The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-04-08

tenn OF internal improvements. They will not aid in
striking from books the revenue law of ls.6
which has shed many blessings upon the country or in
e-enactng The prohiboy policy and strike down the labor
oil the country for the benefit of incorporated monoposs
These reasons warrant in rejoicing the late cleo
non IN Vermont even If the democratic candidates were
as fully committed 10 the Wimot Proviso as their whg
competitors But of this we have grave doubts
Two of them supported General Cass for the presidency
The Hartford Comm Courant says of Mr. Cleveland
democrat:
better free soil than his opponent John A Root
well, (whig) our State cannot bring forward. He has
been firm and consistent opponent of slavery extension
by his speeches and his votes, while Mr. Cleveland bs,
been stumpng that district and telling the msn
who pretended to be such sincerely SHAT he found no
warrant in the constitution for Congress legsate on III,
subject of slavery in the Territories"
The New York Journal of Commerce says on the au
thority of the paper;
Ia the Hartford district, which elects Mr. Waldo tina
wings lost nearly much by disatfecton and internal
dssenson they did by coalition of the free sol
aud loooocos Aud yet Wados majority in the dstric,
is not much over 100.
The the in the New Haven district B,h
cock, the wing candidate is free soil enough for anybodv
as the columns of his (ths New Haven Palladium
sufficiently indicate. Yet he deeaed-not by FREE.
sosm, but by disahection among the wings many Of
whom attached the late member Mr. Hubbard
and wished him reelected good many voted for him
Notwithstanding the nomination of Mr. Babcock-ss if we
mistake not, in New Haven alone
The New York Tribune says:
Ia portion of the northern States has there besu
prevalent lukewarmnes with regard the agpres
sions OF the slave power than In Connecticut That STATE
has long cherished intimate relations with southern
brethren, doing large business with in the wav of
clocks buttons and sundy other notions From her soil
Prudence Crandall driven for attempting to teach
coored children there the Amstad ptves na rowIv a.
capped reconsignment into bondage the hands of nut
meg judge there the people quite recently decided BY
four five one, that coored has right to vote
This natured eflsion gives different view OF the
late election in Vermont from that which is taken BY
the Inielgencer. 1t charges upon the people lukewam
with regard to what the Tribune calls the aggres
of the slave power. by which he lukewam
in support of the Wilmo Proviso. This may &C.
count for the election of three democratic members Of
Congress from that State; and when tax in connexo
with the foregoing extracts from the Courant and the
Journal of Commerce, give strong hopes that they
viii be found moderate and patriotic in their views and
conduct with regard to the Wilmot Proviso AT all
events, we had nothing to hope from the success
of the wing candidates, either on the slavery ques
ton or any oher and the National lntellieence
must "begin again." if it would convict us of incon
sistency in this particular Ii made great mistake
yesterday; and cannot but think that its editors
of it, when saw in the very next column
to the which contained the assault upon u.s. that the
noticed with evident satisfaction the return of Mr. How
ellis of Ohio the democratic fold and published with
commentator extract from his letter, which said o. Z
the free soil party at appears 10 haze served its end and
the idea schid gars 10 has expired bY limitation
IT DEAD"