The weekly sun., 1862-02-22
CoHneetirut PoIlries.

The DemCcfa.is Convention yh.cl al3.fn' 7 A
In Middlesovn, Connecticut on Tnosdsy Last,
closed lie labors by nominating ticket for
Governor and State officers for the election In
Aprl next Mr.. JANIS LOOMS Of Bridge
port, was nominated for Governor, and Mr..
CHARLts PoND, a. Lieutenant. @ overnor.
There is already another ticket in the held,
which was nominated by a union Of partisa, in
January last. The Union ticket was ratified
by q regularly organized Democratic Conven
ton, whose action was endorsed at the time, by
DAS1EL s. DicKNsoS, and In favor Of which,
he cAnvaesed tho State. 1t ia significant, that
the pre- sent Convention, though calling itsSk
Democratic, IL in oprosition 70 the first one. II
apPesrs to have been compos mainly Of mem.
bers of the old DREcKiSErDGE party, ard Of
members who sympathizo with tho Infamous
PEACE" resolutions introduced by Ex Cover.
nor SpYM1rR, at the extra session oft Logh-
laturc, last fall.
The ,cri.s Of resolutions adopted by the Mid
dletown Convention are professsdly loyal. They
decIar, h.t the triumph If the old Democ attic
party offers the onlv reasonable hopo Of awaking
the dora ant Union feeling Of the South invite
lcs dorounee the efforts Of Aboli ionists and
Sccefsionists TO destroy tho Unicn, and weakon
conGderce u tie rrcsiion, and General Nc
Clclldr, because they arc resolved 60 act conBti-
nationally; censu-u the Republicans for rejsct
ing compromise vi b the South oppose thu .
gal tetder cl .nse Of tho fltncial bill; pledge
themselves to repeal the ojiou' state military
law and finally censure the corruption Of gov
.rnment cont ctor., aud the suspension Of tpo
h1Jeds corpus by the Prosiaent.
Ttsso resolutions are q ute fair upon their
face and certainly the suhj cts on which thcy
treat admit Of an honest difference OF oyin'on.
But the ugly fac, romains, shat the mon who
put them forth have not a cean record, and
have not spoken one hearty word Of commenda-
tion for the cause in which so many thouan+s
Of thor countrymen are psriing their lives.
Mr.. EAroN, Of Hartford, the chief concoc'er Of
the affair, has made himself notorious for his
secession ptocliyites bul lattehy has IN ,nagsd
TO keep them in suhjsction, in dcf1rsneo 10 the
prevailing loyalty of lis state. TIe is a dis
appoin, Cd candidate for the United Statos S m
ate, and has still some ambition to r'so on the
u Cpinost wave OF pDpulf febcuon hRanht t1e
interruptions policy OF the extreme Rspabli-
cans Bu h. and others little understand 'ho
people, who ina agine that they are not droad.
| fuly in earnest IN tbia war, or that they will
| tolerate men who are not unaltcrably Opposed
| to their ccun'r, ruin. Other prominent
memtor, OF the Convention arc a. little on,i'lod
| o. cotfdorco for their LOYALTY ~ Mr.. EAroS.
a circu stance occurr.I tir.nt 'hr ri,tiag
Of tho Convention that fully ,ilp rs'c' ''p son.
| timoris a. The memhers, and Will lot 80 withou
e. u't. ppo IN the voters Ct Connoc,icu'.- -
r.r.E tho afternoon fcssiIn, the report q
Gcuofll BuHSsIDEs victory urayol, and Wa
banded 10 svorh gentlemen on tho platform
with th, request 10 announce tho joyful ne v
10 tho & uvontion. Thoy declined 10 do il
ItwlI b..ndod to the President, Mr.. GGEEs
KESrnl, X, of Waterbury, but he also rofas.
to rgnd t.. The fact that tho s. tory oceufre
| IN tho ra'ivo S.n,s OF the "fesI 'nnt, may h
u sur- ci,u, .,ason for h,s reSa rdng it with d
hvor without any imputa'ion on his loyalty
may bc true, but al the a. lor members Of th
Connecticut Dsmocratic Convention have TO
this pal.ry excuse.