The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1858-08-25

f~ectiYe, all personal chickering's through
the columns of the paper, must now be
laid aside.
Mr.. Editor: In last weeks Union
there appeared an article over the sigma
ture of D. s. Sampsel, which charges
that I or my friends have circulated a
through the county that he (Mr.
Sampsel) had attempted to draw money
from the County Treasury illegally.
In reply, I will say that there has
been no such report put in circulation
to the best Of my knowledge. It would
be absurd to circulate such q report
about o man whose moral character is
SO entirely above reproach. Justice to
the parties concerned, demand that I
should state the circumstances just as
they occurred. They are as follows:
Sometime in March, 1857, T. j.
Kenny, Esq, the Prosecuting Attorney,
called at my Office and requested me to
issue an order to pay him $500, the ba-
lance which would be due him for his
official services for that year. 1 declined
doing SO, stating to him that the order
of the Court required that it should be
paid quarterly-that is, $50 at the
end of every three months-that he had
already received from Mr.. Gates, my
predecessor, $500, all that was then
due, and further stated to him that if l
should advance money to him before it
was due, that every other man who had
business with the county might also ask
an advance or loan, and. claim it as a
right, because the precedent had been
established. 1 then showed him the
certificate from the Clerk. He frankly
admitted that I was right, and said that
he would not have asked for it, but that
he needed some money. Nj. K. ex-
pressed himself satisfied with my posi-
ton, and retired. The day following,
D. s. Sampsel called On me, and asked
whether I intended to advance that $500
to Kenny? 1 replied that I would not.
He then said that I must do it-that l
could ave him 500 by 50 doing-that
Kenny owed him 500, and promised to
pay it when he would draw the $500 in
question-that he intended to start for
New York the next Monday, and need
ed the money-that he had labored for
me, and helped put me in the Office, and
that 1 now had it in my power to favor
him. I replied that I had no right to
advance or loan money out of the Trea-
sury-that the $500 allowed to Kenny
by the Com. Pleas Court, was ordered
to be paid quarterly-that 1 had no
right to disobey the orders of the Court,
&o.-that, while ! felt grateful to friends
who had aided to secure my election, !
could not and would o do otherwise
than pay money from the Treasury al
such times as it became lawfully DUE
I proceeded to give my reasons in full
but was interrupted by a TRADE of words
and oaths which I will not attempt to
repeat. Among other things he said
that there was a time coming when he
would pay me back-that I would be a
candidate for my second term, and he
would, to use his own language, lag
me u colder than a qcedge."
Notwithstanding the Doctors abuse,
I the following day borrowed 500 and
loaned it to Mr.. Kenny, that he might
pay the DIR. the 500. Itook Mr.. Ken
ny's note for the same, and held it until
his next payment became due, when be
paid me. Whether or no the DIR. ever
received the 800, or whether Mr.. Ken
by owed the DIR. 500 1 am unable to
say.
/. The above are the facts in the case,
and 1 submit them in reply to the very
polite article referred to; and to con.
clude, will just say that any thing more
from the same quarter will not be motto
ed. JAMES SwNEF ORD.