New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-04-02
CONNECTICrT.

James T.. English is chosen Governor Of Con-
nccticut by majority not varying much from
that of Gov IIawev last year, when we car
ricd the State by 81 votes. The Coppcrhcads
elect three Congressman ont of -four, viz: III the
LIST District Richard D. Hubbard; lid, Julius
lI0tchkis5: WITH VIM. II. Bmnum. In the Hid,
Henry II. Starhweathcr, Republican, is chosen
10y about 1900 majority. The CoppeIheIds
have probably one majority in the State Sen
ate. while the House is reported Republican.
The time hats been when q Coppcrhead vic
tory in Connecticut would have seriously
injured the cause of the Union. We should
nave cstecmcd ~" election nf Thomas H.
Seymour over GOV. Buckingham, III lsJj
or 1854. national calamity. The war
had not been fought through, and
Rebel victory OH Northern soil always seemed
more disastrous in it, influence than any
that the cohorts of Lee could WIN
ia Virginia. The election OF Horatio Sey-
mour in Ncw-York over the hmcntcd
Wadsworth was reinforcement OF ten
thousand men to the Rebel armies. COnncc-
ticut can do no such mischief to-day. The
mischief she does is mainly within her own
borders She has put good men out OF Office
and bad men in, She rejects gallant
Union soldier for a member of that party
which throughout the war reserved itS admira-
ton for soldiers on the other SIDE and which,
since the war, fills its partisan presses with
culogics of Robert l.. Lee. We regrct Gov.
Iiawley's defeat, but we think he can afford it
better than the State can
The influence of this CoppcIhead victory, so
far as it is felt at all outside the State limits
will be most harmful at tle South It may pos
sibly retard TO some degree the st0wth, now be-
coming rapid, of a healthy political sentiment and
binder reconstruction upon the basis of tue ex-
listing law There will he found dem,gogucs
to assure the people Of the South that this is
the beginning of a great .ls9ston at
the North, destined to oTefthfh Con-
gTess and substitute the policy of tue
President for the policy of the people. There
will be some fools TO believe this so, lcre and
there, Connecticut will be potent to dc little
harm by its bad vote Of yesterday. 1t will not
3e much. a
II the House were less strongly Republican,
the loss Of three Congressman might be Sc
rious matter but with our present asGndancy
we can contrive to get on without Connect
icut. In both tho Ist and he WITH
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| Deming is beaten By two or three hundred
votes; Mr.. 2. T. Barpum by about the
same number. We cannot but think 10th these
gentlemen might and should have been elected.
In the IYth DISTRICT We heI that ILLEGAL votes
have BEEN registered in considerable num-
bers, and that Mr.. Barnum will contest
the District on the ground o. gross
frauds. Never was a candidate assaied more
unscrupulously, and seldom has there been
an election in which the successful party
had less reason to boast Of its triumph
Money has been used very freely, bo:h in this
district and ID the State-s6 freely that
We think it safe to say that If Mr.. En-
glish had been as poor a pan as
Gov. Hawley, he would have had 10 chance
| whatever OF election. How money was to DC
| used, was made clear in the unblushing efforts
to buy up the WOrkingmen's Convention
in New-HaveD, apd in the success with
which the same tactics were pursued
in detail. Much of this rascality will
yet have to see the light OF day. The
exposure may pot change the result Of the elec.
\ ton, but It Sl deSh8 it Of aas political sig-
ss more disc di,sraeet tsss ds 3 ssa
likely to be in the END pore damaging. Even
the Connecticut Democracy may yet come to
understand that Honesty is tbe best Policy.
Tue facts llat gas.bills steadily Increase,
yhile gqs-ight grows DINNER and poorer, ore
tppleasantly tamil af to the residents Of our
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