"Voters supported or opposed a candidate entirely according to their personal preferences. There were few newspapers and no political oratory to sway public sentiment. The United States was then passing through the 'era of good feeling,' which was renowned mainly for the absence of all political asperities. Had any question arisen which was fraught with political significance to the voters of this section the expression in and around Pittsburg would undoubtedly have been Democratic or in opposition to the Federalist doctrine. It took Pittsburg people a long time to forget that the excise tax, which brought about the Whiskey Insurrection, was a Federalist measure. The first question which arose to divide the people in bitter dispute came with the election of Andrew Jackson to the presidency in 1828." Boucher's Century and a half of Pittsburg.
City Election
The first Election under the Act Incorporating the City of Pittsburgh, was held on Tuesday last, when the following gentlemen were elected:
| SELECT COUNCIL | ||
| James Ross, | James Irwin, | |
| Dr. Geo. Stevenson, | Mark Stackhouse, | |
| William Hays, | William Leckey, | |
| John Roseburgh, | Richard Geary. | |
| Samuel Douglas, | ||
| SELECT COUNCIL | ||
| William Wilkins, | George Evans, | |
| James R. Butler, | John Caldwell, | |
| John P. Shelton, | Richard Robinson, | |
| A. Johnston, Jr., | Thomas M'Kee, | |
| James S. Stevenson, | Daniel Hunter, | |
| James Brown, (B.) | John Carson, | |
| Paul Anderson, | John W. Trembly. | |
| John W. Johnston, | ||
Commonwealth, July 9, 1816.
The New Mayor
Ebenezer Denny, esq. has been elected mayor of the city of Pittsburgh, Ohio.—This gentleman we believe is from Massachusetts and is highly respected for his integrity and patriotism. Boston Yankee.
We congratulate the editor of the Yankee upon the knowledge of men and places, exhibited in the foregoing article. It has been a custom at the Eastward to censure and burlesque the people of Western Pennsylvania on account of their ignorance. Let the editor of the Yankee now blush at his own. Could it be believed that any man of common geographical knowledge—or who could have referred to Dr. Morse for information, (for on this subject even Dr. Morse is correct) would have located Pittsburgh—a city containing ten thousand inhabitants—possessing a manufacturing capital of many millions—having three banking institutions, and a commerce extending to every part of the union—a place which has long been considered the emporium of the West, and which makes a more conspicuous figure in books of travels than even the Town of Notions itself;—could it, we ask, be believed, that such a place should be so little known or thought of in the town of Boston, as to be located in the state of Ohio? Mayor Denny possesses all the virtues that are attributed to him by the Yankee, and many more, that render him an ornament to the station to which he has been elected;—but he does not boast an ancestry in the land of steady habits, the seat of Hartford Convention politics. He is a native of Carlisle, in this state. Commonwealth, Aug. 6, 1816.
From the Ordinances of 1816
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