The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-04-04
INC Connecticut Election.

The Connecticut EIectIOhs
The Democratic brethren in this city
are much eIated over the returns from
Connecticut. It is so very long since
even II small crumb of comfort has been
vouchsafed them that they are inclined
to make the most of the close contest
and exceedingly slim margin in Con-
necticut.
We do not begrudge them their tenn
porary citation. We confess TO feeling
no unassuagable sorrow over the sue
cess of such a man as English, who
throughout the war, in his place in Con-
gress, fought vallandigham and the
other copperheads, voted for the aboIi-
ton of slavery in the District OF Column
bia, and likewise for the constitutional
amendment abolishing it throughout
the United States. If the Democracy
OF Wheeling and West Virginia who
would not, few months ago, have
touched such man with very long
pole, are now reduced to the necessity
OF congratulating themselves on his
election, we desire to be informed
where the laugh comes in and at
whose expense? 1t seems to us that
there has been victory inside of the
Democratic party. The copperhead
wing has been obliged to take water.
1t Is to be remembered that such men
"a Frank Blair, not your Yallandig-
hams, stumped Connecticutin favor of
English. Men of good war records,
like the candidate himself
were brought into the foreground,
and such fellows as the Seymours, the
Touceys, and other well known cham
Pions OF so-called democracy, were
kept carefully out OF the contest. Had
they been put forward the chances
would have been hopeless. Success is
due to the fact that the old "dead beats"
were ignored. Democracy of itself is
incapable of winning IA victory any
where in the North. 1t has to paint its
cheeks, dye its hair, discard its clothes,
aud change its name, in order to win
even the semblance OF victory. And
even then see how meagre the majority
is.
The fact is that the Democratic party
has gone to pieces. There is no such an
organization in the old sense. There is
a.vast amount of the virus in little rem
nHnts of it here and there, but the party
as Il party has ceased to be even a re-
spectacle minority in the country.
When the remnants go forth to battle
they do as they attempted to do here, so
unsuecessfully, last fall, nomi-
natea ticket composed of men
who on the stump tell the
people that they are not Democrats.
1t will be remembered that from Col.
Ben Smith down to Col. Johnson there
was not Democrat on their Parkers-
burg ticket. But even that trick did
not win. War records, streaked,
striped and tainted as they were with
latter day apostacy, could not and did
not deceive the people of West yir-
giuia.
Thurlow Weed has recently
given the Democracy some good
advice which they shonld heed. He is
temporarily mixing among them
with Wow to seeing what he can do
in the way OF sorting out enough
material for a third party nucleus. He
tells them that they should dissolve;
that they should change their name;
that they should thoroughly purge and
purify themselves. In other words that
they should scuttle the old rotten hulk,
called Democracy, and sink her clear
out of sight, never to rise again, and
build n new vessel with new name and
a new nag, and take on board new lea
ders. This is good advice and the bro
ken up, bankrupt and demoralizedl
remnants will be obliged to follow it
sooner or later. They can never win
with with the old name. The smell of
treason that adheres to and permeates 1t
is a stencil in the nOstrels OF the people.
So well is this fact understood that
many politicians like Stevens and But
Ter habitually presume upon it, in and
out ofCongress. They believe, not with
out reason, that the American people,
will stand almost any amount of folly
In the way of confiscation and impeach-
ment schemes, rather than consort with
the odious antecedents OF Democracy.
The public know not where they go
when they contemplate utilization with
that party. The chills of unconquera-
bic aversion creep over them at the bare
idea o fsuch communion. They choose
rather to bear with squanderings and a
vast amount of loose, wild and corrupt
legislation, rather than seek refuge
among those who are primarily respon-
sible for all that has befallen the coun-
try The day may come, and 1t may be
in the near future. when the state OF
things that is upon the country shall
necessitatea reform movement, but 1t
will not be through a revivification of
the Democratic fungus.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS delivered his
lecture on the assassination of Abra-
ham Lincoln, in Cincinnati, Tuesday
night, TO an immense audience, who,
says the Commercial, listened to him
with ''rapt attention" for two hours. In
the course of his lecture he advised the
South to accept the terms offered it, "for
it never will get better" The North
and West, said he, will rule this
land" and absolute justice will be
their aim"
Mr.. Douglass speaks in Wheeling
next Monday night. His subject will
be "rhe Dangers of the Republic"
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In the New York Post appears an ad-
vertisement by real estate auctioneer,
of partition sale of property on Broad
way, belonging to the estate of the late
William Ross Among the places ad-