The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-04-26
From the Washington Union
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION
THE RESULT.

The Mates Of the so-called whic victory re-
Gently come OF in the land Of steady habits
have hardly died upon the ear, nor have the
wing and abolition journals Of the North vet
ceased to rejoice over the ssanti Nebraska re-
buke which the freemen OF this State have given
10 The administration and its friends Ito Judge
ID ,uglss and the supporters Of his bill in behalf
Of popular s,ver-ignty. The smoke of the
battle has cleared away, and the field, With its
| dead and wounded, lies before Us. The returns
are all in, and the official reports made up
And what, after all, does this "great whig vic.
tory" amount 10 and where is this s'terrble
rebuae to the administration p The New
Haven Register sums up the result a. fol-
/ | vs.:
"Mr. Ingham, the democratic candidate fnr
governor, leads the wing candidate (Dut,on) on
he popular vote in every city and county in the
S,a'e about ten thousand and nearly overrdes
both Dutt n, the whig, and Chapman, the
Maine law candidate! John Hooker (the Simon
Pure abolition sandidate) has between two and
three thousand votes. Take from Chapman
vote the ballots cast by Maine-iaw democrats,
and winch were cast with the cole object Of Sc.
curing that Ia y, and the combined allies would
be in a minority Of the people Of the State?
| "The wing candidate for governor at the re.
cent election received less than one.third OF
| He has majority in only nine towns, and q
plurality in only twenty three towns, out Of the
one hund. ed and fifty towns in the whole
| Stat.
Such. in a few words, 10 the story Of the late
election in Come cticut and If there is comfor
TO whiggery in all This, the wings are welcome
To il. The late contest in this State has beer
marked with more fanaticism, bitterness, ane
malignity, on the part of the opposition, thar
any that has preceded it since the panic days o.
the United States Bank. The State has gone
from the democracy, as it did occasionally il
those times, and defeat will be as short lived a.
it then was.
In Connecticut the two great parties are, as they
have been for years, about equally divided, anc
hence in trying times the democracy are some
times overthrown; but when principles ART
understood, and the battle is fought on princi-
pies instead # prejudice, when the sober seconf
thought is allowed to act, the democrats ar
sure to right themselves, and maintain then
ascendency longer than their opponents. w.
are far from admitting that had the issue pre-
sented by the wings Of Connecticut in the late
contest-to wit, the Nebraska question-beer
boldly taken by all the democratic presses o
the State, as il was, We know by many OF them
we might not now be able to record democra
tic triumph In the second congressional dis
ufct (Mr- IngeISOIi 81 tnlS issue was ten0eIet
and accepted; and although in an adjoining
district a powerful democratic paper rivailet
the wing press in denouncing the Nebraska bill
and its supporters, and its course was calcula
ted to esirange political friends, and check thu
efforts OF The democrats throughout the State
We, in Mr.. Ingersoll's district, which bore tn
brunt of the anti.Nebraska attack, where part
san priests quit their pulpits to make war on th'
Nebraska bill, the democratic candidate TO
governor has about twenty three hundred pIu
ral,ty (where Mr. lngersoll one year ago hat
seventeen hundred Plurality,) and a majority o
democratic representatives have beeu elected Il
the legislature!
A comparison Of figures will show, therefore
that where the Nebraska issue was met an,
. fought in Connecticut the democrats faced a
well lat leasD as in those parts ofthe Stat
where the issue was avoided. So it will b
everywhere The principles Of Judge Dougla'
bill have only 10 be understood by the popula
mind in order to secure popular approval, an
we trust they will be kept prominently beior
the people by the democratic presses througheu
the country. Democratic victories sooner Q
later, will be the result
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