The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-12-09
New YORK EHecfiOta.

| The returns of the Charter Election in New
| York City show the defeat of Fernando Wood,
the regular Democratic candidate. John L.
Tielnann democrat, who ran lndepen-
dant and was supported by Know Nothings,
Republicans, and such Democrats as Dan. Sick
les, John Van Buren, and District Attorney
John McKeown, is elected by over 1000 ma
| iority. From the confident tone Of the Wood
papers in New York. we had been led to antici-
pate q different result. The contest become
more personal thana political one and the
enemies OF Mayor Wood resorted to the most
desperate means to defeat nlrn. The Hsra}t re-
lates an instance. S25000O had been appro-
prated by the council towards laying out and
grading the Central Park, for the express pur-
pose of giving work to Suffering laborng men,
| in distributing this money no man who would
not promise to vote against Wood was employ
ed. y0ne man swears:, II was asked i'll was
Fernando Wood man, saying at the SAME time
that looked like one; to which | replied was
q Fernando Wood man; he then said that the
commissioners would not appoint any Fernando
| Wood men; at the same time offered him the
best references; lie still said no; snd thereup
on | left his office" 1t is to be regretted that
such means succeeded. But our political oppo
nents have gaincd no partyvictory. One Dem
ocrat succeeds another. That is all.-Steaben-
otHe Union.
i We think the Union is very much mistaken
when it says that Daniel +. 'Fiemann is Dem
ocrat. There is no Democracy in a man who
will allow himself to be used as tool in the
hands of Greeley and Webb to revive the dy-
ing embers of sectionalsm; there is still less in
f one who will pit himself against the regular
nominee of the Democratic convention, especi-
ally when there are great democratic principles
at stake, and the Democracy everywhere de-
msnding their support.
When the Black Republican Legislature o.
!, New York passed tyranical laws to crush out
Mayor Wood, and the Democracy of the com
mcrcial metropolis, the Democratic press thro'.
out the Union denounced them as atrocious o.
forts to control the freedom Of election. There
was but one opinion upon the subject amons
the friends of Democratic principles in ant
out Of the State. The laws were condemned BY
t all friends of political neutrality-suspicious. :.
: Mayor Wood opposed them, and exerted him
self to prove their want of binding force, a
f we'll as their impolicy. He manfully contested
them inch by inch, carrying some points ant
u failing in thers.
E The Democracy far and near applauded hin
for his open course, alike demanded by princi
4 pie and policy. Ina great measure the tyranny
of those laws led to the overthrow of Blac
Republicanism in that State. The emphati
y condemnation of these atrocious enactments BY
the people Of the State created the confden
u expectation that the Legislature of the Stat
would speedily repeal them. The Democrac,
,f everywhere fully expected this result.
1 When the Democracy nominated Mayo
Wood for recollection, and claimed his supper
e among other grounds, because of his manfnl re
sistence to the laws in question, and the effor
of Black Republcanism to annihiate him and
the Democracy New York City by legisla
ton; and on account of his qualifications for th
Mayoralty, all expected that every Democra
in the city would sustain and support him.
t This was the universal expectation 1t wa
due to him and the cause in which he was on
gagged. The people of the State had distinctl
and broadly condemned the laws in question
! and approved of the course Of the Mayor anc
:. his friends in their endcavoIs te secure their re
! peal by the next Legislature. This was one .
It the turning points in the November election
Il Mayor Wood was renominated, and becam
the standard bearer for the campaign. Thrcug
him the battle with the enemies OF the Demoe
racy was to be fought. II Daniel Fl Tieman
K had one spark Of genuine Democracy in him, !
4 would have gladly rallied tothe standard OF N
d Wood But instead Of doing that, we fn
i him in league with Greeley y Co., in bitt'
i opposition to Democratic principles. Wit
;, the aid Of d few such tracking politicians
!, John Van Buren, Fernando Wood vas delicate
But IL isa fact, Of winch the Democracy shouI
be proud of, that alI true Democrats. stood
,r solid phalanx in support Of the Democrat
D. nominee and gave him more votes than th
gave for President in 1856! x.