The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-07-15
GBe AsbIanO Nniun.
ASHLAND:
Wednesday, July ID, 1857.
THE ISSUE THAT mORGAN,TREv.
ITS McC0OK, AND A LARGE
OF THE OHIO DE.
MADE WITH JOHN G.
LIB ESLlN3S OEElClAL CGlkGE.-

after the organization of the Democrat
ic State administration Mr.. MORGAN,
and his democratic colleagues, made is
sue with Mr.. BREsLrN. The substance
of this issue is embodied in the extracts
from the official papers of MouGAN and
others, which we re-publish on first page,
and which every honest man should cut
out and paste in the hat which he intends
to wear until after the second Tuesday
of October. This issue is grossly per-
yerted by Republiean editors, a fragrant
example, of which is contained in the last
Ashland Times, and which we copy be.
low
9 " As Mr.. Morgsn was acquainted with
the course being pursued by Breslin, so
VIC may reasonably infer the editor of the
Union was. This Inference is strength.
eued by The article in the Union where
in we learn that leading democrats pro,
tested against Breslin's course. Why
protest p Was he committing a wrong ?
If SO, then. in the name of all that is
honest and proper, why did the editor
of the Union and leading democrats sup
port MrSBreslin for the third term"
Mr. BKEsElN's first denomination, was
on the 9Th of January, 1858.
His second and last denomination
was on the 9Th of january, 1856.
The first official knowledge-and the
first knowledge of any sort, beyond mere
suspicion-that Mr.. BREsLIN's Demo
cratic colleagues had of the losses to the
Treasury, through his deposit with
Banks and Bankers, was through the last
official report of Mr.. BREsL1N, made to
Gov. MEDLL, in January, 1856, [al-
though dated Dec. 27, I855,1-FULL
Ss0NE YEAR AFTER BRESLIN'S
LAST NOMINATION BY THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
Nj. MoRGAN's acquaintance" with
the course being pursued by Mr.. BREs-
LIN, and to which he took exception, was
limited to this:
He (BREsLIN) charged the State, as
his Republican predecessors had done
the current rates of exchange for pla-
cling in New York the funds with which
to meet the semiannual interest on the
public debt. The Auditor and Com
missioners of the Sinking Fund insisted
and p1oved that this money could be
placed in New York without the cost of
q dollar for exchange. This was n is
sue, and legislative in~terposition was
invoked to correct the abuse in every
one of the s%emi-annual reports which the
Commissioners made.
The other issue was that he (BREs-
L1N) was suspected by MORGAN and
others-it was mere Suspicion, because
there was then nc law, as there now
is, authorizing the Auditor of State
to go into the Treasury, as Auditor
WRIGHr claims that he did in 1856, and
make a searching investigation into its
afairs-BREsL1N was suspected of max
ing deposits with Banks and Bankers,
in a way that jeopardized the public
funds, for purposes of self -aggrandize-
ment.
They never charged, as will be seen by
their reports, that BREsLIN was using
the funds CONTRARY. TO LAW, or
to the CUSTOM OF HIS REPUB-
LIGAN PREDECESSORS (WHrrz-
HILL and Bliss D but they claimed that
these were a5uses-anti-D Democratic
u 81 IL - H. Don,oc-ofSc
Party, which were thus being violated,
should be enacted into the form of laws
and placed upon the Statute books.
BREsLIN was committing "G a0ro1ig"
by these charges for exchange, and by
his alliance with rotten Banks. Hence
g the protest " by his Democratic col
leagues.
But why did not the Legislature en-
act the law, so earnestly demanded, cor
yecting these abuses? Because, if the
truth must be told, the Republican
Banks aud Bankers, interested in the
use of the public funds, brought infu-i
ences to bear of such potency as to de-
feat the reform projects which were
brought forward. A sufficient number
of lawmakers, elected as Democrats,
were ipveigled or bought up-went ouer
to the eneuay-on this question Of Treas
ury safe-guards-and, by casting their
vote WITH THE ENTIRE REPUB-
LICAN PARTY. were sufficiently pow
erful to defeat the earnest recommends
lions of MORGAN and others.
It was DEMOCRATS alone who "pro-
tested " against BREsLIE's course. Re-
q u6zicans were dumb they could not
"protest,n because he was only faithful
to the presidents of his Republican pre-
decessors, as he was faithless to the prin-
eiples of the Democratic party. This,
according to the Republican creed and
practice, was no sin. He done precisely
Republican Treasurers before him
had done, and precisely what his success
or GIBSON done, and what Mr.. STONE,
the present Treasurer, IS mot0 doing, un.
der the sanction of CHASE & Co.
The editor of this paper did nat sup
port the nomination of BREsL1N for his
second, or for his third term. In 1853,
were a candidate against him, and only
Uanted a few additional votes to have
.bo ,onnination. When il first