Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-10

with "full knowledge of what he says" must
be deliberate liar. There is no other posi-
ton for him. Because that charge against
Morgan is known to be founded on fact; it
was urged against him time and again in the
Columbus Journal and other Ohio papers in
1857, and l distinctly recollect the position
Morgan and his friends took in Smoothing
over the charge that deficit DID erist in his
accounts when he resigned his office as Treas
urer of Columbiana County. That defence
was, that he had deposited portion OF the
public funds in some defunct banking instltu'
ton, and that they were not available until
some months after he became Auditor and
Breslin Treasurer of State Of the State OF
Ohio "when he settled with this county,
This is fact which no respectable Democrat
of "Columbiana County," or any other, will
have the audacity to deny. If any one, how
ever, should attempt such denial, it is only
necessary to refer to the records or to
Morgan's sureties while County Treasurer
So much for that portion of Morgan's def
cheney which was ''supplied," Now for that
which "still stands recorded against him|
Morgan resigned his Office as County Treas:
urer about one year before the term for which
he was elected transpired. Before giving up
the keys of the Treasury, however, at the
end of his fiscal year, he held on to them a
week or two longer, and thsa by anticipating
the time for the collection of taxes and per-
sonally securing the townships, he managed
to scrape into the Treasury almost every dol
lar that would be due the county for the fol-
lowing twelve months, when he coolly took
from the vaults the oommissiap on the receipts
into the Treasury, which the law allows for
the collection and disbursement of the public
funds, and THEN reaigned his office! In
other words, William D. Morgan, the man
employed by the Minnesota Democracy to
villify and SANDER Republican candidate for
a responsible Office, did, while in possession of
the money Of the people of his county, pay
himself one gears salary in adUance, and
then, after doing perhaps three weeks work,
repudiated his contract, refused to disgorge
his ovsrdrawn pay, and compelled the county
to hire and pay man to do the gerry soork
which it had already paid VIM. D. Morgan to
do! There's the deficit, which, through a
legal technically, still stands recorded against
him, and a pretty specimen indeed it is Of
Morgan's "honor and veraoity." 1t will, l
opine, require more than one Of the retainers
which Morgan employs to look after interests
acquired hereabouts by himself and his friends
while still resident of Columbiana County,
to break the force Of this charge against him.
The other charges against "Little William"
Morgan are denied in lump, and Morgan's
defence of himself, Breslin & Co., and which
has been selfstyled report of an Investiga-
ting Committee supported. In reply to this,
a very few words will suffice.
When Breslin's defalcation became known,
Gov. Chase appointed a committee to investi-
gate the affairs in the State Treasury. Upon
this committee he placed gentleman opposed
to him in politics. Democrat, though an
honest man-Thomas Sparrow, lately Post
master at Columbus, Ohio. This committee,
which was not open to the charge of beng
composed of venal parties whose aim was to
oblterate venal offences, after thoroughly sift-
ing everything connected with his affairs, de-
clared it, upon their oaths,) as their delibe-
rate conviction, "that John G. Breslin alb
stracted the money from the Treasury.
This report, as we'll as other evidence in a
greater or less degree, implicated in the fraud
several of Breslin's colleagues, chiefest among
whom was this William D. Morgan, whose
guilt he himself admitted extended at least to
the knowledge that his friend was systemati-
cally misapplying the money in the Treasury.
To mitigate the force of this conclusion, and
and with view to regain the position in the
eyes of the people from which his culpability
in this transaction had displaced him, as soon
as the Democracy came into power, Morgan
secured his appointment as the Biographer of
the Breslin defalcation, in connection with an
other Democratic colleague and friend of Bres-
lin, and a very fishy Republican, who has
since openly avowed the Democracy and
hence the Report" which is really merely
an ingenious defence of himself-an attempt
to direct the attention from the guilty parties
to innocent Ones
If Breslin himself had been placed upon
that committee, it would not have been more
inappropriate or suspicious circumstance :;
and if, in this state of the case, there is any
one who seriously considers Morgan's defence
of Breslin and his colleagues worthy of any
support, he may safely be permitted to enjoy
his conviction. Morgan himself is, by men in
all parties in Ohio, considered "whited sep
ulchre," and his report, deformed bantling,
which fell still-born from his pen.
COLUMBUS.
The above communication has been on
hand for a week, but was crowded out bya
press of matter.
1t. Peter Correspondence.
10 the Editors Of the Minnesotian:
ST.. PETER, Aug. 25, 1859.
The nominations of the blue-bead Democ-
racy made at the late State Convention, are