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1468 - H Sept. 4; ed:2/1 - The OHIO STATESMAN now takes back what its correspondent said concerning the poor state of the finances of Ohio, and states that it had no desire to depress the credit of the state abroad.
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1469 - 1473
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - Ohio (Finance) (Cont'd)
"Well said, Mr. STATESMAN, and a pungent rebuke to District Attorney Bartley and the knot of destructives who have been attempting to play into the hands of the N. Y. stock gamblers by crying down Ohio State Stocks, and from the right quarter, too." (5)
1469 - H Dec. 18:2/2 - Cuyahoga county is one of 20 Ohio counties to make returns under the retrenchment law, $161 having been paid in by local county officers. Sixty-one other counties have made no returns whatever.
In regard to county officers other than treasurer, the law is not generally enforced by the county commissioners, to whom the matter was entrusted by the law of last winter.
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1470 - H Dec. 19:3/1 - According to the state auditor's report, the amount of capital in trade and money at interest in the state for 1842 was $7,812,698, and in 1845, $13,556,507, an increase of almost 50 per cent. The Cuyahoga county totals for 1842 were $222,213, and for 1845, $409,968, also a sizeable increase.
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1471 - H Dec. 31:2/1 - The state auditor has reported to the house the amount of capital in trade and money at interest, returned to the auditor of the several counties for the years from 1842 to 1845. A comparison of the returns of the Reserve counties shows the difference made by the tax law of last winter: capital in the 11 Reserve counties in 1844, $786,635; capital in the 11 Reserve counties in 1845, $1,807,294.
Cuyahoga capital totaled $288,769 in 1844. This year $409,968 was reported for taxation.
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State
1472 - H Jan. 7; ed:2/1 - There is promise of still further trouble for Massachusetts in extending the protection of her laws over her citizens. An agent has been sent to New Orleans for the same purpose for which "H." was sent to Charleston, and the probability is that he will receive no better treatment than was received by the other gentleman.
The affairs of the nation are in a pretty condition indeed, when citi- zens of one State cannot pass into another State without being incarcer- ated in a dungeon! (verbatim) (2)
1473 - H Jan. 25; ed:2/1 - The legislature of Rhode Island passed a bill directing the liberation of Thomas W. Dorr on the sole condition of his taking the usual oath of allegiance to the state.
"As little more capital can be expected to ensue from his incarceration by the blood-thirsty Algerines, we think Mr. Dorr's Counsellors should advise his conforming to the requisitions of the bill, as a matter of policy." (5)
257
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1474 - 1478
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - State (Cont'd) 1474 - H Mar. 17; ed:4/1 - "The Senate of Michigan appear to have pretty effectually brought contempt upon their own body by their contemptible proceedings against Judge Wilkins and others, for breach of privilege in issuing process for the arrest of Senator Williams.
"Mr. Davidson, one of the persons brought before the Senate for con- tempt, took his departure for New York before the case was disposed of, and very cooly left behind him a scathing epistle addressed to the Senate, in which he informs the dignitaries of Locofocoism that they can forward his 'reprimand' through the Post office!"
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1475 - H July 3; ed:3/1 - The Providence GAZETTE says of Governor Dorr, recently released from prison: "Dorr must not continue a discharged convict. His friends will not only bestow upon him all the privileges and immunities now denied him, but they will urge him onward to the most honorable posts in the gift of Americans." Dorr swears he will not abandon the principles which sent him to jail.
"A ticket in 1848 very possibly will read - Dorr, President; Houston, Vice."
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1476 - H Sept. 27; ed:2/1,2 - The late New York papers are filled with developments which unveil modern Democracy and exhibit to the world the political deformity of the "high priests" of the party and also expose to public gaze the frauds for years practiced upon the people. It seems that when Jessie Hoyt left the New York custom house, he left behind him, in his eager haste, a mass of letters and papers which fell into the hands of the Poindexter investigating committee and by them were removed to Washington; they have since been published, making a book of 152 pages. The letters of Governor Marcy, Van Buren and his son John, Stephen Allen, B. F. Butler, and others, to Jessie Hoyt are given.
"The developments in this book are startling and humiliating, showing a degree of political knavery and corruption in high places, that is seldom exposed in the Despotisms of Europe." (28)
1477 - H Oct. 6; ed: 3/2 - The Boston POST comments on, and lauds the fact that Governor Briggs recently turned out and aided a fire company in ex- tinguishing a village fire; the honorable governor taking his stand with several others at the water pumps.
"We cannot see anything in the above 'incident, ' which confers more credit upon Gov. Briggs, than the same act should have done upon Auditor Briggs, as both have thrown cold water very extensively in their 'day and generation. '
"We do not like the fulsome manner in which the acts of our high public functionaries are spoken of. We do not know that a man is entitled to any more respect from his fellow-citizens because he is a public servant, than when a private citizen." (4)
1478 - H Nov. 15; ed:2/1 - Tennessee's Locofoco Governor Brown has sent a message to the state's legislature recommending abolition of the death
258
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1479 - 1482
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT . State (Cont'd)
penalty, the erection of a new penitentiary, a liberal system of public education, and the reorganization of the state bank.
"The governor does not appear to be a Locofoco of the radical stripe."
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(Finance)
1479 . H Nov. 21; ed:2/2 - The sub-treasury, if good for the union, is good also for each state - at all events the Democracy of Tammany Hall believes so and the Loco party in every state leans toward such a belief.
"Let every State have its sub-treasurers. There will then be a grand manifestation of the system; it will spread over the land like a piece of network, and doubtless it will tend greatly to the diffusion of the public money among the people. The maxim that to the victors belong the spoils might find ample and most complete application under this system." (5)
United States
1480 - H Jan. 4; ed:2/1 - "Polk versus Benton. - The Nashville UNION, of Saturday, Mr. Polk's mouth piece, is out against Benton's Bill for the annexation of Texas." The UNION says: "We regret the introduction of Mr. Benton's bill, because it places him in a suspicious attitude in reference to his Democratic sympathies .... We sincerely hope that the anxious fears entertained so generally by our friends as to his future course may be agreebly disappointed."
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1481 - H Jan. 6; ed: 2/2 . "It is not for us to indulge in speculations as to the persons who may be chosen to form Mr. Polk's cabinet, since that is an affair which belongs not to the Whigs, and over which they have no control in the way of advising, approving, or dissuading. We may refer, however, to such intimations on the subject as appear to come from sources of more or less authenticity.
"The Nashville UNION, which may be regarded perhaps as Mr. Polk's most immediate organ at present, says of the president elect: 'In making up his cabinet, he will not have any regard as to the question of the suc- cession. He will not take sides between Messrs. Calhoun and Wright.'
"The inference from this seems to be that Mr. Calhoun is to remain at the head of the State Department." (4)
H Jan. 18; ed:3/1 - See Duels & Dueling H Jan. 21; ed:3/1 - See Persons & Personages
1482 - H Jan. 21; ed: 3/1 - Massachusetts, Delaware, and Maryland have just elected Whig members to the next U. S. Senate.
"The next Senate of the United States will present a powerful conserva- tive Whig front." (8)
259
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1483 - 1487
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd) 1483 . Il Jan. 21; ed:3/1 . Eye On The Gun - President Tyler has sent to the Senate the nomination of W. H. Polk, brother of the President-elect, who has for some weeks past been the lion at Washington among office holders and office expectants, as Charge to Naples. Should the nomina- tion be confirmed, which is probable, the President-elect will be eased of the charge of providing a fat berth for a brother, and the acting President will have a fresh claim for favor in behalf of his favorite office-holders. The nomination, under the circumstances, is a coincidence not very flattering to the hopes of the outs now greedy for the sops of the ins. (verbatim) (2)
1484 - H Jan. 23; ed: 2/1 - McNulty appears likely to meet his just deserts. He has been expelled from the clerkship of the House of Representatives, and the resolution requiring the President to institute criminal proceed- ings against him, for embezzlement of public money, was adopted with but four negative votes.
"McNulty has now attained the disgrace which should ever brand drunken- ness, rowdyism, licentiousness and knavery, in public or private life. With talents and business capacity fitted for honor and usefulness, strong drink and uncontrolled passions have reduced him to the level of the most degraded - a fearful warning to all whose feet incline to descending slippery paths."
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1485 - H Jan. 29; ed: 2/1 - "McNulty's defalcation is a pretty good illus- tration of the practical working of the Sub-Treasury system." The sub- treasury department thought that the depository of public funds provided by Congress was not the best, and assumed the responsibility of removing the public funds to depositories more congenial to its anti-bank feelings. McNulty's sub-treasurers did not pay over wben the funds were demanded. Congress required securities of McNulty ยท and penalties for defalcation are imposed. But did all this precaution keep the public funds from sticking to their fingers? "Not at all, and the people have learned a fresh sub- Treasury lesson in the footstep treading of McNulty." (4)
1486 . H Jan. 29:3/1 . We are indebted to Giddings for a copy of the President's message and accompanying reports, a large and valuable volume. Our thanks also to Kelley, Woolsey, and Harvey for legislative documents. Each senator or member of the llouse gets from 25 to 30 copies of the message.
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1487 - H Jan. 30; ed: 3/1 . A Washington correspondent writes that he is told that the condition of McNulty's bond was such that if he was allowed at any time to command a larger sum than that mentioned in the bond, it should become void and of no effect. And the sureties now say, that the officers of the Treasury, having violated the condition of the bond, and allowed McNulty to obtain as much money as his pleasures or his necessities required, they are no longer holden. The statement may be so, but does not look very probable. (verbatim) (2)
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1488 - 1492
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd) 1488 - H Feb. 17:2/1 - The ball of the House of Representatives was crowded on Feb. 12 to witness the ceremony of counting the electoral votes. The total number of votes cast was 275, making the number necessary for a majority, 138. James K. Polk received 170 votes for President, and Henry Clay received 105. The vice presidential candi - dates, George M. Dallas and Theodore Frelinghuysen, also received 170 and 105 votes, respectively. The announcement declaring Mr. Polk President, and Mr. Dallas, vice president, for the term beginning Mar. 4, 1845, was made by the president of the Senate. (4)
1489 - H Feb. 26; ed:3/1 - John Jones states in the MADISONIAN of Feb. 20 that the president-elect has managed the difficulties attend- ing the selecting of a cabinet with "surpassing skill and ability," and that "inasmuch as no mortal man has been enabled to obtain the slightest intimation of his purposes and intentions, he escapes annoy- ance from the friends of the parties doomed to disappointment."
-"It is very evident that John Jones at least has not as yet been transferred from the 'kitchen cabinet' of John Tyler to the 'kitchen cabinet' of James K. Polk."
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1490 - H Mar. 4; ed: 3/1 - At 12 o'clock today, John Tyler yielded the executive power into the hands of James K. Polk.
"We might say much of the change - contrast John Tyler of 1840 with John Tyler of 1845 - speak the apostasy of a public man as a public calamity - of the high hopes and bitter disappointment four years have brought to the Whig party - but, on the principle of 'being thankful for small favors, ' we shall spare our readers tbe humility .... The People, save and except the office-holders, to-day utter a heart-felt Amen!" (2)
1491 - H Mar. 11; ed:3/1 - Perkins, in the U. S. Senate, from the majority of the committee on the judiciary, has introduced a bill for amending the congressional district law of 1842.
"The introduction of the Bill has provoked the ire of the State Printer to a fresh outburst, pretty good evidence, that the changes contemplated by the bill are about as they should be."
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1492 - H Mar. 11; ed:2/1 - George Bancroft, the historian, on his return from Europe connected himself with a literary institution, with the view of teaching the young American sprigs "how to shoot." He gave a new and novel direction to the mental and physical exercises of his pupils, solemnly announcing as the reason . "Thus they do in Germany."
The Yankee boys stood it as long as endurance was a virtue and then "bolted" . They surrounded Bancroft's home and threw brickbats through the windows. His "school keeping" ended about that time.
"The 'water-craft' in Germany are modeled after the picture of Noah's Ark in the Primer. Should the said Mr. Bancroft be confirmed as Secretary of the Navy, we hope and trust the foregoing practical illustration of how 'they do in Germany,' will exclude ante-diluvian models in shipbuilding."
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261
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1493 - 1498
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd)
1493 - 1I Mar. 28; ed:2/1. - The other side. We were told this morning by a gentleman late from Washington, and who may be supposed to have inquired into the matter, that the Tyler office-holders will have to walk the plank pretty generaily, ere long. Those only whose commissions soon expire will be allowed to continue to the end.
"We shall see." (1)
1494 - H Mar. 31; ed:2/1 - The Hon. William Medill of Ohio has been ap- pointed second assistant post master general in place of Dr. Miller, Tyler's brother-in-law, and it is stated that Dr. Miller is to have the place of third assistant post master general, held by Skinner.
"Ex Auditor Brough and ex-State Printer Medary are in Washington look- ing for 'bread and butter' spoils." (8)
1495 - H Apr. 10; ed: 3/1,2 - The Nashville UNION says: Concerning the rumors that President Polk wishes to be reelected for a second term, we feel perfectly warranted in saying that any and every intimation that he has ever entertained the idea of reelection, is wholly unfounded.
"We take it to be an authentic exposition of the intention of President Polk in the matter to which it relates."
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1495 - H May 13; ed: 2/1 - The Locofocos will undoubtedly have the ascen- dency in both branches of the next Corgress.
"The Administration will therefore have fair sailing. so far as major- ities are concerned, and the measures of the party in relation to Texas, Oregon, the Tariff, and the Sub Treasury will no doubt be established at the next session." (2)
1497 - H May 13; ed: 3/1 - The PLAIN DEALER says: Dr. Inglehart takes possession today, and we are informed has appointed George B. Tibbits, one of our most estimable citizens and an excellent business man, deputy collector, and John Perry, inspector.
(H) "As we never suffer politics to withhold a deserved meed of com- mendation, we cannot permit the long, faithful, and meritorious public services of the now ex-Deputy Collector, D. W. Cross, Esq., to pass un- noticed. Mr. Cross became connected with the Custom House service at this port when Lake Commerce was just throwing off its swaddling clothes, and he has been a faithful foster-father to its interests and the interests of the Government ever since .... Success attend him.
"R. Parks, Esq., the ex-Inspector, has been a watchful, energetic of- ficer; and we wish our ousted Democratic friends, under a Democratic Ad- ministration, 'better luck next time. '" (3)
1498 - H May 13; ed:2/1 - The Polk axe is falling with unerring precision on the necks of Tyler office-holders, no matter how loud-mouthed were their shouts for "Polk ard Texas." "While the broad-axe is slowly striking off the full .fed necks, the small locomotive guillotines of the Departments are scouring the country for Tyler victims, and the race will soon become ex- tinct .... Sic transit Tylerism."
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262
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1499 - 1502
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States (Cont'd)
1499 - H June 27; ed:2/1 - President Polk removed Maj. W. B. Lewis, an original Jackson man, from the post of second auditor, without a state- ment as to the reason for his so doing.
Polk recently gave the reason confidentially to a friend in Tennessee, which was so offensive to Lewis that he has written two very caustic letters to the President asking for an apology for injuries and imputa- tions on Lewis' character. No answer as yet has been forthcoming.
"We notice the matter that our readers may begin to learn who 'James K. Polk is. '" (11)
1500 - H July 1; ed:3/2 - Numerous changes in government offices through- out the country are going into effect today. Removals are being made to satisfy the troops of office-seekers even in cases where the commission has some time to run yet. "Perhaps an instance never occurred under our Government in which removals from office excited so little attention and sympathy. The fact that the man held office under John Tyler appears to be a sufficient cause for a change, in the opinion of the Executive, and the people, of all parties, very naturally coincide in the opinion." (3)
1501 - H July 2; ed:2/1 - The Van Ness letter bids fair to create some trouble with the faithful among the "outs," whilst the "ins" tremble in their shoes lest their turn may come next, and between the two, the pub- lic, especially those who have length of days granted to them, may yet learn who James K. Polk is. Rotation in office is a glorious principle when the Whigs are the officers, but Locofocoism has no particular fancy for the application of the principle when Locos are the incumbents. The General's letter shows plainly that he thinks "rotation" should not be applied where the occupant is a dyed in the wool Democrat, but if there was not to be a general clearing out of all the offices after every "vic- tory," it would be the interest of the office-hunters to have their political opponents succeed alternately, as that would be the only course by which they could hope to attain office. Before the election the great Tennesseean was all the Democratic party desired, but if General Van Ness and Maj. W. B. Lewis, great guns of "the party," are to be believed, he has fallen from his high estate and become the petty peddler of cold meats and garbage of the Executive larder.
"We think we can see the Colonel, with consummate grace and irony, hand- ing such venerable office-holders their 'walking tickets' with something like the following speech: 'Reverend Sirs: For you there's rosemary and rue; these keep seeming and savour all the winter long; Grace and remem- brance be to you both, and welcome to our shearing. '" (9)
1502 - H July 19; ed: 2/1 - Robert J. Walker, secretary of the treasury, is getting himself into trouble. Upon his appointment to the high office in the treasury, he was forced to give up his regular seat in the U. S. Senate. The governor of Mississippi immediately appointed one Jacob Thompson, a Mississippi member of the House, to fill the vacated Senate seat. Thompson's commission was enclosed in a letter to Walker, but very
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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1503 - 1508
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT . United States (Cont'd) strangely it never reached the former. Now, Locofoco enthusiasts claim this is a deliberate vengeance by Walker upon the Mississippi congress- man because the latter denounced the alleged Chickisaw claims fraud which Walker was supposed to have fostered. So convinced are the Locos of Walker's guilt that they are petitioning President Polk for his removal.
"If this be so, Mr. W. has exposed himself to very serious imputations." (9)
1503 - H July 22; ed: 3/1 - The UNION of Thursday contradicts the "rumor" of Mr. Buchanan's resignation . says that there is not a shadow of founda- tion for it, and that it is not circulated at Washington. (verbatim)
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1504 - H July 30; ed: 3/1 - The New York EVENING POST (Loco) intimates, in no very indistinct terms, that Mr. Polk bought up enough of his partisans in Congress to decide the Texas question. The POST says that "of the sixteen northern members in the House who voted for annexation, thirteen have since received office from the President, and three are yet to be provided for." Ought members of Congress to be eligible to executive appointments? (verbatim) (1)
1505 - H Aug. 1; ed: 3/1 - The Locofocos of Elyria have in public meeting decided that Mr. Chapman, the Tyler P. M., should not be removed by Col. Polk. The scenes at the meeting were rather rich, but the aspirants to the office appear to have been pretty effectually floored. So there is some probability that one Tyler office-holder will hold on. (verbatim)
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1506 - H Aug. 9; ed:2/1 - President Polk is busy as a man in harvest time, knocking down office-holders and setting up new ones, and the Tyler corps are consequently all trembling, for they know their doom is nigh.
"Nearly every UNION contains official notices of decapitations, and instead of fault finding on account thereof, we are rather pleased to see the work go on." (3)
1507 - H Aug. 12; ed: 3/1 - The Detroit FREE PRESS states that the appoint- ment of commissioner of mineral lands on Lake Superior has been offered to Hon. Elon Farnsworth, of Detroit, and declined! A new thing under the sun! (verbatim) (1)
1508 - H Aug. 16; ed:2/1 - The supporters of Polk at the last election now find his promises empty as the wind. "Tylerites," fooled in support- ing Polk by his pledges not to remove them from office, are in sorrow, for Polk has slaughtered them all and replaced them with his own men.
"Whatever these weak supporters of the renegade Tyler deserved, makes no difference in the grade of moral turpitude on the part of Mr. Polk in gaining their aid by downright falsehood; he promised, and an honorable man would have performed.
"In a word, the betrayed and abused Whig party was not more disappointed by the treachery of 'honest John Tyler' in 1840, than is the Locofoco party destined to be by James K. Polk in 1845." (15)
H Sept. 2; ed:3/1 - See Banks & Banking
264
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1845
Abstracts 1509 - 1514
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - United States
1509 - H Sept. 9; ed:3/1 - As usual, the west is entirely overlooked in the distribution of important government offices - out of 181 consulates, Ohio has not one, and out of all the important government posts, not one is filled from any state northwest of the Ohio.
"The West has learned who 'James K. Polk is,' but the Executive does not appear to have heard of the West. Or perhaps he did hear that the Ohio delegates to the Baltimore Convention stuck to the Lindenwald Farmer until a pretty considerable row was kicked up, and that the State of Ohio finally voted for the Farmer of Ashland for President." (2)
1510 - H Sept. 18; ed:3/1 - The official organ of the 13th reiterates that Mr. Polk "will firmly abide by the resolutions of the Baltimore Conven- tion, " and the official organ now says it does "not recognise, or adopt as legitimate, the expression 'in favor of the protective tariff within the revenue standard'" - the language if we mistake not of Mr. Polk's electioneering tariff letter to Mr. Kane of Pennsylvania. (verbatim) (1)
1511 - H Oct. 8; ed: 3/2 - The Washington UNION, the official organ of the administration, in exulting over the defeat of Messrs. Kennedy and Wethered in Maryland, declares that "they (the Locofocos of Maryland) have sounded the last note of the death-knell of the Tariff of 1842, in the ears of Whig leaders."
What say the Pennsylvania Democracy who voted for "Polk and the Tariff as it is," to this death-knell note? Will they now echo it? (verbatim) 1512 - H Oct. 11; ed:2/2 - The 29th Congress will be decidedly Locofoco -
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