The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-09-17
GROSS NEGLECTOF GOV. CHASE.
"The King Can do no wrong


In monarchial governments, the people are
taught to speak and act on the doctrine that
'4te kjnq can do no io,ong." In this free State
of Ohio-in this State where we have heard so
much yaporing about Stree speeclr'-it would
seem from the indignant complaints of Black
Repul lican editors and politicians, that a sim
liar theory is sought to be established in respect
to Salmon 2. Chase, Governor Of Ohio. Ev-
ery attempt to examine and criticise the action
of the Governor under the Treasury law OF Sth
April, 1856, is denounced as if it were an ont
rage on right aad decency. Every intimation
that he has neglected any part of his duty un
der that important law is treated as vile at
tempt at misrepresentation.
Free from any desire to falsi(y Gov Chase,
but determined that neither his own hsughti-
ness nor the inSolencc of his tools shall deter
us from our chosen course, we propose in this
article again to fix the readers attention on
certain duties devolved on the Governor by the
seventeenth section of the new Treasury law
passed 9Th April 1856, as follows:
''SEC II. If from any such examination or
from any Unsatisfactory evidence, the COVER
nor shall ascertain that the state shall have sui
fered any damage, or shall be i'll immediate dan
ger of al injury or damage from any illegal act
done, or about to be DONE by the treasurer or
from his refusing or neglecting to comply with
any requirement of law touching the receipt
keeping or paying out any money belonging to
the State or keeping or rendering account there
Eo or shall haUe taken insufficient security for any
,,aoney deposted elsewhere than IN the treasury Of
fire in Col.nlJ,ts, it shall in every such case bc,
THE DUTY OF THE GOVERNOR to dire I
the attorney general forthwith to institute ,hC
proper proceedings in the court Of COR nor
pleas of Franklin county to restrain the .casu
rer from all such illegal acts"
Here was a duty, both new and gray q, impo-
sed by solemn enactment of law on 'Ghe Cover
nor of Ohio He was required to st and as guar
dian over the Treasury. 70 save it from dan
ger and abuse, he was required % call on thu
court to enioin the Treasurer Fl .n every ilega
or hazardous act. He Heddnot} it. lie neglect
ed the discharge of this high and salutary duty
He thouaI 1T only of Kansas leaving the lreasu
ry to the sole care of the Jery man whom tht
law intended to place der his constant Wig
lance and restraint
But it may be ella med that Governor Chast
was ignorant that acre was any occasion lo
his interference W sll the Treasurer This pre-
tence cannot sta dit is false. The Inyesti
gatirg Commit zee of lis o,0n friends made hin
aware that tn Treasury was mismanased ant
, in danger. Observe the following single para
graph takelI from the report made by that com
mittee ca Fly last january ...a.
"By ne 10Th section Of the act of April $
| 1906, 3reserihing the duties of the Auditor AM
Treas ,drer, it is provided that no money belong
, ing 81 due to the State shall BE- deposited, pla
, ce :. or kept by the Treasurer or by his drec
Ion, order or assent, elsewhere than in the trca
, sury office at Columbus, without secarlty a
provided in said section The Treasurer haS
| i " 4
It complied with the requirements OF that sec
d tion.' a
n Here was plain, papable proof brought di
: rectly to the notice of the Governor by com
r mittee of his o,on t,iends showing that Gibso
o had not executed the law-that he was putin
c the public money in ieopardy-that the yer
7, case for asking the restraining power of Cour
n had already occurred and then existed. Yet j
Y the face of this notice to the Governor he mo
d we'd not an inch-he sat dumb as tnan OF Woot
J only thinking and talking OF ''JleeCling hansa
l. --WeeRing Kansas"
J. Nor was the above by any means the onl
e information placed in black and white belor
Il the Governor. Below are one or two NOR
l. paragraphs from the same report We will no
: lengthen this article by comments on these Far
e agraphs. The intelligent reader will be struc
&c with the facts they present. We copy as fol
j. lows:
~rhe firm of Kimball & Co. bankers {
r, Cleveland, consisting of the late attorney Gen
o e,u7, (now deceascd) and his brother in-laN
e PhiIo Chamberlin was formed last spring, an
il soon after its formation obtained Of the tIeasu
z rer a deposit of about $4,000 of public funds
e with the understanding, as the committee learn
Is ed from the treasurer, that it should be repalC
l. if required tie meet the July interest. No par
Il of this deposit had been paid, December l;
g 1855; ;ithad then fncreosed
II "About the lst Of january 1856, Bartlitt
s. Smith paid Mr.. Breslin, the late Treasurer
e $4,000 due the treasury from the securitie
e of his predecessor, for which they took real es
| tate and other effects, as stated in the deposi
tions of Mr.. Sulliyant Mr. Darlington and MI
II Smith, which have not hitherto been availabl
d in their business. In the statements iurnshe
j. by the Treasurer, it is shown that the firm hay
st been indebted to the treasury in about the sam
v amount, at least since the l4th Of March, 1856
o On the 18th of December 1856, Mey ,oe,e HaJl
:, to The treasury for $17l,650 46. Their bond
% $4,000, with Thomas Sparrow as surety
% They have withdrawn $4,000 from their busi
e ness, and invested in unproductive and unavail
/ able assets; have provided funds to start ban
l. in Maryland, and on he 15M of Deee,aber ne,
h liojle to the treasury }or SILL l,650 46"!!
e Men OF sense, men of.thought Look at tn
ii facts presented in the extracts which are give
ii above, and say if you can that Salmon p. ChaS
,f in failing to ''restran" Gibson as the 18th sec
i ton of Kelley's Treasury law required, did NO
j. most shamefully neglect the discharge of hi
solemn duty Ne,rdFk Advocnfe.
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