The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1867-04-04

The Washington Chronicle ofTuesday speaks
the following just and emphatic words: 81
The lesson taught by this result is valuable
and worth all that it has cost. We shall make
UP more than we lose in Connecticut by our
gains in Tennessee in August, where the Re-
publicans will succeed because they did exact
ly what the Republicans of Connecticut did
not when they had the chance a little more
than year ago. They gaze the colored men the
ballot. Had our friends in Connecticut not
voted down the proposal to enfranchise their
colOred people in the winter of 1866 they would
not now be deploring the loss of some Of their
truest champions. " the same cote cast for
frdge, aohen it sods before the people, it mould
hare consigned the now rejoicing COpperheads
into a perpetual minority We hope the lesson
will not be lost upon our friends in other
States. The election in Connecticut will do
more to make bold men holder and weak men
fewer than any event Of recent occurrence.
The following from the Hartford Press of
Tuesday shows the right spirit, and that
though temporarily beaten the true men of
Connecticut are not discouraged: ls-
We shall be reproached by grumblers out
side, but we care nothing for that. We have
planted the party fairly on the rock of impair
tial suffrage, and if we had won, we should
have been indebted in no degree to many
whose sympathy we ought to have had in
abundant measure on such an issue. But
though temporarily checked, we are in no
sense dismayed, or dubious about q final and
near triumph of our principles. Whoever at
t4mpts to run high-pressure pro-slavery boat
over these waters will strike q rock, We give
notice that we have taken slower holt" and
the grip is not relaxed. .s.....IftIlttf 31l
1t has been the curse of the republican par
sy mat 1t has permitted certain men in the
who have only cared for its offices and not at
all for its principles and the influence of these
men has continually eaten away the pith and
manliness CT the party. We have carried
these men by herculean efforts. We have
now sloughed them off. In the operation we
have been enabled to convey the State to the
general enemies of the country, but we are
well rid of them at any price. Senator Dixon
has never had any sympathy with the ideas of
the party which carried him, and only got re-
turned to the Senate by professions of fidelity
which he never felt. Mr.. Secretary Welles
has been of no service to the party since it
placed him in the Cabinet. Senator Foster
has taken just that middle course which is al
ways weakness The adherents, of Mr.. Dixon
scattered throughout the State, have stabbed
the party in secret, using the favorite method
OF their leader, never courageous but always
vindictive iiatiAi iti'i5I q % 1"' ~
That small body of men have been able to
be so mischevOus, is due largely to the foreign
vote which is constantly increasing in this
manufacturing state. For years the natural
increase of American voters has only been able
to balance it, and now that the war is over,
the naturaizations have poured in flood of
those who held aloof while the chances of a
draft were impending. The extraordinary use
Of money has enabled the sham democracy to
use the foreign vote to the fullest extent.
While the republicans in this kcanvass have
been embarrassed for want of money for the
ordinary expenses, the copperheads have drawn
upon inexhaustable sources. sd lJiu. ID