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CRROLLTON CARROLL COUNTY OHIO, THURSDAY JUNE 49, 1857

9TH. BY the same course, Of lhe same party
ssT, i4a,9O had been taken from the people 10 the
erection ard furnishing Of the Newburgh Lunalc
Asylum.
9th. In the same manner s6O79005 had
been appropriated by SET of political eOrmOrants
in the erection and furnishing Of the Dayton Lu-
tic Asylum.
9th. The officers Of the Penitentiary were de
faUters and in debt 10 the institution ir the sum
of SI2,s5l,6s. By the measures, actions and
laws of the Legislature, more than one half Of the
last three sums will be retained or recovered back.
These frauds are 9s various as the Transactions out
of which they have grown, and as numerous as
the members Of the slave democratic party whose
insatiste NAV had not been filled in other fields
of public plumber. The Republican party ferret.
ed out this amount Of fraud aud ehieanery, and
have BY legislation applied the only corrective in
their power
7th. BY numerous laws the public treasury
has been guarded at every point. 1t is now thought
that the safe guards thrown around the people.
money will in future defy any and all attempts oI
the greatest adopts in the LocofOco party to oh.
tain possession illegally of it. These laws cost the
legislature much consideration, time and Ia
bor
sth. BY the j,int action of LocOfoco Board
of Publicworks and set Of mercanaly contractors Is,
the State during the last hours of the exstance Of
that Board. was cheated out of over third of a
million of dollars. In speech of mine made up
on the floor Of the Senate, gave my views as to
this transaction. have, as a matter of course,
but little in addition to say. However, as the
subject seems even now to I've clearly understood,
have few words of remark in ,h s connection.
The fraud in the lettings of the contracts have
never vet heard denied; nor that the same were
made in violation Of law. That operation was re.
garded on all hands as the crowning infamy Of an
nfan Gus administration Of public affairs. A Re
publican legislature elected to reform abuses were
asked to give their sanction to the same by appro.
priating money to consummate tie iniquity. Thi:
to a m4n, 10 their honor be it said they refused
to do. Even so called democrats dared not vote
a dollar u,on those contracts. The Legislature
felt that it was mere machine to unite the purse
strings of the Treasury. They in their simpci
a., Ioor,o1 u n norI cf ,b;r oA1n;.1 1ut, 10 Lnov
that every dollar of the peoples money they vo
ted away was necessarily and rghtfulIy appropria
ted. and that there was legal ecessity for The
act. They knew that wrong of seven hundrel
thousand dollars had been perpetrated, and they
felt that they had tie same power to correct it a:
though it had been many millions. The Legsla'
ture without dissenting voice, refused to ratfy
the contracts by paying them. With equal una.
nimity they gave the parties the benefit of Our
Courts, in which If wronged, to obtain full redress
Thus Car the Legislature was a unit If there i;
the semblanee Of reputation in these facts, ther
every man in tho Legislature is alike guilty. Il
the contractors, by dnt of hard swearing. sustain
ed any of the contracts, a large majority, ful
three fourths of the Republican members. wer
for paying them the damages recovered, and get
ting rid Of them. About one fourth of the Re
publicans and all the Democrats in that event wer
for retaining them. Here we parted compan,
with the Democracy and few of our friends. =
1t is easy enough to say that the foregoing actor
is "repudiation," but to show wherein is more diff
fcult, indeed 50 difficult that tho' the obnoxious
term of "rerudiation" has been applied to the ma
jonty, no man or paper so far as have heard OF
read, has undertaken to point ont in what respect
it is reputation. Before they fix that foul stigma
upon my name, have right to demand the nature
of the act that thus disgraces my public course in
the estimation of all honorable men. Hereafter in
another form shall havean opportunity to vndi-
cate myself from this charge I leave the ques.
ton for future action.
9th. The Legislature found the Deaf and
Dumb Asylum in wretchedly dilapidated coud
ton, and unsafe for the inmates. II erected &
large and commodious structure which for the
present answers all the requirements of the insli
tuition.
10Th. Ijuts have long been neglected, and
given over to hopeless imbclility. The Legisla
ture, aetuated by an eularg'd and comprehensive
1 humanity, humanity that embraced all of Gods
suffering children, provided for their wants, and
furnished a school for their education
Ilth. A Bureau of Statistics was established
that will annually combine, and place before the
people vast amount of statistics as to the miner
al wealth, commerce, manufacturing, agriculture
and mechanical arts of our great and growing
State. Its value to those interests will be very
great.
18th. A Reform School fer Juvenile otfenlers