New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-04-01
Connecticut Election.


able to walk and call home every one now
absent on business who can return without
an exorbitaRt sacrifice. We speak thus
early because we know there are Connect
cut voters now absent who may so dispose
their business as to be at home on Monday
if they will but resolve to do it and begin
now. But let them delay day or two, and
one thing after another will intervene to
engross their time until the paralyzing too
late will be uttered, and they will aban-
don the idea of voting and resolve to let the
Telegraph bring them the result--a result
which may contravene their wishes pre-
cisely because they and others in like cir
cumstances did not make the sacrifice re-
quired of them by patriotism. Three
fourths of the legal voters now absent from
the State are Wings, and will so vote if
they vote at all. Let half of them stay
away, and they may betray the State into
adverse hands. We ask every Wing read
er, therefore, who knows a Connecticut
voter now absent from the State, to see him
forthwith and urge him to go home on Sat
urdsY next. 1t will do almost any of the
class good to go home, spend a quiet Sun
day With his relatives. vote on Monday,
an hen come away if he must, though it
would be better to see the contest out, and
come away next morning. We will endea-
vor to have pretty full, and we trust pretty
good, returns to greet him here or meet him
on the way in Tuesday mornings Tribune.
Connecticut is a Wing State----so
proved in many a determined Struggle.
Her instincts, her traditions, her principles,
her education, her interests, attsth her to
the party of Thrift, of Peace, of Internal
Improvement, and of Protection to Labor.
A light vote or side issue may now and
then throw her momentarily into an ad
verse position, but she generally rights her
self at the next Election. The one Just at
hand is a nert Election.
Two years ago, Loco Foc6ism carried
three of the four Members Of Congress by
consorting with end using the Abolitionists.
Of its candidates, Walter Booth was an
old fashioned Abolitionist Chauncey f.
Cleveland had been and was Loco Foco
Free Soiler; Loren ?, Waldo Loco-Foco
who appeared in the character of Free
Soiler . for this night only, by particular
desire All these obtained the regular
Free Soil nominations and votes, and were
thereby elected, as they could not other
wise have been. The aggregate votes of
the several Districts were as follows:
/ Chapmsn, Wing 1897 Waldo, OPP. &FS I4l4 Scan o
4. Butler, - S,l72 Wldman, opp. 7,c28 FS bI6
Thus all the Districts in which the Free
Soil and Loco Foco coalition was perfected
were carried against the Wings by close
votes, while the remaining District, where
ne such coalition was effected, went Wing
by a majority double that of all the coali-
ton majorities put together. And the
Wing State Ticket had $500 clear plurali-
ty over the Loco Foco, and ran ahead OF 1t
in every District in the State. Loco-foco-
ism could have carried no one of its Mem
bers of. Congress without the Abolition
vote.
Last year the Rum influence went strong
for the Opposition, and put its State Ticket
a little ahead of the Wing; the vote for
Governor standing
Foster, Whig........282o 9 Seymour, OPP.
Boyd, f. S...........,... z'SH
Ard Seymour was elected by the Leglssla-
ture. Even Hartford City had chosen one
Loco-Foco to the Legislature by the votes
efforts and money of Wing rumsellers
lovingly conjoined to those of the regular
Opposition. 1t was so in other towns 1t
may be so again.
But, having carried one Congressional
Delegation by coalescing with the Free
Sellers and adopting one of their men, Lo-
co-Focoism hopes to carry another by going
even stronger on the opposite tack Messrs.
Chapman and Babcock, who were the
Wing candidates in '48 in the Hartford and
New Haven Districts, are again the Wing
candidates, with no material change of
views or position; they were beaten as
Doughfaces before; they are to be beaten
(if possible) as 'Agitators now The men
who sent Walter Booth, well known
Abolitionist, to the last House, are now
appalled, at the idea of having Mr.. Babcock
in the next Congress; they have dropped
Mr.. Booth and taken up tender scion of
the house of Ingersoll-a house blessed