Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1867-04-24
What Southern Paper thinks Of the De-
mocracy and the Connecticut Election.

The election In Connectlcut Is straw
(which suggests that the Radical wave has
begun TO cub. Let US not run a"ay.it is
only ripple last year the Republican
candidate for Governor was elected by 500
| majority; this year the Democratic or Con
servative candidate is elected by 500 major
| ity-a change of 500 votes. This is the
whole business. The Democratic party also
took ground during the canvass III favor OF
| the eight hour" system OF labor, and OF
course made strong appeal to the working
classes.
The telegraph brings US the results stimuli
| taneously with those of the Connecticut
election, of municipal elections in Cincin
natl and Circleville, Ohio. The former city
carried by the Republicans by 5000 major
ity, their entire ticket being elected-a Re
| publican gain of / 200. The latter town
was also carried by the Republicans, and it
is added that this party gained largely Oh
the previous election.
What we would say, therefore, is this
! Let not the South, as usual, fly off at the
helve about the Connecticut election; let us
not fall back again an hope upon the Dem
ocratc party" We hare suffered sufficient
| ly by deluSionS Of this sort totthtn the past
tloO gears.
The Connecticut election is good thing
provided the Conservative men of the coun-
| try, North and South, learn the proper les
son from it. 1t is a very bad thing, If 1t
leads us anew into the bog of the North
ern Democracy Neither the Democratic
party, nor President johnson, nor the Su-
| preme Court, is going to be of any service
to the South. As matters now stand, the
North and the South are arrayed against
each other just as they were during actual
hostilities: The North is still using its
l. j l. Il,
body OF its PROSTATE foe. Why Is this =?
There is a philosophical reason for it-apart
from the mere passion and violence of the
hour Why has the North been SO rough
with the South-why has it put the ballot
in the hands Of our recently y,emanclpated
slaves? The reason was fear-they fear the
future. They fear the old Democratic par
ty-and the old alliance between this party
and a united South.
The Northern people have determined to
secure the practical fruits Of their decisive
victory; and they kmo1o the rebellion IS not
orer so long as the Northern Democracy as
| mdispersed. If there is one thing that is
hated by the Northern people now, it is
what they call the ''Copperhead Democra-
cy. Now, the Northern Democrats want
to get into power as a party again; and they
find the Southern question a fine election
eering capital. They are perfectly willing
to take our part until the matter comes to
blows. They backed US up manfuly until
April, 1861. They pressed US to go out
Butler led them on to the charge at Charles
ton tifty-seven times in behalf of Jefferson
| Davis. But when actual war came they
shot Us powerfully-and used to brag that
they furnished all the soldiers to the III
MON" armies.
Since Gen. Lees surrender they have be-
| "
have habitually observed that oar friends
north Of the Potomac take q aodrmer inter
est IN orr honor than zee do ourselves. We
thank the northern Democracy for a certain
measure of sympathy, but our experience
In life has taught us that selfinterest is the
great spring of human action. The North
ern Democracy have use for us In peace,
they have none in war. They talk. about
the Constitution, and violation Of the Con
stltutlon, and usurpation, and tyranny, and
| consolidation; but they never fight, except
against tie Constitution and tor conSolida
ton. They set us up to receive the whole
fury of the storm they have, after repeal
ing the Missouri Compromise, and sustain
ing the Administration of Mr.. Buchanan,
brought US to universal negro suffrage
Since the close Of the war they have stood
forward again as our champions S, and have
merely done us mischief by keeping up old
party lines and party feuds. The other day
they combined with ThaddeJis Stevens and
the extreme Radicals, and defeated tie
Sherman bill as 1t came from the Senate,
and the consequence was we got the Sher-
man bill with the Shellabarger amendment.
: Their object is to make party capital, and
the South is merely ball that is struck at
by the bats of the contending parties 1t
is wounded game for which two fierce beasts
| arn uUnlipo md boo
| ly to pieces by their respective efforts to
snatch the prey-trom each other.
Now, this Connecticut election loosens, as
1t were, the hold of the Radical beast on
on the Southern carcass; it snatches, as it
were, the lacerated body for an instant from
| between the Radical teeth, and the conse-
quence will be that this animal will be alarm
ed and infuriaed, and will seize us again.
Radlcailsm is determined that Democl acy
shall not carry off the prize
we fear that the petty triumph in Con-
nectlcut will revive those easily awakened
democratic hopes, and that we shall hear
Tor the tenth time of the great DEMOCRAT
lc party. TIE result will be the Northern
column viii close up again, the Radical trum-
pets will sound afresh, and the crusade
against the South, lulled for an instant, will
be again set in motion. This will be the
result II the Democracy make any serious
noise. The Republican party cannot be
beaten at the North by the Democratic party.
The latter party is extremely unpopular
among the Northern masses. The victory
In Connecticut is not owing to the strength
of the Democratic party They called them
selves the Conservative party. The vic
tory is owing to the waning popularity of
the Radicals. If new party is organized
and the old prejudices against the Demo-
rxin tAorn h..