The Nevada Democrat., 1859-07-20
apErCH 0r GER. nENYER.

A meeting Of the Administration party was
held In this place last Wednesday evening, to
listen TO speeches from Gen. J. w. Denver, and
Mr.. Clayton. Gen. Denver spoke first, and
commenced by giving an account Of bis stew
ardship as the Representative Of California In
Congress. as Commissioner Of Indian Affairs,
and Governor OF Kansas. while speaking Of
his ConKressional career, he gave Il as bis opin-
Ion that the mineral lands In California belong
ed 10 the State, but gave no reasons for such
q conclusion, and prudently abstained from
recommending that the State should attempt
to interfere with the working OF the mines
The ofice Of Commissioner of Indian Affairs be
accepted much against his own inclination, in
order that he might be Of service TO this State.
What particular advantage his holding the Of
fee was to California, did not appear from any
thing he said. In reviewing Kansas matters,
he took more credit to himself than history has
assigned him. He said that previous to bis 60
ing there, the free State people of the Territory
had refused to take any part iu the elections,
but that he (Denver) had persuaded them to
vote, settled the bitter strifes Of the factions,
and that every thing had been quiet since.
Now IL any reliance whatever can be placed in
the published accounts of affairs in Kansas,
there was full as much trouble in The Territory
during his term as there was during the terms
Of his immediate predecessors, Stanton, Walker,
and Geary. 1t is not true either, that Denver
persuaded the free State people to take part In
the elections, for they had carried two elections
previous to his appointment. They elected
Parrot to Congress, and subsequently elected
majority Of both branches Of the Legislature.
But the principal portion of Gen. Denver's
speech was devoted TO Broderick and be tried
to mistify the people in regard to the resolu-
tions Of the Legislature instrueting our Sena-
tors to vote to force the Lecompton Constitu-
tion upon the people of Kansas. He said the
resolutions were received in Washington seve-
raj days before the final vote on the English
Bill but he neglected to state that the English
Bill involved an entirely different principle
from the original Lecompton measure of the
administration, and that the Legislature never
passed any instructions upon that subject what.
ever. The vote of this State, ct the last cleo
ton, Mr.. Denver thought, was rebuke to SEN
ator Broderick, and fully sustained the Le-
compton measure Of the administration but
how he could draw such conclusion, when the
Administration State Convention Of last year
carefully abstained from making any reference
to the Lecompton policy is more than we can
imagine. On the whole, Gen. Denver Was de-
cidedly Of the opinion that Senator Broderick
should resign, because a majority of the party
had decided against him. 1t seemed to us that
there was somewhat of discrepancy between
Gen. Denver's present idea Of Democracy and
his former practice. Some years ago he was
appointed as q Democrat, by Gov. Bigler, to
the Office of Secretary of State. A year or two
after, he left the party, and used the influence
of his ONCE TO help elect the Know Nothing
candidates in 1855, and materially assisted in
the defeat Of the Democracy. He was then
holding an ONCE under Democratic admins
tration, and although requested, refused to re-
sign, but used every exertion in bis power to
defeat the party that had given him position.
Even were il true-wbich is by no means the
case-that Senator Broderick had left the Dem
ocratic party, Gen. Denver is the last man that
should ask him to resign on that account.
Gen. Denver is dry, uninteresting speaker,
and is not ut all calculated for u stump orator.
About two hundred and fifty persons were pres
ent when he commenced speaking, and over
half had left before he concluded. He was fol-
lowed BY Mr.. Clayton, whose remarks are not
worth noticing
The Battle OF Magenta.