Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1859-08-29


EpiroR ENriRR-SIR The Journal and Ga
Eelte Of this morning are much concerned at
the general slaughter Of our nsiuralized citizens
by the Democratic Convention on Saturday.
sympathy with oOr foreign born citizens from
such questionable sources is as refreshing as il
is unexpected. That this new born sympathy
is duly appreciated by the voters for whom they
are angling, feel fully assured. The asser,
tons in both papers are az iaise as they are i'm.
pudenti but as the bulk Of this united sorrow
is expended on Mr. Nolan. will with your per.
mission briefly examine the especial degree Of
fitness which qualities that gentleman to dis,
charge the duties Of the office, his claims to
which were so earnestly advocated by his black
republican associates Of the Journal and Ca.
Eelte
Is he lawyer3 have the authority of one
of the oldest practitioners at this bar for asser.
ting that he has not sufficient legal acumen to
draw up an ordinary Indictment Is the eter.
nal mis.quoting, maugling, and mis- applying
the text Of poor Shakespeare regarded as
qualification for the office of Prosecuting At
torney2 1t is said that the bones Of Shakes
Speare fairly shake with laughter when Hacket
! plays Falstsff may | enquire what these poor
bones do when the beautiful creators Of his
sublime genius pass into such hands as those
OF Mr. Nolan2 Do they shed tears fast as the
Arabian trees their medicinal gums : Beauti.
tiful as the words are, they convey but Door
idea Of the moistened condition Of these poor
bones on such melancholy occasions; and |
cannot help rejecting that the Democratic Cons
vention on Saturday paid the memory Of
Shakespeare high compliment by refusing
Mr.. Nolan an opportunity of disturbing the
ashes of the mighty dead Does an all.absorbS
ing vanity founded on fiction, qualify him for
the post lis it supposed that man who per-
mits the knowing conductors Of the Journal
and Gazette TO make semi-annual cat's>paw
Of him, and regards it as n tribute to his talents
the man for the placer Is the parot-like quail.
ity Of committing TO memory a few poorly
chosen, and rarely understood, anecdotes and
witticisms, and eternally introducing them al
the wrong time, and in the wrong place, as
original, requisite for this positiou7 thinl
not. Is it an argument in favor of fitness {,
discharge these important duties, that he ha
been for years the butt, and laughing stock o
the profession to which he thinks he belongs
and the community at large, without the pene
tration to discover his actual status, either as
lawyer or a citizen 7
But as promised to be breif let me finall,
ask, is the advocacy of the Black Republican
press any evidence as to Mr.. Nolan's qualifica
tionsr But the subject is small one, au,
does not admit Of much amplifcation, hence
will occupy corresponding portion of you
space, which willingly admit may be devote,
to better purpose.
Mr.. Nolan has declared that God made him
, democrat. 1t is not my province to question
/ the perfection Of any work the divinity O
: whose origin is fully ascertained; but when i
/ is considered that we have only Mr.. Nolan
3 unsupported assertion as to the divinity of hi
r democracy, aud when the miserable charaete
, Of the work is considered, l feel like denyini
a the entire statement, aud attributing the worl
A to one of natures poorest iourneymen, the con
ception and execution being execrable, an,
: the general imperfeeIiOn Of the work, so ap
u parent, as to fully warrant me iE dissenting
from the avowRl Of Mr.. Nolan.
= now in common with the democratic part,
Q take final leave Of Mr.. Nolan. He is in tn
n hands Of congenial friends, and hope mos
sincerely, that nothing will occur, to mar q
h break, SO auspicious u friendship.