The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-04-04


confessed the crime before the Judge Of the Supreme
Judicial Court at Lowell, who, without en-
panelling q jury, received the confession and
deciding the prisoner guilty sentenced him to
be hung. Governor Andrew refused TO sign the
death warrant Illegal there having been trial by
jury. The case went from time to time until Gov
ernor Andrew succeeded by the present Governor
Bullock who at signed the death Of Green
Thereupon the Ex-Governor, who had become interested
In the question at issue, sued out writ Of be-
half OF Green, which presented and argued In the
Supreme Court the 9th utmo Yesterday Chief
Justice Bgeow rendered his decision, sustaining the
original sentence and ordering the execution to take
place. Green is to be hung the 18th inst.
The Connecticut Election-A Hint to the
Pennsylvania Democracy.
In the late Connecticut election the republic
cans have had narrow escape from disas-
trous defeat They have been saved by their
candidate for Governor, one of the most meri-
torious Union volunteer soldiers, and by the
popular odium which still attaches to the demo-
cratic party from its rebel and copperhead
peace affiliations during the war. The rebel
lion has been suppressed, peace is restored,
the new issues of reconstruction of the Union
on the basis of the abolition of slavery and
the supremacy of the national government are
upon us, but still the all-absorbing issue of the
war marks the dividing line between the two
political parties of the North
That great body of the people devoted to
the war for the Union, after all their sacrifices
of blood and treasure to save the life of the
nation, cannot at once accept in confidence the
new professions of party identified with all
the obnoxious Northern peace movements and
combinations and conspirac'es of our sanguln-
airy sectional struggle, though now among the
things of the past. 1t takes time for the public
mind throughout the country to accommodate
itself to the new condition of thincs. The en-
Uttered party feelings of bloody civi. war
do not always disappear with the generation
living at the time of treaty of peace. The
old federal peace party o. 1872 never recov-
cred from its opposition to that war, but gradu-
ally went the way of dissolution, and for n
generation after it was buried it was siirma
upon any man to be proclaimed as relic Of
the Hartford Convention. The same popular
odium attaches to the party Of the Chicago
Democratic Convention, which, with Grant
investing Richmond and with Sherman at
Atlanta, pronounced the war for the Union q
failure. Against this obnoxious record the
Northern democratic party has still to contend,
because the new issues of peace and reunion
have not yet obli;erated the deeply marked
dividing party lines of the war.
But the Connecticut election shows that
reaction in the public mind from those old
issues Of the past to the living questions of the
day has commenced. Last year the democratic
candidate for Governor, peace copperhead,
was defeated in Connecticut by majority
against him of eleven thousand. This year
the democratic candidate in that State, with
the an'ecedents Of conservative Union war
man, including his support in Congress of the
constitutional amendment abolishing slavery,
and standing without reservation In support
Of President Johnson's Union measures, comes
within few hundred votes of an election, not
withssanding the odious ccpperncad snlliations
of the democratic party. We see in this result
the popularity of President Johnson's policy
and the wisdom of the democracy in utterly
regulating their comprehend leaders and here
sizes which since 1862 had resulted in nothing
but disasters to their party from Maine to Cali
fornia.
Here is hint which ought not 10 be lost
upon the democracy Of Pennsylvania. They
have set up as their candidate for Governor in
their next October election Mr.. Hester City,
mer against q leading Union general, last from
Sherm,n's army. And who is this Mr.. ClYmcrf
A politician Of Berks county, only dstin-
guished in the late struggle of life or death
with the rebellion as a copperhead Of the hn-
manitarian school Of vallandigham. This is
just as Forney, the "dead duck" Of Washing
ton, would have the battle shaped In Pennsyl-
vania. 1t could not be better adapted to his
game of an election Of Forncy to the United
States Senate. Hester Clymer, in tact, though
he may suit such old party fossils as Buchanan
and Black, is a great mistake. But he is
mistake which may be readily repaired. tthe
Pennsylvania democracy meet in another State
Convention, and, setting aside Clymer, let them
put up thorough-going Johnson Union man,
through the war and since the pcace-such a
man, for instance, as Senator Cowan-and they
cannot fail TO rcvolutionze the old Keystone
State in October.
The Connecticut election marks the begin
ming of the turn in the popular tide. BY Oc'o-
Der next II will come in like the mighty volume
Of the Bay of Fundy, IL the democrats mean
time, will only remove from the channel all the
copperhead rubbish that blocks It up. In
word, the old democratic party of the Chicago
Convention ought to be abolished and dis
banded, for then its elements, rallying around
the administration, under o new name, new
principles and new leaders, may sweep the
country, North and South, in the great battle
aca,:sst the radicals for the Presidential success
sion.
The UNION REsroRED-A DAY OF NATIONAL
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