The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-10-03
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BLACK NNCONGRESSnfEN
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Black .Repnbliean, Legislatures Bribed and
= Bought upI
Read The Evidences
.aofthteir Guilt !F's

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I. ."ofthHeiirrs their Guilt & uttllbt t'''s
Tie history tory q the rise H and fam ST parties in
this country IS u theme full Of suggestive les
sons to the statesman oand scitizen; and were
fthe space allowedrasr we would gladly dcscsnt
upon The topic Our present purpose, how
ever, is with the living, and not with the dead
But there is one great fact, standing out in
bold relief upon the page Of American history,
which, connected as itiis with the present, we
cannot pass over. It is this That the Demo.
| cratic party, dating its birth from the birth of
the Republic, . and before whose eonquering
legions every other party that has ever risen
and struggled for mastery in this Government,
has been swept down like grass before the
mowers scythe, stands to-day, in all the maj:
esty of Its pristine power, "bearing the flag
and keeping step to the music of the Union lo
|, What q glorious and brilliant historyit pre-
sents Darkness and gloom have gathered
around it; defections and treason have thin.
ned its ranks; disastrous defeats have perched
upon its banner; yet, with . courage. .thataney7
er quaiied, a zeal that never tagged, aud an
unfaiterfng reliance upon the business of its
cause which no disaster has ever shaken, It
still presses on in its glorious mission of pre-
serving inyiolate the Consultation and the
Unio.s Summoned again TO the field Of COM
test, it responds with alacrity to the demands
of patriotism, and stands forth TODAY to com,
bat the most dangerous of all the parties that
have ever had an existence in this Govern ?
Composed of the renegades Of all parties,
the Black Republican faction surpasses them
ell in audacity, IMPUDENCE, CORRUP-
TON, and VENALlTYi With every pocka
ct and every hand filed with bribes,1 it has
even, dared to protest its innocence, and seek
i'to elude detection by charging its own yenality
upon others. Tried ard convicted of corrup-
ton in its very infancy, with the brand upon
its brow, it yet has the cffrontcry to set itself
up as the model of honesty, and the Judge of
public morals. After having plundercd the
public treasures wherever and whenever it
had the opportunity, it yet affects to roll up
its eyes in holy horror at the indispensable
and diminutive increase of our national ex-
penditures-an increase rendered necessary
by, and only keeping pace with, the growth of
our country. And judging others by the
course of action which has guided It's footsteps
and marked ats career, it has not faltered to
charge this necessary and indispensable in
crease to corruption. With its "smelling com.
mittee'' it has ttcompassed sea and land" in
its efforts to fasten corruption upon the Demo-
cratic party, but its secret assaults have been
parried, its perjured witnesses confronted and
disproved, and its stale ISLANDERS received full
refutation. And yet it has the andacity to
persist In its Infamous course of charging that
corruption upon others which has alone stained
and defiled its own robes. The cause of public
justice and truth demand that we should drag
this CRIMINAL before the bar of the country,
and arraign it for its crimes. It has held
power in many Of the States, and to the rec
ord it has there made we invite attention
-sessi INDIAN e z9ffs
+ Even in this strong Democratic State, the
Black Republicans succeededin 1854, through
the slavery agitation and the basest falsehoods,
in getting a foot-hold, but only for a brief
season. They elected, however, their candi-
dates for Treasurer, Auditor, and Secretary Of
State. Trey held Office just two years, and
though they came in with Il, ,0O8 majority,
they, went out with an equally large majority
on the other side. But how did they go out
Let us see: w. r. Noffsinger, the State Treas
urer, left Office defaulter to the amount of
S39, ,963 OIL DR.. H. E.. Talbot, the Auditor
Of State, was a defaulter to the amount of
.SiO3,072, 81; being a loss to the State of
s143,035 SO, not one cent of which has been
paid. H''~2 ''-il'aAd .s''' 90 - 'ao'sssa'
The other officer, e. B. Collins being Sec
retary of State, had no access to any money,
but he had in his keeping the blank patents
for swamp lands signed by the Governor, to be
by him filled up and issued to purchasers of
those lands. So, in the absence of the Gov
ernor, he filed up and issued the patents to
himself and partners for Ia, 900 acres of land.
But inShis eagerness 70 get possession Of the
lands, he inserted larger quantity in each
patent than the law allowed, and the State
was thus enabled toarecover back large por-
tion of the lands.sl5sA ed, .saois;seuor4 1nths
3 ton % .sa4 M "A IsNIE,sa sds 70 s6aI
It is only necessary to state that for num-
Der of years, it was known to the Governor
and Council of Maine, whose duty it was to
oversee and examine the accounts of the State
Treasurer, that that functionary had been us 4
ing the money of tie State in schemes of pri. \
yate speculations with leading Black Repub,
ican politicians in Maine, and that he was in |
the daily habit Of lending the public moneys |
to prominent Black Republican candidates for
Office to be used for eiectioneering purposes.
Yet, though these were matters Of public no.
tonety all over the State; though the Demo-
cratic press called attention; to the matter, and
charged that he was defaulter to the State.
yet the Governor, Council, and Legislature I
gave it no attention, and refused all inyestiga-
ton, until the crash came, and the state Treas
ury was depleted. e Then the Legislature an.
pointed a. committee of Black Republicans.
who set to work 10 shield and cover up their
friends as far as they could. We have their
report before us, and from it we learn that the +
defalcation Of the Republican; Treasurer
amounted to one hundred and thirty kz0nsandI
and s.oo dollars and tscenty four eents 80 Sinee
then it has been asceTtaincd that the real de-