Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1848-10-04
Meeting in Butler County The charge
against Col. Weller.

We copy the following from the editori
al correspondence of. the,Cincinnati Euqui
rer. Col. G. H. Brough, the editor, wa
present at the meeting as one ofthe speak
ers, and he gives the following as Col
Weller's defence against the malignant ant
base slander by which he is ussailed. He
chose to brand the slanderer at his owr
home, where the facts were within the reach
Of all who chose to examine them.
We do not expect this federal Roorback
Ito. be silenced. i was goi Up fos political
purposes, and viii continue until the elec.
tion, when it will fall, as did the charge a.
gainst Wilson Shannon Of appropriating
thirty thousand dollars Of the public mon-
eys to his own use, and its authors and
propngators will find that their ialsehood
has not availed them.-Statesman
Col. Brought in his letter to the Enquirer,
says:
"Col. Weller succeeded Col Allen. and
was greeted with most hearty cheers. He
spoke with most searching and scathing Sc.
verify OF the scurrilous and slanderous
course of portion of the Wing press and
orators towards him. Among other things
he particularly noticed the fact tha, he was
charged with being defaulter 10 the coun.
iy OF Butler. Col. w. said that as one of
the Fund Commissioners Of the county,. he
had been charged with The county's pro.
portion of the surplus revenue. That thew
were required to loan this fund out in such
way rs 10 produce interest, and were
charged with interest whether thew mode
the fund produce it or not. That it was
loaned out, on good lawful security-,o the
county of Butler SlO,OOo-the residue to
some sixty-five persons. That as the paw.
ments OF interest and partial payments of
principal were made, the Commissioners
thought fit to loan the proceeds to one an.
other, when no one else offered, seeing they
were required to make interest upon it,
That he had borrowed some portion of this
money-every dollar Of which was amply
secured by mortgage Of real estate, which
no man acquainted with the value Of prop.
erty, would hesitate 10 pronounce an abun.
dant security. That he might have avoid.
cd suit on account Of this matter, having
prsftered 10 turn over the books and make
payment of the sum which might be ascer-
tained to be due, but inasmuch as some
misunderstanding and controversy had tax.
en- place regarding the books, he preferred
to have all the facts legally uscer,ained
and settled. He would repeat that the pay.
ment was amply secured, and the county
would lose not cent on account of it. He
had nothing 10 keep back-no,hing he was
ashamed or afraid his sllow-cilizens should
know. He had lived in that commun,y,
man and boy, twenty-five years, and they
could judge whether he was chargeable
with any thing incompatible with the char
acter OF nm honest man. A tremendous
and long continued series of cheers testifi-
ed that the confidence OF those who heard
him, was unwavering in the true-hearted
integrity and manly honesty and frankness
of Col. Weller. 1t is indeed the height
of partizan malignity to charge this mat
ter as defalcation upon Col W. Here,
where he is known, the vile imputation is
secuted and scorned. In fact, it is only
thrown out elsewhere rs means of attract.
ing attention from tho sknlking and SIMS
ter course of MIR. Ford.
'Butler county, there con be no reason
able doubt, will give handsome improve.
ment upon her old democratic majority.
G. H. B."