Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-04-12
00nneotiout On RauaI Rightg.


Some thirty four years have elapsed
since Prudence CTandalf was mobbed
/ in and hunted from Connecticut for
/ keeping e school at which colored
children were boarded and taught.
From that hour TO this, negF0-hate has
been the one vital, animating principle
of Conn sUGicdt Democracy. That
/ Democracy would gladly have recon
signed 70 unlawful Slavery the self
4 rescued heroes of the Amigtad it
isustained the long series Of National
crimes whereby Texas was Wrested
! from Mexico and annexed to the Uni-
h ted States, and. at later day, Kansas
was opened 60 Slavery aud her settle
! ments devastated by Missouri Border
i Rufianism, down to aud including that
croWning atrOcity, the attempt to fas-
/ ten Slavery upon her by the Leconp-
! ton Constitution. Devotion to Slavery
caused half the Democrats of Con-
necticut to vote against their own reg
Iular candidates ih 1860 her popular
vote for President that year summing
! ups
1inoolh.... ,7o2 Douglas. s,..,s.t7 sft
Bo-Eysrett-. q 29l Breckenridge 16, 4os
The great Counties Of Hartford, New
/ Haven, and Fairfield, each giving a de-
cided plurality for Breckenridge over
Douglas the latter keeping up his,
end By the aid of OVerWhelminE plu-
ralities in the Abolition" Counties Of
! New London, Windham. and T0lland
Throughout the War for the Union.
the Connecticut Democrats were con-
spi eu0us for the franknsss Of their
hostility 60 the National cause. Isaac
TOucey, who remained in the Cabinet
of James Buchanan to the last, and
never protested against bis reasonably
tame surrender of National f0ftressos,
armOFies, arseuals, and treasures TO
the Rebellion, was one. Of it's trusted
leaders aud Thomas H Seymour,
who, in j uly 1851. wrote q letter revin-
cling the deaoliest hostility % Presi-
dent Lincoln's resolve to resist bV
force the foroible attempt of the Reb-
els to destroy the Union, was, for that
very reason. enthusiastically nomina-
ted as the Dem6cratic candidats for
Governor in the Spring of 1853, and
only lacked two or three Bebel victor
les TO insure his election. bad Rose
Grams been beaten ut Stone River, and
Burnside OF Hooker driven hoadlong
from Virginia, he would doubtless
have succeeded. AS it was, be polled
38, 1896 votes 10 1902 for Gov. Buck
inRham, the jealous and steadfast Up-
holder Of the War for the Union as
essentially defensive, righteous, andin-
evitable.
In 1865-Slavery and Treason hav-
ing been discomfited-the Republicans
carried the State overwhelmingly be-
cause Gas The AZ. Y. World admitted)
the election was held on the very day
when tidiugs were flashed over the
State Of the surrender of Richmond,
with the flight Of Lee aud Davis
which made q large portion of the
Democrats so sick that they did not
like to be seen in the streets, and
would not approach the polls. Tbs
Legislature thus chosen (almost Who'll
" Republican, initiated a Constitu-
rional Amendment eDfranchising the
Blacks, which had to be ratified by a
popular vote That vote was taken In
the ensuing October, when the Demo-
Gratis rallied, aud. BY the help of a few
repegades, mainly holding Federal Of
fees, they voted down Impartial Suf-
frage, as follows:
Xeas..........27 i2I7 NayB.-...s..-sSas4s s4s9
Majority. ....6,272
OF the Yeas. not fifty were cast By
who did not vote less than
Thirty Thousand Nays. The Democrats
ic PARTY, through its every organ. then
as ever proclaimed its determined hos
tility to allowing colored men TO vote.
In defiance Of thatv0te, the Repub
Iicans Of Connecticut have held alOft
their standard inscribed Equal Rights
to All Men, irrespective 'Of Color"
Their noble Governor, born and rear
ed In Slave State, is, like every hearty
Unionist born in the South. declar-
ed unequivocating Radical--Net0
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