Excerpt from Facts Relative to the Political and Moral Claims of Wilkins Updike: For the Support of the Whig Electors of the Western District, Providence, 1847 Wilkins updike is again in nomination for Representative to Congress from the Western District of this State. He has accepted the nomination. He is therefore, by his own con sent, before the people subject to their opinions and their censure, if by his prior acts he can be shown unworthy of their support. The writer of this address has never been in public life; he is therefore a stranger to the ter tuons course of men who have made politics their trade. Steadily pursuing his own private avocations, he has not been deeply drawn into party collisions. Whenever his personal or property rights have been violated, he however is, perhaps, as prompt as most others, to exert his whole energies in the vindication of those rights. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.