The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-05-02
Home Correspondence.
The Connecticut ELECTION.

grained with an occasion to crow. Chan
ticleer, exhumed from the debris Of the last
four or five years, during which his func-
tions have been in abayance and all un-
used, makes rather an awkward and hesi-
tating debut. One is tempted to class his
efforts with the parturient caczle of chanti-
cleer's mate over the production of very
small egg. "COmmon sense, says one Of
these cackling sheets in the North, twill
again pervade the minds of men, and rea-
son resume its empire, when fanaticism,
radicalism, and their kindred heresies,
shall no longer pervade the land" &c.
In response to this attempted crow in the
North over the result of the Connecticut
election, the Wilmington Dispatch, IN. c.
a most bitter rebel paper, takes up and
prolongs the cheering notes in the follow
ing exulting terms:
'The great reaction has commeuced.-i
The dark hour that Immediately precedes |
the dawn has been upon US, but the Earth .
IS all aglow with the golden tints Of the
coming MORN"
Here we perceive that the same events
which so rejoice Democratic hearts in the
North, thrill with equal delight the uncon-
quered rebels of the South. In the over
flowing of its joy, this rebel sheet says
"The Democrats Of Connecticut are the
best in the world" This certainly affords
good evidence of the progress of light in
the Democratic mind of the South. The
clock peddler-the nutmeg manufacturer
this fifth part Of man-this most intense |
Yankee of all the dispised Northern horde,
Is suddenly discovered to be "the best
of Democrats, in the world"
Let us look for a moment into the mean
ing and true Interpretation ofthis triumph.
Manhood suffrage was used to frighten
some into the Democratic ranks. The
question ofeight hours for labor was thrust
in. Every ingenious device was resorted
to, to divert the minds of the voters from
the great national issues. A neutral paper Of
Connecticut, (the Evening Gazette,) says:
"Never before, since the charter days, were
the citizens of Connecticut bought and sold
so shamelessly in open market" Money
held the balance of power among these de-
generate descendants of the Puritans.-
"The Democrats had taken care to nomi-
nate their woalthiest men, without too
much reference to other qualifcations''-
But one of the Republican candidates had
money. Such is the saddening story from
the land of steady habits.
After all these mighty and most demor-
alizing efforts, the State was carried by
only about 700 majority, whereas in 1865
Impartial Suffrage was voted down by a
majority of 6,272. If Manhood Suffrage
be taken then as the test question, there
has been gain of nearly five thousand
votes, instead of loss.
May not this Connecticut victory prove
as deceptive and tantalizing as that of Bull
Run, which in its reactive consequences
only aroused the Nation to the perils Of the
hour ? The country awoke and prepared
itself for the mighty struggle, which was
imminent. But wherein is this great re-
action to consist, which has begun with
such overwhelming indications, and which
has given such occasion of rejoicing to
Davis, Johnson, Yallandigham, Mayor
Monroe, &c?
"They have" says Copperhesd Journal
Of Connecticut, "sustained the principles
the Constitution. They fought the bat
tie on great national issues-representa-
ton in Congress for ell the States; they
protested against the Capitalization of pow
er; they opposed Negro Suffrage; they
raised their voice against the assumption
of power by an arrogant and fanatical
i Congress :" 'they sustained the Constitu-
tional course of President Johnson" they
demanded the Union for which the SOL
diers fought. As the fruits of this mighty
reaction, so gloriously begun, we are to be
brought back to the Interpretation of the
principles of the Constitution, as misrepre-
, sented by Calhoun, Yancey, Frank Pierce
and Brick Pomeroy. The constitutional
course" of the President in grasping the
Legislative powers of Congress and at
tempting to constitute himself sole dictator
in the work of reconstructing ten States Of
the Union, is to be opposed. The dynasty
r Of the Lees, James Buchanan, Mayor Mon.
t roe, &C., is to be replaced in power. Is this
the Union for which the soldiers fought?
But a bad odor attaches to the promises
of these Copperheads all is not gold that
glttters. The Southern people have had
some experience of Copperhead reliability
They fear the willy Greeks, even when ap,
parentiy bringing gifts. There is "sobe1
! second thought" which finds expression
A Southern paper says;
sIThe Northern Democracy have use for
US in peace, they have none in war. They
J talk about the Constitution and violation
of the Constitution, and usurpation and
tyranny, and consolidation, but they never
I fought except against the Constitution and
for consolidation" "Tbey have, after re-
pealing the Missouri Compromise and sus-
2 famed the administration of Mr.. Buchanan,
, brought us to universal Negro Suffrage" "
sThere will" (says this JOurnaD "be no
5 peace to the South until the Democratic
! party marches off the field"
, Here, then, is a vote of want Of conf
dence, on the part of the rejecting minds
of the South.
But while all this "reaction" is taking
place in the little State of Connecticut
= mark what real revolution Negro Suf
f frage is making in the South. Wade
d, Hampton and other rebel leaders are al,
: ready seeking to obtain the negro vote, tc
secure and control it in behalf of Southern
Interests and rights. "The negroes" says a
North Carolina paper, "of the South have
= much more intelligence than the Radical,
? imagined" These quondam representa-
| tives Of caste, and a governing class, dis
tinguishedsby the color of the skin, now
"roar you as gently as a sucking dove"
'Let the whites and negroes of the South
talk, think and act together" Surely thir
is the unkindest cut of all, to the Connect
> ieut and the Northern Democracy who
have so rolled themselves in the dirt in
order to recover favor with The South
Surely, after this we will hear no more oi
''negro worsbippers," "negro equality" &c
Good Democrats Of the North will not TO
fuse to go the polls, because negroes vote
and nfbe whites and BerYces Of the South