The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-28
Connecticut-tho Dubious.

From the Tribune
There is an omnbus-load Of antique pollti-
clans in Connecticut who, having ridden TO
death the parties wherewith they were formerly
connected attached themselves to the Republi-
can organization precisely as a man overheard
clutches the first plank that he can reach. He
had no particular liking for that plank; but he
had very particular dislike to being without
enc. So these men, hating or hated by the
sham Democracy, went where they were most
likely to be welcomed and provided for; and
they vindicated their sagacity by 50 doing.
They were not at heart anti slavery, but they
1Dere anti-Dothingto eat; and they went where
they shrewdly calculated that they would be
likely to fare best.
Some OF these are now hesitating and doubt
ing and considering whether II is or Is not best
for them to conquer their prejudices and go
square over to the sham Democracy; and, as
they will naturally like to know our opinion in
the premises, we advise them frankly to go. II
you do not profoundly loathe the enslayement,
the oppression, the degradation OF man by his
fellow-man--it you do not mean to persevere in
the great struggle for equal human rights against
whatever debases or deforms the image of God =
if you do not profoundly realize that
Freedoms battle. once begun,
Bequeathed from bleeding sire TO son,
Though bafiled oft, Is ever won,"
YOU will be apt to ind more congenial society in
the ranks of the Toucey and Tom Seymour De-
mocracy than in those of the party at whose
AS to all talk of third parties and middle
courses, you are too old birds to be caught with
such chaf. There Is and will be one great party
which looks for success and ascendancy to the
Rebels for an ally and the negroes as a subject
and victim-which builds its hopes on preiu
dice and caste, and the vile instinct which makes
every bad man the natural ally and champion of
every gigantic wrong every wicked oppression
that does not threaten to make hifl its victims
and that party naturally controls about 48 per
cent Of the legal vote OF your State If, now,
enabling 1t to triumph in the State and elect
Touoey, or Seymour or Eaton, to the seat OF
Senator Foster, you will be fairly entitled to a
fair share OF consideration and spoils; and
judging by past experience, you may be safely
trusted TO get at least your own. If you are
ever going over, there is not likely to be in
twenty years better chance for doing it to
some purpose and being paid accordingly, than
Just now.
The party of liberty and progress, however
named, is always sloughing of effete matter
1t Is sign OF health and growth that 1t does
so. In the autumn of 1862, the sham Democ-
racy boasted that it carried Connecticut in
the town elections, and probably did so. IL
could have carried the State the next spring
with any one but 7. Fl. Seymour, Toucey, or
Eaton, as its candidate for Governor. And
all fear of the drait being dispelled-it Is now
naturalizing Irishmen by wholesale and receiv-
ing back some voters who fled to evade con-
b, scription. Now, then, is the time for all that
is false, and hollow, and venal, to combine to
throw the State into the hands of the party
which was at heart with the Rebellion through
out-one OF whose editors lied into Dixie soon
after Bull Run, in order to share the counsels
and the fortunes of the Shareholders Conede-
racy. All of like principle, but less devotion to
1t, whom he left behind, ARE now doing their very
utmost to elect the Democratic ticket; and, If
there be any left III the Experimentation party
vino delight in such company, we exhort them
to go straight over at once. There will be
enough left, we trust, to elect General Hawley
and the entire Union ticket by moderate but
decisive majority. But through whatever for
tune may befall it, that party, abating no iot of
heart or hope, will move right on, for universal
Justice and universal ireeeom.