The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-27
POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Jno. s. Caskie, and the earnest advocates of harmony, the
calling of a district convention TO meet at Richmond on
the lith of April neAt. AEFWWNnAW
The democrats Of Upper Fauquier county. virginia,
have adopted the following resolution
RSdued, That we recognise The Hon. William Smith
as the candidate of the democratic party for Congress in
this district, and that we will use all honorable means 10
secure his reelection.
The New Haven Conn Register bears the following
tribute to the worth of Mr.. Hyde, the democratic candi-
date for Congress from tho first district Of that State
a The democrats of the first congressional district owe
1t TO themselves, as well as to the State, to give Mr..
Hyde a triumphant support. lie is just the kind of a
man TO make am effective and useful member OF Congress,
Industrious, able, practical, and of more than ordi-
nary legislative experience, for his age, he will carry with
him to the national councils q reputation for his business
habits and sound political principles that has made him
one of the most popular young men in the State. We
believe he will DO elected. He certainly can be with an
effort worthy of his political friends
The Hartford Conn Daily Times, exposing the cor
ruptions of the black republican party publishes the
proof that during the Presidential election in 1856 the
name of Rev. James Hughes, ". g., of st. Patrick's
Church, was forged by them to a letter setting forth that
to secure the best interest of the Catholic Church it was
necessary that John C. Fremont should be elected Presi-
dent. The same paper adds:
''The c~orruptions of the moral party of black-rc-
publicanism in New Hampshire, as exposed in the article
NIi~l w y W. hptNh hoIn lk T. ID
Patriot, are paralleled by the course of the same party
here in CONGRATULATIONS the Catholic forgery case,
with its rum, accompaniment, exposed in our paper Of to-
day! The Nack-rqnMtcoa party is corrupt and dishonest.
The facts prove it. In this it is the same party every
where!''
The Richmond Enquirer of the 26th says:
After the 9th of April, the discussions between Mr..
fletcher and MIR. Goggin cease, and Mr.. Goggin begins
his canvass in the East at Charlottesville, April 18th.
We believe we express the desire of the party when we
request Mr.. Montague to escort Mr.. Goggin through the
East, and to introduce him to that people he is so anx-
ious to see, that he cannot afford to waste time and clio
quence upon the mantainpers of the West. Mr.. Montague
will be expected to be at Charlottesville, and to accept
for Mr.. Letcher the invitation to discussion.
"Mr. Wiley is expected to attend Mr.. Letcher, and it
is nothing but ~propriety and politeness for Mr.. Montague
to shoD Mr.. Goggin around the East"
The Richmond (va) Index thus speaks of the guber-
material contest
Several Of our most intelligent and cool headed friends
in the southwest inform us that Mr.. Letcher has gained
very considerably by his visit TO that section. He has
brought into his support the hesitating and wavering
democrat, aroused the lukewarm to active exertion, and
awakened a general spirit of enthusiasm in his party. Mr..
Goggin, it is admitted, gives general satisfaction TO his
political friends, but then it must be rccollccted that he
labors under the disadvantage OF having a comparatively
small number of them in the southwestern counties. He
will be beaten in Little Tennessee by thousands upon
thousands, as we are assured by our sagacious and I'M
excited friends. -
- luc lbIiI NlHlDcl h1Rub tuu5 bpcukk Oh IA ue-
mocracy of Yarmouth
I" The election in Yarmouth, this year. was warmly
contested and the most gratifying in its results that has
ever occurred in that town. Never before have our friends
there elected their board of officers. This year the entire
list, from beginning to end, is democratic to the back
bone. We have before given the names of all the per-
sons elected save Barnabas Freeman, town agent, and DR..
Bates, supervisor of schools.
g More than sixty years ago, when Yarmouth was
composed Of what is now Cumberland, Yarmouth and
nrf Nuru1ntrfh IN cnp npr a. nrca,, u
zation with only eleven voters. They have worked
steadily and manfuily onward until this year, they, for
the first time, carried the town in a spring election. All
honor to the democracy of Old Yarmouth !"
The Hartford Conn } Daily Post thus speaks of Hon.
VIM. ID. Bishop, the democratic candidate for collection
to Congress from the fourth district Of that State
't1he nominee of the fourth district is deservedly pop
ular with his constituency. We know of no young man
whom the democracy of the State generally would more
delight to sec honored by a triumphant return to the
halls of Congress than Mr.. Bishop and no one who
would confer more credit on the position. He is in his
district what Thomas II. Seymour is to the State of Con-
necticut universally beloved and respected. Added to
his personal popularity, in his congressional career he has
added another laurel to his fame politically. Though a
young member, yet by a bold and answering course,
never faltering in action, always being found at his post,
a manly and dignifed bearing in debate, unquestionable
talent and ability, and an untring energy and persever-
ance, he has won for himself golden opinions among our
congressional veterans. Connecticut may well feel a thrill
of admiration for its young member of the fourth district,
and the democracy of Litchfield and Fairfield counties
may be proud of his name and fame.
"But personal popularity and the recommendation of
the press alone will not elect him. His friends in that
district have a work to perform the advocates of his OPP
ponent are leaving no stone unturned to work his defeat.
The warfare should be contested inch by inch not a vote
should be lost and every democrat should take it upon
himself individually to render all the aid in his power for
his re- election. y
In reply to a letter calling upon him for an expression
of opinion upon the Virginia election, Governor Wise
said
"For reasons improper for discussion by nfe now / was
opposed to his Ietchers) nomination. But, as we'll be-
fore as after the nomination, and always, i was resolved
to support it, if made, and recommended that course to
all my friends, in the event Mr.. Letcher should be fairly,
committed to the democratic principles ever cherished by
Virginia, and to her true internal policy. Understand
ing that he is thus fully committed, and that he is now
manfully contending for the faith as it was handed down
to us by Jefferson and Madison, without the corruption Of
public works of the Commonwealth, to develop her re-
sources and her power, ] shall give him all the support of
my vote and influence.
AZ do this for the sake of the democratic party. 1t has
nominated Mr.. Letcher, and no slight canse--no merely
personal notwithstanding indeed, short of a vital
issue of policy or Of morals, should cause any one, or
shall cause me, to withhold support from the democratic
nominee in the present state of parties and of opinions in
the country. Democracy is the only hope of sound con-
servatisn left, and its hopes are gone If its prestige be
destroyed in Virginia, the very Gibraltar of the true re-
publican faith.
81 know that my enemies have actively circulated the
rumor that j am opposed to Mr.. Letcher's election.
Their calculation is very obvious that if he lis elected,
his election may seem to demonstrate the weakness Of
my opposition and that, if he is defeated, the blame of
his defeat may be thrown upon me and my friends, But,
in splte of this iutrlOle and false ClamOr elected or de-