The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-08
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WHO STOLE TnR MONEY.

WHO STOLE THE MONEY!
The effort to palm upon Mr.. BnEsLN
the defalcations of Mr.. GIBSON has re-
suited in an utter failure. This brilliant
idea is said to have originated with Gov.
CHAsE. He has adopted every species
Of ~chicanery to fasten the sins of GIBSON
upon BREsLIN, but has utterly failed
A little exercise of that common sense
which SO often deserts tricky politicians
in their honor of extremity, would have
convinced the Governor that mis- effort
would fail.
In the first place no one supposed that
Mr.. BREsLIE was a Jool;-and ave ad.
hitting that he was a knave, and had 2
disposition to embezzle the public mon
ey, no one could be made to believe him
simple enough to incur the penalty of
the act of I'd March, 1916, which pun
ishes q State Treasurer, for any con-
version to his own use, in any way what
ever, of any of tho public moneys, as
embezzlement, and infiicts upon him the
same penalties incurred by a person
for @felon1ously stealing" the same
amount. This act was in force during
the whole of Mr.. BREsL1N's a~dministra-
ton Of the Treasury, and nc nan in his
senses a suppose that any degree of
azarice could induce him to incur such
terrible and such certain penalties
BREsLIN was amenable to that law
G1nsos soas not The Republican Leg
isIature came to the aid of their Treas
urer. and wiped the law from the stat
ute books.
In the next place, we have ALL the
official and, consequently, the saoorn
statements Of GIBSON himself that every
dollar Of the money justly due the Treas
ury from BREsLN was paid over to
GmsoN, except that which had been sunk
IN the vaults of exploded Banks and
Bankers, and an amount in dispute on
exchange account, making, altogether,
oyer three hundred thousand dollars
We have, then, the case standing thus :
WM.-H. GDsoN, acting under the re-
sponsibilities of his official oath,
against
WIN. H. GnsoN, afierhe had resigned,
and not under the solemnities of oath,
but under the irresponsible advice of
the crafty politician, CHASE.
And in the third place, We have now
the oath of the Republican Attorney
General, added to the oath of GIBSON,
the oaths of the Legislative committees,
the oath of therRepubffcan Auditor of
State, and, finally, the oaths of the SMELL
ing Committee, that Mr.. G1BsoN is the
guilty man. We copy from the States
man of Friday:
TIE ATTORNEY GENERAL SwEARs RS
GBsoN-In entering suit against the
son Attorney General Woleott made
affidavit that the money was lost from
the Treasury or used during his term of
Office. 1t is not likely so formidable an
oath would be subscribed by theAttorney
General upon slight grounds. The ey-
licences are conclusive that the money
was there when Mr.. Gibson made his re
ports, and naught but his sole word, un-
supported By other testimony, is placed
In the other end of the balance, that It
was out before he entered upon the du-
ties of his Office, and never had been re-
ceived by him at all. So does not think
the Attorney General who swears that
Gibson had it. Gibson so sHore him.
sell, so reported the Auditor, and so re-
ported the Investigating Committee of
Finance. The Auditor counted the
money, or what he thought was money.
Money and its representative were in the
Treasurer's keeping. Gibson had it,
and so suears che Attorney General.
Thus it will be seen that all the s,oear-
ing of the entire body polite and corpo-
rate of Republicanism exonerates BREs
LIN. Surprising, however, that The At
torney General afterwards turns round
and sWears BREsLIN has the money I?
What then? Is such a man to be trust
ed?