Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-25
Rrough,s (onsDiracies.

Governor JOHN BROUGH was doubtless
provoked to issue his recent slanderous and
bullying proclamation by reading The Gin
cinnati Gdeette, which for several weeks past
has been filled with the silliest falsehoods
and craziest bosh about reasonable secret
societies In the Democratic party. 1t is suf-
ficient, to prove that these publications are
fabrications or false representations of facts,
to say that with all the show of testimony
and evidence made by newspaper cores
pondents and thicying detectives, there has
never been solitary individual tried or
convicted of the offenses with which five
hundred thousand men are charged. Among
reasonable men this one fact is sufficient to
brand as false the frequent assertion that
there Is a reasonable conspiracy in the
Democratic party. The private letters,
stolen from private offices and paraded in
the Abolition papers for black mail pur-
poses, contain nothing that can be con-
strued into treason; if they did, the multi
tude of spies and detectives attached to the
government would be only too glad to ar
rest the authors of the "treasonable" let
ters.
That such humbugs should engage the
attention and fill the columns of the mer-
cenary Abolition papers in lieu OF better
material to bolster up the declining for
tunes Of the Abolition party, is natural
enough. These papers do the work assign
ed them by their masters, having no higher
motive than the advancement Of partisan
success. But that the Governor of the
State should take up the cudgel in the same
foul and villainous cause, will doubtless oc-
casion considerable surprise among those
not familiar with his character and career.
But when we come to analyze the procla-
nation and investigate the motives which
prompted It's publication, it will be seen
that JOHN BRoUGH is Just as deeply inter-
ested In producing the imaginary anarchy
against which he eproclaims as the scurviest
scribbler who invents conspiracies and ex-
poses treason for livelihood.
JOHN BRoUGH says, in effect, that there Is
o conspiracy on the part of his political op-
ponents to overthrow the Government and
make armed resistance to the expected con-
scription. We do not believe this; thereare
not one hundred intelligent men in the
State who do believe it. 1t is a partisan
falsehood, invented and circulated for par
tisan effect. The assertion of the existence
Of such q conspiracy is not supported by
the slightest evidence that any upright
Judge would credit and 1t therefore safe 30
assume that there is no evidence, and that
the assertion Is false. Just before BR0uGH
issued his order for the CONSUMPTION of 30
900 one hundred day men, it was asserted
that conspiracy had been discovered in
Crawford county, that the Government
knew all about IT. and that the hundred
days men were wanted to crush it. The
men were conscripted, but were sent to the
'front.' and nothing was afterwards heard of
the Crawford county conspiracy. The
alarm was sounded in order to cover
the coup de e'tdt which BRoUGH
50 handsomely effected against the mill
tia. There isno more reason TO believe the
report that there exists conspiracy in
Ohio now, than there is to believe In the
Crawford county conspiracy, which time
has proved to be humbug and an imposi-
tion. But the same motives which prompted
the invention and PRONUNCIATION Of the first
2alsehood stiIl exist to prompt the circula-
tion Of the second falsehood. So that
BnoUoH's proclamation, Judged by the
light of experience, is the preliminary
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