Daily Cincinnati Republican

FOR THE CINCINNATI REPUBLICAN,
A Pair of Lard Merry Worthies.
"The New Era' which will be ushered in by the downfall of the Bank party, and the suppression of Bank paper as a circulating medium, will be as auspicious to posterity as the Declaration of Independence was glorious to the Patriots of the Revolution. The Independence of a nation was the result of the one—Liberty and Equality will be the result of the other. This consummation may be far off, but it should be the duty and ambition of the Patriot to aid in bringing it about."
The above is a toast offered by James H. Ewing, now a Loco Foco candidate for the Legislature, at a "Democratic supper," on the evening of the 5th of January last. It speaks for itself. Fellow-mechanics, look at it—ponder over it well before you go to the polls next Tuesday. Are you ready and willing to cast your vote, at this important crisis, for a man who holds such revolting sentiments—the very antipodes of what every sensible man among you knows to be his vital interest? Are you prepared to entrust your future welfare with one who will consider it his "duty," if elected, to vote for measures that you know will beggar yourselves and your families?—one whose highest "ambition" is to reduce you to the degraded condition of the vassals of Continental Europe I These are the real sentiments of Ewing's heart Of this there can be no doubt, for they were given at a time when he could have no earthly motive in concealing his true principles. He was not then, as now, a candidate for office, and asking the support of a party more than nine-tenths of which utterly repudiate such doctrines. No; you may rest assured that whatever he may tell you on the stump about his being in favor of a "well regulated banking system," is all gammon. He is a thorough-going, hard money. agrarian Loco Foco; and, mark my prediction, every vote he will give on the Bank question, if elected, will tend inevitably to Bank destruction! For, remember, he considers that such a course should be his "duty and ambition!"
And this is the man who is thrust forward upon the mechanics of Hamilton county for their votes, instead of DAVID T. SNELLBAKER, one of their own body, and who is liberal in his views on banking. The worthy claims of Mr. Snellbaker were overlooked by the Loco Foco convention, because he did not think it ought to be his "duty and ambition" to annihilate credit. and shut up the work-shops of the mechanics of Ohio. Look well into these matters, fellow-mechanics, before you vote next Tuesday.
And further Oliver Jones, another Loco Foco candidate for the Legislature, has repeatedly declared, within the last two years, (and I am prepared to prove it beyond doubt if he dare deny it) that he would as soon look for honesty and virtue in an inmate of a brothel as in a person connected with a Bank!—that he did not doubt that many bankers were honest when they first went into the business, but the temptation to sin and knavery was so strong that none could withstand it!!—that all must eventually become polluted!!!
Voters of Hamilton county, one and all will you disgrace your State—will you disgrace yourselves—by sending to the Legislature a man so lost to common decency—one so lost to the feelings of common charity due from man to his fellow-man, as to thus basely and libellously stigmatize the persons who have loaned you their money and their credit, to enable you to improve your farms and build up this great and growing city? Few of the persons thus shamefully abused are wealthy enough to be independent of business or labor; and if they were, is that any sign they are not honest and virtuous? Many of them are the active business men of the day. Others are aged and infirm individuals—the Pioneer Fathers of the West—who depend upon the scanty pittance eked out by the dividends accruing from a few shares of Bank stock, for their daily bread. Others are orphans, and others are widows'—aye, think of it, ye young men, whose widowed mothers invested their little all—the savings of the toil and drudgery of their young days—in Bank stock, for the purpose of enabling them to educate you, and to fit you for getting an honest living in the world—these mothers of yours, are denounced as being no better than the commonest prostitutes of the land! and that, too, by a man who is daily begging Your votes for one of the most responsible offices known under our State Government!! Will you—can you vote for him? Let your answer through the ballot box next Tuesday be a loud and unanimous No!
A JOURNEYMAN MECHANIC.