The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-04-12


The notes Of the soesed whig victory recently come
of in The land Of steady habits have hardly died upon
the ear nor have the whig and abotoA journals Of the
North ye ceased 10 rejoice the an- Nebraska re-
buke which the freemen Of this State have given ihs
administration and lie fnends'-to Judge Douglas and
the supporters Of his bill in behalf Of popular sovereign
IT, The smoke Of the battle has cleared away, and the
6sd with lis dead and wounded, lies before There
turns are all in and the Official reports made up And
what, after ALL does this grea whg victory" amount 10
aud where is this 'teribe rebuke to he administra-
ton !" The New Haven Register sums up The result
follows:
..Mr Inghum, the democratic candidate for govern.
o. leads The whig candidate (Durun) the popular
vote ia every city and coany 10 the State about ten
thousand and nearly overrdes both Dalton, the whlg
and Cha pman, the Msine-law candidate John Hook
er (the Simon Pure abolition csndidate) has between
TWO and three thousand votes Take from Chapman's
ballots by Msine-law democrats and which
were east with object Of securing that law and
the combined allies would be in minority Of the people
u the State
The whia candidate l5r governor at the sec.
lion received less than one-lhrd polled, and
ia minority Of % 900 lie has maiory in only MIMI
towns, and plurality in only TWENTY THREE towns, oni
Of The hundred and hay towns in the whole State
Such, few words is The story OF The late election in
Connecticut; and if there is comlon to whiggery in all
this State has been marked with more ianaiicis bitter.
ness, and magniy the part OF The opposition, Than
any that has preceded the panic days OF the Uni
led States Bank. The Stale has gone from the democ
racy as did occasionally in those times, and defeat viii
be as short lived then La Connecticut The two
great parties they have been for years, about
ually divided and hence in trying times the democracy
sometimes overhrown; but when principles are IN
destood and the battle fought principles instead OF
prejudice when the sober second thought is allowed 10
ac the democrats To night themselves, and main
tain their aseendency longer than their opponents We
far from admitting that had the issue presented by the
wings OF Connecticut in the late oontesi-io wit, the Ne
braska Queson-been boldly taken by al the democratic
presses of the Stale, was. know, By many OF
them might NOT now able 10 record democratic
triumph Ia the second congressional district MIR In
sersols) this issue rendered and accepted and al
though in adjoining district powerful democratic pa.
per rivaled The wing press IN denouncing the Nebras-
ka bill and is su poefs and It's course was caleu-
lated 10 cstrange political friends, and check the efforts
OF hs democrats throughout The State yei in Mr. lnger
soils district which bore the brnn OF he anti Nebraska
attack, where partisan priests quit their pupts 10 make
war on The Nebraska bill, the democratic candidate for
governor has about TwEsTY-THREE HUNDRED PLURAL
TIT, (where MIR lngerso one year ago had seventeen
hundred paraliiyO and MAJORITY DEMOCRATIC REP-
REsrsIATrvEs have been elected 10 The legislature!
A comparison OF figures will show, therefore, that
where the Nebraska issue met and fought in Con-
neccu The democrats Ia ed well lat easi in those
parts Of the Stale where The issue avoided. So il
will be everywhere The principles OF Judge Douglass bill
have only be understood by The popular mind in order
10 secure popular approval, and trust they will be
kept prominently before the people by the democratic
presses throughout the country Democratic victories
sooner or later, will be The result