Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-25
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Modern Democracy in Cincinnati Alarmed.
An Bhort 20 Keep Within Party Traces
the 700 DemocrRtic Voters Of the Thir.
teenth Ward. tf.i.-l. --
TO the Working-men Of The Thirteenth Ward:
You viii observe, by the late appointments
made by Sheriff Armstrong aud Judge Pad
dock, of the Probate Court, the sudden and
somewhat ealvanic efforts which are being
made, in high upDf quarters TO keep the old
vote Of the Thirteenth Ward in the "party
traces" By giving appointments TO the fol-
lowing unprecedented amount of patriot
ism, which comprises the followinPi Messrs.
Washington and Frank Armstrong as Depu-
ties in the SherifFs Office, and Messrs. Korte,
Armstrong, Hagarty and MeGrath as writers
and sweepers in Judge Paddocks Court.
This is as it should be, and look on it as
q good omen to have the leaders of modern
Democracy be at last forced TO recognize the
men who have always sustained them in the
hard fought political contests of this county.
The shock and partial defeat which the
Democratic Party received at the late Octo-
Der election, from portion of the Irish
American voters, has caused them to change
their tactics, so rs to treat, with becoming
share of respect, in the distribution Of
Office, the men who elected them.
1t has also atendency to calm the wounded
and lacerated feelings caused in the ranks of
the party by the Mt. Pleasant Convention,
which absolutely ignored the ''civi" aud
religious liberty of the majority of those
who sustain the Democratic Party in Ham
ilton County. 1t must be confessed, how
ever, that the large vote which the late DEM
ocratic County Ticket received from portion
of the Germans, and the Irish especially.
was the most humiliating and abjeet con
tesson OF their inferiority known to the po-
ltical history OF the country. It is noto-
rious fact that Messrs. McGroarty and Egly,
candidates before the Convention for County
CLERK, were beaten on the ground of their
being Catholics" The war.cry raised
against them by delegates during the differ
ent hallotings before nomination was ar
rived at "Will you vote for the Cd d-d
Irish or German Catholic" Yet both those
gentlemen did more, "by getting votes"
for the Democratic Party, than any others
in the city of Cincinnati. But what cared
the intolerant spirits who ruled the Conven-
tom they calculated on the "rankn and
hle" to be drummed up according to custom
And to their everlasting shame be it said the
whippers-in were to a great extent sue
cessful.
Even the Catholic Telegraph, of this city,
characterized the stormy scenes of the Mt.
Pleasant Convention reminded them of sec I.
tartan advertisements for help, as seen in the
daily papers occasionally, such as, "no
Catholic need apply All honor 10 the
noble "six hundred" who crushed the des.
potism OF the Mt. Pleasant Convention, who
redeemed the few truculent slaves, who are
now receiving the "mess of pottage," pur-
chased at the price of their selErespect.
"ThOsS who hen mTa be free shall themselves first strike
Working-men of the Thirteenth Ward, it
is now presumed that all your wants are
satisfied. "You need no employment"
"Hou need no peace in the country until the
Democrats are in power" for as good Demo-
Gratis as you can live on a dish of spiced
politics done up at the Enquirer Office, with
stray shot of rifle whisky picked up on
the wsy side, while the whippers- in are, one
by one, getting installed into "little Jobs"
which degrades them below the level of
the stIeetseavebgers Working-mep of the
Thirteenth Ward, do you approve of the
strict Democratic-Party vote of Messrs. Pen
dleton, Cox andV Vallandingham, you" r"party"
representatives in Congress, in giving aid
and comfort, by their every word aud act
to the conspirators of the South in precipj,
tating anarchy and civil war on the couutcy,
by embarrassing the national credit and
causing offers of hHmiliating coincidence to
be presented ION the loss Of our once great
prestige" by false sympathizers to our resi-
dent Ministers at the Courts of foreign
governments -...
Working men of the Thirteenth Ward
this systematic treason is being carried oui
by the leaders of the political party which
yo1have heretofore done so much to place
in power, and are now contriving, by every
stratagem known to the brain of politician,
regardless of the misery and destitution
which it brings on you, Their too-faithful
allies, to regain their hold on the purse
slrings of the nation. WOrking-men Of the
thirteenth Ward, put off the shackles of
party usages-in q word, "be men, You
are clothed with the mantle of citizenship !;
do your own "votng" and 'thinkiug,n for
by such you will show yourselves capable to
combat the storm which is raging over the
country ofyour adoption. @.