The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-04-04

hS GN'SNA VI
From He Tribune
We understand the result in Connecticut
THIS majority is larger than we figured up on
Tuesday, and the delegation to Congress CON
sists of three Democrats and one Republican.
The vote was large, and the canvass fought
upon square issues The efforts of the Demo
cratic party We're unscrupulous and unresting.
The good old Democratic custom of extracting
the largest number of votes from the smallest
given number Of voters was practised very
effectively in many places, so much so, indeed,
that at least one of our candidates for Congress
speaks of contesting the seat of his successful
opponent. Our friends hold the power in the
Legislature, and for all practical purposes, so
far as the State and the Republican majority
III Congress are concerned, the COpperheads
have gained barren triumph.
Aside from this, it is well to look the can
vass fairly in the face. A minority of the
people of Connecticut have carried this cleo
tion by prodigious outlay of money and
effort, because part of the majority are most
uniusty disfranchised In October, 1865, the
voters were called upon. to decide upon the
question of impartial suffrage. An amend
ment permitting the negro to vote was sub
mitted. The issue was plainly made. There
were in the State about 1000 colored men,
Americans by birth and education-freemen
who had borne their part in the war, and of
whom nine-tenths were Republicans. There
was no excuse for the denial of suffrage-not
even the shadow of a reason-but it was re-
fused in a poll of over 10000 votes by a ma
jority OF 6212. Our friends polled about27, 900
votes although in the spring they gave Gene
raj Hawley nearly 1900. In other words,
there were 5000 Republicans who were will
ing to make General Hawley Governor who
did not think enough of the honor of Connec-
ticu to give the ballot to the negro. The
amendment was lost; and the apathy, we
might as well say the cowardce, of a frag-
ment Of our friends in 1865 disfranchised
voters enough to have elected General Haw
ley on Monday.
When Connecticut voted wrongly in 1863
it was felt that her decision would iniure the
progress of reconstruction III the South. Con-
gress, it was thought, would not dare to give
the negro in the South the justice that was
refused him in New England commonwealth.
1t made the argument more difficult we admit,
and gave our enemies reply that we could
not very well answer; but the work went on,
and to-day South Carolina is more free, in the
sense of freedom according to the Declaration
OF Independence, than the old Charter State.
We are not alarmed about the influence of the
present vote upon the Republican party else
where, and especially upon the good work now
dong III the South. 1t would have been well
to have had Connecticut with us in this great
labor, but it can be done without her.
And now we urge our friends in Connecticut
to begin this day the work of regeneration. Con.
necticut is Republican whenever Republicans
choose to make it so. ''rhe fault is our own, -
says the New Haven Palladium. "The whole
State has been timorous time-serving, conser-
vative." Let there be an end of this. The
defeat of Governor Hawley is the punishment
of the Republican Union party for the infdelity
of a fraction of its numbers to the benign prin-
ciple of impartial suffrage. But for this, we
could have enjoyed the detection of Dixon,
BabcOck, Cleveland, and their fellOwrene-
gades, and carried everything but one member
of Congress, The lesson must not be lost.
HencefOrth, the Republican party, from the ST.
John to the Pacific, is a unit for universal
liberty and impartial suffrage, regardless Of
caste, race, or color. Those who are hostile tC
this principle will go to their own place as
Judas did. What little we may lose tempo
rarily in one section will eventually gain a
tenfold recompense in another. "With malice
towards none, with charity towards al" the
National Union party, proudly proclaiming
itself Republican in faith, and work, and name
devOtes itself anew to the achievement of al
rights for all.