The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-01
The Connections Election-The Last Congress
and the Next.


The Connecticut election comes off next Mon
day, involving the choice of four members Of the
House of Representatives for the next Congress
Should they all be secured by the republicans
the result may probably give the organization
of the House to that party, and possibly the con
troll of the Presidential election, should it be
thrown into that body, as it most probably will
be. In the late Congress, however, the Connec-
ticut delegation stood two republicans and two
democrats; and as there are now several outside
opposition candidates in the field the probabilities
are that instead of gaining, the republicans will
lose member or two. In any event the result
will be matter Of comparative Indifference to
Mr.. Buchanan's administration, inasmuch as from
the members already elected to the next House
he may count upon an opposition majority But
in reference to the next Presidency, we presume
the old line wings; and Americans of Connec-
ticut will comprehend the Importance of pre-
serving in their own hands that balance of power
in Congress which they can hardly expect to re-
tain by electing the republican candidates.
We care not straw for the present demo-
rallied and rotten democratic party. In the
late Congress they had possession of each
house by large majority; and yet we
believe that Mr.. Buchanan would have
got along with the substantial work of
his administration much better than he did
had there been decided opposition majority in
both houses. Unquestionably, in regard to the
leading measures of the administration, foreign
and domestic, which secured the cooperation of
the last Congress, Mr.. Buchanan is indebted to
opposition votes. There was one fragrant act of
omission on the last day of the last session for
which Mr.. Galusha A. Grow and the republicans
of the House may justly be held responsible.
We allude to the failure to pass the appropria-
tons required for the support of the Post Office
Department. But here Messrs. Mason, Toombs
and other democrats of the Senate for their OBJ.
stinate foolishness, must be put into and shaken
up in the same bag with Mr.. Grow and his fac
tious confederates. The result clearly exone-
rated Mr.. Buchanan from the consideration of
the interests of all the Presidential cliques of
Congress in the matter of an extra session.
He would have been fully justified by the
country in the call Of an extra session; and that
call, while indicating the administration, would
have placed the factious and treacherous party
managers of this last Congress in their true
colors before the American people Mr.. Bu-
chanan, however, was oveTuled by the conside-
ration that an extra session would operate to
the disfranchisement of number of States in
the new Congress, which will not have elected
their members to the House till late in the fall
whereas, in this next House 1t is particularly
important that all the States should have
voice in the organization of the BODY. But
notwithstanding this consideration against
an extra session. the President would still
have been justified in calling it in view
of the Inconvenience and positive losses thrown
upon the government and the people through the
shameful failure Of all the bills for the support of
the Post Office Department, and because the
Presidential leaders and clans of Congress on
both Sides at this last session especially, delibe.
rately sought to embarrass, humiliate and break
down the administration upon every great issue
of the Presidents policy.
But the fact that Mr.. Buchanan has determined
to avoid, If possible, resort to extra session,
does not remove the duty of the people, in all
the elections to Congress still to come
on, to mark those candidates for re-
election who In the last Congress aided
In defeating, not only the Post Office ap-
preparations, but all the efforts of the President