The Dallas Weekly Herald

Hon. J. H. Teese was nominated, we see before us last, by the democrats of the Essex district of New Jersey, as their candidate for congress. On the evening of the 30th ultimo, an immense ratification meeting was held in Newark, the home of Judge Teese. The meeting was addressed first by the party nominee. From the very meager report of Judge Teese's remarks, we make the following extract:

The times are ripe for a change. The republicans have had control of the government ten years, and the people look with apprehension at the condition of affairs in the south. Every year just before election, troops are sent into the south. Judge Teese then referred to the tendency of centralization in the government, and the passage of laws to muzzle the press, and said that the result of a party's being in power a long time was the formation of rings--he did not use the word in an offensive sense--but there was a ring in this district, and although the men who composed it were high-minded, honorable men, they meant to keep in power as long as they could, but the people meant to have a chance.

This extract is from the Newark daily Advertiser, a radical sheet, and one not disposed, like the whole batch of them, to do justice to a political opponent.

Judge Teese was speaker of the house of representatives of New Jersey in 1861, and in that capacity it devolved upon him to deliver an address of welcome to Mr. Lincoln, who was the guest of the state while on his way to Washington to be inaugurated. In his address Judge Teese admonished the president elect of the heavy responsibility that devolved upon him, and urged him in most eloquent terms to do nothing that would bring the horrors of war upon the land. The address he delivered, if read now, would read like the utterances of a prophet. He portrayed before Mr. Lincoln, with a statesman's skill, what would be the ultimate effect upon the cause of civil liberty of an endeavor on his part to reduce the southern states to subjugation. The result has more than justified all the predictions made by Judge Teese in his prophetic speech.

That such men as Judge Teese should be called upon by the democracy to come forward and bear its standard in the present emergency, is the most convincing evidence that that party at the north is alive to the dangers that surround the American people, and that it realizes the necessity of putting forward its purest and ablest men to save the liberties of the country from total wreck. From many years intimate personal acquaintance with Judge Teese, we are justified in saying that he is such a man as any lover of his country might clasp cordially by the hand and sincerely congratulate him upon the almost certainty of his occupying a seat in the next congress.

The meeting was addressed by a large number of distinguished democratic speakers. Among the number was Hon. George G. Ferry, ex-mayor of Orange. From his remarks we extract the following, as showing exactly how the desolation of the south is affecting the manufacturing districts.