Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1860 — CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND ELECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

CONNECTICUT AND RHODE ISLAND ELECTIONS.

Some of our readers may wonder why so much importance has been attached to the local election in Connecticut. For various reasons; first because it is a manufacturing State, depending largely upon Southern trade: everything that will sell in the South is made in this State. More than that, many of her enterprising people live in the South; in Baltimore, where they conduct the oyster trade, in Georgia where they raise cotton &c., for these reasons the cotton influence is greater probably than in any other free State. Second; Connecticut was less relia--bly Republican than any other State that gave its electoral vote to Fremont in’s6; the Democrats having the power in the State for Zm?/ the time within the last ten years. All these things combined made all parties look to that State with a peculiar interest, prominent democrats admitted that if they could not carry it the contest in November was a foregone conclusion; they had more hope's of it than they had of either Indiana or Pennsylvania. 1 o make it doubly sure, they placed in nomination for Governor the most popular man in the State. Seymour’s name is a host in itself, and could rally to its support two thousand votes that no other democrat could get; he was elected Governor for four successive years, Viz: 1850, 1851, 1852 and. 1853 in which time he had endeared himself to .the people of the State. Under all these unfavorable auspices every Republican that knew anything about the politics of the State looked with gloomy forebodings to the returns of this election; but the Republicans of that State have done nobly ; hencei forth and forever sh j is reliably Republican; though considered one of the most uncertain. /Republicans of Indiana be of- good cheer. (If thu Rhode Island election we have not much to say; if the telegraph is correct in ‘ stating that both parties -stooped to bribery’ ! then did the Republicans well deserve a defeat. The telegrams assure us that votes ] were openly bought; voters publically put ■ themselves up at auction, bids would commence at $lO and run up to SSO. Ono dispatch ; says, “The negro vote is rating high, I some colored brethren are receiving SSO each. Bonfires, cannon, liquor, eash and ‘ excitement abound. Everybodytlrinks,’“but everybody appears to be used to it.” Out of such a state of things we could net expect, and could scarcely wish that the Re- ! publicans could come off victorious. We could not rejoice over a victory gained by such means. But the principle reason why,.! the Republicans were defeated exists in the ■ fact that-Sprague, Democratic candidate for Governor, is a Know-Ncthing, and Ameriicanism is very popular in Rhede Island. I Strange that the party that so loves “the rich j Irish brogue”.should oil the same day elect ja Know-Nothing Governor of Rhode Island, and slaughter an Irishman in Newton county.