The Daily Cincinnati Republican, And Commercial Register

MISREPRESENTATION.

The following extraordinary extract of a letter from this city, is copied from the Globe of the 27th ultimo

DEMOCRACY OF OHIO

Extract from a letter to the editor, dated Cincinnati, June 14, 1836.

Dear Sir: Enclosed I send you a slip from our paper of this day, containing a report of a public meeting held here on Monday last, perhaps the largest ever before held in this county: from that and other circumstances, I have reason to believe that the conduct of the administration has the full and entire confidence and approbation of the great democratic family in Ohio. The preamble and resolutions were fully approved of by every democrat of the meeting, consisting of about four thousand persons, and objected to by none but about half a dozen agents employed by the Trust Company, as I have understood, to create some confusion, but in which they entirely failed; and the meeting went off in a manner quite creditable to the good sense and propriety of conduct of the democrats present.

We do not know who the author of the foregoing letter is. He has been guilty of a gross perversion of facts. We coincide with him in the belief that "the conduct of the administration has the full confidence and approbation of the great democratic family of Ohio." But he is wrong in attributing a slight disturbance that transpired at the meeting, between Mr. Piatt and Mr. Talbot, (a master mechanic, and democrat,) to the influence of the Trust Company. The Trust Company, as a company, we have good reason to know, did not attempt to interfere with the proceedings of the meeting alluded to in the foregoing extract. The directors of that institution are not, it is true, all friendly to the administration.—But a number of them are. The President is a decided friend of democratic principles, and was a warm supporter of Mr. Van Buren during the late canvass. Mr. Disney, one of the directors of the institution, has always been identified with the democratic party of this district, and labored zealously at the democratic oar, at the last Presidential—and Congressional elections. Mr. Fosdick, a director also of the Institution, is the Sheriff of the county. He was the regularly nominated candidate of the democratic party of Hamilton county, and was elected over his Whig competitor by a majority exceeding that received by the democratic candidate for Congress. He was ahead of every other candidate on the Democratic ticket.—Mr. Luckey is also an influential director of that Institution. No one—not even the writer of the foregoing extract will dare question his democracy.

The disturbance alluded to at the meeting in this city by the correspondent of the Globe, was a personal matter between Mr. Piatt and Mr. Talbot. The former has been for some time past rather officious in intruding his views upon democratic assemblies. It is important that the Globe and others at a distance who feel an interest in the democratic cause, should know the facts. Mr. Piatt is a new convert to democracy. He is exceedingly obnoxious with the majority of the republicans of this county. He is a man of some wealth, and loans money out at an exorbitant rate of interest. Nevertheless he is professedly a great lover of the people. He goes the entire swine for bringing everybody down to a moral level with himself, and for climbing upon the people's shoulders to some snug post of political power and pecuniary emolument. He commenced his political career a Clay man, a blue light rantankerous federalist. He was a member of the "Baby Clay Convention" in Washington city, where he disgusted the whole body with the coarseness, the bitterness, and the vulgarity of his vituperations against Gen. Jackson and his amiable consort. Disgust they say begets disgust. Mr. Piatt became suddenly disgusted with his Whig friends, and "jumped Jim Crow." He turned a somerset, and before you could say "Jack Robinson," he was dashing and splashing in the midst of the democratic party. The most ultra of the ultra. The most radical of the radical.—The most loud, noisy, blustering, vehement violent, uncompromising advocate of an "exclusive specie currency," and for the repeal of all Bank charters. If two or three individuals of a ward met together for the purpose of consulting about the policy of a local measure, there was Mr. Piatt, with his everlasting Bank speech. If a democratic meeting was called to nominate candidates for a County Convention, or for city officers, there was Mr. Piatt with his stereotyped Bank speech, which generally wound up with an eulogy upon himself and his services. And in times of emergency with the democratic party, when a concentration of the democratic forces—a union of feeling and action and a reconciliation of differences were required, there was Mr. Piatt to be seen, the very personification of discord and strife, most active in stirring up the elements of faction, and laboring to counteract the exertions of those who were throwing oil upon the troubled waters, and who were solicitous to produce concert and harmony. Follow his career ever since he left his first love, and thrust himself upon the democratic party—disorganization, strife, disturbances, heart burnings have distinguished his path. We have long since looked upon his appearance at any public meeting, no matter of what purpose assembled, whether for the purpose of taking into consideration matters concerning exclusively the interests or policy of the democratic party, or for the purpose of adopting measures or a celebration of the 4th of July, which interests every American citizen, without distinction of classes or parties, no prognostication of evil. The presence of this political owl, at the democratic meeting in this city referred to in the extract of a letter which we have published from the Globe, was the cause of all the disturbance that came under our observation during the proceedings, if we except the ribaldry and indecent conduct of the whigs, of whom there were present one or two hundred.

We saw but one individual upon the ground who was connected with the Trust Company. He is a Director of the Institution, and we heard him say that he subscribed to the resolutions adopted by the meeting. Mr. Talbot, who interrupted Mr. Piatt, always acted with the democratic party. He is a mechanic, and is not the most distantly connected, as we can learn, with the Trust Company.

We are not the apologist of Mr. Talbot—He is competent, we presume, to conduct his own defence. It is to be regretted that there were not a few more Talbots and Goodloes of the party. We should then have more harmony and less dogmatism—more good feeling and less puppyism.

We said we did not know the correspondent of the Globe. We are ignorant of his identity: but we have as perfect a knowledge of the motives which prompted him to misrepresent the Trust Co. as if he stood before us in propria persona.

The writer says there were 4000 democrats at the meeting. This is within one thousand of the democratic votes of Hamilton county: and we know that there were not one fourth of the democratic voters of the county present. The attendance from the country was small—one hundred at the extent. The farmers do not lack zeal—they are not wanting in true democracy; but they care not to be dragged from their farms, from their ploughs and corn-fields, at the beck and call of such hot-headed, indiscreet, and self-important interlopers as Mr. Piatt, and others, the correspondent of the Globe probably among the number. The meeting was nevertheless a large one. Eight hundred or a thousand persons, assembled together in Cincinnati for any political purpose, is a large meeting. There were not more than 1000 present upon this occasion, 20, one fifth, of these were whigs. We have nothing to say with regard to the proceedings. We have no objections to make to the resolutions.—But we do object to the manner of the getting up of the meeting. It was objected to by five-sixths of the democracy present. Some of the individuals also, who were most officious in the concocting and arranging of the proceedings, lack the qualities which are indispensable to give them weight or influence with the party. They had better fall into the ranks, and let those who are more competent take the lead otherwise they had better secede from the party at once, and set up shop for themselves.

The latter, we think, is the better plan. In the language of an important democratic document lately published in Albany: The democratic party are alike opposed to the levelling doctrines of the radicals, this new school in politics, and the high toned sentiments of the federal party. The democratic party has contended for principles, and has never sought the alliance of any faction, however imposing its name or its pretensions. It maintains at this day the same middle ground between the aristocrat on the one hand, and the demagogue on the other."

"The democratic party has yielded sometimes too much in a spirit of conciliation, and to this cause may be attributed the fact that New-York, one of the few democratic cities in the Union, has fallen into the hands of the enemy. Concessions for the sake of peace have deprived the democratic party of five thousand votes in that city, and thrown it temporarily into the hands of the partizans of the National Bank. This lesson should admonish us that we have nothing to gain, but every thing to lose, by giving any degree of countenance to radicalism and faction."

We can tell the Globe that this is precisely the feeling of the democratic party in this section of Ohio. There are a few political bankrupts, broken down uninfluential individuals among us, who make a great show of consequence, and who would feign make people abroad believe they were the pillars of the party here with such we do not hesitate to class the correspondent of the Globe.

The following description of this class of politicians, from the document above quoted, applies admirably to the Piatts, and U—s, and C—ns of Cincinnati. The men who create all the disturbance, and who will if countenanced much longer, destroy the democratic party.

"Although there is very little of this radical spirit in the country, there may nevertheless be sound individuals in almost every county who hang loosely upon the skirts of the democratic party;—men who, if not already enlisted in the service of the enemy, can be made instruments to do his will. Such men, while they exhibit a most immoderate zeal for the welfare of the people, will strive to magnify existing evils. They will, not improbably, be very loud in their denunciations of a National Bank, at the very moment when they are advocating measures having a direct tendency to re-establish and perpetuate such an institution. If our democratic friends keep an eye on such patriots, and see that they are not allowed to stir up strife, they will accomplish no more mischief in our ranks than they would in the appropriate station of open enemies."