The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1855-05-09
ONO state stocl1s.

There was q. time when the State
Stocks of Ohio was perfect drug in the
stock market This was not the worst fsa-
turc presented. Some of them were sold
which did not realize for the Treasury Of
the State to eseed FIFTY CENTS on The
dollar. This transPired in the days when
the officials ofthe State Government glori-
ed in the name of Wing, and who were ap-
pluuded for great financial ability by the
Whig press. There is no man, who is proud
of this State as the State of his birth or a.
doption, who desires the recurrence of such
state ofthings, because it would be lament
ably humiiating.
How stands the case now! The present
State officers have been denounced as cor
rupt-as despoilers of the Treasury-as in
competent and from one end ofthe. State
to the other, the cry has been rung, with
stentoriaL force, that the Auditor of State
! is "tyrant," that he has burthened the peo-
pie with taxes that cannot be borne. From
all the other able and efficient officers who
administer the Government of this State, he
has been singled out for villification and
Misrepresentation And Why! Simply be-
cause he has boldly, vigorously and efficient
ly discharged his duty to the people of Ohio,
to the constitution and to the laws of the
State. But how stands the State Stock Of
Ohio in the stock market to-day, under the
administration Of the Democratic incompe-
tent? The Stocks of almost every State in
the Union are belo0 par. Again we ask
How stands the State Stocks of Ohio, in
this general depression of Stock! The
Wing officials, when they realized fifty and
seUenty.fue cents on State Stocks were re-
ported great fnanciers. Ifthey were SO es-
teemed :hen, Wing officials would now be
held up as perfect prodigies should they
keep them up to par, even while friends
would at the same time point TO the fact,
by way of significant contrast: that the
State Stocks of Indiana could command but
about So cents on the dollar; Tennessee's
but CAT; and both Carolna's but SO. We
say such would be the case under Wing f.
nancers. How is it now under these Dem
ocratic corruptionists! Ohio State Stocks
becoming due in 1860, but few years hence.
are hard to be obtained in the Stock market
for one DOLLAR AND EIGHT CENTS
on the dollar.
Thus is Ohio made pre-eminent in credit
over every other State in the Union. Never
never, before the accession of the Democrats
to the governme mt of Ohio, did the credit oi
the State exhibit so gratifying a spectacle
Does this exhibit furnish the least particle
of proof in substantiation of the charge made
with such gravity by opposition, that the
present State officials are either corrupt or
incompetent We take it that corruption
or incompetency would presenter rather
the stock market would--a state of things
anything but gratifying. Notwithstanding
this healthy condition of our State finances
this exhibition that our State ind ebted-
ness is in course of liquidation, which with
in reasonable time, will considerably lessen
taxations for legitimate State purposes--we
are asked to discharge the present State Off
GERS from service, and install in their stead
men who seek their places merely for the
sake of the places, and not in consideration of
any pre-eminent qualifications for the pro-
per discharge of the duties appertiaining to
said places.
Shall such an outrage upon the best
interests of the State be perpetrated in the
specious name of "Reform!'-Chl. Aduer.
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