The Belmont chronicle, and farmers, mechanics and manufacturers advocate. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1848-1855, 1853-07-08


The Cincinnati Enquirer is trying over a.
gain the dodge game, and is endavoring to
reconcile the vast difference between Loco
foco theory and practice, upon the transmits
sion Of funds from one portion Of the coun-
try to another, by bringing forward another
and separate question. This will not win.
1t don't relieve that party Of arrant dema.
goguesm before the Presidential election, or
of base treachery to LocoIocoism now. We
stated that thL plan of carting about specie
instead of using banks, &C., to make the
transfer, as business men do their own affairs,
had been darling Locofoco principle. Does
the Enquirer deny this! Not at all. Again.
we stated that instead of carting the specie,
the agents of the Government now resort to
banks as transfer agents. Is this denied!
Not word of it. We inferred that that par
ticular Locofoco bubble had "burst."
Now, the Enuuirer does not attempt to
deny any of these statements, but seeks to
turn public attention from them by talking of
transaction between Mr.. CoRwIN, as Sec
retary of the Treasury, and the Columbus In
Surdnce Company. This won't do. We can
not afford to let Locolocoism off at this price,
We insist that the people shall see and un-
derstand exactly the humbug tina, has been
played off upon them. 1t of no consequence,
SO far as this question is concerned, whether
CoRwN used the Insurance Company to
transmit funds, or not. Even if every dollar
of it has been lost, it does not in the smallest
degree alter the case. The facts remain as
we charge, and they charge, and they stig-
matize our Locofocos as great demagogues,
or great scamps. That is the point, and we
shall not permit it to be lost in the fog.
We know nothing of the transaction with
the Columbus Insurance Company, further
than street rumor. We know they lost a
vast amount of money, and that several of our
wealthy citizens were ruined by their efforts,
in their private capacity, to help the Compa-
ny over its losses. Whether the affairs OF
the office were conducted with a proper re-
gard to prudence and business tact, or not
we know nothing about. When it appears
that the United States Government has lost
anything by the Insurance Company, it will
be time to look into its management, and see
how its affairs were conducted. We have nc
defense to urge. We shall not shield the
officers from the closest investigation, and, il
they have done wrong, they will receive nc
aid and comfort from US.
As to CoRwIN's loaning the money on hi;
own private account, we know nothing. i
is charged in Locofoco papers that he uset
the company while it was in good credit t.
transfer 100000 to New Orleans or st
Louis, and that it did not arrive at its desti
nation. There is no pretence of loan abou
it. We shall regret it if the Government
lose the money, but it must be remembered
that Mr.. CoRwIN received and paid out from
one hundred and .Gjty TO t'oo hundred million
Of dollars, and it is nothing surprising or on
derful if, in one case, his confidence had beer
misplaced. The Enquirer insinuates tha
Mr.. CORwIN's motives were corrupt and We
nal. We shall hot defend him on this charge
but simply appeal to his entire life, spent il
the adjoining county to the Enquirer, as al
fording the very best refutation to the bas
inslnuation. IL long life, before the public
as a lawyer and statesman, has not fully es
tablished his reputation for integrity, then NJ
words of ours could do it. He, and his oil
neighbors who have always known him, laugl
at all such insinuations.
Did the Enquirer ever think that if it coul
proue its charge against MIR. CoRwIN and tn
Col lumbus Insurance Company, it would Onl!
make the conduct of the new Locofoco ad
minstraton the more reprehensible by re
sorting to the same sort of agents to accom-
plish the same class of business! Well ma,
Secretary GUTHRIE say, "Save me from sucl
friends. 30. S. Jour.