The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1856-04-23
SENATOR ToUCEY AND THE CONNECTICUT ELEc
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The abOlition-knOw -nOthng papers affect TO riOic,
the result Of the recent election 10 Connecticut but
Is the 10Y Of the convicted homicide the execution q
whose sentence has been deferred, not RENTED The FL.
sopts are quite welcome 10 all the consolation they may
derive from reprieve which win certainly expire No.
vember. Their doom is foreshadowed in the malicious
mendacy OF the assaults upon the distinguished gentle
Who part represents Connecticut in the Senate Of
the United States. party, combination Of factions
claiming be in the ascendant and confident Of continued
success seldom Il ever make display of hatred and NAL
ice towards their opponents in the hour OF victory The
miseraby low abuse which has been unsparngy heap
ed upon the head Of Senator Toucey by such bad sheets
as the New York Tribune the joint effects of hate and
fear The whole tribe OF fanatics and usonss hate The
senator because Of the soundness and eryo OF his patriot
ism, the nationality Of his views, his answering de-
yo,ion TO principles of the democratic party his IN.
sued public and private character his increasing paA-
on and his increasing influence. And they fear him be-
cause the sentiments Of majority OF the people Of
Connecticut surely and rapidly approxmaing to the
sentiments OF whose example and influence bad such
powerful effect in the late memorable canvass in that
State.
Senator Toucey has not falsely asserted by the abo
on press been repudia,ed BY the people Of his State The
very is the fact No who will take the troubeo
the cast at the late election arrive any
other conclusion than that the political principles enter
tanned by Senator Toucey meet with the decided approval
of clear and unquestionable majority of the electors Of
his State that the democracy OF Connecticut At
that election made straight broad, unmstakabie issue
with all their they went into the contest
with the determination defeat to be defeated the
great principle of popular soveregnty-bn il is also
that very large number of the electors who approve Of
this principle but who heretofore belonged the wing
organization suffered themselves to be duped by the com
mon enemy into the forming and supporting of indie
pendent ticket But win quote from the Hartford
Times reliable influential and ably-conducted democratic
journal The Times thus the revers of Senator
Toucey
But the revilers of Mr.. Toucey will be has lost the
State How, and by what means, would ask? Not bya
issue against the democracy But know-nothug
ticket nominated, then abolition ticket, and finally
by the management of know nothings and aboonis,
straight whig ticket put into the field at very late
day In the canvass BY this management they barely
ceeded in defeating the democratsbarey, that's asnd
the result view of the circumstances stunning to the
men who played these games to avoid straight and honest
vote which would defeated them The straight wings
are national men politically they have sympathy
with abolition nottingham. In the late contest they
we're disposed not to vote at all, or to give their sup
port directly to the national democracy, IN order TO
defeat the dangerous seconasm rife. Had there
been no straight wing ticket, the democrats would have
had less vote to overcome, and some more votes to
| overcome the opposition with; and this would have
elected ticket by the people. But the whig ticket w
put up by the of the nothing sbotionst
and it caught 200 voters whose sympathes were really
in favor OF the democracy than the fusons whom
they unsupecngy aided and these 200 votes amount to
just about all the majority against the democrats BY this
the who at heart hostile to sectional strife
we're mado to contribute result in accordance with
their feelings But Notwithstanding these tricknotwith-
standing tickets representing to considerable degree
opposite sentiments all made to bear against the de-
find in the results most Astounding gains Look
at the figures of the whole State