M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-10-08
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John G. BresliiI--'Ehe Fatal Rock
on which he Went 10 Wreck.

When John G. Breslin was elected
Treasurer Of State, he failed to carry
into the discharge ofb official duties
the doctrines lie had proiessed as a
politician and a democrat. This was
the rock on which he foundered. In.
stead Of correcting the errors and a.
buses of his whig predecessors, he
took them as his guide and example.
1t had been their habit to use The pub
lie money for the mutual advantage
Of themselves ard their favorite cor
porations. Why should he deny him
self the same right9 They had as.
stunned to themselves the high prerog-
ative Of fostering and befriending
Rail Roads, Banks and Insurance
Companies by giving them the use Of
the public money. They had TINS
won the favor and secured the eulo-
| gies ofthese institutions. Why should
Breslin not become a big nada, too,
when he could SO readily do SO by
"patronizing" banks railroads and
other "public institutionsg" A" u I
Bank officers tlattered, Rail Road
officers caressed7==Breslip gave him
self up to their Illicit embraces, and
at the very outset of his official SER
vice, he was already in the hands and
under the control of men who were
either hostile TO democracy, or we're
rotten and corrupt as the very fonlest
Of the opposition. 81 Si'1l F.
When Auditor Woods, Treasurer
Bliss and Fund Commissioner Sill
retired from Office early in the year
1852, they handed over to their dem
ocratic successors, a batch of claims
instead of money. These claims bore
a striking "family resemblance" to
the obligations due to Breslin for mo-
ney advanced by him in nurturing
banks at Toledo, Cincinnati and Day
ton, and were nearly twice as great
in amount. BY reference to page 0
of the first semi-annual reporE Of the
Sinking Fund Commissioners, Pngb,
Trevitt and Morgan dated July 10,
1852, it will be found that the aboli-
tion whig administration on going
out of Office, handed over to their
democratic successors in 1852, : the
following claims againstGthe parties
named, for money taken from the
Treasury and given into their use,
viz: .ar.1.3 @ sgEo ' ,usm 2u.i .
Gin, Hamilton and Dayton Railroad, s1lO, 900
Cleveland and Pittsburgh do. 100000
Columbus Insurance Con pany, 100000
Akron Branch Railroad, ~ 'd'I.ai 10000
Protested draft of A. J. Smith rri IL, 1000
Drafts of Joseph Whitehill, Thomas
Moody, VIM. Miner and Demas , .
Adams, Jr.; TTHs -Il s5f.I 5000
.'... 70 o.. ...g. ~ ..'1.' ..r ' s874, ,45O
Of the above sums, the loan to the
insolyent Columbus Insurance Com
pany, is a TOTAL LOSS, the last Repub-
lican Legislature having passed a res
olution effectually releasing the old
whig abolition State officers from their
personal liability for having made the
loan in direct violation Of law, The
loan to the Akron Railroad, like the
Bliss defalcation of $65, 900, was re-
ported by Breslir to have been paid to-
him in 1862; but by the recent report
Of Sparrow and Auditor Wright, it
appears that that same road, Tat pres
ent the Cleveland, GAINESVILLE & Gin.
cincinnati still owes $4,000 to the
Treasury, which sumis undoubtedly
an unpaid balance on the original
loan that had been covered up and
renewed by Breslin. 4 fH..;,;3a1,o -. -'-r
Following closely in the footsteps
Of bis whig abolition predecessors,
3reslin quickly adopted their policy
in the management of the public
funds. AT the end of his four years
as Treasurer, twas found that, he
too had made loans which could, not
be made Immediately available. -
These, $50 far as the legislative re.