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Cincinnati

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
June
Year
1844
Copyright
Public Domain
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A correspondent of the Liberty Press thus describes the Queen City of the West, as it appears from the top of Mt. Adams, where the Observatory is to be erected: "Before you the city spreads itself out with its broad and thronged streets - with its work-shops, its granaries and vvarehouses - with its cañáis, rail-roads and innumerable steam-boats - its schools, colleges, hundred churches and 75,000 people rushing hïther and thither- all in hot pursuit of realities, or delusive shadows, as the spirit of good, or evil may impel them. There is the delightful Ohio bearing on its bosom all the riches of commerce, stretching away east and west, far as the eye can reach, and on its opposite banks,stands the quiet villages of Covington and Newport - in the rear and around them are the woody, green hills of Kentucky, and yet undisfigured by the lusty blows of the rude axe-man. Some of the wealty citizens have purchased out and built beautiful places at con ven ient dista nces from town on the hill sides There is scarcely no extravagance in private dwellings in Cincinrcati. In that particular there is a reinarkable appearance of equality. I think it may fairly be questioned, whether,there s a population equally numerous and ïlose in the wide world, better housed, ïlothed, fed and provided for in all ' )ects, than that of this city. Nothinsr ' ..... J 6 : ïke destitution, or pauperism is to be seen n any of its lanes and corners. lts chools are liberal ly endowed and coniucted, at least as well as those of our c wn staf ft." tL? Our Democratie neighbor of the Argus has kept fiying at his mast head, for several months the declaration of Mr. Clny, that he would suffer the tortures of the Inquisition before he would sign a bilí for the Abolition of SJavery in the i District of Columbia, or in any way give countenance to the project. In his last paper, upon raising the flag of James K. Polk for President- A SLAVEHOLDkR he finds il very convenient to onut this standing motto! W hile General Cass was his favorite, it might answer a good surpose: but now he must advocate the ílaimsof a personal slaveholder, and it night not be aliogether safe for this motto o stand in close proximity to his name! Uwlhion is(s can readily see from such M ontrivances how much sympathy the M Sentimental Democracy" 'have for f lavery principies. J - . rL? Cincinnali has 132 lawyers. Suppose the income of each to be one thousand dollars, the cost of maintaining them wil be #132,000. A pretty handsome sum to be earned and paid over annually y the producing classes of that vicini7'

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