Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1866-10-12
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Radical PrOscrIptiOn-A Gard from
A. MOORE

A. Moore.
We publish the following card from A.
Moore, of the firm of Kelton, Bancroft q
Co., of this city, at his request with our
comments annexed:
MIR. MooRE's CARD.
Mr.. EDITOR: Your article IN this morn
ing's paper headed "Rqdcal Prescription"
conveys a false impression, as the following
statement will show:
On the eve Of election / ordered my
hostler to have my horses apd carriage
ready my use ON the following morning,
and TO be on hand to take care OF them
during the day. He impertlnently replied,
stake care of your own horses on election
day." / decided ut once to remove him,
but had no Que In view to take his place.
knew him to be Democrat before
employed him, about two years since, and
never solicited him to vote with me, or un-
dertook In any way to control his vote.
will dismiss any man who refuses TO 40
what pay him for doing, and intend to
employ whom please, without asking any
ones permission. ADDISON MOORE.
COLUMBUS, Oct. 11th, 1866.
COMMENTS.
Mr.. Moore says our article conveys false
impression. We are confirmed, from his
own statement, in the belief that our article
Is substantially true. 49,
Mr.. Moore states that on the evening be-
fore the election, he ordered his hostler to
have his horses and carriage ready for his
use on the following morning, and to be on
hand to take care of them during the day.
Mr.. Moore further states that he knew his
hostler to be Democrat, but never solicit
ed him to vote with him (Mr. MOore), or
undertook in any way to control his
vote.
Admitting that he never sought to con-
troll the mans vote directly, yet he did, ac-
cording to his own showing, the same thing
Indirectly. He knew the man was Demo-
crat, and on the evening preceding the
election, issued an order which, understood
literally, and he does not intimate that he
meant it to be understood in any other way,
amounted to total prohibition of his hos
tier from going to the polls and voting at
all.
The man was to have the carriage and
horses ready for Mr.. Moore's use on the
morning of election day. The order to the
man to be on hand during the day to take
care of them, clearly implied that he must
not, on pain of dismissal for disobedience
of orders, leave the premises on any ac-
count whatever, not even to go to the polls
and vote. He was to remain there, and was
peremptorily denied the exercise of his
right to vote, in order to be on hand to take
care of carriage and horses doubtless
used to convey Radical voters to the polls
The staunch Democrat, an independent
German voter by the way, from his ac-
quaintance with Mr.. Moore during the two
years he had been in his service, under
stood him perfectly, and knew the nature
of his order, and how it was meant to be
understood. He knew that it was intended
to prevent him from going to the polls and
voting the Democratic ticket. He knew,
too, full well that if he had been a Radical
the order would have been given in very
different form, and would have contained a
proviso allowing the servant to be absent
from his post long enough to vote, while to
him the order was absolute to be Oh hand
during the day.
Is it wonder, then, that the Independent
laborer, though hired servant, should in
dignantly reply to his overbearing master,
as Mr.. Moore says he did, "Take care OF
your own horses on election day?" Per-
haps the man was rather hasty; but he saw
the order precluded him from voting, and
every true-hearted American will honor
the spirit that prompted the ready response.
We do not question, nor are we disposed
to curtail, the right or privilege OF Mr.
Moore to dismiss any man from his services
even though he be an independent German
voter, and to employ, if he prefer it, as we
understand he has done in the present case,
a negro in his stead. ;a -Ht .-i. u