Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-09-27
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A Radical sheet at Cleveland, Ohio, abuses
US like a pick-pocket for the very temperate
notice we took Of the Presidents late recep-
ton in that city, and the gross and brutal
insults offered him on that occasion-the first
he had met on his tour. The Radical editor
may rest quietly; for the reputation Of his
town was previously established. The pub
lie have not forgotten the reception it gave
Gen. CAS- a number Of years ago-nor the
more recent treatment bestowed upon Gen.
ScoTT, all in perfect keeping with the disor-
DERBY and brutal proceedings towards the
present Chief Magistrate of the country.
Neither has the pre-eminent immortality OF
Cleveland, as exhibited in its current histo-
ry, been overlooked by observant outsiders.
1t is known, among its acquaintance, as
modern Sodom in which vice and corruption
are most open and prevalent 1t Is the
Stockholm of America; and in it the moral
depravity Of the people, and the boiling and
seething Of crime is well typifed by the
Maelstroln, hurrying to infamy and destruc-
ton all who come within its influence except
the sturdiest and most expert sailors on the
sea Of life. The horrible details Of the in
trigues, amours andexposure of half dozen
Of the bon ton on a singlestreet within year
the arrest of some forty of the most re-
spectacle youths in the space Of one night,
for ofienses which decency forbids the men
ton, are sufficient to establish for Cleveland,
Ohio, a breadth and depth of infamy, I'M
approachable on the continent, and to justify
the brutal assaults which were there made
upon the President
The particular individual, too, who in
augurated that vile procedure, we are credi-
bly, informed, was one who figures in a
learned profession and boasts Of his direct
connection and intimate social and pro-
fessional relations with the best and most
influential families of the city. But he is
also said to be a vile loafer, hanger-on at
disreputable houses of all sorts, but head and
front Of the town Radicals the FOUNDERS,
shoulder-hitters and Withal a most arrant
coward ana kuaNe. AAc was tnS hoAoFe9s
Union man IN CleVeland during the war,
bat never put his foot outside Of the city to
defend it. On the reception Of the news of
LEES surrender, at Cleveland April, 1865.
he led in the rcjoicings, and toasted the
triumph in rotations on the streets, from a
domestic vessel in universal use, but scarce
" ever named, and never used for such
a purpose. His patriotism and his
decency and his courage were thus concen-
trated and illustrated in a grand display Of
maudlin joy and vile vulgarity. The Presi-
dent perfectly described his character when
he said, in reply to his interruptions: If
the light was reflected upon your face, cow
ardice and treachery would be depicted up
on it. If you ever shoot a man you will do
it in the dark, and pull the trigger when no
one Is by to see you"
There are doubtless some good men and
women in Cleveland; but like LOT, of old,
they stand in the midst Of vice and wicked
ness, that undersimilarc circumstances, would
sink it, like Sodom, to utter destruction.
They should come out from it, and not look
back but leave it az a monument TO warn
the bad and to be Stunned by the good.