The Potter journal. [volume] (Coudersport, Pa.) 1857-1872, 1867-04-09
The Connecticut Election "a
Great GOpperiGead Calamity.

If the Connecticut election does not
prove to be an expensive victory to the
Copperbeads and traitors, all the auguries
are deceptive. Last Tuesdays and We'd
nesday's papers containing the Connecticut
returns simultaneously recorled Repuhh
can triumphs in nearly every other State
Both Ohio and Michigan held elections on
the same day. In Michigan there was an
election for two regents Of the State Uni
yersitv, a Justice Of the Supreme Court
and one hundred and twenty delegates to
revise the Constitution. In Ohio there was
an election for township and city officers.
The Republicans carried Michigan, although
the vote was light, by a very large major
ity-eIected their whole State ticket and
majority of the delegates to the constitu,
tiona convention. In Ohio, where there
was more Of a contest STARK, the Union
candidate for mayor in Cincinnati, has
4.400 majority, and the average majority
Of the Union ticket Is 5000, showing a
Union ga Of 500. Columbus re-eIects
Democratic mayor, and shows a Union
gain of 800 over the vote of last wear. To
ledo elects the entire Radical ticket ty from
three to five hundred majority, aud flom
ten to twelve councilmen, exhibiting a sub
stantiaI Union gain. From Dubuque, Iowa,
a special despatch announces the election
of GRAVES (Repubhcanj mayor by 300
majority-last year the Copperheads had
250 majority. From Missouri we learn
that the election in the city OF St Louis
resulted in the triumph Of JAMES J. THoM-
AS, Radical, by fifteen hundred majority.
/ From Circeyi.le, Tennessee, we learn that
/ Wake, Union candidate for mayor, was
elected by siXty-seven majority; a large
! Union gain The returns of the election
in Rhode Island, next door to Connecticut,
show that the Copperheads made no fight,
and the Radicals swept the field. So much
! for the other States who voted almost at
the same time with Connecticut. The
contrast shows that, whatever causes NAV
have operated in Connecticut, they were
not felt in other quarters. But if we turn
to the South we realize the cOstIlness of
the victory in Connecticut to the Copper
head leaders. IT, every Southern State the
traitors, with whom th~y sympathize, are
making hercuean efforts to secure the col
ored vote. Failing in this, there will
scarcely be left vestige of opposition to
The Radicals in the coming election. But
in the midst of their intrgues for this sup
port, and while they are putting themselves
prominently forward as better friends Of the
negro than the men who advocated and
forced emancipation, the inteIlig nee of a
Copperhea'l victory in Connecticut falls
upon them like a thunderbot. If they
publicly rejoice over it, they only prove
what utter hypocrites they are in their
professions of regard for the coIored man :;
and if they fail to rejoice, it is exactly like
telling the Connecticut sympathizers that
hey have iabored in vain. Already, there
fore, the Connecticut election has had its
fleet in tie South, not only upon the
whites, but upon the dacks, for the latter
must now Iec i've, f. in ee', tley needed
any further assurance, that every vote cast
against the Radical party in the North is