The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1857-03-19
THE ELECTION IN CONNECTICUT.

The State election in Connecticut will take place in the
coming month of April We look forward to this election
with much interest In the last campaign Connecticut
cast noble for the nominees of the natoral democ
racy And under ordinary circumstances she would have
cast her electoral vote for Mr. Buchanan But the risin
of fanacisr were too much for the democracy State
proverbia for her cherished regard for the institutions
relgionounded in the sacrifice and love Of free worship
end an undisturbed Sabbathshe could be unmoved
by the unprecedented spectacle of preachers Of the Gop
turning politicians and leaving the great themes of re
gion to lift up, in the house of God, warning voict
against democratic succese--cslIing upon with
loud voice to repent of their democratic SINS and
for John G. Fremont And we do not wonder that for
moment the dep-seated religious feeling of this State
should be moved when such enacted those
that took place 10 the Brick Church New Haven when
the Bacops and the buttons called the excited crowd
from the pulpit to buy and send Shapes rifles to Kansas
when Ward Beecher sood at the combustion table to
as auctionee and pledgpg his church for twenty-five
rifles enveniug the bids by bad jokes and exhoraont
to the subscribers for Shapes rifles to be and hit
man they aimed at when Professor Sman stood in his
place the church and called upon the classes in Yale Col
ege to AID in the armed resistance TO law that going
on say strange that under such pressure
under such lead Connecticut should array herself against
The nominees Of the Cincinnati Convention, and imagine
the country could be saved only by their defeat
But those days of folly lsehood and madness gone
great change has almost all sections of tbs
country where seconaism has been the most fierce and
successful The great heart of the American people
sound and when the real issues that divide parties
fairly presented that heart beats responsive to the national
faith and lihs up the democratic banner
A traveller passing through country and read
ing the political papers opposed to the democracy would
scarcely believe that this the country they
scrbed in October last that President Buchanan the
same person who in The preceding the second
Monday in November. No "bleedDg Kansas now calls
for aid no aggressons of the slave power disturb the
sumbers of back-republcan editors The Union is safe
and the country prosperous
In elections less than in the tone of the opposition
press this change percepbe. Maine the star in the
East indicates her oston to return to the democratic
orbit from which sh hot 30 madly away New Hamp-
shire has lessened the majority against oneha and
when fully redeemed she will shine with clearer lustre
the national constellation New York. amid all the poli-
cal corruption which has resulted in such strong dunion
and republican feeling fast becoming
tive and has recently democratic maortes that
give hope for the whole State at early day.
And Connecticut will fail TO follow these bright
amples Her political history is noble Among the
noblest that have reflected lustre history