The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1863-04-22
The Election i'm COnnecficut---
How It Was Carricd--Disgraee-
fui Conduct of the Administra.
ti0n Party.

How Ef Was Carricd--DiSgrae ra ee-
ful Conduct of the Administra.
ti0n Party.
The New York Express of the 9th
inst, had letter from New Haven,
| Connecticut, date1 the day before the
election. We make the following ex.
tracts from it;
"That money, green backs, are be-
ing used as they never before were used
in any election. The Government
contractors of this State--and this
State has more than any other-have
been peremptorily ordered and threat
ened, from Washington, to use all their
power and influence for Buckingham,
failing in which, they have been plain
ly told they will not be paid promptly
and will be deprived of other contracts
and jobs. Thus, in Hartford, they
have brought into the political field the
head man there of Sharpe's rifles es,
tablishment, who now turns up Gre
publican' though some time after the
secession of South Carolina he was in
Milledgeville, Georgia, selling Sharpe's
rifles to the Confederates there, which
were used at the first Bull Run by a
Georgia regiment against Connecticut
soldiers. Connecticut, as | have be-
fore said, is full of contractors, large
and small, for all the materials of war,
from cartridge>boxes and percussion
caps up to heavy cannon, and the con-
sequence is that the Connecticut man-
ufactures were never SO hourishing.-
The Naugatuck Valley, for example,
seemed never to be doing 50 well.
"Another reason for doubt is, that
about every available Republican SOL
dier on the Rappahannock, on the low
er James River, has been sent here,
and reached home within the four days
past, while the Democrats have been
kept back in the ranks. 1t is estima-
ted that from $500 to 5000 soldiers
have been sent into the State within
four daps. Not all of them are what
they pretend to be, 'Republicans,' as
some of them pretended thus to be, in
order to get home, but the fact is,
about every thing known as 'Republi-
can has been sent home, while the un-
fortunate Democrats are kept to do
double and treble picket duty in their
absence here to vote. This has been
the work of the political Generals in
Washington, by suggestion and request
from Connecticut and New York No,
so atrocious an act was ever before
upon the electors, or upon
the cause efliberty, but it can not be
helped.
II think I never before seen, or
heard of such atrocious interference
with a State, and the rights of State
(save in Missouri, as we seen in all
parts of Connecticut. Contractors,
under fright about their contracts,
have turned off their workmen, when
Democrats, with cruelty hitherto un-
known in this, a Republican country,
and their bosses often do not hesitate
to say, we do so, because you do not
the Government which sup
ports us, meaning, which gives us
Jobs, &c. In Rockville, Willimantic,
and the like manufacturing places, this
severity of conduct has bred the worst
sort of feeling between the employers
and the employed, and when the ems
ployed are thus dependant upon their
for bread, they are no better
of than slaves
Is itpossible to adequately describe
such conduct as it deserves?.
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