The Lancaster gazette. (Lancaster, Ohio) 1846-1852, 1851-10-09

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Several times during the present cam
iPalgn the hyena who presides over the
columns ofthe Ohio Statesman has made
the most wanton, unprovoked and will
fully malicious attacks upon the eminent
Wings who have been selected as candi
dates for suffrage this fall. Ia every at
tempt the falsehoud has been promptly met
and as promptly put down. The public
has not yet fOrgottenthe base attack upon
Mr.. STANBeRY. aud the utter cotempt il
drew down upon itself by his trump amt
defence aud scathng reply. There nev.
er was baser ait ack or more com
plete refutation. Beaten, disgraced and
despised for this, the Statesman essays
an attack in another direction, and. by
the aid of miserable pinp. who gets
his bread and butter by doing the dirty
work of his employers, an effnt is made
to get up a new issue by attempting to
charge SAMUEL FoRRgR with being de.
faulter! Yes, SAMUEL FoRRER, who has
been longer in the service of the State
than perhaps any other citizen, who has
expended hundreds of thousands of dol
lars, who is proverbial for his integrity,
prOmptness, great energy, uutirng in.
dustry and devotion to the interests OF
the State. He has had funds in his hands
to an almost unlimited amount, under all
administrations; and the utmost stretch oi
party maliguity never dared to hint that
he was capable Of fraud, or ofmaking an
improper use Of the funds ofthe State. II
such had been his propensity he has had
ample time and means TO crafty it long
ere this period of life. ....-
Now we venture the assertion that
there cannot be found Locofoco in Ohio
who claims to be decent, respectable
citizen. who will so far compromise his
character as to say he believes, for mo.
ment, that Mr.. FoRRER is defaulter IN
any sense of the term. We know nnth
Of this matter, farther than appears in tie
Statesman, and the very exhibit thereir
given. shows the purpose for which the
money was drawn, We have no doub
that every dollar of it is paid as that ex
hibit shows it was paid. When any o
these persons come forward and say the,
have no such claims against the State
and that they have received no such sums
then it would be proper to enquire wha
had become of the money. Till this i
done, the very table published, like tn
base charge against Mr.. STANBERY, show
on its face the Infamous falsehood of til
charge Mr.. FoRRER, it is con,endct
drew these sans of money To pay certai
contractors. Do they say they have nc
received their money! Have they eve
presented any claim at the Treasury fu
pay since the lst April? Nobody pre-
tends this Taken in its broadest terms
as put by one notoriously uuscrupulou'
: and famous for TIE fulsity of its charges
, and it amounts to this-that Mr.. FoRRE
has drawn about sixty thousand doIlar
in fdvOr of contractors whose names ar
all given, for sums due them, which sun
are all stated. aud that five months afte
: ward, he had neglected to close his a,
. count, aud file the vouchers for all III
moneys received by him. IL is known /
the editor of the Statesman. that NJ
y FoRREn is associated with prominel
Democrat, S. r. HosMER, of Zanesvill
: n contract to finish canal in Indian
=, that tho contract will amount to half
u million of dollars-that Mr.. FoRRER is
be the general superintendent and actil
manager, and that this Democrat refuse
= to guinto il unless Mr.. FuRnER wou
= put his great experience aud high pc
" sona character into the engagement
:, !" is also known that since the LIST of
= pill he has been engaged, much of /
: Time. in the new work; aud if he has {
few months failed to file his voucher
il is matter not uncommon, or one tn
l. attracts any notice, or causes any une
n siness, either among Mr. FoRRER'sfrien
M -lhose in his official bonds. or the Of
= GERS of State. His character is too WI
" known, his reputation too firmly esta
i" Iished, to be shaken or,affected by al
IN such poor miserable effo-t ..
We wish the people of Ohio to rene
Der one prediction. The Statesman "
Of eat its own words about Mr.. FoRREI
'defalcarion. Mr.. FoRRER's accoul
oi aud vouchers will show where every d
" lar of the money he has received was
n pended. He will come ou, of this IN
u ter with clean garments, not stain o
'h shadow of stain on them; aud the po
q dwelling libeler, who had seized uE
III the fact that Mr.. FoRRERhas not yet cl
ne ed his accounts and filed his vouche
Is: will stand before the world branded W
er infamy as broadly and as papably as
rs now stands branded by his attempts up
IT. Mr.. STANBERY.
or Thus much the Journal has to say
mt bout this subject, The Statesman III b
ce y mistaken it't supposes it can make
a people of Ohio forget the voracious ba
I'd of plunderers and robbers that fatter
ne on the treasury under LocOfoco rule, &
are now getting taste at the same C
all again. The stealngs of the YoNrzEs a
he MuLRINEs, and BARNEYs and Wallis,
t., matters of record; proved by the oath
- responsible men; and no man, who is
ne himself Galphin at heart, and def
rks der ofthis class of Galphins, will after
of to deny it. There it stands, a monum
tis of inramy; and there it will stand so l.
uld as the people of Ohio detest fraud,
rue ainy, and peculatous OF the public la
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