The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1857-07-17
Metus Matters.
VIM. ID. Morgan..shown Up.


humbug the public, from the Colum.
bus Journal.
"We have read with unaffected
surprise two articles in the last num-
Der Of the Newark Advocate. q Blu
chanan paper edited by William d.
Morgan, Esq, late Auditor Of State,
and the colleague, for four years, OF
John G.. Bresln during the admins.
.,raton OF Governor Mcdill. We
had supposed that under all circum.
stances of the case that Mr.. Morgan
would have been ready and willing
to have presented to the people Of
Licking County fair statement Of
the recently discovered deialcation,
one which "would nothing extenuate
nor set down aught in malice" On
reading his paper of Friday, we have
changed our opinion Of the man and
OF his political honesty. That paper
contains two articles, the first of
which attempts to exonerate Mr..
Breslin from all blame, and treats
the statement of Mr.. Gibson as a tic.
tion,-it lifts the defalcation from
Mr.. Breslin's shoulders and places
the whole weight Oft upon Mr.. Glib.
son, and this is done by course Of
jesuitical reasoning, and by system
attic and deliberate suppression ofthe
truth. Not satisfied with this, the
editor devotes another article to the
implication of the Governor and the
Auditor OF State, in the Treasurer's
Transaction. He quotes from the law
passed by the Republican Legisla-
ture in 1855, for the better security
of the moneys entrusted to the Treas
urer.-a law which he acknowledges
he could never induce Democratic
Legislature to pass, and which law
empowers the Governor; whenever
requested by the Auditor, to ap-
point some suitable person to make
an examination into the Treasury,
and to report the same to the Exec
utive. This law passed April Sth,
1856, and Mr.. Morgan wants to know
whether any action has ever been
had under it by the Auditor and the
Governor? He assumes in the same
disingenuous and jesuitical manner
that they have not acted under it,
and that therefore they are implicat'
ed in the deialcation, by not sooner
discovering and exposing it.
/ Such articles and such charges, tc
say the least, come with an ill-gract
from Mr.. Morgan. who was associ.
ated for four years with Mr.. l}reslir
ard Governor Medill IN the State
government, and who knew, and
who says he knew all the time they
were in office, that an improper use
of the public money was being made
by the Treasurer. Yet, not with
/. standing all this, this same Mr.
Morgan was nominated for re-elect
ion in 1855 with Mr.. Breslin, and
he would have regarded his erection
doubtless, il not us personal, yet a:
political party triumph. Ofal The
men in the State, William ID. Nor
gan, and DR. Trevitt, who was Sec
. retay of State, knew the beet Of th'
deialcation of Mr.. Breslin, whil'
they were each in Office with him
! and sitting IN the adjoining Office
with him in the classic halls of 'ra
row. They insinuated the fact yer.
, broadly at the time they held office
Mr.. Morgan referred to it Incidental
ly in his reports. The-two. third t,
checkmate Breslin in the Legislat
ure in the enactment Of laws and il
the appointment of committees; bu
! more than all this, they have, sine
, the recent deialcation became kuowl
! openly boasted here in Columbus
that they knew Of these frauds upo1
the Treasury, and the misappropria
ton OF the funds; that it was jus
what they had said would be the re
suit, and that, instead Of being sur
prised at the announcement, thei
,, only wonder was that it could hav
been hid so long. We have hither
to given Mr.. Morgan credit for bein
sincere in his avowals, and that hi
opposition to Mr.. Breslin, and tn
=, frequent quarrels which they ha
while serving the State, were occa
stoned by his disapprobation OF hi
! official use of the public moneys
! After reading the two articles in tn
Advocate, we have materially mod
ifed our opinion of the gentleman
and are induced to believe that hi
! opposition to Mr.. Breslin was NOR
a personal than of public nature
for no man of igh;joined principle
. could have written those articles
considering all the circumstances q
, the case.
: "And what are these circum
, stancesl AS soon as the existence
the deficit in the Treasury came t
the knowledge of Governor Chase
he set about an investigation. Sew
eral gentlemen whose previous posi-
: : ton and enlarged experience ha
! given them a know ledge OF the put
Ilic finances ofthe State, were calle
/. in and consulted among them wa
Q VIM. D. Morgan. He came to thi
t city, and was consulted by Govern
or Chase, and was requested by tn
Governor to act as one OF the inves
tigating committee, in conjunctio
: with Mr.. Dennison, the State Audi
= or, Mr.. Wright, and one OF tn
! ! clerks. Mr.. Morgan declined I
serve, and gave as a reason that b
u had other and prior engagement
which demanded his time and attel
!. ton; but he recommended in h