Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-09-20
WHOLE NUMBER 1913,

troversy. Jefferson was eager to
vict Hamilton of fraud in Office II
ilton's opinions of his rivals vera
were never hattering nor concea
Even the calm Washington decls
Jefferson to be ga most profound BY
crite." Rebellion and secession v
not unknown TO our sires, and in /
stormy period of l7ss-e9 Virginia "
to the extreme Of building large :.
mory at Richmond for the manufaet /,
of arms, and laid heavy tax to ca !
on o war against the tottering Uni !,
Nor was it any less power than the :.
telligence of the people that saved !.
country from the folly of ambitious I
| iticians.
We have seen the same crisis coneta :
ly arise, and the same unseen 70
stretched forward on every occasion
preserve the community from its m
men. In 1920, in 1882, in 1850, in 1s
the intelligence of the people was s,
denly aroused, and the plottings of
disunionists were stricken down by
iron pressure of resolute maieri
Slowly yet certainly the perceptions
the people have enlarged, and the sen
ment OF a common object and of
tional aims has reached a large prop,
ton of the thirty-nine millions of vari
races who rest beneath the shelter
the Union. We are more thoroughly
nation now than in any period of o
past career. We are bound together
general prosperity quite unparallelt
We are moving onward under a Cover
ment that satisfies more than thre
fourths of the people; it will at last So
iSfy all. And we can assure our foreii
critics that the Union and the Constit
tion are stronger now in the affectio.
OF the nation than at any moment
their past career. 80
To portion of our foreign popul
ton and to the lingering fragments
the rebellious faction at the South, Il
canard of C@sarism has been singularl
delusive. 1t is accepted by the Virgin.
and Georgia journals as readily as /
the GauIois or the Edinburgh ReUie,
Under C@sarism there would be sho.
shrift for the black and white republi
anism of Atalanta and New Orlean
Under Cesarism there might be gene
al suppression of liberal schools an
newspapers at the North. But our fo
eign priests and our Southern rebel
must consent to abandon their pleasin
delusion. They are dying out amids
the imperial rule of common sense. ]
will not be many years before the las
OF the ku-Klux will have passed away
We shall have soon more importan
subjects of discussion than sensations
vagaries and secret but Intellectual plot
against freedom. The government sal
isfies the people. They will probably b
employed in the future in providing fo
their own comfort and in developin
the resources of the land, in buildin
railroads and opening avenues of trad,
nspreading useful knowledge and i
helping each other. And it is not diff
cult to understand that those among u
who "sigh for an absolute ruler'' al
only few fallen politicians who hay
survived the wreck of slavery, or fe'
wandering priests who have been trail
ed In the despotic school of Loyola. i
You will perceive that very wild
discretion was given for the committe
under this resolution. The distinguish
ed gentleman who moved the investig,
ton, Gen. Balls, was made chairman &
the committee. Judge Isaiah Pillal
another leading Democrat, was a men
Der. The other three-Burnham Lit
and Adair-were Republicans. TT
committee remained in session betwee
three and four months. and only repor
ed the day before the adjournment I
the Legislature. Numerous witnesse
gathered from all parts of the Stat
were xamined-discharg clerks, III
successful bidders, disappointed col
tractors, architects, the trustees an
employees of public institutions, Stal
officers and many Others. WheneVt
the committee heard of any one suspec
ed f knowing anything TO the discred
of the State officials, he was sent for
All persons having complaint to max
Were invited to be present at the invel
tigation. AMI now cannot bette
state the result than by quoting the e,
act language of the report, 81 gned b
every member Of the committee. Her
it is: W
''The examination has taken wild
range. One hundred and nine witnes.
es, e siding in various parts OF the Stat
have been SUI peAel and examined
touching public contracts and expendi
lures, construction of public Institution
etc. All matters without reference t
the date of their occurrence, coming t.
the knowledge of the committee, tha
seemed to promise any probabilities o
throwing any light upon the subjects o
inquiry, or any of them, have been dill
gently inquired into"
"Your committee takes pleasure il
reporting that, 20 far rs elective officer
and their subordinates are concerned
very commendable honesty and fidelit,
have been observed, and that in the of
fetal conduct of no public officer, wheth
er elective or appohitiye, has corruption
been disclosed"
During the time covered by this in
vestigation, the Republican party col
lected and disbursed ninety millions o.
dollars, every dollar honestly and faith,
fully without fraud or peculation; and
no public officer unlawfully profted b,
tampering with or betraying his trust
Now, / asksyou my fellow citizens, i
such,a record AS this, acknowledged anG
Published to the world, by an intelligen
committee acting under their soiem,