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to show that it was owing to its introduc tion, and the disclosures it made, that I was deterred from introducing them as lie stat's. The fact is not so. The session commetced the first Monday of Decem ber, 1847, and Mr. Dix (lid not introduce the paper until the 26th of July, 1848, nearly eight months subsequent. and one month after I had fully discussed the prin ciples of my resolutions. Did he see,that all. this would have been manifest at once without a word from me, if he had given the dates ? and was not that his reason fur not giving them ? Col. Benton seems to lie conscious, that it was necessary for him to explain why lie had not assailed my resolutions. and the base and corrupt motives lie attributes to me for introducing them, long before, and in his place in the Senate; an'i ac cordingly. he has attempted to make one. He asserts that " Mr. Calhoun's resolu, lions are -those of the Missouri Legislature. They are identical. One is copied from the other. When the original is invali dated, the copy is of no avail. I am an sweriag his resolutions, and choose to do it. It is just and proper that I should do so. lie is the prime mover and head con. triver. I have had no chance to answer him in the Senate, and it will not do to al low him to take a snap-judgment upon me in Missouri, in carrying disunion reso lutions in my own State, which he has been forced to abandon in the Senate. Duty to the country requires me to answer hin, and personal reasons re-inforce that public duty." His explanation then is, that notwith standing his burning zeal to defend the Union and of his own character against these wicked resolutions. " he could get no chance before to answer them." What! could get no chance from February, 1847, until June. 1849, (the date of his speech) a period of upwards of t wo years ! Could get no chance when they were first intro duced and discussed ? None during the long session whicb followed and which lasted more than eight months? None during the long and foll discussion on the Oregon Territorial bill, when the princi ples of the resolutions formed the basis of the argument on the side of the south ? None to reply to tme, who fully discussed, and I may say established them bryand controversv ? None during the discussion of the report of the select committee, or which Mr. Clayton was chairman ? None on the discussion of the bill from the louse of Representatives, which applied the Wiltnot Proviso to the Oregon terri. tory, and which was passed by his vote nni his frieud Gen. 1ouston's? None during the whole of the last session, and still tnore wonderful, none in making his last speech ? I say none, for he confined himself to denunciation and abuse of the resolutions, without even attempting to answer them. No, he never could get, and never can get a chance to answer them. For every .other purpose he can get a chance, whenever he pleases. No one is better at getting a chance when he is disposed. lie had no difficulty in get, ting a chance to pour out a torrent of abuse, to empty seats, against the late Ge. neral Kearney, day after day, for the greater part of a week, and that too just at the close %f a session, to the utter dis gist of the Senate, and at the hazard of defeating many bills then ready for final action. I might go on and repeat uimilat questiotns until they would fill pages, but enough has been said to prove that his ex planation is puerile and hollow, H-e had many and fair chances to an-. gswer the resolutions, and couild have made one, if ho desired it at any time, but there were two reasons which prevented him. The first is, that although he had made up his mind to desert you and your cause be fore the introductioni of the resolutions, he sawv the hazard, and was unwilling to take that step hastily. The Mlissouri resolu tions forced him to disclose his intentions, and to proclaitr his desertion before lie was fully prepared to execute his design, and hence the depth to which they have excited his ire. The other is, that he had too much discretion to address sucn a far rago ton aiody too well informed to be im posed upon by old, staile and oft-rep'eated charges, lie knew besides that they would have been promptly met and repelled, and that the antidote would go with. the poison. He knew this from experience, Hie had tried it before. Jt failed most signally. It was in the ses.ion of 18417, a few datys after I had introduced tile resolutions. In that attack he paraded, nearly in the same words, all that lhe has etiarged in this, about the Florida treaty, Texas, and almnost every other subject. lie had taken time anid prepared deliberately. It was given out that ho would dhemolish me. The Senate was crowded by those who wished to wittness thie sacrifice. I rose and repelled oil' hand his charges. I leave those who wet-e present to deciide w"ith wilat elTect. It wasu certainly not to his gratificationi or satisfaction. 'lie, did not even attempt a rejoinder. But what be comes of his apology, that he had no chance to reply to my resoluttion ? They had been initroduced but shortly before, and then ho had ai full chance to answer them. Hie then assailed every act of my life, wvhich lie thought lie could distort, so as to make a plausible charge against me. Why then omitt to answer resolutions which he now holds up as the worst and most objectionable of all? Can any answer lie given, except that he is either not sincere, in wvhat he asserts, or that the time had not thean arrived, at which he could safely vernture to betray you ? But, according to his own statement, he is impelled in mnaking his attacks by pri vate grief, as well as public considera'tions. lie says I 'instigated attacks on him for twenty years. I instigate attacks on him ! H o must hiave a very exalted opintion of himself. I never thought of such a thing. We move in diff'erent spheres. hl course is, and has been, to have nothing to do with him. I never wanted his support, nor dreaded his opposition. He took the same ground in his speech just referred to, and enideavored to establish the chargo by what purported to be an extract from a letter, which he states was delivered to him by the same person unnamed, anti was written by an utknowvn person to an unknown person, lie introduced it itnto the Senate, in a manner to make the im pression that I wins its author. I arose and asked him if he intended to asscrt that I forced to admit I was not. I then re- t pelled his charge with a scorn which the 1 base insinuation, that I had any kuo'v ledge or connection with it % hatever, do- 1 served. He was covered with confusion ; 0 and yet he has the effrontery to introduce it again to the public, accomp. nied with U the same insinuation which covered him with disgrace at its first introduction. But the deepest wound, it seems, was inflicted by a statement in my address to the people of Charles:on, on my return home after the session of '47 attd '48, that f he voted for the bill establishing the terri tory of Oregon, conutainting the principle of the Wilmot Proviso, and that ho and Oco. Houston were the only two southern mem bers who voted for it ; that without their votes it wotld not have been dJeaied, od * lowed by the expression of an opinion, that for so doing, they deserved the reprobation of the whole south. Neither or them have ever denied the truth or my state ment, nor ever can. Every word is tie, as the journals of the Senate show. The statement itself is in plain language nnd free from extortion or exaggeration. The fact stated. related to ollicial acts which it was important my constituents sh'uld know. In expressing my opinion I ab stained from impeaching inoives. All was done within the rules of decornm, and those that govern parliatwentary proceed ings. Wherein then consists the ilfence ? I am at a loss to perceive, except the prin ciple be adopted, that the greater the truth the greater the libel. It may be, that it was regarded as an offence because it was cA c culated to embarrass him, and thwart what he then meditated, and has since carried into execution-an open desertion to the abolitionists. I pass now to his next charges. le as serts that I gave away Texas, and to trake it out lie asserts that Texns belonged to the United States, when the treaty with Spain was made, by which she ceded Flo rida to ns. lie claims that Texas was a part of Louisiana. and that its boundary extended to the Rio Grande ; that it was all slave territory, and looked to as the na tural outlet for their great increasing slave population; and finally, that it was sur rendered by the treaty of Florida made in 1819, during the administration of Mr. Monroe, of which I was one of the mem bers, On this statement he rests his charge that I gave away Texas. It is dillicult for one who lacks sincerity and is actuated Iy violent passions, to es cape the greatest inconsistency and contra diction, in defendiug himself or assailing others, in making a long speech. lIenton furnishes a strong illustration of the truth of ihis position, and never inore so than in making the above statement. In order to aggravate the act of giving away Tenas, which he charges me with, he has made assertions entirely inconsistent with the grounds he took, and the course be pur sued while the question of the annexation of Texas was before the Senate. lie now asserts that the boundary of Texas as part of Louisiana extended to the Rio Grande, when the treaty of Florida was made, in the very teeth of the assertions be made, when the question of annexation was be fore the Senate. In the speech he made V in May. 1844, on the treaty Cot anneving I Texas. he assorted, that " The Texas f which we acquired by the treaty of 1803, I (that of Louisiana ) never approached the Rio Grande, excepting near its mouth." I To show that "hly near its moncth !" lhe did not mean that it touched the rivet-, he said, speakinag of Tamaulipas, one of the States of Mexico, that " it covered both sides of the river, fiomn its mot-th for sotte hundred miles Ut)." He asserted itn the same I speech that all New MJexico, Chihu~ahua, Coahuila, and Tamaulipas made nco part of the Texas which we acquired by the treaty of Louisiana. lHe estimates the part belonging to Mexico lying on the east side of the Rio Grande to be 2000 miles' long, (the whole length of the river.) and some hundred broad, and conicluded by I saying "he washed his handsof aill attempts to dismemnber the reptublic of Mexico by I seizinig her domitnions in New M~exico, ~ Chihuahua, Coathtuila anti Tamaulipas." These we-re his assertiotns, solemnly mae, and as he st ates after the fullest exa mination, whiet his object was to defeat I' the treaty which I negotiated wnih the t Commissioners of Texas for its aninexa- . tion. For that purpose he attempted to show~ that the treaty covered a large p~art of a Mexico, which tnever belontged to TIexas, although the treaty specilied no boundary, ! and left the houndary open on the side of Mexico, inttentionaally, in order to settle it by treaty with her. But now, wlren his' aject is to showv I that gave away Texas ~ by the treaty of Florida, lie holds a very iiferent language. lIe does not, indeed, say in so many words, that Texas covered the vhole region from the Sabine to the Rio Gratnde, for that would have been too penly and plainly a direct contradiction l to what he contended for when his object' svas to dlefeatt annexation ; but he does the 9 tame thing in a more covered andI objec- L ionable way, bty using language that could riot fail to make that impression o-i all who n eard him, or may read his speech. il Ile goes farther. In order to aggravate ~ he charge against me, he becomes appa-- r entlv a warm advocate of slavery extetn ion,'as lie calls it, atnd uses stronig Ian-t ;uage to show the value of Texas to the a oth int that respect. He says, it was all r dave territory ; that it wvas looked to as the a atural outlet of the Southern States with j their' increasinig slave populatiotn, and that twas largu enongh to make six large ' tates, or ten comtmon ones. Suich is his a anguage, wihen his object is to prove tha'. a gave away Texas. You would suppose .~ rom this langutage that lhe was a slavery i ~xtensionist, as he calls all those who ne 'nd your rights, and that he placed a high a ralne on Texas, as an 0tn let lior your slave s population, and to preserve your just in- ti lluence and wveight in thc Uniotn. One. 3 aoul concludle, that with these feelitngs s nud views, he wvould have been a strong I advocate of the treaty that was rejected by s the Senate, which proposcd to annex Texas g vithout any restriction wrhateve- in rela- s ion to slavery, so as to leave it, to use his e >wn language, as the outlet to your in- ti :reasing; slave population. Instead of that h 1 made the most strenuous efforts to de- ti bat it, and contributed not a little towards o t. Hie went further. After its defent, he a 'novedl a string of resolutiotns, coataining si arovisions for its admission, and amtong tl tbhars one which pronnoned to iv.ie Tex... ( ito two parts, as nearly equal as possible y a line running north and south, and to lot the eastsru to you, and the western i the abolitionis's, to the entire exclusion fyour n increasing slave populaf ion." It an hardly be, that he forgot all this in de ivering his speech; but, if not, what natchless effiantery and inconsistency to nake the charge he does against me? rhere would indeed seem to be no limits o his audatcity and inconsistency. and lie ppears to have selected Texas as a proper ield to make the greatest display of :hem. is if to cap the climax after having so de iberately asserted, and so strentiously naintained, that the western boundary of rexas, did not extend to the Rio Grande, te placed, a short time afterward, his vote it record. that it did-by voting for the ill declaring war against Mexico. The ill assumed it did in asserting that the >lood sied on the eastern batik was blood hed on the American soil. which could not >e unless Texas extended to the Rio 3rande. If it id inot the war stands with ut justification. If it did not the march f our army to the Rio Grande was an in rasion of a neighboring country unantho ized by the Constitution or law; and yet 3(tl. Benton, who had but a short time be brc declared solemnly, after full investiga ion, that all the east bank of the river 'r some hundred miles i% ide belonged to lie Mexican Republic; and emphatically leclared, lie " washed his hands of all at em,"ts to dismember the Mexican Repub. ic, by seizing her dominions, New Mexi. o, Chihuahua, Coahuila, and Tattmauli ia," voted for the bill I He went further. le reported it as the Chairman of the Com. nittee on military affairs, in total disre ard of his own motion made the day be bre to refer so much of the Message of the 'resident, as relates to declaring n ar to its ippropriate Committee-that on Foreign eintions. Comment is unnecessary. But I am not yet done with Texas, nor ih the effrontery and absurdity of the harges lie made against me, in reference u it. lIe says I gave it- away-gave it iway by the Florida treaty. -flow enuld :ive it away by that, or any other treaty ? 'he power to make treaties belongs to the 'resident, and never was invested in me. t was-at the time invested in Mr. Monroe, is President of the United States. Nor lid I negotiate it. I was only one member if the cabinet, and the youngest of the vhole. flow could I, then, give away I'exas? To prove the charge he resorts o his old patent reasoning ; that I was all >owerful-so much so, as to mako the ?resident and all the members of his cabi et mere cyphers. lIe would havo it, that hey wore but tools in my hands; and I done was responsible for all that was done. Vell-if lie will have it son, I meet the bharge directly. It is not true, that the lorida treaty gave away Texas. I did ot believe, when the treaty was made, !at Louisiana extended, or ever did ex end to the Rio Grande, or- even to the ueces, and that it was uncertain whether extended beyond the Sabine. I knew t was claimed to extend far beyond, even a the Rio Grande; just as we claimed he whole of Oregon, and with just about s little title. I have seen nothing tochatige his opinion: On the contrary, if ny in. rhe Saie Department, obtained within he last few years, v.hich concluively irove, that Louisiana nover extended ant uch beyond the Sabine. In repily to Cul. Benton's assaults as to h treaty, I annex an abstract from a peech itn answer to hift, when he madea he satme charge, in 1847. It was an off' and reptly to a premeditated attack. 'IThe I'e'lrida Treaty, forming another uject of attack, figured also ont that oc asion, is contnectedi with annexation; anti rhat lie saiJ now is but a repetition of lthat he saiul then. He thien, as now, made e responsible fur that treaty,-alibough I as but otne of six members of Mlr. Alon ne's cabinet, and the youngest of its mom-i ers-responsible. without adlvancinig ai article of proof that I even gave it my tpport or approbation. He rests the chargei n sotne disc lainmer, as it seems, that the Fic Secretary of State (Mr. Aduams) has,i tsomie time made, that he was not res onsible for the treaty. The Senator may e right as to that ; but how can that, by ny possibility, show that I was respon Si-i l ? But I am prepared to take mty full hare of responsibility, as a member of Ir. Monroe's cabinet, without havitng anyc articular agentcy in formting tie treaty, or fluence in inducing the cabiaet to adopt .I then thought, end still thnik it a good -eay ; and so thought the Senate of the nited States; fur if my memery does not d eceive me, it received everyvote of the o etate. [A Senator: " yes every vote.'' , tthen received the utnanimotvome of the ,J ente., promptly given. 0 course, if ji tt treaty was tho cause of tie war with t lexico, as the Senator seemeto suppose, t is body is as much the auther and cause e the wvar, as the individual aW whom he c now so att'ious to fix it. r 1 have said it is a goeod treat', not with- si ut due reflection. We acquied much by o .It gave us Florida-an acetisition ttot 0r tly important in itself, but use in refe- h ee to the wvhole southwesarn froanier. tr 'here wvas, at that time, for pinwierfa! ol ibes of indians. two of whtomthe Zreeks fa td the Choctauws, were conttigonts to Flo- 81 da, and the two others-the Ihickasaws m ud Chetokees were adjoinintg.They were ot e most numerotus and powenil tribes in th e United States, and1 from thpir positioni of ere exposed to be acted on hod excitedi in ~ainst us from Florida. It [as itmport- E a that this state of things shiuld termi- a ate, which could otnly be don~by obtain- in ig tha possession of Florida. c But there were other andi p 'erful con- to deratiotns for the acquisition. V~e hail, ab tort time before, extingnzished~ he Indian te tle to large tracts of country A labama, Ct lississippi, and Georgia, ~ing upon oe reams and rivers which pas d through to lorida to the Gulf-lands itt retntmen.- th re valueless, withtout the ri~ of navi.. w atin them to their mouths. ~he acqui.. !. ioneif Florida gave us th tight, anid is abled us to bring into succe I cultiva. th~ on a groat extent of fertile ida, which tea ave added much to the inere ~d produc- a on of our great staple, e on. An-. her important point was e114 ed by the that quisition. it terminated a i v1trouble- ira >eO dispute wvith Spain, gr ng out of stai o capture of Si. Marks and isacola by git neral Jackson. in the Sojhneta r;- that Ind, finally, it perfected our title to Ore- gi, ;on, by ceding to us, whatever right Spain be 2(d to that territory. m Nor is his next charge, in reference to ani he tract of land lying west of Arkansas, ot! ind south or 36 30, less baseless. Ile as ( ierts that this strip of land, as he calls it, to was enough to form two States, and ihat w I "required this strip of land to be given pu Lip to the Indians, as a peroanent aliode; pe and that it was lost to the slave States." ow This, like his other assertions, is without m: roundation. lie makes no attempt to esil- in blish it, but leaves it to be inferred from the rn mere statement, that " I was at the lime In Secretary of War, and member of Mr. an Monroe's administration." lie knew it m would not do to go into details, ns-they ul would refute his charge, and hence the rei vagueness of the langnage in which it is to couched. What he omitted I shall supply. ad T'he history of the affair may be told in a wl few words. The Choctaw tribe of Indians, at the .la time, inhabited the State of 5lississippi. H nod occupied almost its entire territory. ov General Jackson and General Hines. 1f i Mississippi, were appointed by Mr. 51on. of roe to treat with them, for the purpose of to obtaining a cession of I portion of their iofl lands. They succeeded in (litaining a thi large tract, lying in the very cettre of the n State, and extending from Pearl river to rI the Mississippi, in exchange for all the ter- ac ritory Iving between the Red River and so the Arlansas. west of a line drawn from ta, the point of the Arkansas, npposiie to Ita where the lower line of the Cherokee In- ol dians struck it, to a point on Reil River, la three miles below the mouth of Little thi River. and westwardly to the source of the de Canadian fork of the Arkansas, and a line drawn.due south to Red River. But the to! treaty, in making the exchange. made 1no ry provision to change the character of the in. sit dian title to the land given in Arkansat4. in tc< exchange for tinat which we received inl ca Mississippi. Nor did it make it the per- th manent abode of the Indians, as he asserts. da They hold it just as they held the landIl ti they ceded in Mississippi. Nothing was A lost by the slaveholding States, hut a great ge deal gained, by the treaty. A large and I valuable tract in the very heart of the cot- he ton region, and lying convenient to mar- fir ket. was acquired by Mississippi. without at the loss of a single acre to ier sisters of co the slaveholding States. So that the great as sympathy which lie professes for the slave States, in this case, is misapplied. If he al chooses to consider me responsible for the hi: tresty, instead of li5r. Monroe, and the ed Commissioners who made it. atid the Se- lie tate that approved of it, tee is welcome to pr do so, however contrary to the truth of the tic case. wl Another, atid only another treaty, was se made with that tribe, while [ remained in If tite War Department. I was the Comis- tie sioner on the part of :he United States. th and, of course, acknowledge tmy responsi- '1' bility For its provisions. Instead 4f re- ot quirina a strip to be aiven to the Indians ce lor their permanent abode, the Indians re- of ceded to the United States, by treaty, a tei part. and a most valuatble part, without otir fo ceding an inch to them. The entire hine pe was moved westward, as ftr as Fort sn Smith, otn the Arkansits, and thence by a in 1-.- -.. ttaft River. Nor dttl it ie make the slightest change in tthe title to ot what remained to the lndian4, or pro. Ia videdc a permanent home for theme as he th would have you believe. So mtuch~ fur on this charge and its atuthor-.k The rnext is of a kinidred character. He CO states it still tmore vagntely ; so mueb so, an tat I uam at a loss to know to whicht one nir cf the many treaties madle with the In. pri Jians about the regiotn in gnestion, lie re. i rers. He speaks of a stice forty miles da wide and three hundred long, "ctct ofT 'm rem Arkansas and given to the Itndiatns;" Se ' that it was done by Indian treaty-treaty fim rn-ade by a protege of air. Calhount's;" sit mnd adds that I was Vice President at the iof ime, but gives no boundary, rand avoids, en tmting wvhat treaty it wats, with whlat' to rihe of Inidians made, or the name of the roi )ersont he calls my " protege." It is an in- als lictmnetit without specification (of time, oin cace, or circumstances, to which it is im. Ca ossible to make a specific answer. But, ret rtonately, such atn one is niot necessary nol a repel it effectually, without descending ritt rito derails, which, it is fair tojpresutme, were sou mited because they could tnt be given pra rithout exposing the absurdity of the lyi: harge. Ihis admission, that the treaty inl 'as made while I was Vice President, fur- TIh ishes me with ample means for thar pur- his 08e. Co It is suflicient to repel it, to s'ate, that hot uritng the whole period, that I filled time thia rnice of Vice Presidoot. that of Presidlent He ras filledi, either by Mr. Adams or Getn. a nr aatson, and thatit was my forttune to be ver Sopposition to both, and the object of be teir strong dislike, as must be well known the >all. I not only had no influence with hadi ither, but wvas the object of their perse- Jahc ution. My support of any measure or the; commendation of any intdividuatl, was ans. ificient to defeat the une, and reject the hav her; and yet Col. Benton, who is fa- ma' illiar wvith all this, assumes, in making vita s charge, that I am responsible, for a frier eaty made by either the one or the oither priv, themn, it matters not which. It wats going Ben; r to make me solely resporisibile for the nnnr :ts of administration, of w hieh I was nm, chmar ember ; but it makes me resp~onsible, not [ndi ily for them, hut for the acts of those, siler at were deadily hostile to mie, is a piece;. terri extravagatnce beyond the reach of~ any to ex dividual, but the author of the charge. '87 yen he, in this instance, seems tic hake the misgivitng, that ho has gone ton) for, antd sitmoi order to give some color to so wtld a char rge, adlds, that the treaty "-as negotia- It I by a protede of mine, Hie rmtst have all h en a fortunate mran bearinig that relati.ut tion, me, to have got an appotitment from slav< her of the two admninistratioms. I have thent amitted all the Intdiani treaties, relatinig edmli1 the regiotn it qnestion, man~de during Rep, air administrations, in order to ascertaici, origi to this lucky individual col Ice. but whgie ye been unable to discover bim. There depia not a single treaty negotiated, during corre :period, that was negotiated by any w'illi: lividual, whbo had any claim to be called it is irotege of mine. of It But why charge me with being the au- tunan er of an measure, by which these large I not ets, suflicietit, as Ite says, to make two reast tes, were lost to the slave states, atnd our i en away to thne Indians, whent the au, son. ,ra ofthe masunres he whtich they were -s Pen away. are known to all, and to no per ilha,, Col. Bieion. They were ti !asures of Mr. Adams and Gen. Jackse d their adminisira-iiens. One or ill :er made all ihe reeties by v% hich it I merely possessory titles of the Iidisir their lands, were converted over i tile lertitory, intoI a permanent right ssession, and property, and made it rmanent homte of lite ladians, to use h n expression.-There was no treat de while I filled the War Departmet Mr. lonroe's adininistratint, whic de any such alterations in the title dians, to lands west of the Mississippi, ( y where eke to ty knowledee. TI iking of Indian treaties, containing stil itions for permnanent titles, and the noval west of the Alississippi. Costilt I a large portion of the doings of tho: nminirations, nnd much of that iich they rested their reputation. Mum 3 greater part was the work of Ge ekson's administration, with which Cc wton was intimately associated, at er which lie hind sutficient influence ake It imself responsible for no small sho its doings, especially as to what relate the west. In attempting now to shufi his portion of the responsibility, ar it of the adminisiraiiion, and to place me, who was hostile to it, speaks badl his manliness, or regard for the cha ter of the adininis!ration of Gen. Jac 1, for which he professes so much a :hment and admiration. He wou rdly have ventured in the lifetime of "ili Ilcro,' to make the heavy charge I s. against measures, of whichi he w; 3 author, and on which he so much pr d hiirtself. li his eagerness to assail me. he ha it, riot only his discretian but his mein . In order to make out that the ant ivery party of ihe North. duly npprecia I the great service that I had done the use, tie says "that they gave proof ( ,ir graiitude, that I was thei a cand te for the Vice Preziden::y, and becair e favorite ofthe North, heating even P lams himself on lite free soil ttack," fo tting what lie had said just before, tho Nas Vice President at the time. whe well knew, that I was elected for il sit time Vice President with Mr. Adam d ofcourse, the vote of the North cou t have been given me for the reasons I Aigns. His next charge is that I supported ii olition ofslavery in a Slate. Amon i other traits, Col. Benton is distinguis tor chiargiig on others, what he knos is guilty of hi.nself. Must men fro udence and a sense of propriety. cat iusly abstain fron assailing others I Jat they know they may itt toril thens Ives he justly assailed. Not so with hi e is one of the few who are ever moi ree in their assaults when they kno ev can be assailed for the saime thic bey seem to delight in dragging don herst o iheir own level, and to have cor aled joy in thinking that others portal their own defornity.-It is a trait so d table that those who are distinguisht r it aro~usually likened to a notorio rsonage reproving sin, Col. Benton h; -ikingly displayed this trait of charact the present charge. lie well knoii w utterly false he was to you ilirotiol it on the Texas question. He took, F b heen stated, an active part to defe; s treaty of annexaion. negotiated by rr the par of the United States. 13 ows that it contained utti provisions th~ utntenncedithe abolition of slavery y porliion of Texas. I was stronge ged during the nt'guotion to insert avision to extend the nIissouri comnpri se line acr'ss Texas to its western b~out ry, and was informted thtat it would a' secutrinig a constitutional majority itn i nate, in its favor-I paeremnptorily r teed. lie know~s that he offered a propu ion to abolish it in one half of the who Texas, and that by a line, not draw it atnd west, buOt north andi south, so hem in the south on all sidles ; hy sul Inding her with abolition States. H a knows, that his friend and supportei the occasion, Mr. H-ayward, of Nort rolina, wtent still further, and ofTere olutioins to extend the ordlinance of 17yi onty over Texas, but even all the Tei rios lying wvest of A rkansas, and Mit ri, antd south of 36. 30., with however viso excepting the plartion of Texa tg soth of a line drawn east and wet he 34th degree of parallel of latitude e presumption is strong that in offerin resolntionts, lie acted with his friena lonel Benton, to whbose course he ad edl on the Texian question. But, th t as it may,3. certain it is he sac mrute raised no vie of indignation, agains ieasure which proposed to exclude sla y forever from that very region, whick :hre m with h.avitig ivnaway t Inidiants, and losinig it to the South. As as the policy of Mr. A-lamns and Gen, kson may be in reference to that regiuin. didi not excidie shimvery. The ladi. who occupy it. are slaveholders, antd inc an interest in common with you, 'lie regarded asr faithful allies on that I question. T1he resolutionse of his id Mr. linyward were desigtned to de e you of this advantage;t and yet Col. toil ntow raises htis voice itn Ioud de :iation against me upon the false ge of giving away the territory to the atis while hie apiproved, at least by his cc of e'xclutding yotu entirely from the tory, and one half Texas to hoot, anti tenid the principile of the ordinance of ver the whtle, including Texas and erriiories. So much for his owvn po ri, in reference to die subject of the ge. now remains to show that it is, like is other charges, desti:ute of foutnda lIe rests his chargo that 1 abolished rv irn Texas, on th~e fact that I was Secretary oif Stare, and that I select.. o resadculion, as it p.assedl the llouse of ~esent atives, instenda of the amendment nally proposed by him, as the basis ont hi to annex Texas. Thuts far, hte has rted fromt his usual anti stated facts| ctly. I shunt nio responsibility. I am ig to take all on this occasio~n ; but it lute to the P'resideort andl the membiers is admtiiiraiion toi say-they were itnoiis ini favor of theo selectioni tmade. ontly selcied it, but assignieud my ns far maiking it, itn a desnatchi to ien Mintister to Texas, Mr. Donal Iassigned thoem because I aintici I hat. thr ,....ld. b.. an. ..,. p to. e undo what was done, alter the expiration e of Tyler's adminisiration. This I was resolved it) prevent, by stating reasons for the selection that could not be over e ruled. The at tenpi, as I suipec:ed, was made, and the late President has since e a been arraigned before the public by two f friends and associates of Col. Bentont e (Blatir and Tarpan.) because he could not hie :orced to overrule. what his predecessor had done. The following is an extract from tite despatch: h "It is not deemed necessary to state at -- or large the grounid oin which his decision r rests. (The Presilet.) It will besur. e ficient to stite, briefly, that the provisions of the resolution, as it cume from the ir [louse, are more simple in their character4 1. may be more readily. and with less dir. ie ficulty and expense, carried into effect, no and that tite great object contemplated . by them is tnuch less exposed to the haz ard of ultimate defect. 1. That they are more simple in their char. d acter, a very few remarks will suffice to ) show. According to the resolution as it . came from the House, nothing more is A necessary than that tle Corgress of Texas 0 should be called together, its consent given 11 to the provisions contained in it, and tle itadoption of a constitution by the people . in Convention, to be submitted to the . Congress of tle United States for its ap. . proval, in the same manner as when ore of our own territories is admitted as d d state. On tite contrary, according to thd e provisions of the Senate's amendment, the e Congress of Texas must, in like manner is be convened, it must then go through the . slow and troublesome process of carving a state out of a part of its territory; after. s wards it must appoint agents or commis: . sioners to meet similar agents or commis sioners, to be appointed on our part, to discuss aod agree ou the terms and condi r tions on which the staid shall be admitted f and the cession of ie remaining territory to the United States; and after all this, and C not before, the people of the said state r must call a convention, frame a constitn .. tion, and then present it to the Congress It of the United States for its approval, but n which cannot be acted on, until the terms e agreed upon by the Negotiators, and which constitute the coeditions on which the . d state is tofbe admitted, shall have been e ratified, That they may be more readily, and e with less difficulty and expense carried into eifset, is plain from the fact, that the . details are fewer and less complex. itis s obvious that the numerous and complicated provisIons contained in the amendment of the .enate rnyst involve much time a or difficulty in their execution ;-while eit . the expense, the appropriation of' 000 provided for by it, is a cle e al cost, over and above that a? v the execution of the r. [louse. But the decisive objeeut ment of the Senate i e denger the ultimates9 It proposes to fix d !e Governmeul Texas, the term ,I the state shallb ,r and the cessi'n -s to the Uit name i as tion may it called commi e o'her title--th~ e them in behalt~ t ments, would 1c. n called or designate y [coticLUDED of' S oORCEAs A Por r.-O6f a- perhaps of death, in a thatch d l)evonshtire. lies the greatest'p e new tongues or lrelantd. After ii -. nearly seventy years--for fifty yea a- which he has been famous-the son of a e Dublin grocer, the friend of Emmett, n Grattan. Byron and Fox, lies, crushed in s mind and heart, bis memory wvith all its tt ntold tales taken from him, the qoiver of e his fancy emptied or the last arrow with ,many years and sorrows like oak and a lead wrapping about his body in anticipa. I tion of the grave. Poor "Tom Moore, .how grey and cold sets in the night of his - long and brilliant day! -The poet.'s body mutst die. Let us leave that to th't undertaker and sexton it belongs lawfully to them. But the Spoet's works and words, htis genius, or that .part of it developed in type, his philosophy as revealed in his writings, his moral tn I fluence on his nation and his age-these belong to us who are of that posterity to . which all the geoius of the past has ap pealed, and btefore whom such men as Mloore have laid their wvords as it wcre in evidence. Of thte moral inflnence of Moore on his age hut lit tle can be said. In temperament and tastes, he was neither E.uropean nor Christian. H-e was "a child of the sun" atn A siatic. All his itmmagery and all his predilectitons were orient al. Born in the very wvest of Europe, on the brink of the. Atlantic, in an atmosphterejof salted mist, he was as totally unlike an Islander of that latitude, as man: could be. Judging by his writings, he should have been a native of Rhodles, half-Greek half-Asiatic an itntellectual compound of Epicurus and 9' alhomer. He sings forever of the sun, of nightingales, of living in the open air,. of orange groves andi fire-flies, palankeens and eplem trees. A true child of the is,~ lands would have substituted for these the . cloudy storminess of his own climate. Tha mighty Hlomeric sea, the oak and piaes the struggling ship, and the thunder oS heaven. But his first exercise of self-wilI was to forsake his country, and to accli. mate his imaainations itt the easznan ef fort in which he succeeded, as no Westera man ever did before or will daL again. --The Nation. There is some hope that the people or Miassachusetts nill yet come to their rightt minds OR the subjeet of abolition. We see by the papers that Mr. Frederick Doutglas~s, (a gentletman of color.) was re, galed with a shower of over-ripe eggs in WVeymouih, while htolding forth on the subject of slavery. N. P. Willis, speaking of those who pride thtemselves on their own ancestry. says-*-They are like the reflections of stars in the water-thtey never wvould have been there but fur their bright originals in