The Nevada journal., 1853-08-19
Reform Meetings.

Messrs. Waldo, Newell and Winters, OF
the State Reform ticket, visited our coun-
ty the past week, and spoke in Grass Val
lev, Nevada and Rough and Ready. Capt.
Waldo is a plain, unassuming man, with
excellent Judgment, popular manners, good
conversational powers, and resolute dispo-
sition. His visit to this county has been
most pleasant to him in the meeting of
MANY individuals who had experienced
timely relief from him in the awful season of
1850, and others who knew him we'll when
he crossed the plains in the previous year.
The warm greetings exchanged between
Mr.. Waldo and his old friends and CRATE
full benefciaries were most pleasant to
witness, and gave an apparent sunshine to
his recolleeti0ns
Capt. Waldo spoke at Grass Valley
and Nevada. He is " not an orator as
Brutus is, but talks right on, in an open
and manly way, giving his motives and
acts in the expedition Of 1850-that at
moment when it seemed certain that thou
sands must perish by starvation, he could
resist his feelings no longer, but gave up
his property to the committee, against
their advice and that of his friends, and
not caring whether he ever realized dol
lar Mr. Henley especially urged him not
to make the sacrifice, that Congress would
never pass bill for his relief-that he had
known many men grow old and die In pov-
erty, urging Just claims before that body
Mr.. Waldo insisted, saying to Mr.. Henley
he thought him bad patriot to endeavor
to dissuade one person from sacrificing
himself, when thousands from his own state,
to whom he Henley had often appealed
for political support, were struggling Tor
life against famine and disease. The COM
mittee accepted his offering, asked him to
be the agent for its distribution. lie re-
fused, as his business needed his presence.
The committee could agree upon no other
man, and finally were so urgent that he
consented. He dwelt upon the incidents
of the expedition, illustrating the severity
of the suferings of the emigrants at that
time, and spoke of his own efforts with
great modesty, and more as matter OF
course than as of peculiar merit. lie
cared more for spotless reputation than
all other objects. 1t had been SAID he
would lose votes in Ell Dorado because he
had directed the emigrants over the True
kee route. In this he had implicitly fol-
lowed the instructions of the committee,
exercising his own will or opinion only to
obey their orders. 1t had been charged
that he sold relief, and speculated in cat
tie. mo man." said he, " will say to me,
or any one of my expedition, that l or
they ever bought or sold anything during
the whole time we were engaged. was
generally twenty miles ahead OF the sta
ton. and directed individuals where they
would find relief Others established trad
ing posts to sell and speculate, and when
emigrants, not knowing the way to mine,
came to them and asked where to find the
relief station, they would reply that was it,
but they sold relief. Thus many indlvldu-
ais obtained wrong impressions, which
have disappeared on investigation, but
which the democratic press do not consl-
der beneath their character to still assail
me with. Two of my companions, men
of responsibility, testified on oath, imme-
diately on the return, that the expedition
had been conducted according to the in
structions of the committee, without pur-
chase or sale" On his return from the
plains he sent his account to the commit
tee, who neglected to act on it. He pres
entlv wrote to the committee to return his
papers, declaring he asked nothing from
them or from the state. He then went to
the mountains. After some months he
returned and for the first time learned that
the Missouri and Illinois legislatures had
simultaneously instructed their senator's
and requested their representatives to urge