The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-15

public Treasury.
A POLITICAL PREACHER On THE
SUBJECT OF THE TREASURY
DEFALCATION.
An old sinner, and an old coon, the
cardinal feature of whose Christian
faith is an intolorant hatred of every
Democrat from the days of JEFFERSON
and JACKSON down to the present time,
gives us in the last Times ga short
Sermon" upon the subject of the late
dedication. How he can reconcile his
glaring and graceless untruths eight
in number, according to his own count
with his heightened professions of pie
ty, is a marvel to us, and a stumbling
block to many a poor way-farer, honest
ly seeking the Kingdom of Heaven, but
who is turned aside into the broad
road" by such false lights and false ex-
emplars.
The fifth assumption of this honest
and pure-minded man is, that the Demo
cratic party are thieves, and support
well-knowu thieves for office.
Our clerical luminary undertakes to
prove this by exhuming from the stale
partizan rubbish of a conflict of a period
long past, matter wherewith to cast
odium upon one of the purest aud most
successful administrations that this coun-
try las ever known. To show the hercd-
itary rancor and malice of this enlight-
ened and pious man against the admins
~tration of the ill1strious JACKSON, we
copy the fifth count of his Indictment:
ITO prove this [viz: that the Demo-
cratic party are thieves and support only
thieves for Office, we have only to look
back to the party in l834-5-6-7, in case
of the defaulter Spencer, Receiver of
public moneys at Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Mr.. Hendricks, in writing to Secretary
Woodbury. says: SIT would, to some
extent, produce excitement if he were
removed, for he has many warm and in
fuential friends at Fort Wayne, and in
Dearborn county from which he removed
to his present residence. Better let 1t
be-" Mr.. Woodbury. in reply says to Mr..
Spencer: =" The Department can read
lily see the difficulties in resisting oppor-
t%unities to exchange of money, and 20
receive what is not permitted by regula-
tion." Another excuse which Spencer
makes to Sec'y Woodbury. is that, smy
democratic friends thought that 1 ought
not to leave Ito deposit) until after we
hold our election for president on the
9TH of Nov" In the case of Lyon, de-
faulter in the Land Office at Vandalia,
Ind, he received from Mr.. Woodbury.
a sound lecture on matters of duty, po-
ed to office. But he too, like Breslin,
"paid no heed to their protests" but was
allowed to go on defaulting. Harris,
the Land office defsulter in Columbus,
Miss, was demonstrated with from Feb /
S, 1884, to Sept. 81, 1886, but like
Breslin .paid no heed to their pro tests,
and his successor e. G. Boyd, in less
than oue year followed in his footsteps"
to the tune of $55,986 54. And when
the agent, V. NJ. Garesche was sent out
to examine into the matter he said that
the defaulter is orally penitent, another
Receiver would follow In the footsteps
of the two, you will not, therefore, be
surprised if recommend his being re-
tanned in preference to another appoint
meut, for he has his hands full now and
he will not be supposed to speculate any
more" We think these facts and rec
ords prove our position, not only that
Breslin is following in the footsteps of
his i.lustrious predecessors, but also the
reasons of his second and third romina-
lions by the party"
To accommodate our charitable and
benevolent preacher, we will admit that
all these instances, and many more,
which he does not give. of peculation
and default, under the Administration
of Gen. JACKSON, are true. Certain it
is, that, while the whole world, with the
exception of now and then an occasional
deformed hirsute, like our luminous
clerical friend freely acknowledges that
ANDREW JACKSON was the soul of honor,
chivalry, and fidelity to public trust, and
that never a dollar of money having the
least faint of peculation upon it ever
soiIed the palm of his hand, yet it is
nevertheless true that defalcations &C.
Cured under his administration. The
demoraliziDg influence of the Biddle
Bank, which was then united with the
Government, had extended itself to the
political as well as commercial circles
throughout the country. That great
man, Of in%corruptible heart and iron will
aud nerve, grappled with the monster
Bank, the source of all the ~corruptions
of the times, and threttled it. His adj
ministration closed before he had time
to perfect his whole policy, which was
to obtain a divorce from the more nu-