Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-04-10
CONNECTICUT ELECTION GLORI.
OUs REsULT-REPUBLIC TRI.
rTNTory A Nrr.

OOS NhSCA1-NnTObAAC VEAA.
UMPHANT.
The hardest contested election ever
held in Connecticut, came off on Monday
last. 1t was the last hope of the DEM
ocratic party, and all the appliances,
which patronage and money could bring
to bear upon the people, were resorted
to, but without effect. The most in
fammatory appeals were made to the baser
feelings of human nature, and every
sordid motive held out to influence the
votes of the people. Administration
Democrats, and Douglas Democrats, in
tent only on the defeat of the Republi-
cans, forgot their hostility to each other,
and united in a common raid for the
spoils. "Old Line Wigs and pro-
scriptive "Know Nothings'' sent out their
speakers to aid the cause of Democracy.
And while every faction and fragment
of party had its representatives. On the
stump, certain class of papers were
filled with such arguments as these,
which we take as sample from the
New York Herald The Herald, in a
long and labored article, appealing to
the fears and cupidity of Manufactors,
used this language. 1
"But confidence is not restored to the
South, and aoiU not be, till 1t Is accom-
plished by a revozution at the ballot boc
How is this to be done? Not by the
speeches of Caleb Gushing, nor even of
Mayor Wood, though they may do good
in their way, bit by the three or four
hundred .jobbing houses IN New York. In
schot acays By sending ont their conf
denttat agents, not to make speeches, nor to
make their appearance in public in any
shape or form, bat to visit the manufactures
priOately, and represent to them the com
mon ram that ouoits the industrial IN
tcrests OF Connecticut and Hetrade of Neao
York # the Southern custom, sohich has
so much declined. should be altogether
acithdra,cn, IN consequence of the persist
ence Of the Meso England States IN their
hostility TO the institutions of the South
The jobbipg houses of this city ought to
hold private meeting, and dispatch
their trusty agents to make this appeal
to the pockets, which, if properly urged,
will be stronger than any argument that
can be offered ON the side of fanaticism
There is Democracy in its true colors.
Conscience, judgment. right, duty,
patrotism-allign and appeals made
solely to the sordid love of money in
the wealthy, and that they, through the
power which wealth gives, should crush
out the honest sentiments of the labering
massesl @
The whole argument is this: You,
men of wealth; you, mammoth manu-
facturers, your interest and those of the
STAKEHOLDER is identical. You have the
power to crush out the free spirit of the
laboring men of Connecticut, and bring
them on level with the Southern slaves.
If you do not choose to do this, the job
bers of New York have it in their power
to curtail your trade and lessen your
profits, and they will do SO. You can,
by voting the Democratic ticket, secure
the Southern trade, and thereby increase
your wealth. Through the power of
that party, if successful, laborers every
where will soon be brought to the condi-
ton of slaves, and an oligarchy ofslave-
holders at the South, and of monied
men at the North, will have common
interest and will control the government
for their own selfish ends. .
Such is substantially the private ap-
peals which "the trusty agents sent from
New Y ork were to make to the capital
lists Of Connecticut Not in speeches,
for they were not, as it will be seen, to
make speeches, or even to appear in pub
lie-but secretly and to the manufactur-
ers alone! The speeches and public
demonstrations were, of course, to catch
-
the laborers and here popular sover-
eighty 'and the love of Democracy for the
people" were the themes on these oc-
casions. While the deep plots of the
conspirators were being concocted in Sc
cret, the people were to be deceived into
an Endorsement of the scheme by pop.
ular vote obtained through false preten-
ses! We challenge the history of the
past to produce parallel to the means
resorted to in this contest. But, thanks
to the purity, virtue and wide spread in.
telligence of the people Of that noble
State, the conspiracy failed. In most Of
the manufacturing towns the plan worked
to considerable extent, and the Repub.
licans only carried the Governor and
State ticket by about five hundred ma
jority. But, in the rural districts, where
these degrading appeals were less power
fnl, the people were true to their integ
rity, and the result is, the Republicans
have returned majority of seven in the
Senate, where they only had five las
year; and in the House of Representa-
tives they have a majority of .Jyty-nine
where they only had seventee,s before
The victory of the people over wealth
and power, and secret intrigue, is com
plete. And now, that the leaders art
unmasked, the State will roll up major
ity in the Presidential election that viii
settle for all time to come the fate of ;