The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1862-04-18
Letter from Connecticut.
NEW BRITAIN, CONN., }
April s, 1862. !
To the Editor Of The Caledonian


To the Editor of The Caledonian:
Give US joy, Caledonian, for we, here In
Connecticut, have achieved another victory
over the secesh! When you put it down to
our shame that there are in our midst so ma
ny apologizers for the traitors, remember, al
SO, to our credit, that splendid vote of yester-
day. A majority of 5000 for our patriotic
Governor Buckingham, clean sweep OF the
state Senate, and not much more than cor
porals guard of the secesh returned to the
House, looks like the dawn of a better day
for this last stronghold of pro-slavery in the
North. We are not ashamed now to confess
that the rebels have, here in the old state of
Connecticut, allies in heart who deserve the
ropes end quite as much as JEFF Davis HIM
self. We who, in the presence of Green
Mountain men and scenery, learned to love
liberty, and to estimate at their proper value
the inalienable rights of man, have felt this
stain of secession on the otherwise fair fame
of our state reputation, with perhaps more
keenness than We else should have DONE
But the day of redemption has come! We
are proud of the state of our adoption. With
thirteen regiments of infantry, besides caval-
ry, artillery, and seamen, in the field and on
the sea, and the ,alor of her sons established
in many bloody fight, she cannot be &C
cused of neglecting her duties to the Union.
And now, to all this, the vote of yesterday
administered a singing rebuke to those plot
tiers of secret treason who have been faunt-
ing in the free air of New England their era
ven white aags-tokens of sympathy with
rebellion, and Of submission to the uttermost
demands of the slaveholding confederacy.
The vote of yesterdays significant in more
respects than one. The rump of democracy
in the North, LETT out in the cold by the de-
sertion of their southern masters, have been
trying, with all their cunning, to hit upon
some plan to regain their lost ascendency in
the councils of the nation. Of course, a
scheme of compromise was the extent of their
craftiness. The plan had succeeded well
heretofore, and they hoped it would again
Their project was: to put the North into an
attitude of entreaty towards the rebeilious
states; to offer new guarantees for the per-
petuity and spread of slavery; to observe the
greatest diligence in the prevention of the
escape of fugitives from rebel masters; and
so placate those who had taken up arms a.
gainst the Union as to gently soothe their
wounded feelings and induce them lovingly
to resume their old position, whip in hand, as
overseers of Congress and the nation. Until
within very short time this faction of COM
promisers pretended that the presid INT, Gen
eral Mcclellan, and various other officials
were in sympathy with their views. On this
footing the democracy of this state went into
the late election. They pretended TO endorse
the president, and were only anxious that the
war should not become an abolition crusade.
But the mask was too transparent to delude
any but the bigoteG adherents of the demo-
crazy, who are, generally, as they read only
the vilest democratic newspapers, the most
easily duped members of community. Not
withstandirg the republicans Rave sent to the
war large majority over their opponents.
they have increased their majority for gov
ernor in the state, at least three thousand
This is a timely rebuke, and as such cannot
fail TO be felt. 1t will prove TO the plotters
that the great mass of the people are not TO
be baftied in their endeavor TO put down the
rebellion, and TO put it down. too, in such a
manner that it never can come TO life again.
The prime cause Of the rebellion is now
doomed to destruction, provided only, that il
be not bolstered up for season BY govern
ment aid and new guarantees When We
have put down the rebels in arms, slavery. as
a profitable fact, will have pretty much ceas-
ed. and large majority Of Connecticut vo-
tiers seem to understand it so. This single
fact precludes the necessity, were even the
wisdom conceded, of an abolition crusade.
The "logic of events" is doubtless advancing
the cause of emancipation quite as rapidly as
is desirable. either for the slaves or for the
country. Let events in their progress deal
with it as they are doing. Only let US re-
eognize this fact: that emancipation is de-
creed. II riN more on, and whatever men
or parties stand in IFS way il viii grind them
to powder. BE sure the republicans of Con-
neeticut understand this fact. and mean 70
act upon it; and let US all thank God that
the president likewise, and a majority in
Congress, seem to apprehend the same sig
nificant truth.
Yours as atoretime, Sd. X.