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Now, for the benefit of this man, Griswold, we will state the fact to the public, that the explosion of this in. stitution of robber was premeditated and done by a systematic in vement. FACT- On a day or so before the explosion of the Bank was announced at Canton, TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS CF ITS SPECIE was taken out of its vaults and shipped east, leaving but a few dollars behind. Men to guard it were sent along, and we have it from a citizen of Steubenville, that the money and its guard remained there one night, and communicated the fact to the Farmer's Bank of Steubenville one night in advance of others. Next morning after the guard and the $10,000 in specie had left Steubenville, it was announced that the Canton Bank had failed, leaving the people with its lying promises, to whistle for their confidence. What made the matter worse was, that the Farmer's and Mechanics Bank of Steubenville, up to that time, had given currency and credit to the Canton Bank paper, and a vas! deal of it was left unredeemed, not in the hands of the Bank at Steubenville, but in those of the hard laboring people. But this is not all. The Statesman contains a letter from J. A. Saxton, dated Canton Jan 10, to a friend in Lancaster,stating that the Bank would suspend "redeem ing its notes even in currency when it opens this morning,' and advising the said friend if he had any notes to get them off. Such bulletins were no doubt sent to all the friends of the Bank in advance, that they might not be sucked. "And yet these impudent robbers, worse than the highwayman who meets you in the road, have the impudence to demand of us who it was that informed us of their crimes and enormities. But these plunderers of the hard earnings of the people -these chartered pirates upon the industry of the country, have got the wrong person to deal with. It was from this den of iniquity that a certain oath emanated in 1838, to the Ohio Legislature, that it "would resume when the specie circular was repealed!" We know nothing about this Mr Griswold, or who he is, but we just inform him that he has got his head into the wrong noose, and if the spring should fly, and he should find himself dangling in the air, between heaven and earth, he must charge it to a want of discre tion, a thing quite as necessary in highwaymen as cours age and impudence." DJ We can inform the editor of the Statesman some. thing "about this Mr. Griswold' who now puts 'Esqr.' to your name He is the same Griswold who stumped it through Tuscarawas county in 1840, peddling Ogle's speeches, and denouncing Martin Van Buren as a lyrant, a usurper, and a robber of the peoples money. And he is the same Griswold, who in a speech in the Courthouse in Newphiladelphia, smacked his hands, on the desk three times, and each time pronounced "Sam Medary a Thief!' The swindled community can now judge who is the 'Thief!' How is it the commitiee appointed to examine the Bank said nothing about the $10,000 of specie shipped east? Was there no entry made on the books-no mem oranda of it to be found? There is something wrong here, and the swindled note holders should know where the blame lies.
