The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1864-02-10
TY, OHIO. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY TO- 1864

ment of peculiar political virulence. The
SENSE, ut its session of 1868, refused to pass
the CUSTOMERS resolution informing him OF his
election. The reason alleged was certain DIT
ferences of political opinion. l am happy,
however, to state, that the more experienced
and gentlemaniy portion of the Senate did not
concur iurthe propriety of their ACTION. Some
of the Senators, I am informed, supposed that
the election of the people could be defeated
by their refusal, and were much chargined at
the result. However this may have been, the
desire was manifest, among a certain class to
prevent the Attorney General from ia ing his
Office. The disappointment consequent upon
| their impotent effort dwelt in them as an IN
| clean spirit, and now seems to have taken the
! form of a settled design to render the Office OF
the Attorney General as useless as possible,
and furnish a predicate for such charges as
have lately appeared. Tod studiously avoided
official intercourse with this department, and
when official calls were made by the Attorney
General at the executive Office, all the gross
ness of the late Governors boorish breeding
seemed called into requisition for discourteous
purposes. Either Tod's consciousness of guilt
aggravated his inherent meanness, or an assu-
med disagreement on the part OF the Attorney
General in reference % many. of Tods public
acts infamed his malice and he set about
provoking or frightening the Attorney Gener-
al to resign. Communications we're indirectly
received, that this department was to be abol-
ished, and that no salary was to be paid. In
formation was obtained that spies were about,
and that the key of the ofice had been sought
in nv absence ; and accidentally or otherwise
a bullet hole appears in my office window. In
deed, so ~sanguine did thel late Governor feel
as to my resignation, that he bad agreed upon
nv successor. But by virtue of the "damned
outrage ike tearing a man away from his fam
ily," which was perpetrated by the late Re-
publican convention on the late Governor, his
reason was partially restored, and he himself
RESIGNED instead of the Attorney General, with
out imbroiling himself in falsehoods more i'm
~portant than those which have appeared.
1t would be humane to pass by the late Gov
ernor without further remark. Desplsed by a
portion of the people, pitied by some, neglect
ed by all, and prosecuted for crime, obscurity
is doubtless his prayer. But he observes not
even thr kindness of silence. He has made
himself a public slanderer. He has committed
outrages upon the people whom he has sworn
to protect ; and he is unworthy of commits
Grafton or good name. =
His political and personal history is sufficient
to stamp him as a charlatan. Pretending to
be- possessed, in common with every American
citizen, of a love Of country and the pride ola
freeman in an Independent and glorious nation,
his first expression as a public man after re-
l EGtNluE lAO Va
%vention, proposed TO placetheIUuited States of
America under the protection of Queen Victo-
( ria.
Having spent his whole life in advocating
"hard money" he commences his executive
carer by recommending the suspension of
specie payments. Al advocate of Southern
institutions and State Rights, he becomes
metamorphesed iHtea Fred Douglas negro
equality-ist,. and bows his neck to the yoke of
oaDfrl;1aI nnwor opd altar 200 of oHuaao.
cy ofthe pure principles of Democracy, of the
greatest number, and that the blessings of
government should descend upon all like the
dews of heaven, he has turned out to be the
vilost midnight conspirator against the lib
critics of the citizen. An Infdel in Religion,
he has courted the influence Of the church !;
and blackguard in society, he has solicited
the plaudits of the upright. Politically and
socially beneath an active contempt, an apo
logy is almost due the public for the use of
epithets appropriate to his character.
His executive career demonstrates that he
was unfit to govern a State.
Who does not know that Ohio has been de-
graded by his administration !?
When Toll came into Office, the people Of
the State enjoyed a reputation beyond re
preach, and still deserve it. Who gave them
a reputation of not being true to the govern
ment and invoked force to keep them in sub
lection !? Who, whep the people had risen,
s one man, to defep1 the Constitution, and
the Union. insulted their patriotism, crushed
out their zeal, and brought the rough hand of
CONSUMPTION to their throats ? Who put pub
lie discussion and knowledge under a pan,
broke down printing presses and imprisoned
editors for the exercise of a constitutional
right Who invaded the sancity Of private
dwellings, dragged away citizens to foreign
dungeons, and spread terror and dismay among
| k6oarooI onl ho1p1aoc 2 Whn oroofod dicconE
sions in the public mind, distracted public
unanimity, filled the State with spies, and
logged the harmless citizen to his bed cham
Der? Who endeavered to excite insurrec-
tions in the State by sending troops to various
counties with orders, in a certain. contingency,
which did not and would not exist but might
be provoked, to shoot Town inofsnsive citi-
zens ? Who has publicly disseminated among
the peopleythat the Governments had right
right to sacrifice their children ? Who has
boosted that the overthrow of the Constitution
of the State and the rights and privileges
guaranteed by it was subject to a discretionary
opinion of necessity 2 Who has burdened the
producing interests of the State with, heavy
and unprecedented taxation through unnec-
essary and dishonest expenditures of money,
built up corporations and monopolies, and cre-
ated innumerable Offices to consume the hard
earnings of the people!
There is but one answer to all these enor
mites Ted is guilty of them all. Sycophan-
tic in his Intercourse with the National au-
th%orities, subservient to their slightest wish,
proud to exchange the dignity of a State for
the privilege of gathering the crumbs of par
tisan notoriety, fdisrespected while Governor
to that extent that q grand jury of bis State.
under the solemnities Of an oath, having in
dicted him for apenitentiary ofense, public
conviction has been forced TO regard him a
stigma upon the State.
His career as q public officer is notorious
for neglect Of duty, violations Of law, and bad
faith.
Personal favor, political influence, and off,
cial egotism, have made many of his unfair