Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-12-24
Renewal of Government Work from Gin
cinDatl.

II Renewal of Government Work from Gin
cinnati.
II will be recollected by our readers that
in last Wednesdays Pass we alluded to
rumors in circulation to the effect that Gov.
erpment work was to be discontinued in our
citv by orders from the authorities at Wash
ipgtop, and that hereafter clothing, arms,
saddIery, wagons, &C.. for the Western
troops were to be made in the Eastern cities.
These rumors, it appears, were not without
found alton, as it has been reliably ascertaiued
that the Quartermaster at this place has re-
ceiyed an order from Qusrternaster-G General
Meigs to award DO more contracts ia Cincin-
natl for the manufacture Of clothing for the
soldiers. Whysuch sn order has been issued
we have not learned-in fact no one appears
to know. II can not be that no more cloth
ing is needed or will be. There are now in
the West and South. west about one hun
dred and fifty thousand troops, and admit
ting, which we very much doubt, that they
have all been provided with plenty of good,
warm clothing, how long will it be be-
fore their clothing will have to be renewed
Should the war continue six months longer,
every soldier now in active service will have
to be furnished with new clothing by that
time, while at least part of the clothing of
those who have been in the army for the last
five or six months now need renewing, or
will in very short time.
Clothing can be made in Cincinnati as low
and as good, as in any city in the world, or
any thing else required by the Government
for the use of the army. We ask for no more
than we are legitimately entitled to-a fair
share of the contracts for supplies for the
Western army. We have no desire to take
from the Eastern cities contracts for supply
ing the large army on the Potomac, or troops
quartered at other points in the East, but
with these we think they should be satisfied.
No city in the Union, in proportion to
population, has done more than Cincinnati
toward suppressipg the rebellion. Out of a
population of about one hundred and seventy
thousand, not less than twelve thousand of
our citizens have gone into the army; and
at the commencement of hostilities, our Coun-
Gil voted $25O,COO out of the City Treasury
as a loan to the State of Ohio, to be used in
raising and equipping troops for the General
Government, besides some $4,000 paid NJ.
Greenwood for the manufacture of cannon,
and $40, 600 loaned Gen. Mitchell for the use
of the Government.
1t is true, we have been receiving fair
share of Government work; but why should
this work be discontinued here and taken to
some other place? Upon this point our peo'
pie would like to be enlightened; and, if thu
work should be removed, they will hold t
q strict accountability their Representative
atWashington, whose duty it is to see tina
Cincinr att gets what she is fairly entitled to
St. Louis got the building of the gun
boats for the contemplated expedition dowr
the Mississippi River, simply because sh
had a Representative at Washington VIII
atterded to her interests. If the matter ha
been properly attended to in time by thos
of our citizens whose position at Washing
ton gives them a commanding influence
these boats would have been built at Oincin
natl, and large amount of money thu
placed in the pockets of our mechanics.
Three of the members of President Lin
coins Cabinet are from the West one o
whom was, for many years, resident O
Cincinnati. This fact was sufficient in itsel
to warrant the belief and hope that the long
neglected West would at last receive th
attention and consideration that her popu
lation, wealth and enterprise entitled her tC
Have the hopes and expectations ofthe peopl
of the West, in this respect, been realized
Let Us see. Out of the two hundred or NOR
vessels added to the navy, only some eigh
or ten were built in the West, the balano
having been purchased or built in the Eas
When the rebellion broke out in the SoutI
troops were drawn from the West to proteC
Washington, leaving Kentucky, Aissou
and Southern Ohio exposed to the rebels
and it was only after repeated and mo-
earnest solicitation that the Government al
thorized General Mitchell TO look to Il
protection of Cincinnati, and then the Gil
had to furnish out of her own treasury u
means to make the necessary fortification
And now the contracts for supplying WeSter
troops are TO be taken from the West an
given to the East.
We trust and hope that our representative
at Washington will make an effort to haV
General Meigs order cOuntermanded, an
that a fair proportion Of the manufacture
necessary for supplying the Army Of Il
West shall continue to be done in Cincinnal
Our mechanics need the work, and they a
justly entitled TO it, r.ra. 30 94r7, .