Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-04-23
From the Richmond Dispatch, April IL.
Rebel View OF the Connecticut EIec-

The Connecticut election has gone against the
Democrats Gold has fallen on the strength of
the Republican success, obtained no doubt by
bribery. and the hopes which rested on the tri-
umph of Seymour have fallen to the ground. The
Importance of thi. defeat &C the Democracy can
not well be exaggerated; for. il tie result had
been otherwise. the \ northwest would have risen,
the peace party would have been organized a
permanent basis: the next meeting of Congress
would have been followed by summary abroga
ton of of the imperial powers bestowed upon
Lincoln by the Abolition Congress just ended.
and cessation of hostilities might have been
confidently iO0kea upon, AZ OF before The close OF
the present wear Lincoln has succeeded, Con
necteut is lest. and with it goes the hone of an
early peace, based upon party action at the
North. which many entertained.
So be il. Whatever IS. is the best in the long
run. The Yankees may now run the full length
of their tether. and that i all that i necessary
to insure felrful retrbulion of the manifold
wrongs inflicted on the South Had the peace
party" of which Seymour and Vallandisham are
the chiefs. succeeded at this time. many fearful
wars would have been arrested, and the hand OF
the aveuger of blood would have been STAYED
But iustice would have been delrauded: they who
drew the sword would never have felt its edge in
all its keenness. and the nation which in its pride
ana hate heaped outrages so countless and crimes
so heinous upon the heads Of its innocent breh
ren would have returned 10 the blessings of pence
with tut conception of the horrors of war in its
own land. and by its every Preside. IL was not
philanthrophy one, or a large ted sy m al y
for the South. that brought from Nallandigadm
and Seymour those earnest aspirations, those fer
vent entreaties those eloquent appeals for peace,
which the Southern press have lately repub-
lished
Ii was common sense. the far seeing percep
ton of intellects not duled by ianaticsm, Ger
tain looking forward to the wrath TO come-when
the measure of Lincolns enormities shall he full
his power consolidated, his satraps and soldiers
swsrming in every stronghold. city, village and
hamlet in the land his unbridled will inhicting
daily crneltes greater and still greater upon all
those who dare To oppose hIn-when. in word
the bitter fruits Of despJtism being fully ripe the
hour shall strike for people oppressed by intol-
cradle tyranny, but remembering the freedom 50
lately lost 10 rise in their might unaTmed and
unequipped. vet burning with venceful fury. 20
contend against the armed, organized perfectly
drilled and ~killfuy differed legIons OF the op
pressor Then will come. back the poisoned
chalice which the scornful and vainglorious North
commended to the lips of the South Then a
revolution. 6ercer than that watch desoated
France. will begin. to end no man knows where
or how Then the blood of their Slaue Inf cred
Southern brethren, which has been so long CRYING
from the ground for vengeance, will be aD0ea ed
by the sights and sounds of terror, the conhagra-
tonS, massacrees, riots. battles, great and small
which will sweep over the North from one end to
the other Then the Aboltionsts, 50 eager to
provoke war. 50 slow to engage in it, will know
what war is
Hitherto it has been pretty pastme u them.
They have reaped riches, honors, Offices from IT,
Then will il be what thew have made it to Us of
the South; nav, worse, far worse. And when
that frightiul time comes rs come il surely will
the innocent and the guilty must suffer alike
This Is what Vallandigham and Seymour
wished to avert when they pleaded earnestly
for pence. But the divine purpose cannot be
thwarted the penalty of blood outlines must
be paid The election of Buckingham destroys
all chance of a speedy peace-all prospects Of a
pwty which might overturn the Abolition tyranny
through the mild and lawful instrumentaliies of
the ballot boxes.
By their own act the people of the North have
maze Abraham lincoln their despot and thew
must abide the consequences. With the Connect
icut election, passed the best opportunity which
they will ever have of deposng the tyrant and
of restraining his power nv peaceful means.
Nothing IS left but the SAD resource of fierce and
bloody revolution. There i, literally no escape
from the most singuinary civil war that ever dis
graeed the annals of human history. except n
universal acquiescence in absoIui$m. This
would be bv far the best solution of the troubles
in which the North is now involved. and those
still greater which RAPIDLY approaching But
the PEOPLE will not accept such solution The
revolution at the North cannot be averted. 1t i
doomed in the inevitable order of things Ii
may he delayed, but If will "a surely come as sui
ferng follows crime