The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-04-10
From the Neio York Express, April 7.
The Result In COnnccticut--The State gone
LOcOfOcO.

LOcOfOcO.
TIE CAUSES AT WoRK.-The result of the cleo
ton in this town will surprise our friends through
out the State. With a canvass showing Wing
majority Of some two three hundred, we are
badly defeated. The cause 10 apparent The 20
siton OF the party on the temperance question has
estranged large number who have hitherto acted
with US. 1t is true that got some voters from
the Democratic ranks; but where one Of that class
went for our candidates, three Wigs left US.
large number of Wings resolutey refused to go to
the polls.-Hayyord Courant Of yesterday.
The Wing party, we take it, organize and agree
to act, and work, and vote together, for the ad.
vancement Of certain principles which they believe
to be best calculated TO promote the proper admin
|'istration of the Government and the general wei
fare of the country The Wing party profess
Wing principles, none other, and none other do
they seek to enforce recommend to the people
under that organization. He or they, therefore.
who sealthily smuggle into the Wing camp any
foreign issue. and seek through that agency to
give it efficacy endorsement, are guilty Of pc
litica swnde, for which they deserve to be thrust
from party which they have thus dishonesty been
trying to use, and to ruin while using.
The Maine Liquor law issue, ism, we'll Illus
trates what mean. We profess to be temper.
ance men as well as Wings, and Wings as well as
temperance men. But if our temperance cannot
succeed on it's own merits, stand on its own
high ground, we should not endeavor to obtain for
it strength that does not belong to 1.-THE
strength Of political party, as we said before,
organised and laboring for the accomplishment of
certain great principles, Of which the Maine Liquor
law, or any other strictly moral question, is
tainly not one. To do is sort of false pre-
fences no honorable or true friend of the temper.
ance cause would be guilty Of As Wings, we go
for Wing principles only; and We don't tell our
co-laborers in the good cause that under cover of
Wing principles, we want to smuggle through the
ballot-box an ism an idea that ia not under
stood, accepted, endorsed, acquiesced in, openly
and above. board, by US all. As sincere friends OF
temperance, and not as those who only make cold
water cloak for hypocrisy and cant, when we
want to enforce our views, or give them practical
efficacy, we go to the temperance meetings. to the
Moral Reform Society, to the Mission House, to the
Church. We don't think it honest to go to tenn
perance meeting to angle for Wing votes, any
more than we thipk it right to go to the Wing
party for votes for Maine Liquor law. The good
cause of temperance is becoming degraded by this
sort Of thing; and the Wing party are paying
tirely too dear for the ,chistle.
II is Locofocosm, or Democracy, that is inva-
riably the gamer by these decoys. The Whigs
uniformly have to pay the expenses The fact is
notorious and confessed, and, being notorious.
lists who labor day after day to eadde the party
with burden not its own, and under which bur.
den they often break down, they have just
broken down in Connecticut. They are not
Wings. they are pretenders; but just good
Wings in most cases, il will be found they arc
true friends Of temperance.
This may be deemed harsh language, but il is
true if 1t is harsh; and it is quite time that the
truth should be spoken right out even though we
incur the accusation-which is sure to be
made-that the Express is in the "rum interest," -
"sod to the disillers.'' &c. Epi.het and coarse
personal abuse favorite weapons with the zeal
ots to whom refer. But they do not hurt when
the motives and Authorizations Of those who
them are understood.
Well, old Connecticut is again saddled with
long lease of Locofocoism. We are sorry, hearth
ly sorry for her, yet we have hardly the heart
quahedly to rcproach her. Wings in many cases
had no heart to go TO the polls, or, as the Courant
Gays, "they resolutely refused to go to the polls"
The Geographic despa tches we have taken for our
text tell the story. and there is but little doubt
that further details will confirm it,