Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-24
THE CONNECTICUT ELECTION.

Passed, aud gone on the record LOT
some time, and one would naturally
think i, must be even II played N SUD-
ject of cougratulatiou,-if eve sucn-
with the Democratic journals OF the
country. But they still keep harplng
on this election, as their only daughter
of the year. And in particular they
make much of the defeat of P. 7. Bar
mum for Congress, who, they say spent
AS much as SOS, 900 to secure an election,
including $4,000 given the New York
Tribune for special advocacy Of his cause.
Now we happen to know that in reality
this is no ground for a hurrah, on the
par, of the Copperheads. P. T. Barnum
was q most unpopular man in his Dis
,ric,; and the Christian people Of
Bridgeport and vicinity would not vote
for the shameless imposter, though he
did stand upon the Union ticket and
they were Of the Union party. 1t must
be borne in mind that it is q very
different matter: a p~rincipleless scoun-
drel, rich, and ready with his cash,
running in one Of the old settled New
England communities, or running in a
District in California, or Oregon, or any
far western State, Or Territory. And
against P. T. Barnum ran Wm. II. Bar
num-, an iron foundry manager, who
was universally respected for his per-
sonal character, and whose abilities rs
a legislator had been tested and ap-
proved. Besides, Barnum on the stump
advocated the most extreme ideas OF
negro equality-declaring that Congress
must pass Summers or Wilson's bill for
negro suffrage, and that thereafter the
jury box and public Offices must be open
to the negro as freely AS to the white
man. The people would not submit to
this doctrine; as a recent vote in that
District had shown. We do not hest
late to say, that had a less morally
offensive character than P. T. Barnum
been nominated by the Union party, in
the Bridgeport District, the victory
would not have been with the Democ-
racy.
To illustrate what must have been
some Of the most effective modes OF
attack on P. T.-spearing him with
paragraphs and lampooning him with
liue,-we subjoin some verses, taken
from an impromp.u poem delivered a. a
cougratulatory meeting Of the "Democ.
racy" after the election Of VIM. II. Bar
mum was decided
The Woody Horse is of the course. the Mermaid Is
John Stephenson has got her corpse embalmed be-
joyce Hcih, the deep Plu,onIau shades DO ono,
more close environ,
And the man OF brass has gone TO grass, beneath ih'
man ofiron.
The blatant orators are mute; they took the p. NJ
With ?. T., on election ~day-they won't come bach
The Once there in Wall street Ia, bol,ed ta,, IT,
door,
Aud the Srea; eampalSner's aids-de-esmp go ou'
and In no more!
"Old Sye Is nigh no longer. and PangbOrn is Pang
dead:
And HaSserty Ia sober. and to parts unknown ha'
The Irish and the FenlAns behaved themselves SC
evil,
The Snowman wishes back his stamps. and tn
Paddles" 10 the devil.
.
The play Is o'cr-thc Museum continues all the so
But up here In Connecticut. the Snowman has NJ
show.
Hereafter his wa1.asures will remind how he wa
Anti w6S, nsures he expended for the sake o
And likewise OF the figures which anne In election
With every ,elesraphic click. still waxing In ,hei
might.
And Tom Thumbs bogus baby will remind him o
Pansborn,
And the Woody Horse, OF Thin who went w~ool-Sath
ering and was thorn:
And the Mermaid, how Incsngruous things do OF
times Queerly blend,
And how some fair beginnings have q dreadful seal,
endv'