M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1859-03-31

" Inn INV hoi 10 llQsN NNAalle5-
ION. of last winter, charged with tho
duty Of fcrroting out the principals,
tho accomplices and the misdeeds Of
the Treasury Dehlcation of 1857,
have made their report. The docu.
ment has been, for several months,
suspended over the heads of suulry
guilty parties, in Ohio and elsewhere.
like Fate's vast volume, seven sealed.
And now that the book is opened,
and seal after seal is removed, the
wailing aud gnashiug OF those who
are not only doomed but damned 10y
its record can be compared only to the
torment Of scorpion when he
striketh u man.
We arc sorry that the Committees
Report is so voluminous as to pre-
cIude the possibility of its insertion in
the TINES, If set up in book form, it
would make q thick octave of some
what more than 400 pages. To spread
it at length before our readers would
occupy all the space of the paper not
given to advertisements for Mt least
two months, and at that rate, any
continuation" would become q fear
fnl drag. AS soon, however, as a good
digest can be made, we shall print the
material portions of the lNbors Of the
Committee. Our readers will lose
nothing by such delay, as the docu.
ment and the facts therein set forth,
are permanentintercst.
The Report shows that Mr.. Bliss,
Breslin's immediate predecessor, be.
gan the swindle, and t!at Breslin's
1irst false step was taken in order 10
shield Bliss from the pains and penal
ties of exposure. Next we have
Brcslin dickcring with the banks, and
they seGucing him. Then he as.
sumcs that most difficult and danger.
ous of characters the fnancicr. But
Oft all fools the would be.finapcicr is
the greatest, anl so Mr.. Breslin found
it. lie made plunge after plunge,
each time into o lower deep oF dcspcr-
tion and there is no telling how much
farther he might have got, but for his
defeat in 1855. His successor, VIM.
II. Gibson, was Brcsln's brothcr.in.
law, and the secret partner Of all his
rascality. 1t is hard to say which is
the crater rogue, for the reason that
the rules Of syntax and Of logic do not I
allow the comparison o! things super.
lative. And now the Treasury ofOhio
reaches the ultima Thule Of bad man
agement and vilainy, and about the
middle of June, 1851, Mr.. Gibson and
his conGederatcs find that they are at
their wits end. Even then, like a
bounded thief, Gibson was meditGting
some new dodge, when Gov. Chase
stepped and compelled his resignation.
His letter, dated a few days after, is
fine specimen ofpathetic writing after
the S9ueerS or Sna,clay model, and
the exposure, given by the Commit
tee, places his character in very much !
the light which surrounds those horri. |
BILE creations in Nicholas NickleJy. !
But the greatest value Of the report
does not consist so much in the detec.
ton of this or that mans character as
in the demonstration it affords Of the
utter rottenness and immortality of the |
old Treasury System Of Ohio. Wheth.
er TIE Sub Treasury Law is just what
we want, in ALL its details, may ad-
nit Of question, but that the IDEA and
the great outlines of the plan are
absolutely correct, there can be no
longer any doubt. Bliss, Breslin,
and Gibson fell, not because they were
greatly worse than most men, but for
tie reason that there were not three
other individuals 10 the State SO i'm.
morally circumstanced as they were.
Ofthe tens Of thousands who daily |
uttered the Lords Prayer, there were
none who could have had so realizing
a sense OF what the words, "Leaa as
not into temptatiOn," mean, as that
which was forced upon the minds of
those who had guiltily suffered them
selves to be tampered with as custo.
dams of the Treasury. Bankers of
long standing and the highest respect
ability; spectators
"-Who know