Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-29


Enquirer TO ave their trade and industry
by electing lis ticket at tho coming muni-
cipal slection-the trade and industry being
thus savCd as aforesaid, BY showing the
South that Cincinnati Is mot an abolition
hole.p If the people, however, shall prove
contumaeiOus and not elect the Democratico-
American ticket Cincinnati will be an
abolition hole" not worthy that The South
should cohabit with it in the way Of trade
and this the Ehqnirer gives the South to UNI
derstand.
The Enquirer is intensely devoted to the
material interests of Cincinnati. Only elect
the Observation-Disclosures ticket and may
your merchants be opulent, your manufao-
turers wealthy, and your laborers full fed and
comfortable otherwise starve-all of you
Trustworthy EhgUirerI
Is this the voice of the party-of the can
didates2 Does the Enquirer truly represent
the spirit and temper Of the party or fu-
sion-whatever it may be--in whose name
it processes to speak2 Does Mr.. Hatch, or
Mr.. Ware, or Mr.. Noble, or Mr.. Stackhouse,
desire to visit upon this community the loss
of its trade with countries across the Ohio,
as a punishment, in case they shall fail to be
elected to the Offices for which they are can
didates2 Do they wish to stand before their
fellow. citizens at this canvass, in the aspect
of holding, for Southern information, that
this will be an Abolition hole if they are
not, and will not be an Abolition hole in
o,co Nbau ara alanfad9 Ara 4bn- ~rsl.-.A
be represented as going into the canvass
upon the idea that the votes of free citizens
of this city ought to begiven with reference
to the question what viii be most agreeable
to the people of Kentucky and Tennessee,
and Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Arkansas
We suspect not. We believe that the
Enquirer misrepresents the party, and con-
structively bellies the candidates. Human
ity is not quite so mean as the shadows in
that mirror would seem to testify. The
South is better-infnitely more liberal in
its feelings, than the Enquirer would make it
appear. 1t is not watching our local cleo
tions with a view to punish us by cutting off
our trade, in case we do not consult its feel
ings in the choice of our municipal officers.
Strife and bitter feeling at home and
abroad, a neglect of the questions that be-
long to our local politics are the conse-
ouences of this course of el%ectioneering;
nor can we believe that it will be produce
tive of other than bad effects to the party.
There is some honor-something not yet
salable-something that responds to other
sounds beside the clink of the current coin
of the Commonwealth, left in the commu.
nifty and where there is, there will be a
protest against this style of performance.
But suppose the people of Cincinnati &C.
cept the Enquirer'S plan, and agree that the
| South should not trade with this city unless
it shows Southern principles. Then they
admit that the Southern trade depends on
the chances of a small majority either way,
at our ever recurring elections. And if, as
the Enquirer foolishly pretends, the Southern
trade is vital to the existence of Cincinnati,
we have the vast interests and prosperity of
this city, and the very wages of its laborers,
depending on the shifting majority of cleo
tions, which come in some shape, twice a
year. Do the Democratic laborers of Gin
cinnati wish to establish the Enquirer princi-
pie that their labor should be destroyed and
their families reduced to want, whenever
they are outvoted2 That is what they are
called on TO do now.
But suppose the principle were estab-
lished, the livelihood of the people made de-
pendent on their political opinions, and the
Democratic American ticket were to sue
coed; would that convince the South that
they ought to trade with Cincinnati? On
the contrary, according to the Enquirer, it
would show that nearly one. half of the peo-
pie of Cincinnati were Abolitionists, fanati-
calJy hostile 10 the South, and determined
to wage inIendiary warfare on their peculiar
domestic relations. This is the way the En-
guirer insists on CHASING all who do not vote
the Democratic American ticket. Then the
inducement which the Enquirer would hold
out TO the South for their trade, would be a
city in which, estimating the population with
the suburbs, at 100000, and supposing the fu-
sion ticket to have a majority, about 95, 900
of the people are ~incendiary Abolition ia
Datics.
Is this the kind of showing that will Sc.
cure Southern trade? On the contrary, does
not this policy, so far as it is successful,
destroy Southern trade, by p~ersuading the
South that about one-half of our people are
hostile to them7 If one-hnlf of a commu
nifty should have a constitutional propensity
to burn their neighbors. property, would an
occasional majority over the ~iucendiaries in
the popular vote, be any inducement to set
tie among tbemP If the success of the Re-
publican Ticket would show, as the Enquirer
says, that Cincinnati is an abolition hole"
then nearly one-half the population being
Republican in sentiment, would make it an
abolition hole" whether they succeeded in
carr ting the election or not.
The course that the Enquirer pursues and
advises would sacrifice the prosperity and
Industry Of this city to party strife. 1t
would make the trade of our merchants and
the success of our manufacturers dependent
not upon their own political opinions, but
upon the political opinions of their neigh
boIs. A merchant may be willing to make
commodity of bis own sentiments, for the
sake Of his stock of goods; but he is to be
made obnoxious to the South because his
peighbor, who has no goods, votes on the
other side.
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