Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-12-12
. Five Points Ward In New York
Republican Vote 2S; Demo.
cratic S,24So!! Asl-v


Democratic party is not T" respectable"
class of "good society,"" and that when
they get drunk, 1t is always on the mean
est kind of whisky. The last effort of this |
kind made by that sheet, like its former
ones is a failure. 1t is as follows:
FIVE POINTS, New YoRK.-Republicaa
vote IS; Democratic 224S. ss-sl-
Since the days that the editor knew the
Five Points of New York, there has been a
radical change. Not one of the band that
formerly made the name infamous is left to
tell the tale, and visiting that spot, General
Comfy would not recognize single asso-
cate of former days. What was, but few
years since, the haunt of vice, where Ne
groes and Whites mingled and mixed after
the most approved form OF Radical teach
ing, is now among the most peaceable and
Industrious sections of New York.
The Ward in which this once famed
locality is situated, which, according to
the .Tosrnal gave 2,4s Democratic to 2s
Republican votes, is one the wcalthiest in
the city, embracing the largest shipping
interest and the heaviest mercantile estab
| lishments on the east side of Broadway,
among them the marble palace of A. I
STEWART, at the corner of Chambers street
and Broadway. In no part of the city is
the busy hum of industry heard more than
in the Five Points ward for the section be-
tween Broadway and East river is filled
with manufactures turning out millions
of wealth each week, and giving employ
ment to thousands Of men whose bread is
earned by the sweat of their faces.
With more of commercial and mcehani-
cal wealth, perhaps, than any ward in New
York, or, perhaps, on the continent, thM
wherein the once famed Five Points is
located, with population noted for its in
dustry, there is, according to the Journal
but % Republican votes to 224S Demo-
cratic /!
The Five Points Mission House, which
now occupies the spot where the Old Brew
cry, with its rioting, licentiousness, robbery
murder, was the Enle, stood, has done its
work, transferring that oEce hated spot
into an orderly, well behaved and intelli-
gent community, where but.2S Republican
to 2.2iS Democratic votes attest the fact
that missionary labor has about accom-
plished its perfect work.
The voting population of the ward is, al
most without exception, made up of me-
chanics and arrisans-men who vote un.
derstandingly, and hence vote the Demo
i cratic ticket. In former days, the anti
Democratic vote was much larger, bu
that was in days before the hand of justic.
had weeded out the vile and the licen
tious, and allowed their places to be fillet
with the men of the hard hand and homes
heart. Many of these Republican voter
still reside in the ward, but their lodgins
Is in the Toombs, and those boarding a
that famed mansion never vote on election
days, and hence in the :. Five Points
ward, in New York, the Republican vot,
is %; Democratic 224S!!
We thank the journal for doing tina
which willmake his party friends eurs
him for his folly-that is, bringing thi
important fact to our notice. iii..a j f.-i p
Democratic Saase Conventfon IN
lndiana.
The Democratic State Central Commit
tee of Indiana have just issued call for
State Convention, to be held at Indianapo
Z lis on the 9Th of January, to nominate ,
State Ticket to elect Delegates to the Dem
ocratic National Convention, and to selec
Presidential Electors for the State of In
diana. The Committee also adopted tn
following resolution: .r --..,,.z
ResoluetL That the Democratic Stat
Central Committee of Indiana send con
gratulations to the Democracy and Con
servatives of Connecticut, Kentucky, Cali
fornia, Maine, Pennsylvania and Ohio, OF
the occasion of the late brilliant politica
victories in those States; that we regart
these results as the reflex of enlightenet
popular opinion in all the free Common
wealths not entirely abandoned to tn
control of fanaticism and the domination
of sectional hate, and as the dawning o
the day when the country shall have re
stored Union. on the basis of the WHITE
MANS RULE PAYMENT AND RE
DEMPTION OF OUR NATIONAL
EQUAL TAXATION on all and ever
species of property within the States. In
diana will join the hosts of the redeeme
States in 1868.
The Demand that will he Made
What a monitor the ballot-box is! Wor
comes from Washington through Republi
can channels, that many leading Republi
can members are becoming impressed wit
the belief that the luxury of Freedmen
Bureau-a costly institution inaugurate
and continued to Africanize the South
can be dispensed with. The result of th
recent elections have given life to that be
lief. If the Republican leaders will onl
carefully watch the public pulse, they ma
learn that the people are rapidly gettin
into that condition out of which will gro
an imperative demand that all legislatio
2 looking to the exaltation of Negrot
over White men shall be swept frol
q the statute book of the Federal Go,
ernment, and shall ever after be kept fro
it. If any are incredulous on this poin
they will have to wait only little long'
to be convinced. That demand is as sui
to come as that Negro Suffrage was owe
whelmingly defeated at the late electio
in Ohio.
A Political Calamity" Accepted
a With yearning solicitude for the we
fare of the people of Pittsburgh and Il
country generally, the Pittsburgh Gael
(double-dyed Radically pathetically told Il
voters of that city before the election #
Mayor came off, that if they elected tt
Democratic candidate for Mayor it wou
be "political calamity" The people Iii
tened and then voted the Depocratic car
didate into Office by over one thousand mi
jority. They thus accepted the politics
calamity" justly believing that instead