The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1857-08-28

should never have under any cir.
cumstances.
If Mr.. Brcslin has paid to his sue
cessor all the public moneys which
were in his hands, hc must have evi.
dcnce of the fact. To the reques,
made of him to produce tie receipts
executed by Mr.. Gibson, he has no,
thought proper to reply.
Not being able to obtain the bes'
evidence OF the amount which ht
paid to his successor, a familiar 10
gal principal authorized us to rcsor1
to that Of an inferior quality. On
application to Mr.. Gibson, we were
furnished with copies of the receipt
They confirm his statements Of tn,
amounts which wero received b,
him. They are hereafter submitted
1t appears that Mr.. Breslin har
some interest in the Greensborougl
Bank Of Maryland and it is in evi
dence that he spent SO, 900 in con
testing and resisting the repeal o
its charter before the Legislature o
that State. 1t is also clear that with
in the last year, he was the holder o
$4,000 of the stock of the Cumber
land Saving Institution of .he samC
State.
lie loaned $50. 900 to the Sandus
ky, Mansfield & Newark Rail Road
Company on which he received but
$4,000 and compromised the bal
ance by taking the bonds of the Com.
pany for IS, 500, payable in 1853
$50 go and '61.
lie also loaned in the Cleveland
GAINESVILLE Il Cincinnati Rail Road
Company large sum, the original
amount OF Which we have not been
able to learn. In December last
there was due upon it the sum oi
$2S $40, SS which was paid IN the
bonds Of the Company, payable in
November 1859 with 7 per cent. in
terest.
Mr.. Brcslin sought interviews with
two of the witnesses whom VIC have
examined, and in conversation with
them made acknowledgements Which
demonstrate that the delalcation oc.
Cured during his administration oi
tho Treasury.
In conversation with Col. Schoul
er, when urged to make public ex.
position Of the matter, he replied
that ''it would do no good;" that he
could not make the disclosure with.
ont involving the character Of others
and the happiness Of their families,
and ttat he would not do. lie pro.
nounced the attacks Of the press up.
on MIR. Gibson unjust, and said that
his (Mr G.'s) Statements in regard
to the defalcation wcrc," that "ii
Gibson was to blame one part in a
hundred in regard to this matter,
am to blame ninety nine parts in O
hundred"
His conversation with Mr.. Foilctt,
though evidently more guarded was
Of similar import. The material
part Of it is 50 well narrated by Mr..
Follett, that we shall not attempt All
abstract of it, but gave it in full
Mr.. Follett says: "Mr. Breslin atlec.
ted to attach Importance to my opin'
ions, and proceeded to test the sin.
cerity of this procession by recon
mcnding that there should be no
loss Of time on the part OF Mr.. Glib
son and himself in meeting and un;
ting in statement Of facts discl osing
the whole process Of appropriation
let the blow fall where it might, re-
gardless Of party or person. | en-
forced appeals as the subject natur.
ally sng ggeoted -alluding to his fami'
ly relations, his obligation to the
State, &c. drew his attention to
the tact that he could not hide from
the world the full amount of his Of.
fetal delinquency, and it depended
on himself how low his offence should
sink him morally. To an extended
appeal in this direction, he replied
by stating IA case: Suppose, (said
Mr.. BreslinD suppose, (mind | do
not say it is SOY but suppose that IN
dividual may have been concerned
with mo in tho use OF this m ,ney,
whose position in society or whose
business might be injured or destroy
cd by the revelations you advise me
to make-what then should | dor -
My reply in substance was, that he
should place his wife, his daughter
his family, friends, his obligation to
the State, his official oath, in one
side of tho scale, and in the other his
obligations to these men; and il the
latter outweighed the former, his
course was a plain one. To all this
his answer was, "l will think Of it,
After few general remarks, cur in
terview ended, and l have not seer
Mr.. b. since. .sH
No one, we think, can read thu
testimony which is here appended
and of which we have given a bric
abstract in the foregoing pages, with
out being convinced that the two
late Treasurers were wholly unwor
thy of the positions which they hav,
occupied.
1t is our opinion that John G
l}reslin distracted tho money from
the Treasury, has disrcgarded his OF
ticlal duty, and made himself an nc
cessary to the crime.
"wuEREIs Is THE PEOPLES MONEY"
We are not able to give a free an
satisfactory answer to this question
1t Is unreasonable to expect that a
Investigation of few weeks dur,