The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1867-06-07


The Cincinnati Enquirer, the other day,
in an allusion to an incident connected
with this city, termed Dayton burOi
"Angels and ministers Of gracer Day
ton burgl Dayton, with her MetropoH-
tan police, burgi
II Is time that pufied up, inflated subur-
ban villages, like Cincinnati, should be ex-
posed Exposure Is deserved, and will be
wholesome.
IfDayton had not been worthy ofthat su-
preme privilege which was forbidden enyi-
Gus Clncinnatl-th release from the thank
less responsibility Of having TO attend to
her own business; to choose her own day
and night guardians, who carefully look
to the public and private, and political and
social, and religious and domestic, affairs
Of her peopls--taking all such disagreeable
personal responsibilities OF their hands
and relieving them Of such repulsive cares
Dayton would not We at least conjec-
ture, have melted the Jealousy OF the bragg
gart Queen City, which is 70 evident by
her harmless epithCt, burgl
We Indignantly hurl right into the teeth
OF snArling Cincinnati that Dayton is city
"a city Of gOverRment-a city totally un-
like that, down there, which is bounded by
Deer Creek on the east, Mil Creek on the
west, and on the north by the Miami Canal,
which connection with Dayton we can cut
of any time that we get mad enough.
There, they drink their lager beer, smoke
their cigars and pipes, roll their tenpins,
shoot their billiards, drive their fast teams
over the Avenue, play marbles, build bon
fires In the market spaces, cool of with
drug store lemonade, with "stick" in It,
and do innumerable other mchrlstian aud
heathenlsh acts, weekdays and Sundays,
daytime and night time, and the spiritless
dolts, whom they have chosen from among
themselves, to see TO such doings, are so
obliVious to duty, SO Oindifferent to the pres
ent and eternal welfare Of the people, that
they pay not the least heed-they rather
like It l-elose their eyes to all such wick
edness, and thus suffer all that thoughtless
and half-civilized community 10 absolutely
rush madly on their inevitable fatel
Goa these things be, ta ...t +"
And overcome us like q summer cloudi"
To be sure they can--down therel ia
This is monstrousi Dayton tried 1t, we
confess; but, under the mild, charitable,
christian examples and minlstrations that
came to her, through immaculate Massa-
ehusetts, she has come out from such de-
plorable state of wickedness. She did not
accomplish this without a great struggle,
however. That too, must be admitted
Nor did she triumph in this line OF perfec-
ton, until the great mass of her own sin
ners-devotees of those vices, to some eX-
tent-had been ''reduced to the ranks" by
eminent captains, their power to do evil to
themselves taken-from them, and the power
to do good for them concentrated In four oi
her "loise n.en," who know all that they
themselves know, all that the People know
or are allowed to know, in the way oi
starting up the millennium Of mortal, nunl-
cipal Metropolitan perfection; and, as is
confidently hoped, by the new dispensa-
ton, all that is necessary for anybody to
know, TO make Dayton the solidest corner
stone, and highest reaching tower ofsecial,
and moral, aud religious excellence on the
terrestrial globel .n...