New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-05
The Connecticut Election.

We see that the Opposition In the Ist DlsHlc'
have again placed in nomination Loren ?. Waldo
TO be beaten, we trust, by that stanch Wing.
CHARLES CHAPMAN.
Origen S. Sey mour, who has been nominated
for Congress by the Opposition in the IVth Dis
trict, had for antagonists Edward H. Phelps, Geo,
Tay lor, Geo Ferry, and John Cotton Smith o
Sharon, THE late President Of the Loco State Con
vention Smith was Seymour's principal com
petitor for the nomination. He had "a votes on
the FIRST ballot and votes the third, to IS for
Sey mour, who had only 80 the first ballot, and
Smiths friends at the next move surrendered him
altogether, a result az which he is said to have
been excessively mortified, as he had counted
with certainty on a nomination and election for
utterng the following choice bit OF patriotism be.
fore the assembled Democracy of Connecticut
over whom he presided
THE fact Is gentlemen the Democracy Of this country
bate England and only wait for the signal TO beat open the
Of Palace with the bun ends Of their rites
and me umbeys Of Victoria oih the shrieks Of the
american Eagle"
The Convention which nominated Seymour
passed a series of resolutions sanctioning the
Peace Measures, the Fugitive Slave Law, &c.
We trust good Wing will be chosen from the
WITH District, who will always be found defending
the honor of bis State and the nation, and that the
Hunker supplant for Southern favor, Mr.. o. g..
Seymour will have leave to stay at home. Mr..
Butler tWhig) represented this District in Con-
gress at the last session.
1t seems to be generally admitted that ChGun'
cey f. Cleveland, whom the Opposition, after
hard struggle renominated in the lid District,
will not be elected so easily next time, if the
Wings make any show of fight for their own
candidate, JOHN G. AMEs, of Sterling. Cleve-
land was nominated on the seventh ballot, and
among the prominent contestants for the nomina-
ton were Geo. 6. Catlin, K. Williams, VIM. P.
Eaton, and ]. w. Stedman, whose friends pre-
vented the nomination of Gov. G. from being de-
clared unanimous.
We learn from the Hartford Tines, that on the
9TH ballot, there were five in one roll for Mr.
Cleveland. This roll was thrown out That
paper says;
On account the roll OF votes and the sudden
taken but Cevelands friends opposed this and there were
ed and denounced Mr.. Williams in ungenerous terms.
The resolutions declared that the Compromise
were csed for by public sentiment, aud that The laws
ought 10 be enforced"
The Neso. Haven Register, Hartford Times, and
other Hunker papers show Cleveland no favor,
and call upon him to define his position on their
pet measure the Fugitive Slave Law.
JOHN NJ. NILES, formerly Loco U. s. Senator
from Connecticut, in recent letter. has been de.
Tending bis position on the Peace Measures
"Tbs Fugitve law is not only papabIe and danger
violation Of The Constitution. but is equally sub
versve OF all the great principles Of liberty, which free
people should cherish. The duty OF the people in res
ffftfftp I.r
swsys be in some measure question OF expedieucy de-
pending the circumstances Of the When danger
Is imminent and ydress cannot Be hoped for any other
tody remittance BY force Is not only jas,sabls but
duty"