American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-04-12
C1NC1NNATI ELECTION
Causes OF DofeatI

we're unwilling TO iorm an anoplhioh lro"
he thousand and one rumors that reached
,ur ears in the excitement Of the moment,
many of them eolored and exaggerated to
. most alarming degree-calculated to
produce feeling Of discord and strife
dangerous alike to the social and political
of the country. Now that the
excitemeutis all over, we hope that the
public viii calmly investigate the causes
whichled to these disgraceful proceedings,
and determine that the guilty shall suffer.
We are unwilling to credit accounts of the
riot in the ConsnereiaI and ERqGirer, AS
they bear upon their face unmistakable
evidence Of the vilest Misrepresentation Tor
partisan purposes. We prefer taking as
authority in this matter the impartial re -j
port given In the Western Christian Id
Uocate. paper devoted TO the spiritual
and not the temporal interests of mankind.
The AdgOcate holds the following, Ian
guage: 53
In the late city election the German
Atheists, the German Rationalists, and
the German and Irish Roman Catholics
voted the Dcmacratic ticket, under the inn
preston, or conviction rather, that they
would have Sunday and beerdrinking to
themselves, and without restraint, and
that all American notions on these two
points would be set aside. So it goes. II
A. crowd of American emigrants should
90 to Dublin, ireland, or Hamburg, Ger
mans, and there fight for their own no
tions, TO the subversion of the existing
Governments, they would be shut down al
once; but men come over the Atlantic to
America, with the express avowal that
they are running away from despotism
and are seeking quiet and freedom, when
10! the first thing they do. after getting
here, is to try to uproot the Sabbath, tC
open dram-shops, and introduce the very
worst and most corrupting features OF for
eign despotsm.
In the political mass meeting Of German
|, htnelSlS, on IdSt NeuHSSudJ HiShJ AA"'
saurck, their leader, made terribly-de
nunciatory speech against Americanism
and, among sundry very sage remarks
, said that the first Know Nothing was Cain
who killed Abel, and that all snbsequen
Know Nothings were like Cain. Now, a
Hassaurek, all flong back, has been say
, ing through his paper, that the bible wa
, bundle of lies, and nothing else, VIII
, does he aver that such man as Cain eve
/ lived? Curious man must Mr.. Hassaure
be-; but then we are told that the devil
q with an object in view, once quoted Scrip
I ture himself, and pretended to credit II
{ truth. TWAS this class that brought
bout the riots.
The editor Of the paper from which tn
above extract is taken, is CHARLES ELLTo1
an Lrisbman Jy birth, and would not wi
Q lingly misrepresent his own countrymer
We infer from the above extract, thi
e number Of important issues, over an
g above those which really divide the Anne
lean party from tho old liners, were bro
q into the contest, and had the effect
p alternating many whose sympathies are
l. American principles from the support
&c tho ticket. In order to make the extra
from the Advocate moro clearly understoo
we would state that the City Council
Cincinnati recently passed what is cali
the Sunday Ordinance" which forbi
q selling liquor on the Sabbath day. B
T. little care, however, has been taken by t
- authorities to enforce this law, and the (
is feet has been an entire combination OF t
80 vcnders of spirituous liquors-and 1t
ia immense---against the Reform ticket, as
10 was well understood that in case the
Of merican ticket was successful the "Su
III day Ordinance" would be strictly enforce
~ ~ On the contrary, the Sag Nichts" pro
n. ised, in case their ticket was suecessf
that nGther the Sunday Ordinance nor
to State liquor laws should be enforced.
or These facts not only threw the ent
10 p whisky interest in favor of the Sag Mic
m ticket, but made every man in the lc
x. engaged in the business, from the whC
mt sale manufacturer and importer down
et- the retailer at three cent drinks, jealous
~ its support. :, -f
air The Times says there ,cas nota Var
ed Tie ciiy IN which illegal voteS gere not
DC for tie Sag Nichis ticket. In this dish
.od orable, but not new work, the old
.he politicians received eifectual aid from
a Papal Church, now recognized autho
o. among old politicians. Hundreds Of
nv ~" ishmen went to Cincinnati short I
ov. previous to the election, and were quar-
ted ed in the different wards. 1t seems
ad. their arrival was known and they v
70 closely watched. When they went
~ 80 vote they were challenged, bat they 81
ana to their residence and the jadyes had to
'ort their ootes' 1t was thus, in almost e'
rec ward, Americans saw what they kney
a. be illegal votes going into the ballot
cir. without the power to prevent it. !
az oaths were taken by those who could
lea. " be absolved from the consequences,
ned in defiance of the wholesome laws Q
:, land. h rs