The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-03-19
How the AboiiIonists Crack
their whips.


former Republican Mayor of that city,
and the most popular young man in
Cleveland. Mr.. Griswold is high
toned young Republican, who thinks
and acts for himself. He is at present
a Representative in the Ohio Legisla-
ture from his county. What he says
about Gray is well deserved, and he
does nothing more than 'justice to his
subject:"-
The Senatorial QuestiOn----The
High Moral Tone of the Cieve-
land Trio----SenIer, GriSwOld,
aud Gray.
COLUMBUS, Maoch 6, 1862.
EDS CLEVELAND LEADER:-Before leaving
home, promised TO write you from this Cap.
itoI lew lines on the Senatorial question,
and shall very hastily do so. 1t seems to
be generally conceded that when the caucus
meets it will carry out the will Of Union ma
jority OF the State and re elect Hon. B. F..
Wade. lie has been slandered and abused
| by all sorts Of fellows, and attacked with all
kinds of implements, but he still holds his
way boldly and well. The other candidates
have been or are generally here, to show and
speak for themselves. Mr.. Wade has been
attending to his duties faithfully, and knows
the people will do right. Our city has fur.
nished about all the material which has been
so fercely combating Mr.. Wade. A dsin-
terested body Of patriots, Senter, Griswold,
and Gray have combined their mighty pow
ers and vast influence. Relying their venom
for energy, and their imagination for their
facts, they have circulated reports without
number and without much effect. Senter
seems to be most exercised about Mr.. Wade's
religious character, and weeps most constantly
when speaking on the subject. Being SO
pious himself, his appeals have great weight
with the members. Senter is himself pat
tern christian. The very air around him is
sancti6ed by his presence, and his garments is
have holy odor.. His religious views are
vast and grand, and il his body corporeal
were commensurate with his spiritual and
religious scope, his name should be changed
from Sen ter to Circumference, lor he would
make creation resound with his pious teach
| ing. | think he ought to become the property
of the State and be sent around to the differ
ent Sabbath schools to incite children to
emulate SO glor Gus sample of full grown
christianity. Won't it astonsh the devil
when he hears that Senter is opposing Mr..
Wade because Of profanity? lie will be
opening his eyes for the much hoped for
Millennium. .-t,s
Our reptesen alive Griswold, is very hos
tile, and refuses to be reconciled. The people
OF Northern Ohio have said that he was a
great office seeker, and like Virginia mill
tary warrant, ready for location on any va
cancy-that like q young black bird, his
mouth was opened wider than his head, to
have something dropped in, but deny these
ungentle attacks. He absolutely refuses te
be q canidate for United States Senator! His
supreme and concentrated modesty overpow.
ers his laudabe ambition, and be IS not ''ir
the ring" You are aI.hor zed to announce
the fact, grievous as may be its effect. He
however, magnanimously opposes Wade IN
defiance of the will OF his people, and to. the
destruction of his own brilliant career, be-
cause Wade drinks too much! Ii our Rep.
resentative were in the habit of using liquor
himself we could well understand his making
such basis for opposi ion, for the use OF II
by Wade might increase the price or tend tt
the aduteration Of a good article. But his
abstemious habits are we'll known. lie runs
down the best cogniac, and turns up his NOSE
at the smell Of it. His early taste Tor mill
, is still fresh and uncontaminaed
He never believes in a man having bran
dy-smash in his eye, whisky-sling in thu
J mouth hot punch in the stomach, or a gin
cocktail anywhere about his system. HI
cannot tolerate sitting around hotels, restau-
rants or drinking houses, nor will he lool
with compassion even upon private "smile.
He has avoided exciting drinks, and owe
i, his intellectual vigor, which looms him 81
proudly above his fellows, principally to hi
/ abstemiousness, and 10 the same cause cal
be attributed his magnificent physical devel.
opments, which, seemingly clothed in perpet.
q ual youth, have conferred on him the enviabl
!, title Of "rHE FAT BOY" Who would no
! practice self-nenial Tor so grand resnlt?--
S Our Representative at presLt drinks Congress
water to prepare him for the arduous dutie
he expects to assume before his political eye
: are sot.
/ You know am a peaccable man, but
felt very much like striking fellow las
week, for telling me that be thought ou
!, member because Of his great total abstin
! nceought to be referred to the Committe
: ION Finished Business explained to hin
that our Representative had natural aver
sion to drinking men and liquors, which wa
| greatly intensified by his abstemious lfe.-
q He apologized and handed me dollar. :
There are a great many here who regret tn
7 stringency Of our Representatives. views o.
, this subject, but he c4nnot be moved; and a
he saw Wade drink hard cider in 1910, h
yet remembers it 10 wrath. He is YER
busy writing to different portions Of th
State to manufacture public opinion and car
ries on q very constant confidential inter
{ course with the straight Locofocos, fror
which his temperance notions obtain grea
! support, and who JON him in whatever wi
tend to the deeat Of the peoples man 70
the United States Senate.
4 There is another patriot here by the nam
of Gray. His name being mixture of q
, coiors, dtfines his political character. /.
more beaitless mercenary never disgrace
any public print, by intrigue and falsehooC
!, He, too, is opposed to Wade, just as be woul
a fight any honest man, because OF naturs
! audi cultivated antipathy. lie keeps th
! Plain Dealer lwhat name for q newspape
|, teeming only with artihce and hypocrisy
filed up with slang against men whose mo
tiyes and conduct he has not the honesty t
, comprehend or appreciate. From his plac,
as Clerk OF the Senate, he keeps that de
lectable sheet full OF slang whangers an
falsehoods lie dare not preach political in
tegrity in his paper, or ii would baDkruI
the concern, lust as would the diffusion
virtue In q bawdy house scatter the indwel
4 lers. The concern wss 50. degraded tina
( even old James Buchanan, who tolerated a
kinds ofiniquitE found it TOO rotten for him
Z and he kicked il overheard, and the "whang
doodle mourned." Gray has been on a
sides of all questions, for and against all men
doing oil he could to excite hostility to th
Government before the breaking out of tn
rebellion, denouncing it as Republican war
and be came in TO the support OF tho Gov
|ernment when it was not safe to be else
where. He ioined the Union party wbei