The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-04-02

rates etea0y.
The Connecticut Election.
The Connections election of yesterday, for
members of Congress, State officers, &c, ap-
pears to have gone for the republicans by de-
fault.
The opposition elements, fighting under the
obsolete flag of the demoralized, disrupted and
0isbanded democracy, have made q sorry show
of resistance. We dare say that hundreds of
conservative men of democratic antecedents,
approaching the folly Of parading to the music
of the democratic party, when that party is de-
iunct and decomposed, took no part in this
election. On the other hand, the administra-
ton at Washington has been particularly eau
tious in avoiding any proceeding in regard
to the spoils, and every measure OF public
policy, calculated to dampen the ardor of the
spoils republicans in the work of this Con-
uecricut contest. The federal Offices in said
State have been held in allegiance, and the
evacuation of Fort Sumter has been delay ed for
tear Of the consequences to the pirty 10 this
election of more decided policy in either
case. Doubtless, too, the appointment OF Mr..
Gideon Welles as a member Of Mr.. Llncolns
Cabinet was made not because of the superior
qualifications Of the man for the place, but
because, a. q Connecticut man, his appointment
woulo be apt to turn on election day to the
advantage OF ire administration aud its party.
Connecticut, of all the New England
States, tas heretofore been most stoutly con-
t-sieo by the opposition to the old wing party
and the present anti-slavery coalition of the
| NJ nth. The State lies sufficiently near the
great conservative city of New York to feel
somewhat the pressure of its public opinion,
and il Sufficiently interested in a Southern
market for Northern manufactures to compre-
bend the value of the Union. But the Union
| clements Of Connecticut, and Of every other
state, North and South, are nov all at sea
Thus, while the republicans, in the admins
,ra,ion and in the Congress at Washington,
have that substantial power which the opposi
ton has lost the conservative men of the North
are as yet without organization, without any
fixed or common purpose, and without q pro-
mise of any compromising results to their
labors With half the Southern States out of
the Union. and with the other half drifting
steacily towards Montgomery, Alabama, it was
expecting too much to expect Union revolu-
| ton in Connecticut within q month Of Mr..
| Iincolns Inauguration.
We had very little hope Of Northern re-
action 30 early in the day. The triumph
achieved after forty years agitation on the
part Of our anti-slavery holy alliance is not to
be overthrown in petty skirmish Of little
State election. We had anticipated, however,
from this election, some manifestations OF a
turn in the tide, some cheering evidences Of the
beginning Of q counter revolution, 10 favor of
the reconstruction Of the Union, including the
seeded States. But with the returns before
us this hope vanishes. The day of whole
some Northern Union reaction Is still in the
future. Will il ever Gomez We canuot
answer. We are only sure that the overthrow
Of this ntislavery republican party in the
North must precede any encouraging move.
mens for the restoration Of the Union In the
South. Meantime II 10 probable that this April
triumph Of the republicans In Connecticut will
turn over Virginia to the secessionists In May;
and next, the Convention Of the border slave
States at Frankfort, Kentucky may, from the
same causes, be carried in the same direction.
From all the signs Of the times, including this
Connecticut election, the dscouraging insction
OF Mr.. Lincoln's administration, the disorga-
nized condition of the Union forces Of the
country, and the domineering attitude OF the
republican party, we apprehend that we are
destined to suffer at least four years Of polid-
cal and foancial chaos, and that we are now
only at the threshold Of the terrible and pro-
tracted ananoiAl revulsion which Is before us.