Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-19
.Beauuful and Patriotic"

man of the Long Bar Lecompton Meeting on
Friday last, denominating it "a beautliul ana
patriotic address" As Judge Terry says, zoe
concur. and think the public will also. In
deed. how could the address be anything but
beautiful and patriotic" under the inspira
tiop of such a scene? The procession con-
sisting of an express wagon, a one horse bug
gy and a hand cart, the latter full of cab
bages and turnips-probably the develope
ment of some of Scotts garden seeds-had
Just arrived with John B. Weller at the head,
and preceded by a Brass Band, consisting of
two snare drums aud a tin dpper handle
transformed into a fife Transparencies,
bearing upon them no such miserable inter
rogatory as, what is all this north 2 no.
those other words of delusion and folly, John
B. Weller first, and Milton S. Latham after
wards" but blazing all over with such mot
toes as JAMES Buchanan and the bible,
were visible on every hand that is, bymoon-
| light, fer the candles inside Of them, we be.
lieye, were extingushed Under such an in
| spiration as this, Nlnean E. Whitesides arose,
and delivered the "beautiful and patriotic
address" which we find published in the Elk
press, and which Ninean, in all probability
very kindly wrote out and furnished to tha
paper for we hear of no reporter having
been present.
Friends and fellow citizens" began th,
orator, 81 thank you for the compliment at
tcndant upon the partiality you have mani
tested for me in the selection of Chairman o
your meeting here tonight" "And believ
me, gentlemen" he adds, chat the compli
ment is the more appreciated 10y me, from
the recollection of the fact that am, in this
(what p regarded by you as a Democra
standing by the great compromise measure
of 1880; standing on the Cincinnati Platform
of 1856, approving and supporting the doc
trine of non Intervention, rs enunciated il
the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854 and full
endorsing the past and present policy Of Jane
Buchanan" lie endorses fully the past an'
present policy of James Buchanan, and is ye
a supporter of the Compromise Measures Q
1850; stands by the Cincinnati Platform q
1856, and goes for nonintervention as enur
ciated in the Kansas Nebraska Bill If thi
is not adaptaOility to anything and every
thing that comes along, where will you fin
it? lie goes on:
"Gentemen, from divine authority W
learn that when John the Baptist was preach
ing in the Wilderness he said to the peopl
of Judea, Prepare We the way, for one com
eth after me greater than l." Without pro
tanation, the same may say tonight, whic
at once supercedes the necessity on my par
Cf making formal statement OF the object
for which we have convened. The curtain
is already hoisted; look beyond there. assist
ed by the bright rays of the moon, comming
ling with the illuminations that surround us
| upon the canvas read the programme, John
Il b. Weller"
What could be more appropriate to the
occasion than comparing himself (Ninean F
Whitesides) and John B Weller to John til
Baptist and Jesus ChriaS John the Baptis
said that there was to come after him, on
whose shoes latchet he was unworthy t.
stoop down and unloose In denominatin,
himself the John the Baptist to this moder
Messiah, John B. Weller, Whitesides express
ed all due humilty, certainly. If Weller b
Christ, what aJohn the Baptist must White
sides be He proceeds;
"Not only Democrats but men of ever,
| lo,-f,, NJ !.
citizens domestic, bnt citizens foreign; citi-
2ens native and adopted fathers and sons
mothers and daughters are here, contributing
! that respect due the importance of this occa
sion, disS}pating tie ride exterior of a CaLifor-
MIA political meeting 6y the diuiae presence OF
the female beauty, loneliness and girtue of tie
country"
The female beauty, loveliness and virtue
of the country were present We hope our
friend, Whitesides, dill not mean to insinuate
that there was no female beauty, lovelinest
or virtue outside of that meeting. As t,
"dissipatng the rude exterior of Californi.
meeting" did the Colonel mean to say tha
the male portion of the audience immediatel,
left upon the advent of the ladies, and pu
on billed shirts" or that the effect of beauty
loveliness and virtue was such that the rud,
exteriors of the masculines present, at once
became elegant and refined by a sort of mi
raculous transformation, or that the exterior
of the said masculines vanished entirely, leav
ing them in pur1s naturaIibus? No doub
there was good deal of dissipation in tn
crowd, but such dissipation as this isincred
ible
There are other noticeable features in thi
speech, but we have given enough of it t
show how well entitled it is to be called
beautiful and patriotic" effort.