Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1857-10-01

ficted upon the most Industrious and
provident of the people, by failure of
the manufactures of paper money, call
for the initiation of policy, which will
in time, furnish an abundance of the
precious metals, as circulating medi-
um. The Democratic party looks for
ward to, and is determined to bring
about, the time, when the wages of the
labor shall be paid in gold and silver,
and the farmer may ride home, after
having sold his wheat and corn, with
bag of specie on the pommel of his
saddle. The Republicans advocate an
increased emission of small bank notes,
and corresponding decrease in the
circulating medium of intrinsic value.
The extraordinary ineficiency OF the
Republican State officers, their want of
diligence in the performance of their
duties, and their shameless profigacy in
the administration of your affairs, have
already attracted your attention. The
insane and audacious suggestion of
Governor Chase, to devote an enormous
sum of your money to the stirring up
and carrying on of civil war in one of
the Territories of the United States, and
to raise and equip military force, for
the express purpose of hostilities against
the United States troops, must be un-
sparingly denounced, 1t will not be
forgotten at the polls. His gross neg
| ligencc OF the duties imposed upon him,
in regard to thorough scrutiny of the
Treasury, has been one of the causes of
immense loss to the State. His recent
unparalleled attempt to interfere with
and arrest the due course of justice,
will receive the unqualified condcmna-
ton of every wise and impartial man
The setting up, by him, of his unsup-
ported declarations in opposition to the
findings of the Grand Jury, and the
sworn statements of the Attorney Gen
eral, while the criminal cases and the
civil cause are yet pending against Glib
son, is an act of treachcry to the State,
whose Governor he is, and the guaran-
tee of impunity to a wrong doer, with
whom he has had intimate personal and
business relations.
The portioning out of the public
moneys, by Gibson, between his col
leagues in Office, to set up broker $
shops, and certain faithless and insol-
vent banks, in which some of them
were arrested, reveals the coveted object
of the mcrcenary Republican leaders,
and their utter disregard of deccncy in
grasping at it. Nearly forty thousand
dollars of your money was advanced by
the Republican Treasurer to the At
torney General, to set him up in busi-
ness as discounter of kiting bills; and
large deposits were made in the banks,
i'll which the Treasurer and one of the
Supreme Judges are believed to have
been largely interested.
The vast infcriority of the Republican
Legislature, to any other that ever as
sembled in Ohio, became manifest be-
fore it finally adjourned. That it would
be unable to perfect and pass single
measure of a general utility, might
have been predicted from the nature of
its composition. 1t was a conglomcra
ton of the most discordant elements,
thrown together by waves of a furious
but evanescent agitation, and unable to
agree upon any subject but one with
which it had no power to interfere
Had it been elected to govern Kansas,
the majority might perhaps, have acted
with vigor and unanimity; had it been
empowered to nullify the laws of the
United States, it would have effectually
overthrown one of the last acts originated
by the lamented Clay, but, as its legit-
imated province was to devise measures
for the benefit of Ohio, it speedily di-
vided into rancorous factions, whose vir-
ulent animosities continues, and refuses
to be allayed, even in the desperate ex-
igency in which their Governor finds
himself
In conclusion, the COMMITTEE, after
instituting the fullest inquiry, and US
ing all the means at its command to
obtain reliable information, gives you
the strongest assurances, that decisive
and complete victory awaits the Democ-
racy. To insure a consummation so
dcvoutly to be wished, every Democrat
of Ohio, And every man who loves her
and the Union better than fanati-
cal and mercenary cabal, should use his
active exertious. Devote yourself, for
a few days, to the best interests of your
State; deliver her out of the unholly
hands into which she has fallen, whose
rule, of only two years duration has
made her bankrupt i'll money, in char
acter, and in influence; and when, by
your patriotic efforts, you have reinsta-
ted her in the proud position among her
sister Commonwealths, to which she is
of right entitled, you will, each and
every one in his own proper person.
reap Il manifold harvest from the seed
YOU have sown.
+. LINCH, Chairman,
Alex. Long; j.. Harper,
A. B. Miller, j. Y. Glessner,
III. 5. Commcger, Ii. j. Jewett,
| ] + Mckinney w C. Gould