The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-07-16
The Confessions Of o. r. BrOwH-
*sEfs nm or Charges.


ken as true, was, Of ITSELF SUFFICIENT to con.
sign him to disgrace and fsdicule. We called
attention to some of its leading features at
the time, with promise to say more at
future day.
Tbe'bill of charges WHICH we published,
as having been presented by Mr. Brown, was
a ve,bGtim copy of the one which he himself
made out and presented to the Legislature.
Iswas true.bill in every particular. as the
proceedings of'thc General Assembly will
show. We charged him of having received
81 1866 25 as a member of the Smelling
Committee; $4aS 90 for the first session Of
the Legislature; S464 90 for the second
session-making in all $2,25s 25. Our
only errer, as we have since learned, was in
not making the charges high enough. Mr..
Brown did actually receive $2,664 SO or
$4o6 A more than we charged against
him, and $4O6 "A more, as Smcller, than
was charged in the original bill above re-
ferred to, and made out by himself. But
more CT this in another place.
We call attention to q few of the para
graphs contained in 'A1r. Browns published
statement. He begins his defence with the
following:
"The Locofoco party Of Ohio having been
convicted o rd5bing the people Of Ohio of
over million and half of dollars, seek to
divert attention from the fact that they have
plundered the people by the million, by as
sorting that others have by single dollar.
Their tenacity for falsehood is even greater
than their Ioathipg of truth. It was my good
fortune to assist in dhm Sling their villainy."
The above is 6 fair specimen of Mr.
Browns wholesale bombCstic denunciation.
he does not specify any thing. The 7decfa.
ratons are all general He fails to show
aoherein he developed any iuiquity. The
only remark we have to offer is, that if Mr..
Brown was appointed to unmask Locofoco
villainy, he is certainlya most dishonest and
inefficient agent. What has ne done D.
What villainy has he uutnasked! He has
spent one Whole season, and during that
time has actually covered up ten times as
much viliany as he has exposed, and proved
himself to be greater rogue than any after
whom he sought. Let US refer to facts.
There were three Smelling Committees,
OF three members each, making in all, nine
persons. These nine, were said 10 be sharp,
shrewd men. They spent eight months in
search of corruptioDs. A large portion Of
the time, they were at Columbus, and yet
with all their vigilance and scgaciIy, they
FAILED To DISCOVER that halPa million Of
dollars had been STOLEN from the public
treasury! They were men ofkeen scent. They
travelled the whole country over smelling
now here and now these. They smelled at
Newburgh; they smelled at Dayton; they
went to New York and Philadelphia and
smelled. They discovered Estle in one
place and little in another, but they were
too blind to discover that the tchole bottom OF
The treasury had fallen in - Shall we call it
blindness or cool, deliberate villainy! How
much more probable the latter. The con-
clusion is inevitable. Either the members
of the Investigating Committee were stupid
fools or unmitigated knuves. All the while,
when they were in search of Locofoco viii
lainy, the weeds OF corruption were growing
rank and high in their own household. Rob-
bers were holding the. keys of the State
Treasury. Supreme Judges and an Attor.
ney General were gambling away the peo-
ple's money. During the commission of
these enormous crimes BY the Chase Ad-
ministr alton, O. P. Brown and eight of Ms
associates, with sanctimonious faces, held
up their hands and helped to hide the robbery
from the public eye.. o, Brown, Brown
what an astnte, conscientious saint you are !!
Your sense of smell reached clear to Phila.
delphia, but you smelled nothing at hotne.-
You denounced the Democracy; you wept
over "bleeding Kansas" bet a deficit in the
treasury Of more than half million of dol:
lars was too insignificant. sum for you to
notice. So much for Mr.. Browns vigil.
ance.
But Mr.. Brown says he has not received
as large an amount of money as was charged
against him BY US, and to substantiate this,
he makes the following statement, which we
insert:
That my friends may know the true state
| of my account as member of that Com NIT
tee, publish the following from the Auditor
of States cffce: .-....... ..
O. p. Bro,cn in account Nth The State as
member Of The Joint Investigating Commit
; tee.
Paid out for own expenses, S 81 Il
Paid out for Committee, $50 n
r Paid out for Witnesses and Archf-
tects, l29 0;
Paid out for Valley Bank money, 35 OF
r .... $4l1 g.
Total expenses; &C., paid, $4f1 81
Reed for expenses Of State, $50 25
e Due me on expense acp., $6l 60 SCI 6
Y Per diem of 209 days, 1896 90
Reed for per diem OF State, 296 90
! Due me on Per diem"ac't, $500 $40
e Due me Jan. 5th, A. D., 1857, S6ot 6
i AUfDb1foR OF STATES OFFIcE,l
:, Columbus, June %, 1857. s
e /, Francis M. Wright, do hereby scertii
a that O. p. Brown presented the above bi