Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1860-09-21
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FREMONT: OHIO.
The $4,000 Traitor.
STOP THIEF STOP THIEF!!

STOP THIEFi STOP THIEF!!
No sooner is thief or burglar detected
in his nefarious designs upon another mans
property, and he expects that punishment
is about to be meted out to him, than
he starts off to escape with the cry of "stopI
thief,p and is generally the most clamorous
in his outcry. So it is in regard to the ed
itor of the. Messenger Of this to'Sn. He
has been convicted, by his own testimony,
of taking the sum Of $4,000, to assist in
fastening upon the citizens of Kansas, a
law which was repugnant to them. But
the Democratic Administration said they
should have it, and the power of the Ad-
ministration with its tens Of thousands Of
gold was placed in the hands of corrupt
men to secure the few votes found abso-
lutely necessary for its success. After this
man Bean became so notorious, he has
sought to drag down to his own level one
infinitely higher than he ever stood. In
the Messenger Of August 81, the following
article appears as editorial:
"sEvEN THOUSAND DOLLAR HAM11S-we have not seen
word for time in the republican papers about that
$1,000, and did not know what the matter was. The
Journal aid not word about It last week and we
thought It strange ndeed but upon picking up paper
from away down in the State Of Maine the country in
which HANNIBAL HAMLIN, the repnblican candidate
for Vice President lives in found the mystery solved
This good pous SOUL the candidate fer Vice President
the ticket with honest old Abe, has been convicted of
vin II y-If
member Of the United States Senate, for lobbying a
claim through Congress- thereby laying himself liable to
expulsion. How Is It now. Boot tother leg is it,
These pous republicans made great ado about clerk
ceiying payhow IL It now, when senator in Congress
becomes claim agent, and votes money into his own
pocket Seven thousand dollar Hamn is the republican
candidate for Vice President This is the kind Of
oHehse that atteson ana number OF other republican
members Of the House expelled for when Banks
Speaker. Huzzah for the thousand dollar manthe
five thousand fellow is nowhere"
Mr.. Bean undoubtedly thought the false
hood would never find him out, and that
by his shouting this vile SANDER he would
prevent the Republican editors of this dis
trict from referring to his wrong act. How
ever, he can never prevent the people Of
Sandusky county from knowing that HE
did take the 6ribe. In the last issue of bis
paper he repeats the libel, with the expec
tation that his readers are silly enough tc
believe it. We have now something which
efectually gives quietus to this SANDER
At Augusta, Maine, on Wednesday, Sept
5tb, Mr.. Washburn, the Republican candi
date for Governor, and Col. Smart met in {
public political discussion. 1t is claimed by
the Portland advertiser that the forme
had the best of the argument upon every
point, until the latter was forced to seek I
refuge in merely local references. But tn,
greatest victory achieved by Washburn wa
the fastening of slander upon Smart
which he previously uttered against Hanni
bal Hamlin. Smart did not scruple t,
charge the Republican candidate with frauc
and corruption in the matter of the Brazil
ian commission, and in his speech again al
luded to it, giving as his authority, lette
from Collector Macdonald, which, however
be did not exhibit The advertiser says:
In Mr. washburns reionder of thirty minutes he Iii
orally skinned EphTaim-taking him point bv pOin
and exhibiting him 20 the audience in the character of
charatan and political sanderer. Smart sat in helples
agOnythe subject of and derison in the eyes
his audiencehs friends ashamed of him and his enemie
pitySg him. When at the close of his speech NJ
Washburn alluded to Mr. Smarrs false charge againt Ser
ator Hamlin in relation to the Brazilian Commission, h
stated that Moses Macdonald had written letter to NJ
Smart retracting the charge in his former letter.
that Mr. Smart had not only suppressed this letter br
had misrepresented its contents-and that the fact
stated by Mr. Macdonald entirely exonerated Mr. Hamli
from every shadow OF blame Mr. Washburn further sal
at he fnr uvb ~ have
the letter which Smart had suppressed, and would no
readit"
Mr.. Macdonad's letter concludes: at wa
unjust for me to attribute his efforts for tn
passage Of this resolution to private intel
est"
Thus was the slanderer put down and tn
senscless charge against Mr.. Hamlin explc
ded.
Will the editor of the Messenger now d
what anhonorable opponent should, and e,
onerate Mr.. HAML1N from the unjust charg
he put forth?
Where is the "tfve thousand dolo
felloaO" now?
In conclusion we quote an extract frol
the Philadelphia Press, Forney's Democrat
paper, where he makes some wholesome r
marks about the impolicy as well as Il
meanness of circulating false stories abol
candidates for Office, and contradicts the a
tack upon the integrity of Hon. Hannib
Hamlin.
"Some weeks ago a story was put in ci
culation against Hon. Hannibal Hamli
the Republican candidate for Vice Pres
dent, that he had acted as attorney, in
certain disreputable case, while Senatori
Congress, and great stress has been pl
upon this accusation TO show that Mr.. Han
lin is a corrupt and dishonest man. I'll
changes have been rung upon it, and just
tho point when most of the adversaries
Mr.. Hamlin began to believe what was sal
a distinguished political opponent in Main
of the Republican candidate for Vice Pre-
ident, upon whose testimony the origin
charge was persisted in, comes forward ar
states that he was mistaken, and acqui
Mr.. Hamlin of all blame. We allude,
course, to the much discussed allegatiC
against Mr.. Hamlin in regard to the Br
lillian commission. We are heartily I
ioiced 10 see the candidate Of n lar0e M