True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-07-08

4as- The following article IS from the
Ohio STATE Journal, and as it presents
Ex.Auditor Morgan in his true character
before the public, we transfer it to our
columns. We have known Morgan for
twenty years, and we regret to say that
for the last five years we have been CON-
PEELED to regard him as wire.working,
dishonest political tricksler.
Er..4uditor Morgan caught in his o,On
trap-Hs guilty knO'cisdge of the
Defaication. and his Efforts to Re
elect the Dsfaulter.
Ex.Auditor Morgan, in his Newark
.Advocate of this week, tries 10 get out Of
the dilemma which his party zeal and
want Of candor has placed him; but like
a man struggling in morass, every step
he takes only sinks him the deeper in
the mire and dirt. We have no desire 10
help him out or sink him in. We shall
let him work, and report his progress
His own acknowledgement proves his
want of official honesty, His attempt to
implicate Governor Chase and Auditor
Wright, shows his want of personal can.
dor and lruthfulness. He reminds us of
Jacques Strop, in the drama of Robert
Macaire. The two were thieves and as
sociales; Robert did the bold. heavy busl.
ness; Jacques hid the plumber and did
something on his own account in the
way Of picking pockets. We will dau.
gerroIype him.
When the deialcaton in the Treasury
was discovered. Mr.. Morgan came 10 Co.
Iumbus from Newark, and while here,
acknowledged that he knew of this deial-
cation. and that il existed when he was
in office as Auditor, and was caused by
Mr.. Breslin. He was asked BY Cover.
nor Chase 10 act as one of the examining
committee, and he declined, giving us a
reason Tor declining, that he had previous
engagements which would prevent his
serving. He hurries back to Newark,
and writes couple Of articles charging
the default upon Mr.. Gibson. and i'm.
phcaung Governor Chase aud Auditor
Wright in the transaction; a TRANSACTION
WHICH HE SAYS HE KNEW WAS THE WORK
OF MIR. BREsLlN. and which accrued
while he himself was Auditor, Medil
Governor, and Treyitl Secretary of State.
This fact We charged upon him, and we
also showed that he had lost The State
some three hundred and seventy five
thousand dollars, hy refusing to sell the
stocks of the Little Miami aud Mad Riv.
er Railroads owned then and owned now
by the Stale, amounting to S6l6.s0O,
when he could have got par for them
He refused to do il because, as lie said,
he could not trust the money with Mr..
BreslIn. We also showed that he az.
cused Mr.. BreslIn of being corrupt as
heA" We also accused him of trying to
borrow money from the State of Ohio to
meet the interest payment Of the public
debt. because he did not believe that il
wou d be met by his colleague in the
Treasury, as he knew that the Stale mon
ey in MIR. Bresln'y hands had been used
for ilIegllimale, illegal and wrongful
purposes. All this, we charged upon
Auditor Morgan, not. as he would have
his readers believe, to find fault with him
for those acts, but to show his das,ardly
meanness, and diSingeniousness in try
ing, for low party purpose, to change
the responsibility from the gully to in
nocent parties. If any act can be mean
er or more morally criminal than this, We
should like to know what that acl is
1t is SIM ly the same as if Mr.. Morgan
saw man commit murder, or a theft,
and he should set to work to arrest, con-
vict and sentence an innocent person to
the galows or the penirenliary. He
knOwing all The time that the person so
tried, convicted aud punished, was in
nocent, and lat the crime Was commit
ed by another, and KNEW WHO THAT
OTHER PERSON WAS.
This is The charge we bring against Mr..
Morgan, aud lei him escape from it if
he can. lie makes no attempt to escape
in his paper OF this week, but on the
contrary, he acknowledges all that we
charge upon him, and be accuses US of
attacking him for having. while Auditor,
ascertained that Mr.. BreSlin was de.
fauIter. Here is his language:
GAS punishment for our audacity in
not keeping mum on the new defalca-
tion, the Columbus State Journal of
Saturday, has two mortal columns charg.
ed to The brlm with decoction of bitter.
ness and denuncialon, designed for our
total demolition. We have read the
ponderous assault with feelings of min
gIed pity and contempt. The writer,
with characteristic stupidity, devotes more
than one'half of the entire length of his
article, to studied and laborious effort to
show that the censurable management of
the State Treasury under Mr.. Breslin,
met our hearty and unceasing condemna-
'ion throughout the entire four years of
our service as Stale Auditor. The con
demnation thus alleged, is not only un-
reservedly admitted, but ii is circum-
stance which we revert to with heart felt
satisfaction, and we are glad that in The
blindness of its venom, the State Jour
nal has at last brought this cherished fact
to a knowledge of its readers. In its
very awkwardness, it has done US an in.
estimable favor, which it took admirable
care never before to confer"
No one knows better than Morgan that
he was not expected to keep "mum."-
lie knows tha. he was expected to speak,