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REPUBLICAN, MEETING AT GIN
CINNATI-GoVERN0R CHASE'S
SPEECH.


Cincinnati and viciui y held large and r,
influential ratification meeting. Speech l
es we're made by Gov. CHASE, Judge II
WARDES and Mr. TAFT. The speech OF S
Gov. CHASE we copy from the Cinelnna'
I'll Commercial, and We hope it will be {
published by every Republican paper, and +
read by every voter 10 the State. 1t is e
able, argumentive aud unauswerable:
Fellow Citizens, am not here to- night
for the purpose of amusing you with a S
sounding political harangue, but came to |
address myself to your consciences and
enlightened judgement. rejoice to see
you to night. ] Irejoice to see the spirit
which manifestly inspires you, for | per.
ceiye by the expression Of your upturned
faces, that the people Of Hamilton county
feel an interest in the great issues that are
now before them, and which are the bonds
of cohesion by which the great Republi-
can party is united. Iperceive that the
principles Of liberty still animate you as
when l last addressed you, and l rejoice
1t is not in the nature Of the cause Of hu'
man freedom to die out of the human
heart. We represent the rights of human
liberty, the same principles that inspired
Jefferson, and we now stand where We
have always stood, and always will stand'
until we have attained our ends. The
election before us, it is true, is not Ma,
tional election, and it is true thatwe need
not necessarily discuss National issues, but
il is also true that the Republican party
is National in its character and design, and
hence, every election, belt of State, OF
County or of Town or City, partakes
alike Of National nature, and their results
enter into all our general concerns.
But now propose 10 speak to you OF
facts which more immediately interest YOU
| am before you as a candidate for Gov
ernor-not Of my own choice, | may Just
" say. My ambition was satisfied with
one term, and l had hoped to retire from
the Office to devote my time to interests o.
private nature. Yet summoned as
was bv the unanimous choice of your rep
resentatives in Convention, felt constrain
ed to accept the call of the Republican
party, and am here to open to you M
heart and my mind upon public question
in which you Justly manifest deep lntere'
GCheers.
THE TREASURY DEFALcATIoNs'
I am going to speak to you, first, OF th
prod,gious hole found in the public pocRe
| shall tell you trueIy all that | know {
the robbery of the Treasury, which has r.
Gently developed itself, and show to yo
where the responsibility properly belong
A few Weeks ago. in the month
June. [ discovered, to my utter astonlsl
meut. that there was deficit OF SON
$5OOOO in the Treasury. | had supp
sed from official reports of the Leg'Sla'l
Investigating Committee, and from !
Auditor that the money was all safe IN Il
Treasury as they bad found it. And
was there when they examined the lre'
ury; and shall show you that it had be ,,
absorbed during Breslin's admlnlstraIlt
and that not one dollar of it ever soil
the fingers of a single officer OF the 1
publican administration.
And shall show you the circumst'
ces under which the Republican admir-
tratiou assumed the government.
were elected in 1855. No legislature .
sat for two years, and the last l.
isature which preceded our entry J
office. which was Democratic, had tai
to pass laws to guard the Treasury,
thus left it at the discretion aud mercy
single man.
When the Republican Legislature
in January, 1856, almost the first tn
thew did was to pass law guarding
protecting the Treasury. But on tna
did not prove as effective as had been
ticipated. Learning its defects, by e'
rience, however when they met at the
iourned session of this year they enaete
new law, which required a quarterly
animation by the Governor, and also
the Auditor, At the regular session
had also appointed Legislative Inv
eating Committee, comprised of t
members, all of whom were Republic
the Democrats having refused to pc
repre- sentative of their party to serv
tbe tIommittee. They did hold a ca
and designated one Democratic meI
for each Of three committees, but 81
nuently another Democratic caucus
held. and upon delberation they ret
70 couutenance the investigation into
administration of their own party, thu
tablishing their fears that corruption
existed which they feared to expose
The examination, however, was
bv the Committee, and also by the
tor. and they found the money. 1t
there. in the Treasury. But it W
sham. 1t was there, as money is
times found in the vaults of your ba
when the examiner comes round.
fv 10 some other bank and borrow
or present purpose. The examiner
that all is right. He retires, when p
change! and it amt there. just
This case. Just so with Gibson. ID
borrowed drafts, bills, de-. evidentI
value, for the purpose of fccrceailing q
c;t which he knew existed, and, l
since learned, forpurposes which,
rectIy understood, cannot be cons
entirely discreditable to him: The
ev was there, but the Committee W
ceived.
Mr.. Gibson was elected when | '
TbA same confidence was reposed !