Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-11-16


houses, and where in q small place il
gathered fearful amount of wretchednesG
| and poverty, Mr.. Mcclellan has ten to MF
Lineoln's one, or 2, ,l6l to 2l3; one notori,
ous district of it giving the Democratic
candidate twenty to the Union one, or GAO
to "a. un .alf II. --'t-z .,-i9 G-1I
The Fourth Ward, where are the worst
dance. saloons and most murderous haunta
of the city, shows nearly six to one for its
favorite, or 2,379 to 435 one district,
(Sixth, giving twenty-five times as many
votes to Gen. Mcclellan as to his opponent
The Sixth Ward again, once ill-famed
for the Five Points, and still containing an
awful amount of PattlAnism and vice, ten
ders the Peace Democracy nearly eteven to
one, or 3, l4T for Mcclellan to 329 for Lin
coin; come Of its worst districts showing
twenty to one for their candidate.
The Fourteenth Ward in portions OF
which are crowds of brothels and rum
shops, runs up its vote some five to one for
the Chicago candidate, or 4, 1929 to $50.
The Eleventh, where are immense multi
tudes of ignorant Germans, packed and
thronged in lofty tenement houses, and
where domicle, the rag -pickers and bone.
gatherers of New York, testiies its honor
to the distinguished General Of the Democ-
racy by 8 ,532 against 1890.
The Eighteenth, where, in the eastern
portion Of which, was the most rioting last
Summer, and which abounds with crammed
tenement-houses and liqu0r-shops, aud q
most degraded population, manifests its
devotion to peace by giving 4,424 against
2,6Ts.
The Seventeenth again, with its crowd
ed German populations; and it's "Mackerel-
ville," rolls up the heaviest majority Of
any Ward for "Litle Mac" 1901 against
We might go on thus with other dis
tFicts equally notorious, or equally filled
with degraded and ignorant population.
On the other hand, the Ninth, most
intelligent and orderly ward with large
numbers of native born mechanics and
business people, gives Mr.. Lincoln 1885,
against 3,844.
The Fifteenth unquestionably the most
intelligent and orderly ward in the city,
shows the only Union majority. 2,244
against 1,970.
And SO with the districts lying between
Second avenue: and Seventh, and in all the
cross streets, from river to river, where
are separate houses and we'll off or in
telligent class,-the votes here for the Ad-
ministration increases immensely.
Such facts are signicant, and should be
thoughtfully weighed by candid Demo.
Gratis. Are they prepared to stand by the
party whose great strength lies in the
pauperism and vice of our cities?
Prom tho New York Tribune.
THE IRISH VOTE.
We beg leave to assure the eminent and
estimable friends of the Union cause in
Ireland, whose addresses aud appeals to
A haU
suppressed, that we did shis with pang
for its apparent discourtesy, but in defer
ence to clear conviction of what was
due to our country and to the require
ments of the occasion. In theory, all men
who exercise the right of suffrage in this
land are Americans, aud we uniformly ad.
dress them In that character when we seek
to influence their votes. IT any OF them
choose to regard our current politics from
an Irish, German, or other foreign stand
point, that is National misfortune which
we do not choose to aggrsVate. Their
Irish brogue' may be 'rich,2 or their Ger
man accent sweet to those who like 1t;
but that circumstance has no relevancy to
any question now challenging the atten-
ton of the American People.
1t happens to be the fact that at least
ninety. nine of every hundred Irish. born
ever is commended to them as the Demo-
cratic ticket, and that they did so this year
with greater unauimity than ever before.
II is also notorious fact that these, as
class, are not sofwell educated and inform
ed in the average as our American born
voters are. Neither of these facts impels
us to enter upon crusade against the
constitutional rights of foreign. born or
Irish.born citizens. The latter generally
cherish that view of our current politics
which we characterize as Pro. Slavery: 1t is
antagonist to ours, but we combat 1t with
the weapons OF fact and argument alone
If there be those who hold political power
the proper heritage of a caste, clani
sect, we are not of the number.
We cannot doubt that 1t is public mis-.
fortune,th there should be One Hundred
Thousand legal electors in our Statei with
ave times that number in the Union, whose
votes NAV at each election be with perfect
confidence inferred from their speech. We
heartily wish that Irish boru Americans
were divided like others, voting with this
or that party according to their individual
convictions, and not with clannish unan-
unity. But the National misfortune we
deprecateiis inevitably aggravated by any
crusade against those through whose po-
litical action it is made manifest So long
as Irish-born Americans are satisfied to
vote once each at an election, and to vote
only where the law says they may, we too
are content.
But our publication of the appeals sent
US from Ireland urging them to vote as We
think right would have violated sound
principle to no practical end. For reasons
which TO them are Sufficient, the great
body of the Roman Catholic priesthood OF
Nha a nd
tisans and upholders of Human Slavery,
and do not sympathize with the Republic
in the war which the Slave Power has
Wickedly iWaged against it for the over
throw and dissolution of our Nationality.
Those of them now resident in thetoyal
States do not desire DiHunion per Sc, but
they do desire 'reconstruetion' based ON