New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-04-04
CONNECTICUT on Eon1L ELGH1S.

cOlOrcd children were boarded and taught.
From that hour to this, negotiate has been
the one vital, animating principle Of Connect
cut Democracy. That Democracy would gladly
have rcCOnsigned 10 unlawful Slavery the self
rescued heroes of the Amstad; it sustained the
long series OF National crimes whereby Texas
was wrested from Mexico and annexed to the
United States, and. at later day, Kansas was
opened to Slavery and her settlements deyas-
tated by Missouri Border Ruilianism, down to
and including that browning atrOcty, the at
tempt TO fasten Slavery upon her by the lie
compton Constitution. Devotion to Slavery
caused half the Democrats of Connecticut TO
vote against their own regular candidates IN
1860: her popular vote for President that year
summing up:
Lincoln ... H.7o2 Douglas. ....-...... 1884
Bcll-Evcrctt..-. 1921 Brccknridge..---- 1914"
The great Counties OF Hartford, New-llaven,
and Fairfield, each giving a decided plurality
for Breckenridge over Douglas; the latter keep
ing up his end by the aid OF Overwhelming
pluraliticS in the "Aboltion" Counties of New
London, Windham, and TOlland.
Throughout the War for the Union the Con
nccticut Democrats were conspicuous for the
fIankncss of their hostility TO the National
cause. Isaac Toucey. who remained in the
Cabinet of James Buchanan to the last, and
never protested against his REASONABLY tame
surrender of National fortreSSeS, armorics, ar
senals and treasure, to the Rebellion, was one
of its trusted leaders; and Thomas II. Sey-
mour who. in July, 1861, wrote Il letter eyin-
cling the dcadlcSt hostility to President Lin
coins resolve to resist by force the forcIble
attempt of the Rebels to destroy the Union.
was, for that very reason, enthusiastically
nominated as the Democratic candidate for
Governor in the Spring of 1863, and only lacked
two or three Rebel victories to insure his cleo
ton. Had RoseCrans been beaten at stone
River. and Burnside or Hooker driven head
long from Virginia, he would doubtless have
succeeded. As it was, hc pOlled 1885, votes to
Al .O}s for Gov Buckingham. the Jealous and
steadfast upholder of the War for the Union
~ essentially defensive, righteous, and IN
evitablc.
In lS6J-Slayery and Treason having been
discomtited-thc Republicans carried the State
overwhelmingly because Gas The World adj
mitteh the election was held on the very day
when tdings were flashed over the state oi the
surrender of Richmond, with the flight of Lee
and Davis: which made large portion OF the
Democrats so sick that they did not like to be
seen in the streets. and would not approach the
polls The Legislature thus chosen almost
wholly Republican, initiated a Constitutional
Amendment cnfranchsing the Blacks which
had to be ratified by popular vote. That
vote was taken in the ensuing October, when
the Democrats rallied, and, by the help OF u
few rcnegadcs mainly holding Federal offices,
they voted down Impartial Suffrage, aS follows:
Yea, . 21,2I1 NAYS .-.....-..... 33,fsO
Majority .8,272.
OF the Yeas not fifty were cast by Demo
Gratis. who did not vote less than Thirty Thou
sand Nays. The Democratic party through It's
every organ. then as ever. proclaimed It's deter
mined hostility to allowing colorcd men TO
vote.
In defiance Of that vote, the Republicans ot
Connecticut have held aloft their standard in
scribed Equal Rights to All Men, irrespective
of Color Their noble Governor, born and
reared in Slave State, Is, like every hearty
Vpionist born in the South, a proclaimed
uneduivocating Radical. And THE Sum- III a
Democratic leader on the late Election, says !:
zone cause OF the Democratic triumph In Connecticut
was the rcpugndncc Of the people OF ,na' ada1 20 te
ncctcut voted upon proposition To giNe he pao' 10
the negroe, but the proposal wa. rejected 6y 1sSsye
fought The late battle upon the suffrage ground ana no
doubt many moderate men voted agains, mem VINO
might have voted differently under other c!rcum-
stances"
We thank the Democrats of Connecticut for
the light they have shed on the path OF the
newly enfranchsed COlOred Men of the South.
Those men naturally inclined TO vote as their
old masters, and the other Whites whom they
have long known and looked up to, would have
them. After this Connecticut vote, they will
be Obliged to ask those who solicit their suf-
frages, "Sirs, are yOu The dites 81 NOSE Who
"hare inst triumphed in Connecticut, and Of
"those IN other States who rejoice orer her
"rictoru?" And theanswer to that question Will
90 far to determine their course in the pending
Elections.
The Democratic managers in Connecticut see
breakers ahead, and are already trying to claw
off. In their bulletin of victory prlnted IN
our LAST, they enumeratc, as principles al
frmed by their triumph, these
Immediate union Oh the basis OF the Constitution no
usurpatiOn Of undelegated power by Congress NO mil
tary despotsm in this Republic No Congressional force
bills to establish Negro Suffrage On these issues they
have swept the state
Every word of the above is, 80 far as il has
force, death knell to the. hopes of the Col
ored Men Just enfranchised in the ten States
not now represented in Congress. Those men
are enfranchised by those very measures de-
nOunced by the Democratic State Committee OF
Connecticut and declared by them to have been
rebuked by their. triumph. Every vote cast
this year by colored man in Virginia, the
Carolinas, and thence southwark and westward
to Arkansas and Texas, will be cast by virtue
of those very measures, and could not otherwise
have been cast at all. The Democrats of Con-
necticut were as heartily for Immediate union
"on the basis of the Constitution in 1855 as