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To the Independent Electors of Jfflassachusetts. 
 
 ADAMS AND LATHROP. 
 
 OUR MOTTO. " An Administration merging all party spirit and feeling, in the great interests of the Commonwealth ; to 
 heal the divisions of party, to promote the harmony of the Union, and to maintain the INDUSTRY OF FREEDOM and 
 the purity of the Constitution." J. Q. ADAMS. 
 
 AJJTIMASOMIC REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS. 
 Election 1 1th Noeraber. 
 
 FOR GOVERNOR, 
 
 JOHN QUIXCY ADAMS. 
 
 FOR LIKUTESAHT GOVERHOR, 
 
 SAMUEL IiATHROP. 
 
 FOR SENATOKS. 
 
 WORCESTER COUNTY. 
 STEPHEN P. GARDNER, of Boltoo. 
 TYLER IHCHELLER, of North Brookfield. 
 THEODORE JONES, of Attiol. 
 THOMAS CHAMBERLAIN, of Worcester. 
 WILLIAM M. BENEDICT, of Millbury. 
 
 MIDDLESEX COUNTY. 
 TIMOTHY Fl'LLER.of Groton. 
 DAVID TOWNSKND.of VValtham. 
 JOHN CLARK, of Watertown. 
 WILLIAM MONROE, of Concord. 
 CALEB WAKEFIELD.'of Reading. 
 
 ESSEX COUNTY. 
 WILLIAM REED, of Marblehead. 
 T. M. CLARK, of Newburvport. 
 JOSEPH WINN.of Silem'. 
 THOMAS HA YSON. of Rowley. 
 JEREMIAH SPOmJRD, of Bradford. 
 KlCHAKl) HAZELTlNE.of Lynn. 
 
 FRANKLIN COUNTY. 
 WILLIAM BILLINGS, of Conway. 
 NORFOLK COUNTY. 
 
 CHRISTOPHER WEBB, or weymouth. 
 
 JOHN BAILEY, of Dorchester. 
 GEORGE HAWKS, of VVrentham. 
 
 BERKSHIRE COUNTY. 
 SAMUEL JONES. 
 JOHN M. BREVVSTER. 
 
 ' BARNSTABLE COUNTY. 
 
 MATTHEW COBU.of Barnstable. 
 
 PLYMOUTH COUNTY. 
 JOHN B. TURNER, of Scituate 
 NATHAN LAZELL, of Bridgewatcr. 
 
 CONGRESSIONAL ELECTION. 
 
 FOK RKPRESKNTATITE. (Ninth Dillrict.) 
 
 WILLIAM JACKSON. 
 
 TO THE ELECTORS OF MASSACHUSETTS. 
 
 FELLOW-CITIZENS, 
 
 By a vote of the State Antimasonic Republican 
 Convention, held in Boston the llth, 12th and 13th 
 of September, the State Committee, in conjunction 
 with the County, Town and District Committees, 
 were directed to fill any vacancy that might occur 
 in the nomination mide by the Convention for the 
 office of Lieutenant Governor of the Common 
 wealth. Such a vacancy having- occurred, it became 
 the duty of the Committee to perform the service 
 enjoined upon them by the Convention. They have 
 proceeded in the exercise of this responsible trust, 
 with great care and deliberation, and with special 
 reference to the interests of the State, the wishes 
 of the Convention, and 'the 'character and standing 
 of the eminent citizen, whom the Antimasonic Re 
 publican party have the pride and pleasure to pro- 
 sont tf> their fellow-citizens, as their candidate for 
 the office of Governor of t!ie Commonwealth. 
 
 The nomination of Mr. ADAMS for Governor, by 
 the Convention was made in entire accordance with 
 the wishes of the gentleman whom the party had 
 supported as their candidate for that office for the 
 two preceding- years. The Convention did not then 
 foel at liberty to tendor to Mr. LATHROP their nom 
 ination for the second office, without previously con 
 
 sulting him on that subject, which it was not in their 
 power to do, before the Convention adjourned. 
 
 The Committees appointed to fill Uie vacancy in 
 the nomination of a candidate for Lieutenant Gov 
 ernor, upon a full consideration of the subject, were 
 thoroughly convinced, that no name in this Com 
 monwealth, whiph could be presented to their fellow 
 citizens in connexion with that of JOHN Quiver 
 ADAMS would give greater weight and popularity to 
 the ticket, than the name of SAMUEL, LATHROP. 
 They believed that the same noble and elevated 
 motives, the same conscious obligation of a good 
 citizen, whose duty it should be to obey every call 
 of his country, which had induced Mr. ADAMS, af 
 ter having held the office of Chief Magistrate of 
 the nation, to consent, on principles he fully approv 
 ed, to accept a nomination for Chief Magistrate of 
 his native State ; would not be less felt, or less ac 
 knowledged by Mr. LATHROP. It was apparent 
 too, to every just mind, that the peculiar pre-emi 
 nence of Mr. ADAMS, founded on his public servi 
 ces in the most importint trusts, and in the highest 
 office which the nation can confer, rendered it en 
 tirely honourable for any other citizen in this Com 
 monwealth, however eminent, to be associated with 
 him, as second in a nomination, where it must be 
 universally admitted no other name could be placed 
 before his. 
 
 The Committees to fill the vacancy, were also 
 deeply impressed with the sense unanimously ex 
 pressed by the late Convention " of the disinterest 
 ed motives, the purity of purpose, and the disregard 
 of personal sacrifices for the sake of principle, which 
 had alone actuated our virtuous fellow-citizen, SAM 
 UEL LATHROP, in accepting (after he had voluntari 
 ly retired from a long and useful public life,) the 
 Antimasonic nomination for Governor of this Com 
 monwealth :" and they trusted that the same elevat 
 ed and patriotic views might be appealed to, to induce 
 him to permit his name to be placed on the ticket 
 with that of JOHN QUI.NCY ADAMS ; and thereby 
 give to that ticket all the strength which public ser 
 vices, eminent ability and weight of personal char 
 acter can give to insure the success of the princi 
 ples on which the nominations have been made. 
 
 The result has proved that his fellow-citizens did 
 not too highly estimate the disinterested devotion to 
 sound principle, which, through a long life of useful 
 ness, has uniformly distinguished SAMUEL LATHROP, 
 in all his public and private relations, as a man ele 
 vated above fear, as he is above reproach, and sole 
 ly guided by a conscientious conviction of right. 
 
 With these views, the nominating Committees, in 
 convention on (he llth of October, unanimously in 
 behalf of the State Convention, tendered to SAMU 
 EL LATHROP their nomination for the office of Lt. 
 Governor of the Commonwealth, upon the same Re 
 publican principles on which the nomination for 
 Governor, had been presented to Mr. ADAMS. 
 
 A sub-committee was appointed to communicate 
 this nomination to Mr. LATHROP, and we congratu 
 late our fellow-citizens, that we now have the satis 
 faction to inform them, officially, that upon the same 
 principles which guided him in his acceptance of 
 the nomination for Governor, he has allowed the" 
 Committee to say that he consents his name may be 
 used for the office of*Lieutenant Governor of the 
 Commonwealth for the year ensuing. 
 
 FELLOW-CITIZE.NS....WB now present to you a 
 ticket of which every citizen of old Massachusetts 
 may justly be proud. It restores to you something 
 of the patriotic principles which governed republi 
 can citizens in the best days of the Republic the 
 best men in the Commonwealth, at the call of their 
 fellow-citizens, have consented to be supported for 
 the most responsible offices in the State. The 
 named of ADAMS and LATHROP combine a greater 
 
 amount of eminent public services, distinguished 
 ability, soundness of political principle, arm purity 
 and worth of personal character, than any two names 
 ever before held up to the citizens of this Common 
 wealth, on the same ticket, for the two first offices 
 in the gift of the people. 
 
 In every principle and measure of Stite and na 
 tional policy, which the party mainly opposed to 
 ours, admit to be at all important, the views of these 
 distinguished fitizens are in perfect unison with a 
 large majority of the people of this State. It dis 
 parages no man in the Stat3 or nation, to say, that 
 their superiors for these two offices cannot be named. 
 ' Can the Electors of Massachusetts hesitate then, 
 whom they will choose for Governor and Lieutenant 
 Governor, at the ensuing election, when it is their 
 peculiar privilege ta be able to command the servi 
 ces of such men ? Between the candidates of the 
 other parties and citizens whom they might have 
 selected for their candidates, comparisons may be 
 held, and men might strongly doubt, as to their 
 entire superiority of character and qualifications. 
 With the candidates we offer, no such comparison 
 can be held, without manifest injustice. May we 
 not then rely with confidence upon the intelligence, 
 the sound practical good sense, the love of country, 
 the devotion to principle, the regard to the public 
 services of eminent citizens, which have heretofore 
 distinguished the people of this Commonwealth, to 
 insure a majority of their votes at the ensuing elec 
 tion for 
 
 JOHN QUIKCY ADAMS 
 
 AND 
 
 SAMUEL LATHROP. 
 
 At a Convention of the Stats, County, Town and 
 District Committees, held in Boston, October 19, 
 1833, it was 
 
 Resolve I, unanimously, .that we learn with the 
 highest satisfaction, that our valued fellow-citizen, 
 SAMUEL LATHROP, has generously waved all per 
 sonal considerations which would have led him to 
 prefer private to public life, and acceding to the 
 soundness cf the principles of the resolutions ad.opt- 
 ed by the Antimasonic Convention, tendering the 
 nomination for Governor, to JOH.N QUI.NCY ADAMS, 
 has accepted the nomination tendere I t > him in the 
 same manner, in behalf of that Convention, for the 
 office of Lieutenant Governor. 
 
 'Resolved, That the foregoing addrrs: t"> the elec 
 tors of Massachusetts, be unanimously adopted by 
 this meeting, and tint it accompany the announce 
 ment of the nomination of Air. LATHROP. 
 
 R sjlied, That we earnestly recommend to our 
 fallow citizens, a thorough organization of each 
 county, town, ward and district, by the appointment 
 of efficient committees, prepared to take active 
 measures to supply their respective t iwns and coun 
 ties with votes, to circulate information, and to use 
 all fair and honourable means, to insure the election 
 of JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, and SAMUEL LATHROP. 
 
 Resolvci, That every citiz n who values the char 
 acter of tlie Commonwealth, owes it tr> himself and 
 to the State, to use his utmost endeavours to avert 
 the discredit in the eyes of the nation, ami in the 
 estimation of posterity, which would inevitably at 
 tend the rejection, by a majority of tlie people of 
 this Slit?, of the services of two such men as Mr. 
 ADAMS and Mr. LATHROF, upon the only grounds 
 on which it is pretended they can be opposed, viz : 
 their opposition to a Secret Society, which all admit 
 to be u 1 ^ss, and many believe to be destructive of 
 republican principles and equal rights. 
 
 GEO. ODIORNE, Chairman. 
 
 DAVID TILDEN, Secretary. 
 
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