Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-04-05
Bitter Quarrel beIyveen KdiLOrs-ViOIene
Attack ON ThurlOw WOed.

Thurlow Weed and Samuel Wilkeson of
the Albany IN. W Evening Journal having
quarreled, and the latter having left the con-
cern, compares the former to Fagin, and
thus addresses the famous lObbier: u
MIR. Weed, the Republican Party of the
State of New York has its Fagin. The thieves
who glide through the lobbies of the Legis.
lature at Albany, respect the genius of their
tutor, and acknowledge bis power. Cadmu5
gave the world letters. 1t will be the dis
tnction of the Albany Fagin that he gave
America the Lobby The hands that now
boldly grasp railroad grant, and jerk q
privilege out of city s charter, were trained
in youth to pick the pockets of widows pe-
titioning the Legislature to, suffer their
foreign. born infants to be the heirs of their
mothers estate-to take watch and snuff
box from gentleman while asking for per-
mission to straighten a crooked hiRhWaF
through his own land--to strip shirt-p
spectacle case, and hankerchief from son
sitive man begging the Legislature to let him
change name of baptism that exposed him
TO Iidicule.
"DO ySSq see any thing good hanging out.
"Yes, Sir. There is the Receiver of the
Lake Erie and Jersey City Railroad, wot is
gone up, as wants something TO fasilerAte his
pay ing its just debts.
"See if you can get FIVE hundred out OF
him. Do ss you saw me de-"
A bill ofexchange for that amount, openly
collected through an Albany bank, may vet
serve in the political history of New York to
attest the helplessness Of a suitoF 70 the
| Legislature of the Empire State, and the
audacity and scoundrelism of the thieves
who have been educated to control its ao-
ton. 'Tis culpable idleness to look ints
shop.windows properly punished by the loss
| of snuff box. To stand at book-stai
reading in a queer old volume, is . waste Of
time, of pernicious example.
| The SaffrOn-Hin FRgin may have bees,
after all, but the instrument of retributivc
| Justice. But the Albany Fagin has taught
! his corps of artful dodgers that 10 organize
o company to supply city with pure water
| Is a crime, to be punished with stealing thO-
company's stock and clutching at half Of the
profits Of the contract for doing the work.
He has impressed his Oharley Batsse5 with .,
sense of the Nervousness of bridging yi0lent
streams, of reclaiming marsh lands, Of c0n-
| stIucting railroads, chartering universities,
| fostering the revenues of the pnblie Werks
amending municipal charters, cheapening
ferriage, and confirming rights technically
defectfve-and has bede then gauge their
| punishment of those who approach the Leg
| islatare with criminal intent in these re-
CARDS by the amount Of mOaey they have
He invented, and has perfeetsd, thestranes
business Of taxing Legislation in . represent
| alive Democracy. Ho taoght how TO cir-
oumvallate the Senate and Assembly, cham
bers with q thick Gordon of thieves, which,
like the Octroi system of PARA serves to-
catch every dutia6le eommodity that goes In
and comes cut. What time basinoss 10 idlo
at the Porte de GF0sss, and other inlets -
this legislative barrier, the Father Of the
Lobby, in sportive rapacity, blocks the
Legislative machine upon q selected laW-
maker, Us a rogue would drop cube Of iron
into the cog wheels Of a power-press. The
cube is boug BIT out-not taken out. With 4
genius for revenue finance which would hava
abashed Colbert and confoanded Necker, be
taught 70 compel the speedy hocking through
the Porte de GTdsss Of dutiable interests by
menacing them with hostile legislation. T6
introduce bill TO exclude foreign insuranos
companies from business in this StAtei q
aim grab law at the unclaimed deposits !.
the saving bankss 70 give notice Of 4 w y y
upset a charity or an artistic tralt ela -
spill their commissioners oat into ihe l12 = ~ y
octroii octroi l--how the menaqsd dpPss - ~.
all parts of the State rumble . tee - ~
. In their laden carts, and broa,nl.y ~ -
I dues demanded Of them. ans censc :. set.- e.a-
T harras1 mept Of riches which rerubnuseQ
Iead N Wall-stroet and the stock gambling
I devil. There is kissing dialogue about eom-
! promise snd the sale OF ths FepeShcAA
Party.