The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1863-09-23
---s@AsFLAND AsHIAND8CoUNTYg OHIO. WEDNESDAY, No
MORNING; SEPEMBE Rsa3sai86;


paragraph about Captain HURT, of Cincinnati
asserting that he has become a great defaulter,
and asfolen money enough to buy few dozen
isfarmsiy This, the True II telegraph ssays;l is
| what the people are taxed for7-':to keep high
sReppblioan officials in places to steal" 7Such
paragraphs are afoat through the butternut
, Journals of the State, and the case of Captain
IsHurtt certainly calls fer limmediate sexamina-
tion, that thelexaggerations. .thatareseiroulated
lsconeerning it by partizans, may be toned down
by public knowledge of the exact facts in it.
fIfcff.rerts to4s,s. 4 ~ 3
E tsifnntk ttfIe tglcsa case Of Captain Hdrtf does
ia reality. require immediate searching exam
nation if ever a case did, ,z9or }" the butter
nutsf will make it ring: I He and his accom-
Plices first used t. TIER paper, the 9hto 'Stqte
Journal to denounce the men. in. their way as
"disioyal" and "sympathising with the rebels. y
This dirty trick was welllaid, to operate ION
the authorities att W Washin gton, justfas such in
famous language is used to deceive the people
and cheat them out of their honest votes
~ AS soon as Hurtt got his position as Quar-
iterraastertat Cincinnati, "with7 the frank of
aCaptain,2, 2, he and his partner Allen, both pro-
prietors and Editors of the journal, laid their
plans to, rob the Government. y HURT wrote
Allen to employ Ex- Governor Denhison, to go
to Washington and arrang ge matters, and urged
Allen TO pay Dennisonsiberally, to not stop at
81
n. Governor Dennison did go to Washington,
made the arrangements, and one of the, most
extensive systems Of fraud, peculation and out
right thievfng was commenced that has yet
occurred in this thieving war 37if3 iEf6 i9ysl
It;appears that the enormous 9horse swim
dlentbyga brother of Governor Dennison, ex-
posed by the Louisville journal some months
ago, grew, out of this etgood: thing" which
Hurt and Allen had gotten up. - -. :
;, Scott, an Agent, in some way connected,
with j. Cooke s. Co, Secretary Chase,s trav =,
soon after Hurts arrest, Since then several
others, and among them Mr.. Smith, who has
been fourishing ten thousand dollar match
horses and "daantoxd breastbins, which are,
the esloyal' sort, at the Hhtte Sulphur, is also
among the arrested. ~ = H''
E Governor Dennison's completely in these
swindles appears to be clearly established, but;
how Senator John Sherman is mixed up with
it we have not learned. y l'.A -, /,
Nov, mark you, the Ohio = ttate :.zottraaz,
owned by Allen and Hurtt, is the organ of the
REPUBLICAN = party Of the State, and Governor
Dennison and Senator ohm Sherman are ihe-
chief Speakers at the. Republican meetings
They are careful on all occasions to denounee
the Democrats as ssdisloyal, = traitors, Dc,
&ss,aanHd threatcn to tayohef them iAto a SUBJ
21lass9o7e. - fs;.lfo5,sef,,,, 7os s5ebihae.
: HURT got into his post at Cincinnati by
sttarrtf1g the cry Of "disloyalty upon his PREF
decessor3 capt Dickersou, an old army off
cer,J because he would not permit these "loy5t
alists' to steal through his office. Now to
hide their fhefts, the Ohio State Jouradz
Gov Dennison and John Sherman howl
through the State the charge of ssdisloyalty," "
|streason'' upon every one who dares expose
their nefarious transactions and the whole
brood of Government contractors, Tax gather
ers, excise men, Provost Marshals, Post Mas
ters and tools of every sort and character, reit-
crate the cry, hoping to foo, enough of limo
cent people to cover their frauds aud escape
exposure.eio j''7as 2 Fs{ta as ol1f
Such men would of course for. the Eakeo Of
carrying of their pluader with impunity drench
Ohio in civil war and blood. And his accounts
for man, if not all the violence exhibiting its
elf all oyerithe State Let the people be
and wary, oactiVe and ssleepless.- -
There is. more yeti come.--Gris ibios