ANNALS OF CLEVELAND

292
CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1838
Abstracts 1778 - 1782
POLITICS & GOVERNMENT - Ohio (Cont'd)
1778 - H&G Feb. 17:2/3 - An act to incorporate the First Associate
Reformed Presbyterian Church and Society in the city of Cleveland
passed the Senate on the 14th, and a bill to incorporate the village
of Brighton in Cuyahoga county passed the House. (1)
1779 • H&G Feb. 19; ed:2/3 - "Our thanks are due Mr. Foot and the State
Printer, Mr. Medary, for early copies of the Report of the Auditor of
State upon certain inquiries presented to the Banks of Ohio. It is an
interesting document, filling 112 pages, and proves conclusively the
falsity of the Locofoco charge against the Legislature, of refusing
to investigate the condition of the Banks. " (1)
1780 - H&G Feb. 21; ed:2/4 • The Elyria REPUBLICAN lists John A. Foot,
Attorney for the Commercial Bank of Lake Erie, as a stockholder, both
in the Commercial and Cleveland Banks.
"The Locofoco papers in Ohio, are about this time unbellished with
black 1 ines drawn around the names of the members of the Legislature,
who voted against a resolution introduced by Dr. Hubbard of Lorain,
the leading locofoco in the House. The above falsehood in regard to
Mr. Foot, is one of the devices of the party to keep the 'ball moving.',
John A. Foot is not a stockbolder in both the Commercial and Cleveland
Banks, or in any other bank. "This the editor knew, but truth
does not answer his purpose." (3)
1781 • H&G Feb. 22; ed: 2/5 - The State Printer states, in excuse for
the delay in printing the Auditor's Report, that he discovered errors
in it and returned it to the Auditor's Office for correction.
"A gross and mischievous error (or something worse) is still left
in the table, in relation to the loans of the Bank of Zanesville to
Directors and Stockholders - and another in the same item of the statement
of the Commercia 1 Bank of Lake Erie. Between the Audi tor and his
clerks, and the State Printer and his imps, the Report is incorrect
after all the delay." (2)
1782 - H&G Feb. 27; ed:2/3 - If a state Whig Convention is actually to
be holden at Columbus the ensuing spring, it is desirable that every
county in the state should be fully and fairly represented •
. '''We have, it is true, expressed an opinion as to the expediency of
the measure, and against its adoption; influenced by an impression,
that the first movement in its behalf was dictated by a wish thus to secure
the vote of Ohio for Gen. Harrison ••••
"We repeat it, a State Convention; if assembled, should not be made
up of delegates representing a part only of the opposition in Ohio; let
the Whigs come together, if at all, in their strength, as in 1836, and
with the same great object in view, the overthrow of the dominant party
in our national councils, a party that has used its power exclusively
for self aggrandizement, and acted uniformly upon the avowed principle