Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-03-30

ISpeeial correspondence of the N. Y. Herald.l
- iHARfFoRD. CoNN.. March 25. 1857,

q Cohnecficmt Politics.
tspeeial correspondence of the N. y. Heraldl
HAkTFoRDs CoEN,, March %, 1867.
At the present hour the advantages are
decidedly in favor of the English ticket.
The Replbl ans are confessedly lukewarIn,
and some of the leaders despair of carrying
the State. Several of their speakers from
q distance have made some trifIing excuse
for not fulfilling their appointments after
coming here and looking over the. pros,
pects. This was the case with General Nve
and Carl Schiirz. Tne unpopularfty of the
humbug Barnum adds 20 the general de-
m0ralizasi6hs Of the Republicans, while the
perpetual FIRE of the Herald at him and his
Radical coRdjutors contributes greatly to
the disc0mfture of the dominant party IN
tlle State saa zf,-f sls sssra "a - hlIoS sf-
Affects Of the ,PolastcaI CommOtiom-
.sAnti-Hadtcal Gaeheringzln stafford
ss-The DemOcEats In H gh Glee-Ac-
SESSIONS to the Democratic Banks
Sow. Hawley AccRsed OF Treaehery
--GertRin rRepn biicans Will Not
aftCrOyyd Am0nR the HIOurneeas, if
Ao IL Defeated, &C., &c. ISIS
sasd9 STAFFORD, Telland county, Conn.l
latsss3'e e. fsss March 25, 1867.
Probably no manu- ufac turing town in this
State has felt the depressing affectdOf the
unsettled state of the country more sensi-
bly, than this. In former times the cheer
ing and almost incessant sound of the
apindleS OF ei9 hteen large cotton and wool
enfaet0fes was to be heard, while now the
looms OF many of them lie comparatively
idle, and within a week five or six of them
will be Obliged to suspend operations alto
gether. It Is here thar nearly ole-halt of
he'whOle satinet used in} this country is
manufactured, giving employ yment to sew
eral hundred persons, who will now be
thrown out of work.. The greatest market
for the description of goods manufactured
here was formerly. in the South; but the
legislation of Congress has closed that mar
ket nearly completely and left large
amounts of goods on the hands of the
manufacturers. The South want the goods
but have not the means to pay for them,
and the prospect of their ever being so is
considered so slim, with the style of legis-
lation now prevailing at Washington, that
the manufacturers dare not incur the very
heavy expenses of keeping their mills in
tull operation. This fact contributes large
ly to the unpopularity of the dominant
party in the manufacturing districts.
where we find many of the, most extensive
manufacturers who formerly acted with
the Republicans now Siding against them
and denOuncing the course of the Radicals,
especially with reference TO their oppress-
i've legislation in regard to the S )uth.- The
county of Tolland, which with -Hartf Ifd
county. comprises the First Congressional
district, gave AT majority for Hawley
ihislS66, but to judge from the interest
manifested by leading Republicans in the
success of the Democratic ticket this year
it is fair to estimate that this majority will
be cut down at tleast Ons-half, thereby ma
terially4 aiding In esenfiug to Congress a
liberal and able DemocraG in place of a
jealous Radical. ,ssfi szs f:ssfee ss.tl ~
g As an evidence. of the temper of the peo-
pie of this locality in regard to politics, il
may be stated that at q meeting held iii the
Town Hall on Saturday evening last the
spacious. room WAS depsFly crowded, al
though the roads were imam almost impass-
able condition, On the oecasit n of a Radi-
cal meeting few evenings before, the hall
was not half full. The speakers on Satur-
day evening were Hon. James F. Babcock
Of New Haven, and E. S. Cleveland, Of
Hartford, both of whom have been engaged
in effectively stumping the State during
the present canvass. In the course. of his
remarks Mr.. Babcock referred to the incon-
sistency of the Radicals in Congress in adj
mitting Colonel Stokes, of Tennessee, who
was originally a secessiohist to aseat in the
House, while they-Fefased admittance t.
Judge Sharkey. of Mississippi, who had
nobly stood up for the Union in the dark
es6and most peFilOus period. Stokes now
votes for placing his fellow citizens of the
South under military despOtism. while
Judge ShaFkey is denied the privilege OF
speaking a word in Congress in behalf of
the suffering and shumilaCed people of his
State Mr., Babeock maintained that the
South had. constitutional rights that should
be respected by Congress now that the re-
belliOn was over. aud the Southern people
were in condition of submission to the
Government. He expressed the belief thai
Sumner and Thad, Stevens were stimulated
in their bitter hostility to the South by per-
q V16 lnuiII Mr
tended that the speedy and perfect restora-
ton of the South would prove a panaces
for the distress and depression that prevail.
ed in the manufacturing districts of the
State. He declared that the South might
be compelled to submit To the iron military
rule established by Congress, but it would
be Hike the submission of the unarmeC
traveller to the demand of the highwayman
and would engendera bitter and almost ir-
fadfcable feeling of hostility in tue South
against the North. He prayed that the sen
tiaIent of hatred which the Radicals arr
arOusing would be overcome by more milo
and conciliatory legislation, when the ma
jority in Congress should be swayed BY
patriotic and not inhuman and unchristiai
motives in bringing about an amicable set
tlen1ent with our Southern brethren, anC
when reason should be restored to her plac,
in the councils of the nation now usurpeC
by Intolerance and bigOtry. Mr.. B. expos
ed the treaehery of Governor Hawley il
having pledged himself to sustain Mr.. Fos
ter for the United States Senate and after
wards DESERVING him; in protesting to sus
tain the platform on which Lincoln wa
nominated at Baltimore, and in affOrdins
reason TO suppose that he supported tn,
policy of the President instead of that o
the Radicals. For these aud other cause
Mr.: Babcock snrniised that S6Dutor Foste
and other influential Republicans woult
not seFowd themselves among the mourn
ers" at Governor Hawley's political funera
on the first of April next.
Mr.. Cleveland followed in a stirrin!
speech, in which he explained his reason
for leaving the Republican party. and, lik
his friend Babcock, who had prepared mos
of the platforms, addresses aud resolution
of the Republican party since 1853 joinin,
in the great constitutional movement le'
off by the Democratic party in Connecti
cut. He claimed that the war was Tough
for the Union, and now that the rebellio
was crushed, the Union saved and shaver,
abolished, the great aim and ambition o
every true patriot should be to see peac
and prosperity restored throughout tn
land. He claimed that Congress had arte
shamefully in imposing military despot
ism upon States just as much in the iUnio
as Connecticut or Massaeb usetts, and aske
why, if ten States were out OF the Unior
as the Radicals aVerred, they did not chang
the old flag, and blot out ten of its radian
stars? He held that there was no differenc
between q Southern SecesSi0nSt and
Northern exclusiOnist-tha they were bot
equally hostile TO the best interests of tn
people; but that while the secessionists an
their heresies were dead and buried fereve
the exclu sionists were alive and rampan
and casting about, like raVine luhatics, fc
new horrors to heap upon the devote
heads of the wretched and suffering peop
of 5iIei South. Mr.. Cleveland hailed wit
pleasure the suspicious signs that indica
ed the speedy redemption of Connecticl
from Radical misrule, and to the time whe
fhe inuons mIlsic nf the snindln ,unnl