To the electors of Dutchess County : A number of the independent electors of the county of Dutchess, sensible of the ill-consequences resulting from the party spirit, which has heretofore raged with great violence in this county, and conceiving it of public utility to effect a reconciliation and union of the jarring interests ... did resolve, that a general meeting of the electors of Dutchess County be requested ... for the purpose of nominating three senators for the middle district, and ten members for the Assembly from the county of Dutchess ...