Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-09-27
Col Weller and the Surplus Revenue
Another Federal .faISeh00d Nailed

Ns VI '"o oe"'oEl" l"1iS i'aitFs Ahty
commenced this game of falsehood and
detraction by charging that the gallant
standard benrer Of the Democracy Of Ohio,
who left friends and home and periled his
lite in the defence Of the rights and honor
OF the country, while his competitor, who
shrinks away from The public gaze and
permits committee TO seal his mouth to
all enquiries that may be made of him re-
specting his position on the Presidency was
giving aid and comfort to the enemy, and
with Corwip, and Iilden, and Giddings,
Ind their abeltors, was seeking to with
hold supplies from the brave men who had
volunteered to fight the battles OF their
country, with cowardce at the bloody fight
Of Monterey. Yes, Weller, who led the
brave Ohio boys into the lhickest Of the
6ght, and stood firm amid The battle storm
where the heart of the most veteran war
rior might have quoiled, was charged with
couardice by the men who wished to see
him and his valorous compatriots ''welcom-
ed with bloody hands TO hospitable graves, u
or lett to starye upon the plains of Mexico.
But that charge was proven basely false
by the testimony of man who wero the eye
witnesses Of his bravery in that sanguina-
ry aiIray, and that sander was put forever
to rest. Since then they have exhausted
the whole catalogue Of lalsehoods, but they
have me. q like fate.
The last charge preferred against him
is that of being delaulter TO the county of
Butler, and Of mismanaging the sur
plus revenue fund. Tho FEDERAL papers
have seized upon the subject with the great
est ayidity and rung their changes upon it
from one end Of the State TO the other, and
their orators-such men as John Woods,
the old President of the defunct Bank of
Hamilton, and the officers of the old swim
ding Banks Of W ooster, Canton, &c. &c.
which have failed and swindled an honest,
industrious, and too confiding people out Of
millions of dollars Of their hard earned sub.
stance. and the unrcdeemed notes Of which
banks, bearing the signatures of these de-
famers are in tho hands OF i plundered
people-are traversing the state, proclaim
ing the base slunder from the stump. The
wings know that Col. Weller is popular
with the people, and that he is gaining new
friends wherever he goes, and ior this rea.
son they take this course to manifest their
malignity. We hope m honest people, who
love truth and--right will correctly estimate
the efforts Of the traducers of Col. Weller
We call the especial attention of all to
the followin 6 article from the Dayton En-
pire, which is complete relutation Of this
last. great ':Roorback" of whiggery. |, will
be observed that the Hamilton Telegraph,
which is printed in Weller's own town,
asserts positively that Col. Weller has not
n dollar in his hands which is not amply
secured, and that there is not a dollar oi
the Surplus Revenue Of that county that is
not amply secured, and yet tho whig press
es and orators charge Col. Weller with be-
ing delaul:er 10 that fund. The Empire
says:
awe have seen frequent nllusions in the
Dayton Jour rnal lately touching Col. We'll
ler's connection with The matter below re-
terred to.
However bitterly the gn!lan, Colonel
may be opposed, by those who opposed
their country in the war in which he was
engaged, on political grounds, we do no,
think that any man Of character should so
disregard the obligations of truth and hon.
or, as TO assist in tho circulation of a SIAN
der so base and unmi;ig.ted as that charg
ing any thing like dedication upon Col.
We'er.
The following plain and candid article
from the Hamilton Telegraph puts the
matter completely TO lighl:
ga series Of questions are put to lis in
the last weeks Inleligencer, touching the
surplus revenue, and The connection of Mr..
WELLER with it. There is not a single
dollar of the Surplus Revenue Fund loan.
ed out, but what is amply secured. All
Mr.. Weller has and we suppose he has
some, for he has the same righ. to it rs any
other citizen of the county-is amply Sc
cured. lftherc is any thing wrong in all
this, let i. be shown. We have not said
any thing about the matter heretofore, be-
cause he did not consider i! necessary.
Will the editor OF the Intelligencer now
inform US whether he did not say to per-
sons in town, Chat he did not believe the
Surplus Fund had been msmanaged by
Col. Weller?' Will he state whether he
has not been driven to make the insinu.
atoms or charges against Col Weller by
his personal and political enemies; and
does not know tha, they are all untrue?"