The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1859-04-15
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te The JeGsrsonisn Eartof in foI low ing inI
: wahe Of the Ohio State Journal, and pu
ltshes "a bis last issue several columns
g tettefss IN hopes Of creating the impressi
cthst hosssn and Edsenton, in 1854, W,
cognissnt OF Brsslin's 8 defslcstion. Mors
and E1gerton knew no such thing, but III
sosrscrso that BfesIin was using the fun
tef tho state for his own advantage; and ri
TO have the Legislature throw checks al
guards around the treasury, TO oprevent a
fsicst,on, BY the passage Of a law similar
The sub treasury act, and Republican mer
q bers Of the Leg islature, assisted by the oh
State Journsl, defeated such Law in u
Legislature In 1884 u Hancock Courier.
It 10 not q little amusing to OF
serve the awkward efforts pnt fort
BY Democratic Editors, to trea
lightly that most damaging expose
made in the published correspond
epce oi Morgan and Elgerton.-
They get their thumbs into thei
"snspenders" and strut around will
a most distressingly affected air o
indifference, as much % to SAY
"who's sfeard, when any one will
q particle Of common sense, mus
know that it grinds them to the very
soul.
The Editor of the Courier. says
that Edgerton and Morgan did moi
know that Breslin was q defaulter
bur only "smspected'' such. Well
we shout think there was ground
not simply to suspect, but to knou
the exact state OF the case, unless
these gents were constitutionslly
prone to doubt and skcpticism
since Breslin came to Morgan and
frankly told him that he could not
meet tn. drafts on the treasury, to
l,,y the July interest, because there
was a deficit in the treasury, some
where in the neighborhood of hun
drcd thousand dollars.
Morgan in his letter to Edgerton
dated June 81, 1855, disclosed thu
condition of things:
"On last evening, I was waited on by Mr..
Breslin, and notified OF his inability to meet
the interest in full by proper time. He as
sured mt, however, that the deficit would
not exceed, at the utmost, one hundred
thousand dollars, and that the sum, IL loan
I'd in New York, by the Commissioners,
should be repaid in full within thirty days.
Bresl,n should have withheld from tn,
Commissioners the remotest int'mation on
this matter. until this evening.
When Gibson came to Wright.
with just such declaration, in June.
1857, it was taken Tor granted, al
once, that there was something rad
ically wrong, and the Governor was
called in, and Gibson WAS not allow
ed to retain his station one hour
Morgan, however, instead Of ex
posing Breslin's rasoality, helps hin
to conceal it, by taking from tn
sinking fund, contrary to law, tn
funds Deposited there, for that OK
press purpose alone, and sendins
them to Edgerton, at New York, t,
pawn for money to meet the interest
The Courier says that the Repub
lican members ofthe Legislature. il
1854, assisted by the Ohio Stat,
journal, defeattd d a law intended t.
protect the treasury. Here oul
neighbor is guilty again Of one Of hi'
characteristic blunders. The r.,
publican Legislature did not com,
into power, until January, 1856
nor was the Republican party organ
lied until 1855. So that neither til,
Republican party, nor Republica,
members of the Legislature, ha,
anything to do with the measure re
terred to.
But hear what Hon. j. r. Atkin
son says in answer to a letter from
Morgan, dated Washington, Novem
Der 25. 1854, in regard to what par
ty and what paper were culpabl 10
the defeat Of this measure:
"You may remember, after filling TO &c
any action in the House upon the treasnr
bill. We stuck on the appropriation bill i
the Senate section covering the ent,r
ground as TO loaning or depositing any Of IN
monies in the treasury; but the House, i
their wisdom, governed by Messrs. Ges
and Mckenzie struck il out, and adhere
TO IT, and at the last moment we were CON
PEELED to surrender, or adjourn withou
making any Then the States
man. tor rather Mr.. S. s. Cox could laud III
Finance Committee Of the House, and de
clare that the odious section was only in
tended as personal Aine at the Treasure
Of State.'" a. ...
Mr.. Atkinson was a Democrat
membtr Of the Legislature at tn
slime, and the author of tho treasur
bill; and he attributes the defeat ,
the bill to Democratic members, an
10 the Ohio Statesman. But whe
the Republicans came into powe
they undertook to institute most rigi
measures in regard to the treasur.
and in this they we're resisted by II
Democratic members OF the Legi
lstnre. nd BY the Ohio Satesma,
vhSeN litor, for this bit Of kind Sc
yiod. Gibson says. received throuu