The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1868-04-01
NEW & SERIES


orenei .hy order of the chief Of the Chr
rency Bureau. and its contents amounting
to mill ;ons' taken out, with no other ac
know Judgement than memoranda in pen
Gil: that il has been the custom to pass into
the hands of the brOnZerS, sealers and NUN
berers, and receive from them without
counting. tue paper in its various stages to
ward completion into bonds and notes; that
no account was kept Of the third series Of
fve~twen,ies and of the fractional currency
printed on similar paper, until many mil
lions had teen issued; in consequence OF
which 10 settlement ever has been or can be
made; that bonds and notes have been de.
livered many times by the plate printer in
excess of the paper. charged 10 him: that
legal, l,tenders aud Interest notes by reason
of the fact that these classes of Inonay be-
ing printed in series, and there leing eight
hundred notes If each and every number.
may food the country TO any egteut silh-
out the possibility of detecting duplicate,
until it's particular series are redeeined; that
the five>twentv bonds are in like manner
issued III series; and of the billion Of dol
lars Of bonds, notes, &c., redeemed al the
Treasury Department., and ordered to be
Cancelled and destroyed. it is easy, on &C.
count the system m operation, to apprnpri'
ate and circulate, as in the case OF Crom.
we'll, an iudefuire amount. we come to the
fact. exrraordinary as it may appear, that
there has not been kept in the Currency
Printing Bureau any regular accounts such
a. bqnkers ard Merchants keep,,, or from
which balance sheet can hi prepared
showing either as to the particular kind or
as to the aggregate of the various bonds
the actual amount OF paper purchased or
manui5 5ctured for the printing OF currency
or bonds; and 30 record has been kept OF
even the amount OF money that has been
printed and delivered to the Tr asurer.
Their most ardent friends admit that the
Treasury Department at Washington has
power tn print without any restraint what
ever. That the paper money is issued
without limitation or check; that the au~
thors are accountable to body, responsible
to nobody, and reckless Of their obligations.
This very condition Of things would in>
duce reputation and hasten finaneia re
bellion IN any country. Is there any gov
efnment that could stand this irresponsible
issue Of its obligations? ,.-..
There ere no tacta IN the present system
af American Government better established
'Hd'i lIliS, tildt l'tt t'tbIlt eau EliHCG Nv tF
iiapce uron the Treasury f. }}hrt, which Is
intended to deceive them, that an army OF
rubIic officers are engaged in public robbery
--that.there is no reliable record Of the
condition OF the pIblic Treasury
'fhe crimes of the Treasury Department
alone would destroy any government, a
1t is alleged by those cognizant Of the
crimes of Tho Treasury DEPARTMENT
!. That millipns upon millions Of dollars
have been issued and reissued without au-
thorty of law
g Thqt the Government is paying inter
est upnndhe surplus coupons thus issued,
notes and currency which have in like man
ner come to the tight of the public eye
8 That discrepancies are constantly oc,
curing. and are passed over AZ if lt were
no crime to defraud the public. These
gentlemen whiare dostroS iug US, seem to
Forget that the public means the people
and that fraud upon the public. is none
other than robbery OF the freezing and
starving poor Of their 6rpwood ard bread,
r1imcnt and shelter, for the benefit OF the
rich. idle and nampered capitalist.
The condition of the Treasury and our
finances is horrible. Business opens dull iii
the East. Every thing locks gloomy
Sherman sensation announcement in the
Senate, Logan eEp0Se IN the Iouse-ev
cry things tends 70 show the deolorablc
condition Of our affairs.
1t was to keep the Western people from
induirng into our finances that the inpeach
mpnt imtrogli0 has been revived. 1t is ln~
tended a. soon as johnson is removed, to
adopt a system Of terror similar to that
i ~ Liab pnirna1 in 1874 r., make II lnlufSsi