Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1857-10-08
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. mea8fe audience to listen to political
speech, ahd-iMhen the incessant rain' Al
daf-loua, teitsd rlerciIessly, We still more
reefsttsd ne lime selected for the visit OF
Goyernor Chase. But upon attempting to
crowd oui v.y. even into the outer circle
az ss.,a,.. n the Msfodeon yesterday sf-
ta,nS;on regrets vanished. The building
v.s- -nscred to its extreme capacity. Not
oniv!Were The seats crowded, but the space
around the circle was filed with attentive
listeners who stood patiently through the
the entire afternoon.
Kn not our purpose to give even syn
opsis Of the Governors remarks. he re-
viewed the defalcation of the Treasury,
shovinc ,ss clear as sun beam where Law
the great first crime, and that the entire
responsibility for that crime lies at the
door Of Treasury Breslin. Upon the COM
miftee appointed by Gov Chase to exam
inc into that crime, was distinguished
member Of the Democratic Central Com
mittee of Franklin County-Mr. Thomas
Sparrow. That committe reported that
Breslin took the money, and since the re-
port Mr.. Sparrow has been made Chair
man Of the Democratic Central Commit
tee of Franklin county, showing conclusive
IL that even the Democrats themselves, at
the center, where the late Treasurers were
known, and where Mr., Sparrow is known,
admit that the first crime was in Brcslin
and that had he been honest, the State
would have lost no money. At the same
time that Gov. C.. brought the defalcation
home to the Democratic Treasurer Breslin,
he in no way palfiated the crime of the
Republican Treasurer Gibson, who had at
tempted to conceal the deed of Breslin.-
As soon as any suspicious were aroused
relative to this great defalcation, Gov
Chase entered the Treasurer's Office, and
did not leave it until he had compelled
Gibson to resign and. .he-the Governor
had the keys Of the treasury in his own
keeping. And here We must say, that for
the boldnees. fer manliress, for integrity
that knew no intimidation, and which was
regardless Of political and party consequent
ces, this act of Governor Chase has no par
allel in the history Of Ohio. The Govern
or knew that a wrong had been done the |
tax payers Of Ohio, and with a dignity, n
determination, q fearlessness, he entered
that Treasurer's Office and took possession
in the name of the. plundered people of
Ohio If the last Democratic Executive
had one particle such frnness, or any just
appreciation of the responsibility of tbs of: |
flee, or any real conscientious desire to
faithfully do his duty to the whole people,
losing sight of his patty associations, eight
hundred thousand dollars would have been
saved to this robbed State.
After showing clearly, and by figures,
the great contrast between Democratic and
Republican rule: after showing that the
latter, even with debt of the former up
on their shoulders to the amount of 5000,
600, did in fact reduce taxation; after
showing the items, in which thousands up
en- thousands have been saved by Repub-
lican officers from the estimates as made
by Democratic officers; after showing that
Republican expenditures in every instance
have been within the estimates furnished
the Legislature, while the Democratic ex-
penditures had over-run estimates some |
eight hundred thousand dollars, the speak
er alluded TO the great question which now
engage the American people, and we make
an extract as reported by the Leader as
follows:
The speaker alluded to the great ques-
ton now; dividing the whole country; the
question of slavery. This question had
swallowed up and destroyed all other ma
ional issues; and had crushed out the old |
political parties. 1t had crushed the old |
Wing party; the American party; and re-
ally annihilated the Democratic party; iu-
aslnuch as there was now left of it nothing
bat the name, the preservation of which
was owing to the fact that party happen
ed TO be in power during the transaction
state. He alluded to the passage of the
Ncbaska bill as the time when the so call
ed Democratic party had resolved into a
conspiracy, the object Of which was to
crush out the spirit of freedom in the Gen.
eral Government, and make slavery and
despotism predominant. He then charg-
ed such conspiracy upon the Democratic
party. The last act in the accomplishment
ofthese treacherous and traitorous designs
Was the Dred Scott decision. Mr.. Payne,
his opponent, had said that except with re-
gard to the citizenship of the negro, that
decision made no points except those which
were "immaterial." He would nllude
briefly to thse immaterial points. They
were, that Congress had no power over sla-
very in the Territories, and that slavery
entered the territories under the Constitu-
tion-that the master, taking his human
chattels into Kansas, was protected in so
doing, not by the local law, but by tie
Consultation of the United Statez! These
were the points considered by Mr.. Payne
IS aimmaterial!7 Under that decision
there was not a foot of soil in the fertile
and boundless West-not solitary foot of
soil ont of free State, where an Ameri-
can freeman could go and be protected
from the communicating curse ofslavery-
not foot which the slavery propagandists
might not pollute under the protection of |
the Constitution, and the full powers of the
Federal Government.
This was the Dred Scott doctrine en-
dorsed and espoused by the so-called Dem
ocratic Party Of Ohio, embodied in their
platform, and advocated by their stump
speakers. 1t was for or against this infa-
nous doctrine that the people of the old
sst-born of the Jefersonisn ordinance were
to decide by their votes this Fall. The
inauencs Of this decision would be felt