Daily national Democrat., 1859-08-09
North San Juan COrespondence--Weller
--ScOtt--Greeley--FOr Born Citi-

EDITOR NATIONAL OEMOCRAT:-Our little
village has been recently highly honored
A few evenings since we had the honor of a
visit from Judge Currey and DR.. Powell, an
account of which was furnished you by a
correspondent of this place and published in
your valuable paper Last night we were
honored by the presence of Governor Weller,
Hon. G. L. Scott. Tom Findl,y Gen. Higley,
and several candidates on our county ticket,
together with the great mogul of the party
in this county, viz Henry Meredith, Esq.
Gov. Weller and Mr.. Scott addressed about
three hundred and fifty persons here last
night, from the same stand erected for Cur
rey and Powell. Scott opened the ball, was
followed by Governor Weller, and the meet.
ing closed with few remarks from Mere
dith. Considerable enthusiasm was NANTES.
ted by the crowd particularly when Scott
and the Governor related anecdotes DR.
Warfeld presided
Scott opened his remarks in the defense of
Casss letters to LIE Clerc and Hofer. He ar
gued that the principles laid down by Cass
IN those letters are the true principles of our
government; that they are identical with
the doctrines enunciated by the early admin
istrations of our government and more re-
Gently by Daniel Webster. He sustained
Gen. Casss position throughout, but attemp-
ted to mislead the naturalized citizens and
foreigners by asserting that the Democratic
party, TO which he claimed TO belong is the
only party on whom foreign born citizens
can rely for protection. He spoke long and
loud upon this subject and in the course of
his remarks alluded to the alien and sedition
laws of the elder Adams, and the opposition
of the Know Nothings to foreigners, and as
serted that the opposition to the Administra-
tion party was composed principally of Know
Nothings and broken down politicians He
denied that the Administration party was
placed upon the defensive by Mr.. Broderick,
and in the same breath asserted that, owing
to the attacks made upon the principles of
the party 10y Broderiek, it became necessary
for his party to explain away these attacks,
and hence the appearance that they were act
ing on the defensive He attacked Brode-
rich with a degree of acrimony but very
little short of that displayed by twin in lis
speeches. He attempted to prove that, six
or eight months before the Kansas Constitu-
tion was sert into Congress by the President,
Broderick had assumed an offensive attitude
towards the Democratic party, and had de-
termined to oppose the Administration. He
said that supporting Broderick was not sup
porting Douglas; that Douglas is in, and
Broderick is out Of the Democratic organiza
ton; that Douglas has no feeling in common
with the Broderick faction; that, by recent
letter written by Judge Douglas, he Doug
las) announced himself as candidate before
the Charleston Convention for the office of
President, and expressed his willing ness to
abide by the decision of that Convention and
support its nominees He said no power
could force Broderick into such a pledge
that Broderick was outside of the Democratic
organization and prepared to leap with all
of his followers into the embrace of Repub-
licanism-and all such internal nonsense,
He was followed by Governor John B.
Weller who for an hour aud half spoke
Of his own acts during his two years service
as Governor of the State, and what he would
have done had his time been prolonged an
other two years. lie gave a succinct ac-
count of the workings OF the Penitentiary
system under his rule, and compared it with
its workings in the hands of the lessees. He
spoke of the system he had adopted of re-
storing convicts to citizenship and the good
effects produced by the operation. Whilst
speaking on this subject, which he did most
pathetically, wag who was standing at my
elbow remarked: "Why don't he tell us that
his motive in restoring these men to citizen
ship was to add voters to his party" but
nary word did the Governor say of such a
character. Gov Weller spoke of the charges
made against him as being defauter to But.
Ter county, in the State of Ohio, and a de-
faulter to the U. s. Government. In eXpla-
nation, he said that when he left Ohio he
was indebted to Butler county in a large
sum of money, which, at the time, he was
unable to pay, as a great many men are, in
this country; that he left Ohio in ls49 and
soon afterwards took up his residence in this
State, and entered into the practice of his
profession that he was successful in making
money, and as fast as he made it, he sent it
home to pay his debts which he owed to
Butler county that during his absence suit
had been commenced against him in the
Court of Common Pleas of said county,
which was continued from time to time, and
term to term, until after he took his seat in
the United States Senate as a Senator from
this State; that he paid no attention to the
suit,nor cared anything about it until friend
of his, one day at Washington, spoke to him
about it and urged him to settle up the mat
ter, as his enemies were using the affair to
his injury; that he told his friend he cared
nothing about it, dc, when his friend re
marked 81 do have a hundred dollars
bet on the result of the matter, and l don't
want to lose it ;" that he then went to his
old home, had the matter called up in court
and, on investigation, a Judgment of S37
was rendered in his favor; and that termin-
ated the charge of defalcation made 10y his
enemies He explained away the charge
made against him of being defaulter to the
Government of the United States-gave the