Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1865-08-22

You know, Mr., Dorsey, that TINS Is a
!, somewhat malicious world, You. donbtZ
less, know that 1t was the opinion OF sir
John Falstaff that this world is given to
lying exceedingly. This is by way or say
ing to you, that tho statement Is gaining
currency, that You havesome how or other
made asnug little sum off Of the money you
received into the State Treasury matter
of some thirty or forty thousand dollars. Is
there any truth in this statement, Mr.. Dor
sey--that is, is there any truth in the state
sment, that YOU have, while Treasurer OF
State, realized from off of the funds of the
State ANYTHING over and above your sala-
ry? If you have not, it will afford us a
sgreat deal of pleasure to publish,a a note,
from you saying so.-Ohio Statesman Au9'
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Ifanything more dastardly than the fore,
going has appeared in an Ohio newspaper,
for ten years, 1t escaped our notice. Mark
Its character. The coward who wrote It
, does not make any charge. He insinuates
grave imputation and then impudently
proposes to take pleasure In the publication
& of note from the gentleman insulted, de-
nying that there is cause for such insinuaT,
tion. He knows that by o this execrable
course he puts himself beneath the person
al notice of any man who entertains q de-
cent respect for his own character, and he
expects that he has given occasion for declar-,
alton in the pOt-hOuse circles of his party
that the State Treasurer has been unlaw-
3 fully acquiring money by means OF his off,
cial station. When a political party must
resort to such bushwhacking, 1t is low in
deed, The iregs of treason are not lower;
and the editor who indulges 1t Is dis
grace to the profession. Decentralization
J resulting from sympathy with slavery and
anxiety for the success Of slave power, by
means ofIrebellion, could alone debase
4 even an originally mean character SO low.
Ohio State Journal. as.r uuf Oval W
y The editor the State Journal, in referring
to the death of Mr.. G. N. HAPGooD, editor
of the Western Reserve Chronicle, says that
on the Tuesday preceding his death he took
tea with Mr. HAPGoop and his family, and
|, that Mr.. HApGt,oD warned him "against
the exhaustive eject Of toyer-work, and and
feared our [hisl days would be feW''W II
\ the editor of the State j JowuaI shallindulge
/ ip many such manifestations of passion and
= hair-tearing as he exhibits in the above, we
/ fear that Mr.. HAPGoop's apprehensions as
to his life will be realized.i Bad I +ar.|'
] There was nothing in our notice of G..
1 VoINBY DORSEY calculated to excite any
body's wrath, unless the rumor to which
we referred was bottomed on truthi The
rumor was not created in The STATESMAN
office. 1t came to us outside Of the office,
and we thought it due to the public and to
! Mr.. DORSEY, to state that such arumor was
obtaining currency, and to give him an OPP
portunity of contradicting it through our
columns, if it were false. In these days Of
wholesale swindling and corruption, of de-
falcations and forgeries by men who have
worn the outside of unchallenged honesty,
the affectation of wrathful indignation is
hardly up to the demand of the occasion.
1t don't meet the case. What is the history
Of the Treasury of Ohio? Bliss accounts
were not in satisfactory con-
dition when he left it. BREsLIN is in exile,
because of misuse of the funds in, the
Treasury GIBSON ID not leave it honora-
bly,; STONE is understood to have left it
carrying heavy load of liabilities. The
editor of the State Journal, by re-reading his
editorial, will find that it is all taken up in
the abuse of the writer who wrote the Sc.
VoLNEY Dorsey editorial, and that not
one word is said in refutation of the sra
mor'' or "insinuation" therein contained.
Undoubtedly, this was an accidental omis-
sion; for we presume that the editor of the
State Journal started out with the intention
of refuting it, or of saying there was no
truth whatever in it; but his passion and
indignation getting the control Of him, he
forgot it altogether. The public have no
knowledge as to what the editor of the
Journal usually means; they accept his ed
itorials as rejecting his actual views, opin-
ions and knowledge in regard to any sub
ject upon which he may treat. This being
the case, the editor of the State Journal will
see that his editorial leaves Mr.. DORSEY, un-
Intentionally, of course, in a worse condi-
tion than our editorial left him; and we
shall expect him to make distinct denial Of
the truthfulness of the ''rumor'' or 'insin-
uation" referred to.loY -d / e.. O. g.n