The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1859-03-23
Another Damning and Damaging
Development.
The OHIO State Journal and Gov. Chase
A HYPocR1TIcA1 JEREM1ADE
From the Ohio Statesman.1

From the Ohio Statesman.
What through Pecksniff that man
must be who, having read the report of
the Treasury Committee, writes about it
as follows in this extract from the State
Journal:
'This is melancholy record for the
fair fame of our State, not so much for
its history of individual unfaithfulness and
dishonesty, for these are inseperable from
humanity, as for its exposure of the gen.
eral corruption that from 1852 to 1856,
while the State was entirely in the hands
of the Democracy, infected all departments,
legislative as we'll as executive"
The report has made it as plain as the
sun at MONDAY, that Bliss began the
banking operations, which led to the de-
falcation, long before 1852. 1t has es-
tablished the fact, that long before that
period the State officials of the Journals
party were lending certificates of stocks
to enable spectators to start bank at
Cleveland without cent of money. It
has shown that Bliss never paid the
whole of the money he distracted from the
Treasury with which to buy real estate.
1t has explained how Sill was always
aiding spectators and bankers with the
peoples money. 1t has told how, when
the Democracy came into power, they
made every effort to- divorce the Treasury
from the bank sharking fraternity, who
had come to look upon it as their proper
ty-how these efforts were twice defeated
by the solid vote of the Journals party
in 1.-The Legislature, aided by those
of a few Democrats who we're soft upon
this question.
Moreover, the Democracy have demol-
ished the source from which all the cor.
ruptiou sprang; and the Republican State
officers and Legislators have been max.
ing every effort in their power to reinstate
it. The report shows, too, that no sooner
were the republicans in power, than their
State officers began to portion out the
public money among themselves, to sus-
tain banks, to start brokers' Offices, to
buy newspapers, and to perform other
amazing and shameful things.
| 1t uCuOuStEatcS, LudG uiUSOu tOOA
State stocks deposited in the Treasury
and pledged them in New York; that he
intimidated the Auditor and the Govern.
or by holding over them the note and
letter respecting the twenty-five hundred
dollars advanced to Hamlin and Schouler
to buy the Journal; that he distracted the
State money to lend to lIamlir, to the
amount of $40, 900 upon another occasion;
that when poor man he suddenly became
enormously rich; that, by his own showing
he has Breslin under his control; that the
latter has been his tool and instrument in
this aagitious business; that he (Gibson,
has 100000 invested in Western lands
that he has $780, 900 slowed away in snug
places from Minnesota to Nova Scotia
and that he has been ever since 1852 en-
gagged in enormous kiting operations, il
Bank and railroad stock. Finally the re-
port fixes upon the Governor, Auditor
and Trea.,urer the conclusive charge, the,
lent him large sum of the public none,
to get the documents alluded to above ou
of his hands.
! Now, with all this before him what so.
of bypocritical rascal is he, who rub
his eyes with an onion, and pretends t.
, fall crying over the corruptions of tn
Democracy?