the right ay. The folio wing a an extract from a etter of Frangís Gillette, their candidate or Governor. The situation of the colord citizens of Michigan are similar. They ro rolbed of their money on account of ïeir complexión. Who denies thia? Will ie Advertieer or Frte Pv-ess deoy it? "As citizens of Connecticut, we need ony turn to the constitution and laws of this ato, to finil painful evidence of its guilty articipation in this monstroua syelem of pression and crime. The fundamental rticle of the conslitution asserts, ihat "al! nen whon Ihey form a social compact are qual in rights," and, then, in a subsequent ection, it viokües thia declaration, and rc3ts from one class of men iheir polilial rights, on the uüegod grounil of color. )espotism, with all its characteristic ca)riciousness, has seldom been chargahle ith so inonstiüus r.n incón'grïïity. In riet accordance with this odious feature 'the coi59titution, laws have been enacted, 'rom time to time, which entirely disfranïise the coloree! citizen, and doom him to olitical vassalage. At the same lime the jovernment thrusts its robber arm intohis jocket and seizes his rnoney, under the )eciou3 name of laxation - thus visiting pon him the samo tyrannícal policy vhich ie American colonista experienced from ie British government, and which they esistcd with determined valor. Taxaon without representation, Í3 the aliment filespots - the life-blood of tyranny. We have petiiioned the Legis'.aturo of ie State for successive years to redress ie wrongs our citizens, and relricve the arnished character of tho State, but our ïetilions have met wiih littlè or no favor rom eithcr poütical party, and have Óftèïï een treated wiíh repulsivo coldness. If we wouldaid our feliow-citizens, poitically, in regaining their lost riht3 and iberties, we must do it throudi the ballotóx.1'