The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-12-14
Prom the Ohio S,aiesman.I
"Five Points Ward in New York
RePnbiican Vote 2S! Democratic
Q2lSYtt

22is,!!
The 10 rnal, of this city, takes huge
delight in endeavoring to show that
the Democratic party is not respect
able" one-that its members belong not
to the class of good society,"" and that
when they get drunk, it is always on
the meanest 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.-Republi-
can vote %: Democratic 2245.
r since the days that the editor knew
the Five Points of New York, there has
been radical change. Not one of the
band that formerly made the name in
famous is left to tell the tale, aud visit
ing that spot, General Comfy would not
recognize single associate of former
days. What was, but few years since,
the haunt of vice, where negroes and
whites mingled and mixed after the most
approved form Of Radical teaching, is
now among the most peaceable and in
dustrious sections of New York.
The Ward in which this once famed
locality is situated, which, according tn
the Journal, gave 22iS Democratic to %
Republian votes, is one the wealthiest
in the city, embracing the largest ship
ping interest and the heaviest mercantile
Establishments on the east side of
Broadway, among them the marble
palace of A. Il. Stewart, at the corner of
Chambers street and Broadway. In no
part of the city is the busy hum of in
| Ia, in hn
Points ward, for the section between
Broadway and East River is filled with
manufactures, turning out millisns OF
wealth each week. and giving employ
ment to thousands of men whose bread
is earned by the sweat of their faces.
EWith more of commercial and me
chanical wealth, perhaps, than any
ward in New York, OF, perhaps, on the
continent, that wherein the once famed
Five Points is located, with popula-
ton noted for its industry, there is, ac-
cording to the Journal, but % Republi-
can votes to :l245 Democratic!
The Five Points Mission House,
which now occupies the spot where the
Old Brewery, with its riOting, licen-
tiousuess, robbery, murder, was the rule,
stood, has done its work, transferring
that once hated spot into an orderly,
well-behaved and intelligent commuDi-
ty, where but y Republican to 224S
Democratic votes attest the fact that
missionary labor has about accomplish
ed its perfect work.
The voting population of the ward is,
almost without exception, made up of
mechanics and artisans-men whO'vOte
understandingly, and hence vote the
Democratic ticket. In former days the
anti-Democratic vote was much larger,
bnt that was in days before the hands
If instice had weeded out the vile and
the licentious, and allowed their places
TO be HE'D with the men of the hard
aand and honest heart. Many of these
Republican voters still reside in the
ward, but their lodging are in the
Toombs, and those boarding at that
famed mansion never vote on election
days, and hence in the Give Points"
ward, in New York, til , Republican vote
IS %; Democratic 22iS!!
We thank the journal for doing that
which will make his party friends curse
Iim for his folly-that is, bringing this
Important fact TO Our notice.