The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-07-02
or. Browns COnFessionAThose
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ever, he mustered courage to appear before
the public. Next week We pIopose to pub
lish the whole of his article, or at least the
most interesting parts of it, that our readers
mty judge Of his horesty for themselves. Il
is a most unfortunate defence to Mr.. Brown
and one which he will regret ever having
made. For, By his c,On tOOrds he stands Z
gully and condemned criminal before Tie peo
pie. We are exceedingly grateful to hin
for placing in our hands the very means o.
procuring his conUiction.
The matter for the Seatisel is already
made up, and we can i'll afford the space fol
comment at this time, but we cannot forbeal
offering a word or two now, reserying o
more extended examination 10 future day
By his own written statement he has chars.
ed and received money from the. State fol
services which he never rendered, and fol
time which he never spent in the public ser
vice. This is grave charge, but out of hi.
own mouth and from his own pen we will
prove il. We invite attention 10 the follow.
ing cxtrac! lromshis own statement as -pub
lished in the Democrat:
"Tacy also say charged d-time not spent
In part have answered this. Between tht
sessions there was two hundred and seventy
days. charl cd two hundred and nine days,
leaving sixty one days did not charge.l-
/ only charged t,co days in april, and com.
menced my regular charges on Ms 1911 OF
Nay, btgeen uhich time and the session ,cas
,.oo hundred and forty days. charged two
hundred and nine days, being thirty one days
less than the intervening time. These
thirty.one days were every day | spent not
in the service of the State, as | can prove
by the best men in the State. ] dery nv
slanderers. Gentlemen, do your worst
For every cent you can show that | have
taken without the clearest right thereto, |
will refund ten dollars.
So it seems he only charged TWO days in
April and taSGn his regular charges on the
18th day of May, and still he has charged
for two hundred and nine days at 81 per day.
Mark the statement. Let US makee brief
computation and see in what an unhappy po.
sition he places himself by the statement
The number of Days from the 18th of May tc
the commencement OF the session including
two days in April is 2lO. 1t 5 made us! a:
follows:
In A pril, .: May, 10; June, so; July, 81
Aug 81; Sept. 80; October, 81; November
80; December 81; January, 5-Total 24O.
Now in this two hundred and forty day.
there are thirty four Sundays-leaving only
two hundred and sir working days in tht
whole period, and yet Mr.. Brown has charged
and received pay for two hundred and min
days. Here is an over charge of three days
or in other words, charge for three Sun
days.
But this is not all. He has charged fol
every day he occupied in the 1campaig n il
stumping for Fremont. He has charged fo
both election days, and for all the time h,
was here in Ravenna, attending Court ant
to other private matters. In the Portage
Democra! Of August 9th we find Mr.. Browl
announced to speak at the center of Free
dom on Thursday, Aug. 2sth. III the Dem
ocrat Of Oct. lst, he is announced to speal
at Shalersvillc on Friday evening, Oct. 8
and in Edinburg on Saturday evening, Oct
4. Tn the Democrat of Oct. 9th, he IS an
nounced 10 speak at the Town Hall, Raven
ma, on Monday evening, Oct. 18th; q
Charlcstown, Wednesday, Oct. 9Th; at Brim
field, (with Thomas Earl 10 address the la
dies,) Thursday, Ott 9th, and at Mantu
center on Friday, Oct. 10th. Oct. IA, 9th
day OF the State electioD) he was here il
Raychna, "sick." On the 4h of Noyem
Der, (the day of the Presidential election.
he was in Ravenna and voted. But we nee,
not pursue this topic further. Enough ha
been shown to prove The manner in which
his time was spent during the campaign.-
And yet he has had the impudence and kna
very to charge the State $4 per day for al
this time, according to his own written state
ment. We have proved that he has falsel,
charged for
Three Sundays, 3 1avs