Litchfield enquirer., 1859-04-14

THE VICTORY IN CONNECTICUT is ID ordinary triumph. It was felt by all parties that the organization of the next House, virtually hin ged on the issue of this Election. Hence, not only were the Shans spurred to extraor. dinary exertions, but the political fossils also were stirred up todo the Republicans all pos sible harm in the hope of thereby throwing the control of the new House il:to tie hands of She ten or twelve National Americans" or Old-Line Wings" who may be elected from the South. Hence the Whig State Ticket" and the running of Austin Baldwin against John Woodruff lence the mistaken course of Ezra Clark, jr, who was reported as acting under the advice and encouragement of Humphrey Marshal. As there was an obvious prosl ect that the Repullicars would be likely to organize the House if they earri- ed all the Members from Connecticut, it was the common interest of all other parties to thw,rt and de.cat such consummation. They were aided ill their efforts by certain disap- pointed suitors for Republican nominations, who did their little worst to defeat the party which had not responded to their aspirations :; but all together proved impotent. The Re publican triumph is as sweeping us could ha ye been desired
 And it has been won by fair argument and well-directed effort. Of money, the Sham De mocracy had and spent several dollars for eve ry one paid by the Republicans. We do not suppose votes, to any extent, were bought on either side :; but the searching industry with which immigrants were hunted up, run down, and put through the Naturalization mill, in or der to secure their votes for the Slave Democ- racy, has had 10 precedent. We believe the Republican majority in the State is Fifteen Hundred less than it would have been had no voters been naturalizcd expressly for this cleo tion. ..
 Senator Douglas was fairly drsgooned into the service of the defeated party. Every ef fort to induce him to stump the State in favor of the Shams having proved fruit|ess, he was at last ilducrd to wrtea letter to aid them in the canvass, of which extracts only were pub lishtd and useJ-as follows
 We have looked for the published extracts from MT. Douglass letter without success :;
 ut their purport was reaffirnation of his doctrine of non-intervention by Congress with the subject of Slavery in the Territories, and declaration that, understanding the Demoe- rocy .f Connecticut to De moao stunding om this platform, he heartily wished their success
 Just consider the facts: Senator Doug las has recently passed through most embit- tered Congressional contest, in behalf of what he considers Popular Sovereignty. In that contest, he met no more determined antago- Lists than Secretary Toucey, who heads the sham Democracy of Connecticut, and William D. Bishop and Samuel Arnold, its Representa- tives in Congress. The Lecompton Fraud had l'o more untiring, unshrinking, interruptions supporters than just these. MT. Douglas had no more unrclenting antagonist through all his last struggle fur Popular Sovereignty" Yet he now gives the weight of his name to defeat those who fought that battle by his side and reelect those who fought it against him, and who have given no sign of repentance. This is mistake as we'll as fault, and we think MT. Douglas will live to perceive if not to ac- knowledge it.
 So far as we are aware, no personal acri mony mingled in the late contest on the Re publican side. Mcssrs. Bishop and Arnold were fought determnedly, but wholly on po- i'tlcal grounds. Their votes and avowals of political sentiment were challenged, but not thelr private chafactcr--their personal worth. They were tried aud condemned as misguided politicians, not as unworthy men. And we do not remember to have observed non-political imputation upon any of the Democratic candi- dates for Congress or State Officers.
 :. --One of the most gratifying features of the late canvass was the hearty adhesion of the Republicans to the FREEDOM OF THE PUBLIC LANDS, or the policy of so holding and dispo- sing of those lands as to increase the number of American freeholders and cultivators rather than to pour the largest possible stream of revenue into the Treasury. Connecticut is one of the Old Thirteen, and made a large cession to the Confederacy of her chartered right to Public Lands beyond her present lm- it's, for the benefit of all the States. Mole eyed selishness would naturally urge that it was her interest to vote and legislate so as to pour the largest possible stream of income therefrom into the Federal Treasury. Yet the Republican canvassers very generally avowed and justified their adhesion to the Free Homestead policy, arguing that this policy subserved the true interest not only of the country, but of their own State-that it was better for Connecticut, as manufacturing State, that freeho!ds, customers, consumers, should be multiplied and extended, than that Two or Three Millions more or less per annum should flow into the Federal Treasury. As a practical barrier to the Extension of Slavery. as prontrng hope and a career to the victims oI inalgence and misfortune, as means of genune National growth and expansion, the Free homestead policy was proved emineptIy wlse and beniicent, and the popular heart warmed to it by an unerripg instinct. We he. ileve that the Republicans of Connecti- cut stand better in the vote than they would have done had not the Republicans in Con gress last Winter rallied, almost to . man in support of the Homstead bill.
 Finally, the victory of the Republicans of Connecticut is fresh testimonial to inc no. tency of Heart and Work. They were tho roughly in earnest, from the mechanic at his k.snols &Au Ea .hszL L;a.l-.-