The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1859-03-02
ALBERT A. BLISS.

/ The first duty assigned the Commission, by
the act creating it, was to toinvestigate the accounts
and official transactions of the late treasurer AL
bert A.. Bliss .s asl G4EE "
We have entered upon the discharge Of this
duty fully sensible Of the high social and politi-
cal position occupied by MIR. Bliss, during his
term of Office. sast 7 srr Es,8
At its termination, vague rumors were atioat OF
his inability 10 pay to his successor the amount
supposed TO be due. These rumors became the
basic, subsequently, of Legislative enquiry as TO
the manner and character Of his settlement with
his successor. That enquiry was met by Mr.,
Breslin, to whom 1t was directed, by most un-
fortunate official attempt coneealment, in which
Mr.. Bliss was suspected to have taken no unin-
portant or disinterested part in fact his acqui.
| .. cence made the act hisown, When the Treas
ury defalcalion became known to the public, be
HAD therefore no right to expect an immunity
from suspicion of being implicated in it; and
can not now censure the General Assembly,
whose agents we are, for instituting, nor this
Commission for pursuing the investigation TO the
fullest extent it shall seem to him, or to others,
that we have invaded the sanctity of his private
business, and brought TO light transactions
deemed by him unofficial he must remember
that he had not himself fixed the line of aepara.
ton; but had mingled public and private inter
eats 30 intimately as TO- leave no distingp
mark between them. We fully appreciate, in
Ibis, as In all other cases, the impropriety and
Injustice of prying into the private transactions
1of any and It IS only when impelled by . sense
of duty, and when we believed that the admitted
sacredness of private Transaction was used e
conceal public wrong, that we felt constrained
4 To- subject ii To public scrutiny, J a e,a
II Mr.. Bliss was Treasurer Of State from March
jlS47 10 January l2, 1852. At the time Of htf
lleleetion he was practieing, attorney at Elyria
lin Lorain county and as he states in his depo
leition, tswas not worth great deal OF money /,
and as statsdin the depositiens Of others, owned
fashouse and lot, and a. fssnug little farm, Al
lElyria, and was worth from $4,000 to OsOpU
4 with these unacquaintedi with the means AMI
Appliances used BY outside influences to reacl
1.-THE Treasury; it would be supposed that Treas
dlurer would always obtain his sureties from, th'
jcircle Of his personal friends--those best &c
lquainted with his circumstances and character
Ibut with Mr.. Bliss, for has second term ,sueh wa
lfir from being the case.igFor his first term, b
lhad taken his friends from his own vicinity; bn
learning that that trouble and responsibility wa
lentirely unnecessary !; for his second tefms b
jayailed himself Of his enlarged experience, an'
accepted the proifered aid of more interested par
ltiesEA His sureties were William s. Sullivant
a Michael T.. Sulliyant, Thomas Noodle, Dema
4 Adams. jr, Jcel Buttles Az H. Pinney, w illian
n Miner, and Jacob q. Atwood !; all but the Latter
Iesidents OF the city Of Columbus; With all :
ltwhom, previous to his first election, Mr. Bills
had but very little, IL any, perscnal acqnaintancs
land who were therefofe uninfuenced BY any con
J |siderations Of afriendly Or political characte
lThe Treasury Of the State Of OHIO had, for
Hong period, BEEN the source Of profit 70 variou
Banks and Bankers; and upon the election Of
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