Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1854-01-13
editorial Correspondence.
DENSIsoS HousR CINCINNATI, !
January z, 1854.


of the day being over. l find myself
in neat 49," by cheerful coal fire.
While neighbor Tyner is in an adjoin-
ing room meditating ON the price of
pork and wheat. and thinking of the
probabilities and improbabilities of the
money market. | am thinking Of you
and the six thousand readers of the
American. Well, | would not ex-
change places with him. A pretty
fist would make Of it, buying hogs,
and managing business of a hundred
thousand dollarsl | would have to
choose an assignee in less than six
months-and, by the way, don't
know but he would "wield the tripod, ,"
in the language of an Ohio editor,
about as awkwardly as | would 6nan-
ceer.
The most exciting question now, in
the city, is the riot of the policem en-.
The investigation of the case is likely
to reveal some startling facts that
many were slow to believe. The
Mayor and the Police Judge, and the
chief of the Police are likely to be de-
tected in a most serious attempt to
trample upon every fright of Protes-
tants in order to curry favor with their
own sect--the Catholics. The unlaw
full arrest ola preacher for preaching
in the streets last summer, together
with many other matters will be
brought out. The whole posse Of
them about one hundred in all have
been arrested and held to bail. You
can judge something Of the depth Of
the Indignation as we'll as its uniyer-
salty, by the following from the Gin
cinnati Enquirer of this morning.
When it is remembered that these men
were the regular Democratic nominees,
and elected as such on the avowed
principles tibet so numerous were the
catholics that they should be repre-,
scented in these offices as well as il
subordinate offices; it will be manifest
that there must be great occasion fol
speaking out, or the catholic organ the
Enquire would not so talk.
! "The people of Cincinnati are now
more than at any other period in the
history Of the city, reaping the bitter
fruits which ever result, to greater
or lesser degree, from coniding the adj
mlnlstration Of vital moral, social, pc
cuniary, and all the other domestic in.
terests of society, to the care of weak
minded, sufficient, tyrannical anc
corrupt officials. In times of quiet, il
all communities, public affairs may BE-
properly administered by men of com.
mon capacity. unless they are corrup
and manage their offices formercenary
ends; but society, in large cities espec.
tally, cannot always calculate upon the
reign Of peace and good will, and
therefore, the necessity of at no time
entrusting public affairs to demagogue,
or towards, to imbeciles or knayes.
During the two last weeks thi,
community have had good opportunity
to draw moral from the conduct o
their public servants, and we trust
they Will proftably apply it to theil
own good.
"Ihe Mayor and the Police Court
Judge, entrusted by a too-confding
and now publicly scandalized people
with duties and responsibilities which
they VIGOROUSLY have no capacity t
manage,-have palpably shown tina
they are unworthy of any public re
spect or confidence. If they have NO
administered their offices corruptly
they have so deported themselves as
to show that they are embecilcs anC
tricksters, and have forfeited any toll
, Grafton, from the fact that, having di
rected the preparation of public ono
individual wrongs, they now both, t
escape common opprobrium. coward
like, are striving to sneak from respon
sibility by duplicating their own agents
Neither of these personages ha,
: more than 1.-THE of the moral and in
tellectual capacity essential TO an eff
{ cient and honest performance of tn,
important and responsible duties i'm
posed upon them by law. Wholly un
fitted, they were wholly undeservng
at first, of such honors; but, by thei
public conduct Of late, how strongl,
have they exhibited this incapacity {,
, n people blushing in shame ut the foil,
!, which gave them PLACED Both are th,
shallowest Of demagogues, and n,
: element of character is so prominent
even while they are dispensing tn,
mockery of 'justice," rs that. The,
got on the bench by demagogue acts
and never fail to play out the charac
Ter, even before the poorest devil tina
misfortune bringst to their bar. AS I,
the honesty which characterizes thei
: doings, what chapter could be writ
. ten, If all the "secrets of the prison
house" were unfolded! individuals
and neighborhoods, and public assem-
blies may well grow indignant ant
caH upon such apostates to cast off tn
!, crime which is reeking with foul odors
Let our people moralize well upol
the share of responsibility which, il
these matters, seriously falls upol
themselves; let them profit by tn,
Christening in the future, when choos
ing public servants, and Cincinnati
will not again stand reproached by tn,