Year: 1868

San Francisco on that side Of the Continent and
New York on this will become the greatest
cities in the world.


The Political Campaign in Connecticut.


Next Monday the election for Governor,
other State officers and members of the Legis-
lature will be held in Connecticut, and just
now the rival parties are in the heat of the
campaign. Although there is considerable
excitement and pretty thorough canvass,
there does not appear to be as much enthusi-
asm or hard work on either side as there was
in the recent election in New Hampshire. Yet
both sides boldly assume the best prospect of
success. The great political campaign of the
year, which will end in the election Of Presi-
dent next November, commenced in New
Hampshire, and there, consequently, the great
est trial of strength was made. 1t must be re-
garded, too, as a fair test of the current of po-
litical sentiment in New England up to the
point in which the people are enlightened on
the great issues of the day. Though the demo-
Gratis lost the election they gained relatively in
the vote. The same gain in the State
of New York in proportion to the
population would increase the demo-
cratic votes ten thousand. The contest
in Connecticut will be nearly as close, proba-
bly,, as was that of New Hampshire, except
that the democrats have the prestige of sue
cess in the last election for Governor, which,
however, was carried against that miserable
woolly horse candidate, Barnum. Against this
prestige of the last success on the part of the
democrats, arising from the republican candi-
date being so obnoxious personally, the repub-
licans have this time far more respectable
candidate. Upon local issues therefore, the
chances Of the two parties are pretty even.


But there are broad and highly important
national issues involved in the campaign in
Connecticut, and if the democrats know how
to make use Of them they may be successful.
They must, however, show more skill than
they did in New Hampshire. They must not
send to Connecticut such hidebound copper
head orators as they sent to New Hampshire
However good the cause or arguments Of such
men may he they are personally obnoxious to
the loyal people, and they drive more into the





win by eloquence. Then they have stupidity
permitted the radicals to cover up the
real and great issues before the coun-
try by the claptrap humbng about
rebels and the rebellion. Negro supremacy in
the South and negro balance of power in
the republic; the placing Of a barbarous race
over the superior whites of our own flesh and
blood; the military despotism established over
the South at an enormous expense for the pur-
pose of Africanizing ten States of the Union,
the revolutionary usurpations of radical Con-
grcss, and the Infamous corruption and extrava-
gance ofthe radicals, the real and vital issues
before the people. The dominant party is
fast destroying every vestige of the principles
and former action Of our admirable republican
government. IL has brought the country to the
verge of political and financial ruin. Yet in
New Hampshire the radical orators were able
to ignore all this and to blind the people
through the claptrap cry Of rebels and rebel
lion, and through using the popular name Of
General Grant for the Presidency. II the DEM
Ocrats would succeed better in Connecticut





people, and that thrcSGsss, able speakers Of
whose loyalty or war record there can be no
question. And as an Offset to Grant as the
radical Presidential candidate they should take
that grand old naval hero, Farragut, for their
standard bearer. Connecticut being nearer and
more subject 10 the influence Of the reaction
that is going on in the great Central States,
there is more hope Of a larger conservative vote
than in New Hampshire, but proper means
and energy must be used to bring il out There
Is one more week in which to work, and If the
work be done well Connecticut may have the
glory Of leading off in that great reaction which
will consign the Jacobin radical party to
oblivion and to that nfamy which il deserves.
The National Banks In Congress Again.


In the course of debate in the Senate on
Friday upon the supplemental Currency bill,
which is bill to regulate the distribution and
remarked that 'hs friend from Missouri
(Mr. Henderson, would probably, before the
session closed, introduce some measure look
ing to an increase Of the volume Of the cur
rency for the benefit Of the West" BY this
we suppose is meant an increase Of the ma
tional bank currency. If so, the proposed
measure will be oil wrong-it will be beginning
at the wrong end. II more currency be
needed let us have legal tenders, and with
them buy up and cancel a portion Of the in


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