Daily national Democrat., 1858-08-28
A Few words to John b. weller.

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concerning politics. 1 take it for granted
that it was intended to effect the State elec-
tion. You have been so silent heretofore
with regard to the Lecompton issue, that
many of your friends supposed you intended
to confine yourself to your high official du-
ties, and let the men who elected you Gov.
ernor settle their own party differences. 1t
was not expected that you would assist in
the task of eliminating good Democrats, or
Ihat you would denounce as Republicans and
dlsunionists many unaspiring private citizens,
who assisted you to fight your last Sena.
torlal battle, and who zealously advocated
your nomination for the Governorship. Your
letter is neither Just nor truthful You call
Mr. Douglas gallant fearless, powerful and
eloquent i'm the next breath you call his
supporters in this State, deserters and Re
puN licans. You call our State Convention
irregular, although it was ca led to order by
a member Of the State Central Committee.
Where was the regularity in the action of
your disorganizing friends in Sacramento
county, when the Lecompton minority of
your County Committee arrogated to them
selves the power to call a mock County Con
vention, and utterly refused to act with the
majority of the Committee? Party usage
was idecently trampled under foot in that
case, and the rule of the majority was scoffed
at in the county where you should have had,
and exercised influence to prevent it. If you
are er o6Icio the expounder of State politics,
to the extent that you can read Douglas men
out of the party in your own State, while
you eulogize them in Illinois, you certainly
ought to have regulated matters better in
your own county
You say that the Hardy Convention rep.
resented the principles of the California
Democracy, when you know that that Con-
vention had ths hardyhood to endorse the
Lecompton doctrine, that delegated power is
sovereign.
You quote, with much gusto, the scathing
ienunciations Of your own political friends in
Illinois, made by Senator Douglas in his great
Chicago speech, and attempt to apply them
to the Nebraska Democrats of California
on do not say a word about the disgraceful
leserton, 10y Mr.. Buchanan's office holding
nerd, of the Democratic organization in Hi I
iois, with deliberate view to assist the Re ;
oublicans in electing their Abolitionist candi-
late. Abram Lincoln, to the U. S. Senate.
over the head of Stephen A. Douglas
You are politician enough to know very
we'll that Mr.. Buchanan approces of the
course of those servants of his. who oppose
Douglas, for if he did not approve of it, he
would remove them from office, as he ouoht
% do.
confess that it is highly presumptuous for
ne, private citizen, and an humble one, to
'ddress one in so high position as you now
'ceupy, but the common people, are little
)old yet, for the Lecompton doctrine Of one
nan power has not yet been pronounced
good by those whose servant you are.
In conclusion permit me to observe that
many, who know, say that it is very much out
1f place for the Governor of one of the United
States, to proclaim that, mder any eircvm-
stances Ohatever, the Union will be dissolved.
CALIFORNIA.