The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1857-08-21
FINDLAY, O.. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1857

this censure. No evidence was pro.
lduced. Don't you back up juries
this way" This language was too
gross for the Convention, and it was
received with Kisses and yells.
Mr.. Switzer cried ont. "Brcslin
had, when publicly charged and in.
dicted, offered no explanation"
Mr.. Burns, Chairman OF the Com.
mittee reporting the resolution, spoke
Of "tho apologists for Mr.. Breslin,"
claiming immunity for him and beg.
ging to save from censuro his
wife and child. No one dreampt OF
such thought to cloud them
"Whcn was il q misfortune to be dis
honest2" he clumsily said. Bresln
he continued, is in Canada, with his
guilty head, and Gibson would have
followed ii he had not found friends
Ito be his bail.
| Mr. A. =. Elgerton, Transfer
Agent Of the State, in New York,
when Breslin was in his pallny days,
said he was in the committee that
prepared the resolution; voted for it
There, and voted for it here. God
knows ] am the last person that
would thus speak out in defence Of
himself. But the Democratic party
had reposed in bis hands o trust
(which lie had ignominiously botray-
led lie received the money, and no
accounts left by him are sufficient to
satisfy us o: his innocency Of being
q deiaultcr.
We have to go behind the alleged
statements Of Gibson, that the mon.
ey was all paid. ! call upon Brcs,
lin to answer Tor himself. ["He
can't hear you, he's gone to Cana
da, " was cried out.
1t is our duty TO our party, to our
selves, to our personal integrity, to
dcnouncc him and condemn him ms a
public defaulter, as an embczzlcr.--
We cannot condemn Gibson unless
we condemn Breslin. Ihe has any
thing to say, why has he not said
III Speak OF his innoccncy; If in.
noccnt he coul relieve hmscli.--
The fact withheld is an inference OF
guilt. We do not iIjuc him. lie
has injured himself. lie has prov.
Cd false to himself and to the party.
Mr.. Edgerton moved the previous
question, it being past supper time,
and approaching the hnnr whrn rail.
road trains started. Judge Corwin
intcrposed-tor wor1--not to be
gagged. lie said: "wllcre does Mr..
Burns come from. who reports these
resolutions? What right has he to
! characterize us as ''apologists Tor MIR,
Brcslini' In your wisdom, and
great length of time taken to bring
Aard such resolutions; you should
have learned to avoid hasty action.
This man has been nniortunate; we
shoull be careful of fixing an incredi-
iblu stain>on his character, with the
whitening, all destroying ccnsure of
these resolves. Suppose it is decided
b .fure tho Court that Mr.. Brcslin is
not q dcfaultrr! These gentlemen
must have been rcadinL Black Re.
publican papers to find excuses ior
Mr.. G, and cp'thct; for Mr. B, These
proceedings partahe rather of the
Culafornia Vigilance Committee
character. You might rs well hang
un! quarter h IN. AMI his wife and
child. l,s l,e been asked i,r an cx.
,rlhuati"ui He h not bc,n AZ.
rainsnrl, h. has not hal an uppor.
tnpiiy To answer.
Mr., Birus asked. Ar, y"u no,
! his counsel. Mr.. C"rwin! Answer
I'll am not, and never expect to be-"
with an air OF pleasantly he add.
Jed. Il am counsel only Tor honest
men"
Had MT the gentleman b,ttrr in.
lclulc in their omnibus bill Of rcnsurc
Il certain Board OF Fund Coumis.
sioncrsf One cried out, i would
rather tue State shnu'l lose outright
hal million oi dollars. than that,
by our re-olution, uEy one should
loss one nj !hts rrrosc !
a violent ou'cry was male by n
few, and all the parliamentary .ac.
lies known, used to ,lcirat direct
vote Oh the lolton of .hc rrs solution
the yeas. ami nays by conui - were
called, All alter great delay, dispute
and wrsu.ling. they were called,
counted and declared. Carr.rd-ayes,
1872; nays; 1S.
Thus GUIDED the Dlm rcmtic Com
veution; the outlines Of the scene
Iry around the top circle. which was
from the Panorama oi Uncle Tom s
Cabin. iaded with the twilight. and
Us gas was l'.htel, the disSat isiicd
party left with curslns an gnash'
ing of teeth.
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