The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-07-09
TIE S5i7,OOO DEFALCATI0Nl
Is The Chase Administration a Fat
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THE STATE JOURNAL IN A RAGE.

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! THE STATE JOURNAL IN RAGEl
The articles which we wrote last week. on
the stupenduous Galphinism, that has Just de-
veloped itself under Coy. ChaSes GRE
| TRENCHMENr and REFORM" administra-
tion, seem to haye fallen like bomb shell into
the camp of the State officers and their hirelihg
stipendiarieS As punishment for our audaci-
ty in not keeping ''mum" on the new deialcation
the Columbus Estate Journal Of SATURDAY.,
has two mortal columns charged to the brim
with a decoction of bitterness and denunciation
designed for our total demolition. We have
read The ponderous assault with feelings of min
gled pity and contempt. The wIiter with
characteristic stupidity, deyotes more than one
half of the entire length of his article, to a
studied and labOrious effort to show that the
censurabe management Of the State Treasury
under Mr. Bresln, met our hearty and unceaS-
ing condemnation throughout the entire four
Years of our service as State Auditor. The
condemnation thus alleged, is not only unreser-
vedly admitted, but is u Circumstance which
we revert to with heartfelt satisfaction, and we
are glad that in the blindness of its venom the
! estate Jourlap' has at last brought this cher
ished fact to knowledge of its readers In its
very awkwafdneSS, it has done us an inestilna-
| Die EFOr WHICH IL LOOK aulnlTdDlc care. never
] before to confer.
| And now having shown, as the "Journaf'
has triumphaRtly done, that we openly and
IpcrSistently denounced and upbTaided, from
first to last, the illegal and pecuatpg conduct
of Democratic State Treasurer, Of what does
the Chase State organ complain? II is Simply
this, that we have promptly condemned in a
Treasurer of the Black Republican reform
party, the same I'd even greater outra2es than
/ those Of which we supposed Breslin to be gull
! ty and which we never omitted fit occasion to
cenSure and expose The Chase orsan would
lgadly haye Us continue (as said by q friend )
! fighting dead cock in thepit,' instead of hol
| ding up to the gaze and scorp Of a deceived and
outraged people, the fresh, Lying, Shameless in
! flmies Of lgan who With q purpose of plunder
| fully matured in his heart travelled over Ohio,
under the countcnance and by the side of Gov
Chase, denouncinE democratic State officers as
band Of HfeUes and imbec3eS" and asking the
people to place the government under the care
of Tom Ford, Chase and himself that abuses
might thereby be corrected, dishonesty be re-
buked, and everything involving the interests OF
the State be watched over with sleepless flcl-
| ity and vigilance!
| Nor is this all: much ado is made by the
"Journap on another point. 1t is this: that
our present position is not consistent with the
fears we entertained whilst Auditor OF State,
! chat Breslin's suspected Illicit ASSOCIATIONS with
Treasurer Gibson, Judge Bowen Bectel, Cones
&c, &c would involve hiI4 ina deeper deGll
cation than the $4,000, stated in hls last Off
cial report. But it is not the alleged change III
our position justified BY the facts subsequently
developed by the Republican State officers and
Committees? Whilst We acted as Auditor Of
State, the old Wing laws (nepeT finally altered
until April 1855, gaze Us no means Of aSces
tanning the condition Of the Treasury by actual
examination and inspection. Hence our opi3a-
ions in regard to BreSlns probable situation
were made up from facts and incidents that fell
casually within our knowledge. But on the
incoming of the new Administration, the Trea-
sury (after fierce ard bitter family fight among
the Republicans was thrown open for the thor
ough inspection of Committees and Oficers-
The result of these examinations was an assu-
rance to the public that the fears Of the former
Auditor and Fund Commissioner had been
! groundlesS-ttdthte money l0Qs all in the TreaS
4 uiY, except the two hundred thousand dollars
specifically referred TO in BreSlin'S last annual
report. Mr.. kelley'S committee reported that
such was the fact: the Governor in his message
told the people to be easy, that such was the
| fact: Auditor Nrighbs annual report reiterated
| the statement: and the Special Investigating
Committee reported that they had actually en-
tered the Treasury, c0t,1ied the NaOneB and that
it was all there. Besides all this and as eli
max to the whole, Mr.. Kelley Oh the 29th OF
March, was furnished by Treasurer Gibson with
RECEIPT TO THE STATE acknowledging
h, full payment by Mr. Breslin of all money
due the State at the close Of his C}reSlin's) term
OF office, except the amount Of 100000 here
tofore referred to.
In the face Of all this array Of astute Repub-
lcan authority, can it he claimed by the friends
Of the Chase administration that we should It'll,
adhere to opinions that we may have formed
whilst Auditor Of State, although in direct con-
flict with the testimony of Republican State
Officers and Committees? Are they driven to
! that desperate extremity where they are com
pelled to admit that the bare outspoken s,tsDi-
citns of a democratic State officer, whom they
drove into retirement, end who had not the
privilege Of turning key or handling a paper
in the Treasury, have proven more reliable and
trustworthy than all the actual examinations
inspections and reports Of that infalable State
Administration which was to prove such sleep
less and invaluable guardian over the public in
terests! But though this may be convenient
1 dodge for those who are driven to the wall. they
Themselves to decline its USE We do not
choose to suppose Gov. Chase, his Legislative
Committees and Auditor, to have been destitute
Iof The necessary qualifications for Treasury ex-
aminers. They claim to be men of rather more
than ordinary sense, and it would be insulting
to intimate that they had beena2tpeL in the eyL
animation of the Treasury in manner that.
would disgrace half grown boys of common
| IshleWdness and intelligence. We, therefore.
neither make nor entertain such charges but
coneeding them to be gentlemen of that hf1ll
administrative capacity claimed fer them by their
friends and reposing that confidence in the
messages and reports of the Republican Execu-
tive Officers and Legislative Committees which
such examinations should always merit, we are
not at liberty to come to- any other conclusion
than that all tie money due the State at the
close of Broslin's term of office (exeept tie
two hundred thousand dollars, was paid over TO
that hoaestspeGimen of Black Republican purity
William H. Gibson. If the Governor and his
whole administration have been ISOLDE hy Gi5-I
son and his defauting brother-in- law, acting IN
coloot, let them say so like men not ashamed toI
own their simplicity When they have made
this confession, the people will then be able to
|julge how far Gov. Chase and his adn,inistra-
ton are entitled to a new lease on their con
fdence. s3s sf..s y3'5 4ftel
It's not at present, necessary to 60 further
into reply to the State Journalp We have
chosen to act promptly and plainly in exposing
the delinquency Of the Chase administration IN
regard to this stupenlous and premeditated de-
tacation. in doing so, we have folt that we
might thereby confer upon The State far greater
obligation than by assisting at past s,ortena ex- I
anauiation Of an empty Treasufy!a Ii there is1
anything on the books or papers Of that depart.