You can do but one of these things; it is folly to attempt anything else, for there cannot exist a slave confederacy and a free confederacy side by side upon this continent.

In 1841 he and his brother bought the Cincinnati Advertiser and renamed it the Cincinnati Enquirer. He then took office as State Auditor serving until 1845 when the Whigs swept most of the state's Democrats out of office in the Election of 1844. She had five children and survived Brough by 25 years.

John Brough (rhymes with "huff") (September 17 1811 – August 29 1865) was a War Democrat politician from Ohio. He served as the 26th Governor of Ohio during the final years of the American Civil War dying in office of gangrene shortly after the war concluded.