In the spring of 1860, he was nominated as candidate for Lieutenant Governor on a ticket with Col.  Thomas H. Seymour of Hartford, for Governor, which made the most popular Democratic ticket that has ever been run in the State.  Had it not been for the great anti-slavery feeling there was at this canvass, Mr. English would have been triumphantly elected.  Many of the opposing party would been glad to have seen him elected, and would have voted for him, had it not been for the influence they thought it would have on the Presidential election.  We heard many Republicans say this in New Haven, and many did vote that ticket.

H.M.  Welch, who has for a long time been connected with Mr. English in business, is largely interested in this clock company.  He gives most of his attention to other kinds of manufacturing, in which Messrs. English and Welch, are very extensively engaged.  Mr. Welch is one of the most intelligent, upright, and kind hearted business men in the whole State, and is admired as such by all who know him.  He is also a Democrat in politics, very popular in his party, and is well qualified for any offices.  He would make a good candidate for Governor or member of Congress.  He is about forty-six years old, worth perhaps, two hundred thousand dollars; he has held many important offices, has been a Representative to the State Legislature for many years, and State Senator a number of times.  He has recently been elected Mayor of the city, and has filled all of these offices with much talent.

John Woodruff, a member of Congress, elected for the second time from this district, is the next largest owner in this great brass clock business.  He commenced to work at clocks with me when a boy only fifteen years old.  He was a very uncommon boy, and is now an uncommon man, very popular among his fellow workmen, popular with Democrats, popular with Republicans, popular every where, and can be elected to Congress when there is five hundred majority against his party in his district.

Hiram Camp who is the next largest stock-holder in this clock company, is forty-nine years old.  He commenced making clocks with me at the age of seventeen, and is now President of the company.  He is a Republican in politics, and has been chosen Representative from New Haven to the Legislature of the State.  At this time he is Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, is very popular with his workmen, and highly respected by the whole community in which he lives.  Many others who hold prominent positions in this great business in New Haven, first came here with me when I moved from Bristol.  I should mention Philip Pond, an excellent man who left the business two or three years since, on account of his health, but who is now connected in the wholesale grocery business of the firm of Pond, Greenwood & Lester, in this city.  Also Charles L. Griswold, now a bit and augur maker in the town of Chester, who began to work for me twenty years ago, when a boy.  He was once a poor boy, but now is a talented and superior man.  He has been a member of the Legislature, and has held many offices of trust.