The daily press. (Cincinnati [Ohio) 1859-1859, 1859-06-29
The Street RAILROAD Slaughter.

On posting up yesterday morning, some of
the City Fathers found themselves in the cate
CORY of the clown, who doubted his identity:
Gam Giles, or am 1 not?" After suffering
the enemies of civic improvement--the repre-
sentatives of that enlightened period when
gas-lights were poisonous, canals unconstitu-
tional, railroads unheard of, and steam-presses
the DEVILS enginery-to load down the ordi-
nance to regulate and foster Street Railroads,
with all manner of crucifying clauses, they
we're so poorly drilled on the main question,
and so intent on the adoption of trivial "amend-
ments," so called, that the opponents of lib
eral, living system, combining with the open
jects, with the willing assistance of President
Eggleston, succeeded in consigning the bill, all
MANNED and deformed and emasculated as it
was, to the tomb of Noble oblivion. Though,
should it be raised from that bourne, under the
lash Of contemned Public 0pinion--applied to
the trembling backs of trucking and dema-
gogic Councilmen, it will doubtless be farther
cut up and slaughtered, to suit the successor of
the Great Compromiser of Ashland, who is so
fond of running bene6cent measures deeply
into the ground, in order to win glory and dis
tinction Heaven save the mark!) by pulling
them out again.
By the way, it is quite as amusing as it is
provoking, to notice what vast, original schemes
Of pacifcation, and delay, and compromise, the
distinguished gentleman whose official prov
ince it is to "put the question" to an aston
ished Board, is wont to propose Dickens
"Circumlocution Office" is nowhere, in all its
collective rami6cations, when compared with
the refined, superlative, sublimated, diffused
and mischievous abstract platitudes with which
that gentleman, from the elevated inner tenn
pie Of his self-esteem, loves to load down, OBJ
struct and slaughter bill, on the popularity
Of which he may have doubt, or which ht
may think is susceptible of self-aggrandize
ment, if postponed so indefinitely as to barely
sustain life and tangibiIity. When that gen
tleman becomes Mayor of Cincinnati, Governo
of Ohio, President of the Unit0 States, o
Minister Plenipotentiary to some foreign coun
try, perhaps the old honest system of doini
| tuluBS Ou Iho squuIo may Oo Ioihe'dISNj du'
the fshy system of looking one way Will
rowing another be left for the children Of Doe
sticks especial friend, DAMPHooL, to practice.
Mr.. President may be great man per Sc, AM
an original philosopher in the abstract, but W
very much fear he will find his level before b
can bring order and consistency, and practca
reason, out of his select committee of five anti
podes on the Street Railroad question.
Seriously, however, we do not despair o
the final success of the Street Railroad mea
sure, in some busipess-like and decent shape
despite of its open assailants, and adroi
enemies under the guise of pretended friends
The people of Cincinnati, impatient of tn
delay imposed by small-beer demagogues il
Council, and Jack Cade radicals both il
and out of that body, will not submit to mucI
longer postponement of those great auxili
aries of public improvement and convenience
and they will surely hold responsible, nov
and hereafter, those City Trustees who striv
to kill the measure, as we'll by open hos
tility, as Judas-like enmity, betrayed througl
the medium of miscalled amendments. Gen
tlemen of the Council, if you would do your
seves and the people favor, act favorabl,
promptly and decidedly.