The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1860-08-30
w. T.. N d Ii L T.
And The Treasury DefaIcation.
THE PRESS TO BE MUZzLED

| " "~AS ""A'SA - Po' va 1 us SA" biS III
last by Warren p. Noble, Democratic
candidate for Congress, and requested by
him to give place in our columns to the
following communications:
EDITOR PIokElR:-
Dear Sir, My attention has just been
called to an editorial notice in your las.
week s issue, under the head. ''TmE BREs-
LIN CANDIDATE NJ NeMINArED" in which, ,af-
ter announcing the domination Of WAR.
REN NOBLE BY 9th Congressional Dis
trict Convention, you add: "He as the
man ,rho tfgared so largely IN the Bresliu
and Gibson Detolcuion.''
Now wish TO say enee for all, solemnly
calling GoD to attest the truth of my all
legations. as expect to. answer at the
great day, that this whole charge, this
whole insinuation, is utterly false and un-
founded. There is not, and never was
a single circumstance in any act. word or
deed of mine Which warranted the making
of it or any part of it.
l never Figured" in any way shape or
manner whatsoever. either directly or indi-
rec:ly, in the Brcslin or the Gibson defal,
cation, or in any matter or thing In any
way connected therewith-and that man
does not live and never did, who can say
one word or point to one circumstance in
my conduct, in any way even tending to
contradict what l have here alleged
A correction therefore, of the charge al
luded to by you in your paper is due in
TRUTH and HONOR to
Yours de-,
w. p. NOBLE.
Now, while We have no desire to
wrong Mr.. Noble, and while we freely
give place to his denial Of any compiled.
ty in the Bleslin and Gibson defalcaton.
justice would seem to demand that we
give the grounds upon which our charge
was predicated. We do not wish it to be
understood that we would make 20 seri.
Gus a charge against any man without
good and sufficient grounds to base that
charge upon. Here is.what Democra-
tic Committee appointed by authority OF
the Legislature of Ohio, and whose re-
port has been published by the same au-
lhority. says upon the subject. In speak
ing Of the Seneca County Bank and The
part it played in robbing the State. the
Report says:
| A Mr.. Noble, former representative in
the general assembly becomes the trustee
Of the old bank. The same person also
becomes trustee of the bank when it goes
into liquidation, and the same person is
the trustee for johnson in private deal
ings connected with matters having re
mote bearing on matters connected with
the Seneca County Bank. and we have no
doubt he is the person whose testimony
might explain many now hidden transac-
tions. We did not feel justified to take his
deposition. as we knew. that being the
attorney of all the parties involved, he
had valid legal excuse for not testifying
The present receiver Of the Seneca
County Bank is doing his duty nobly
and fully in ferreling out the assets of this
corporation, and we hope and trust that
he will succeed in compelling Mr.. Noble,
and all having assets, to disgorge, and
that he will bring all the stockholders to
strict liability for all outstanding in.
debtedness, including the over issue.
We give these extracts from the report
in justification of our course. 1t is true,
Mr.. Noble claims that the Committee
have done him injustice and intimated that
he will PROSECUTE US FOR LIBEL
| if we even repeat what the Committee,
by authority of the State Of Ohio. have
said abb eut him, and moth withstanding we
very much deprecate prosecution of
that kind, we think we u.d be doing
injustice to ourself if we did not give the
grounds upon which our charge was bas
ed.
Again, We think our esteemed friend
is little late in his attempt to nauzxle the
press of this Congressional district by
threats of prosecution-he should have
prosecuted the Democratic editors who
gave publicity to the charge Immediately
after the investiga ton, and whose com.
ments in regard to him were much more
libellous than anything we have said on
the subject. At all events, an humble
individual like the editor of the pioneer
is certainly excusable for repeating a
charge made and published by and with
the authority of the Legislature Of the
State Of Ohio.
He might, also,, open his indignan
batteries against certain Democrats that
we wot of who used the charge against
him in the very convention by which he
was nominated, claiming that if he was
selected as the candidate his connection
with the Breslin and Gibson affair would
defeat him.
In conclusion. Mr.. Noble demanded ol
US that we should say to our readers thai
we had no reason to disbelieve what he as
serts in the above communication, which
we do freely; but at the same time, allow
us to say that we have no more reason to
doubt the assertions of the Committee
than we have for doubling those of Mr..
/ Noble and will LET them 90 To the world