Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-04-01

Being balance due on the $50, 600 check oil
Treasurer Of statc. / would have romi:tei
more promptly had ! been al lie to con, ert The
tFglt ! received on the cheek sS ofIer THAI | did.
W. q. DESliLER,C Cashier.
We appeal 10 any honest man of either
party, IL we have not substaniiated every
thing we promised in the beginning of this
article by irrefragib!e proof. After the
testimony We have given, is there ore that
elH doubt that Morgan and Edgerton were
accessories to the deiaication, by guilty.
knowledge Of the fact Tor Two years, und
while Breslin WIS a candidate for recollection
If they were not actual accomplices. Is it
possible that any men. SO prominent in po-
litical affairs, would thus peril their reputa.
ton in mere disinterested zeal to cover up
the crime of another! And will the read, +
consider that IL 50 direct an implication in
this fraud can be shown by official letters
on file in the departments, what must have
been the nature OF the private correspondence
between these men! We can only give
what they saw proper to leave on file. after
they have had every opportunity 30 silt it.
Ihe treasury commission endeayored TO
account for the low price received for the
last loan. They said, "the eyes of capital.
lists had watched the finances Of our S ate
with friendly care" that Ofrio's securities
were f~ayoriies 10 the market, bu, a suspicion.
created BY the circumstances of the last
loan, that CONSTANT borrow ing was TO be the
policy of the Stale, began TO nuke %cepital-
lists suspicious;'' also that s'~borrowing at the
last moment, and other forced, inpruvidem |
measures, must sooner or later produce dis
order, and entail loss and disgrace upon the
State 10 the injury also of its credi tors."-
That we are right in this, we will here state
TWO pregnant facts: LIST, the keeping alooi
Of actual capitalists from bidding for the
whole loan, and I'd, the o~ficious forward.
ness of the lighter class of stock brokers in
rendering their services. These two never
would have dared 10 show their faces, if the
causes above specified had not thrown the
tempting bait within their circl-s." Z,
Is there not sufficient reason shown in
this correspondence why the credit OF the +.
Btste had sunkl Could the securities of the :
State be thrown among the hawks and ouz.
'ards Of the stock market, and lypotheca,ed
y least twice a year to cover up this deEat- u
cation, without telling Oh the credit of the :
saats! In another article, We ehall prove a
MAJ, during DIR. Edgerton's administration D
the transfer agency, The State was under e
uspiclon among capitalists at New York. II
auditor Morgan is very careful to state Il
nat from the imperfect system of book o
,eeping he could not know how mucb ii
there was in the treasury, but he did 10
now annually, and he always knew
ftter the settlement of the county ,reasurers:
I'D he knew when he made the draft of $50 :,
on Breslin that there should be near A,
me hundred thousand dollars in the treas. Il,
~. he shows that when Gibson took DOS. 81
sssiou soon after, the books showed a bal 80
ace OF $855,a53. and yet Breslin could not :.
ny 9 draft of 500 600, and innocent Nor 80