New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-04-06
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.

Correspondents Of The N. Y. Tribune.
WASHINGTON, April 4, 1864.
The Connecticut cleo ION is regarded here as sat
isisetory, Notwithstanding the diminished maj ,rity.
1t was feared that the money Of the New York
brokers, and traders in slaves, cotton, sugar, and
dry goods, cooperating with the timdiEy and appre
hensiop and .elfshDets of the numerous small man
ufac!uIinE interests diffused tbrougbon. the prnsi
pal towns, would prove an oVeImatch for the rura
d.tricts of the State That they did not ia source
Of great encour segment. 10 State Offers such q
field for the tactics of the reaci0nsts of our day az
Connecticut. It's larger towns aud villages, the
seats of trade aud mechanic arts, finding the chief
markets for their various in the gigantic Pro-
Slavery capital, New.YOrk City, and in the slave
boloiDg States, would naturally be shaken to the
center by threats of the humiliation Of their bus
mesa interests and connections, such as have been
Illuminated throughout the campaign. 1t is well
understood that the numerous large manufacturing
towns especially in the Western half of the State,
are mere appendices of New-York City. New
York capital animates them; Eew-YOrk mer-
chants reside in them; New-YOrk Jews do their
ciers, and capitalists are their candidates
for Office, New York City influences, in
a word, dfuse Themselves through them aud cover
them Ike a garment. These influences are gross,
material sensual and devilish. They are q COM
pound of blind narrOw-minded conservatism, of
snObbism, Of UIiah beepism, of pretentiOus, soul
less, swelling, money aristOcracy. Not one spatk
of generous sentiment, not glimmer OF lofty con-
yiction, not q suggestion that fayOrs the hope OF
lettering the cOndIfiOn of humanity ever pene-
trated the dense and leaden sphere of those ntiu-
eRees. Spreading out from their center, throwing
their cancerOus roots into the surrounding pOpula-
tiOns, they infect them with virus that would be
fatal but for the cOunteracting forces arising d.
rcstly from the soil whence springs American De-
mocracy. The cities are the sores. the country
Che healthy parts of our political system. The in
fiuenees Of wealth. Of gain, of purse-prOud aris-
tOeraey have wholly dominated in the One, while the
democratic sentiment has always fourished in the
other.
II is worthy Of remark that the old Wing party
siRays used to beat in the cities an big towns;
Dat The rural districts, the country towns, always
turned up Democratic, and were always too much
forihem We may zee parallel results now. Since
the Democratic party turned prO-Slayery and anti
democratic, 1T Is following the footsteps OF the
WINS party. The people Of the country have de-
serted its banners, and he cities and large towns.
where mercenary associations prevail are found in
Us support ms ~ one Of The strongest evidences
of the perEna nent declne Of the Democratic party
in the 4 zee States:
In the fluctuations of our politics we are at last
coming 10 natural division Of perties The great
conservative Interests of trade, commerce. and
Slavery, hitherto unnatGraly sepasxted in our DO.
Iitcal divisions, are now jcining hand in common
cause. We are thus hayigg the ATiGtocrate ele-
ments of our political society ptted against the
Democratic. We are having the Few sgainst the
Many. The Aristocracy Of the country against the
People Of the country. The attempted Rssetion
against Reconsideration IA taking this form. it has
assumed il distinctly in Connecticut. We have tho
shareholders of the South in leagie with the yich
Jews and other mOney-lenders of New.York CibS
with the WinslOws and Shermans; and we have the
great dry-gOods and other commercial houses, the
Bouses in the saye-trade, and in the sugar and cot
Ton trade, cooperating with the same interests, and
together pouring out their money like water to cor