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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 2769 - 2775
POLITICAL PARTIES (Cont'd)
and acknowledged its immutability. But Mr. Pierce, in less than one
year after his inauguration. has made the name of the Democratic
party a by-word and a term of reproach among the people. He has surrendered
all the strongholds which the skill of great statesmen had
fortified. "But all the fall of Pierce will not save the party from
destruction. All that anyone can do, will be to save fragments from
the general wreck." (10)
2769 - L Aug. 18: 1/5 - The Republican convention held on Aug. 16 was
organized with the election of the Hon. D. R. Tilden as president;
W. W. Richards of Solon, M. Miller of Brooklyn, and F. Wilson of
Mayfield as vice presidents; Foliver Butts, East Cleveland, and J. E.
Ingersoll of Cleveland as secretaries. The delegates from the various
townships were then presented and enrolled as follows:
Bedford, D. Culver, A. H. Comstock; Brooklyn, W. M. Standart,
J. Lewis. Eighteen other townships and 108 delegates in all were
presented and enrolled. (18)
2770 - L Sept. 1:2/1 - The Republicans of the fifth congressional
district will hold a convention at Defiance, Ohio, on Sept. 9, to
nominate a candidate for Congress. (1)
2771 - L Sept. 2:3/2 - The Republicans of East Cleveland will meet
at A. C. McIlrath's on Sept. 6 at 7: 30 p.m. to organize a club. (1)
2772 - L Sept. 4:3/2 - The German Republicans held a meeting last
night in a hall on St. Clair st. near the medical college. (1)
2773 - L Sept. 5; ed: 2/2 - The Republ ican party is strong because it
is right. It is the anti-slavery party. Everybody knows that slavery
is wrong. It is a crime to rob a man of his daily wages; it is
criminal to rob a man of his children and wife and of all knowledge
of his moral duties and responsibilities. That is what slavery is
doing. The slave-holders through the Democratic party are striving
to spread this institution of wrong into our free territories and,
by order of the United States court, into every state in the Union.
"These are facts known to every intell igent man of the country and
it is not strange that the pulpit of land is arraying on the side
of the Republican party." (17)
2774 - L Sept. 5: 2/3 - The Republican mass meet ing at Solon on Sept. ij
was attended by 2000 people. Brass bands enlivened the gathering.
Messrs. Bradburn, Bolton, and Carter of Cleveland spoke, (2)
2775 - L Sept. 10; ed: 2/2 - The ruff ians . of the southern states outrage
and murder every day in Kansas, because they are backed by the
national administration and the Democratic party.
"Every time a man asks for support of the Democratic party, he