The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-09-23
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The Faisehood Of the Times Exposed.
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The State has a right expect, in the
language Of immorfal Nelson, that every
manuEill dohis duty. Ours Of to, day
isunpleasauf busimperative. We would
b6vs been much better pleased if Salmon
P.Chase had <bscn sufficiently modest
and not ton hypercitical to. suffer us to
leave some parts ofhis record uDpublish.
His fears and apprehensions oe de-
feat however, have driven him to the
verge efsdesperation; and he challenges
the proof of bis damning infamy, as a
msdmah dcfes the ligltniug The fat
afic, whether in religion or politics, we
Scan almost respect; the unblushing dem
agogues who expends in the pursuit of a
phdhtoas, energy and talent saficientyto
make his fortune 10 any other calling,
we can tolerate and pity; but the willy
- bypocrite, who plays the part of Satau
insthe garden of Eden, TIE cool, caleu-
g. lating villain who gides in and encir-
cles the usnspecting with his snaky evo-
lutioDs and devlish suggestions, We can
not but hato and dispise.
~ Fhether we regard the conduct of
Salmon p. Chase as the more atroci us
ipsbesetting Breslin whcn be was unsus-
posting and inexperienced, or in deny
ing, and procuring others to deny, the
existence of his own h~apd-work, we must
~ come TO the conclusion that be is a
vile counterfeit OF an honest man. It
- s sorry sight 10 see the Governor of
tbs great State of Ohio stripped of his
Pharisaical disguises and held up before
the people, the eDa ardly ~falsiier of his
own acts. and traitor to his former cobf
dants, as well asthe general pImp, touter
and runner for a set of sWindling insoiy-
We had not supposed that Mr.. Chase's
letter was anything more than a bus
.ness letter, with a brief and general en-
dorssmens OF the City Bank; butt turns
QUE 70 be q document, such as the plat
ner Of . burglary or m dnight murder,
would write ID some bold and not very
~scrupulous man, whom he designed to
lure into the eemTnissi0n of It. Mr..
Chase y9uches for the lrberality of the
City Bank, but protests that che never
borrowed dollar 9ffhemn lie is in
slant and earnest 10 recommending the
Merchants and Traders Bank, but finds
It necessary to assert that he has ''ho
interest as q ~stockhoider or otherwise
Hezbesets the Treasurer Of Ohio at the
instant ef his taking Office, and endeay-
ors to enmesh MIN Nath two rotten banks,
both of which soon after break. He
succeeded in Turing him in to deposit in
one Of them; and but fol. the suspicious
-pfotestatious Of his own disinteresied
ness5 7be. vouid .nrobablv have succeeded.
= ss5,,c;ns him TO 6eaI;os win the
ot6er.eotterine cheat. Tbess protesta-
lions n b5nesty to BresIipa are the worst
Of the mater. What man of uroperty
80 fndsit necessary to begin a conference
v;tb another. as to the public funds. by
aaariaa and .repeatino. tnov T am not a
- tbief3, We do not mean to dissect
minnfelv this disrracefuIle letter. .IttelIs
n own tale of bypocrisy and deproyity.
we nrint the letter of Mr. Chase. written
from Cincinnatil to John q Breslin he.
fs-s - bad tstens osice.- and when the
- rotfspSsss- Of The Civ. Bank must as the
Rso6blieau committed say, have been
known to ezerv man of ordinary i~ntelli.
-cencs wbobad foue resided there. After
4 nams of zsalnonsP.-Chase there is
apostscript to the fetter-akind of JOINT.
than Wild, Gadshill, "let us share'' sort
OF areament, which the writer evidently
tho1gsit BresliD would be unable to re-
sisk He most cordially congratulates
him upon hiselection, and assures him
thaB ehe did all that lay in his power
to secure til Now. just, compare this
man with John G.. Breslin, and then
say who is the worst. Our mother Eve
was guilty, but what God would visit
punishment ON her and yet forgive the
Dsyil2 Breslin is poor, he has none of
the plumber He is the victim, not the
contriver of the system set agoiDg to
.entrap him, before be had entered his
Office, bysSalmon p. Chase. 1t is Chase
and Gibson who have grown uuacount-
ably and enorlhoasly ri,h=
The people ofOhio must forgive us
for exhibiting Salmon P-Chase before
them stripped of his usual sanctimoni-
= Gus and hypocritical disguise. It is as
humiliating to US as il can be to our fe!-
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