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AV_ *V, 141 't-L Q o~0' 1.1., o ~i wish to btdious~ eas taggiid s oicidefig qof ethr w i th Madnt~t~er conside'ra: tion, shall take eieto suggest it I inaybe sinusing"dleast, jif not'in ttivC, M.' Bentoii not "oly pro. suime4 in.hislate Jefferson city speedhi' to d6unoe thesigners -f the "Southern 4Add-es a t disunionists; he not ont read g& iofWashingtoda. TFi-ewe Add is against ri Calhoun, in order toll g odhini nihim, but actually re 6. 4e d * iiit- which' bite teo ed agii hie still stronger ery ideas of Sa itd ahnost his Wt this curious af. faiins, thus:' -mr. Extract from Mr. . peech'on Bentons. Jjferson - 'o qoluttions cl'y speech, deliered - in r to fr.Ben- Ahy 20, 1849. ton in 1880. - Nurely the Farther of In out nhcha eh ubli, his Coantry had in his cl expedrim6iia form mind's eye thia adrees of .governmet, writh of Mr. Calhoun when, coipriratively few ofl. in) his farewell to lia ceo the .vast throu of chikiron, ho warned the people oftho Uumted them aigainst the mi Sit. mait, fnecessi. representations of do. ty;be out of omed. The sighing mem, who, for v4g thirongi I agitated their own ends, would byoflicei lintots, demn. raise up sectional diffier - oiiii,'ts irants, and onces for the purpose of C"ttildn : the day, alienating oie part, of miy-bot-bised, deceiv- the UnIon from another. edoaid le htiray. So (lw prophetio vision tbdLGeorge Wash, foresaw the present ingii the Fahei of state of things- when lie' hin,. t', iewhen he wrost6ithia paragraph: penn t. sulenon war, 7- n-W - contemplating It, ith afatifer's tho causes whIch may care andipatosta fear, disturb our Union, it oc in thiI thjowvig extract cars as a matter of so fr Ia Farewell Ad. rious concorn, that any dres Withiich a pro, ground should have phetit truili: tlyd one beon lurnishd for char might thijak biperson acterizing partis by ge tlt dk e' i. icallect 0graphicd discrimniua tho-Mliofri-aas not tion---NorthorH and admitliwinfi L ni~yjmioi southern-atlantic and the Iate 4uential western; whence design contest hay.-td not ing men may endeavor ha'ppsnid, d ei. des to excito a "belief thast bWte hiad ' not,-ocelirred, thea is a real difference when th avenibruhl lie- of local interests aud rjegeied tho-lines, and viewo. One of these coieq6eetly, lie could expedients of party to tublt ude Jaittended suchjacquire influence with. .0 - t - - - -ruaIlity.---inh particulur districts, ara.Iil words:- is to misrepresent tho C nieiiplating opinions and aims of cteusseihich may other districts. You disturb oorUnisn, it cannot shioli yuursel Vacuts. as matter o( seri ves too much against ous concern, that any the jealonsies and tie-rtn giound qhould hiav burnings which spring . i furnished for chat- fro-m these misrepre-ein -:eriingprties by go. tations; they tend to ographical *discrimina.. render alien to each tions--norther< mand other those who ongi southern,.stami;ho -ud to be bound together by western; ,whmnce de- fraternal affectiou." signitg ,aen may en deavor, -excite a be lie that there is a real dkrenco uf local inter ears' nd vieis. "Om.e of the expedi. emats of party to acquire inilasonce in 'pmrticular cliatritos is td misrepre teat the -opiuions amid aiins of other districts. You . cannot shield yourselves 'too much agnipst the jealousies amid heartburting which spriog from these mis reprcautatiomns;. they teudj rqndmor alien to eah o'her those who onght tog6 bound to Ree y, faternal - af-. 11~~Wilcertainly, I think, bo consider ed surbrising, on both sides of the Fa the if Waters, that Mr. Benton, whoso slirerkes has been commended at ~. leasaoftitas his oratory, should have been -weak ehoughi to perpetrate this silly plagiatrism upon his deceased col league in $he very State-house where they had both been elected t~o the Uni ted;States Senate, and amidst the very pedriae to whom Mr. Benton's public career imst needs be so familiar. Could he reasonably, have hoped, that the * llan~gfte, generous-hearted Bar-. t~on igjd< longer in the remembrance .of those to to whom he was once so ,dear? Could hie imagine that he would :be permitted to break thus into the sa cred, burial place of the glorious dead, and be allowed~ to.. steal from 'the clay .cold corpse of ,Ihiin whom he bated li~ ;ing, thosei glittliiing ' rhetorical mvoet ments which 'but 'lately sparkled before the eyot of idmiring thousands; with. out at least incurring serious risk of haying all' this rich plumage torn pub liclyf frpm its jack-daw wearer, even in the yetgyhnoment of his most exultant self co6)tacency? Well, for fear that' the' good speople of Missouri have nlear' ly forgotton. their onces loved Senators, the' brilliant "little red/. and from 'the. mn~6.$J ihfeart hso, that' tho id p N' Uf~frth ofcontidenceoend r~e t asehol th sgnersif~ o'ur Sou Addrjesoic and Al" t e~, to stt uud1"9sr ed diacodit among strang ~il dilfor rer isferi to Mfr. B4 us~ m ond or of a news a "Thet. Lou Enquir edited by the ub prints a.Ghent tobargain the some fishing privilege at th61 and, after impressing and .ivo0ti calunig.upon the public mind; eveidt publish his triumphAn ini Noi sir. Truth asls.n even dinovered :he a WCthoro Room,lotterl1.His'ple ,of becaine ande"ato as muclh o ad inquiry'as teliri-place of o Some 'located him at Ridhirona Virginia-some elsewhere. Public cu riosity was on the alert. Our fraxik buntsmen of the West, lovers of Wash ington and of holy truth, that daughter of Heaven, sent on earth to cement and hold together civil society among ien say (to use 'thei- parlance, and drmr. my figures from my own count and the scones of my own country that they tracked this prowler for hutan reputation and civil discord to a -deep and dark recess, amidst the vast prairies of the magnificent valley of the Missii sippi, that they fire the praities, and. ran their line of fire into his rerat un til it scorched his very nose, and envel-. oped him in smoke; and still he lay sul len, and silent kand concealed. And they had given up the hunt, until he. walked forth again upon the prowl for. human reputation and civildiscord, in the darkness of night, under the mask of 'Am:ericanus,' and committed an outrage more flagitious than the. first. He will be hunted again. It is pro bo wo publico, that such calumniators and Catilines should be known; ay, and im paled on highligh as a Roman cross or American pillory could place them, as a warning to our young men to be. ware of the fate of a convicted calumni ator-beware of the fate of an Ameri can Catiline!" I wish heartily that I could now let Mr. Benton off; but as he sometimes says. "In order to vindicate the truth of history," I must send one or two more shafts at him. Would any man believe, who is only familiar with Mr. Benton's more recent history, that he was once a raving Nullifier and Seces sionist, and an advocate for armed resis tance to laws regularly enacted by Con gress, in pursuance ot the established parliamentaryformida, and backed and sustained by the decisions of the Su preme Court of the Union? Strange as these accusations may appear to some I will sustain both and immediately, by irrefragable proof. And now for his being at one time a nullifier and secessionist. It will be re collected by you that General Iayne, of South Carolina, in the celebrated controversy between himself and Mr. Webster, asserted, boldly and fully, all the extreme doctrines of the nullifying school then prevailingr in his State In this grand strife of arms, Mr. Benton was actually so closely associated with the South Carolina champion, that Mr. WVebster thought proper to' take very special notice of their apparent combi nation against him, comnplaining partic ularly of their "mutual quotation and commendation," of their "casting the characters in the drama, assigning to each his part; to one the attack, to an other the cry of onset," and said fa ther: "I offer myself, sir, as a match to no man; I threw the challenge of debate at no man's feet. But then, sir, since the honorable gentleman has put the question in a manner that calls for an answer, I will give him an answer; and tell him, that, holding myself to be the humblest of the members her?, I yet know nothing in the arm of his friend from Missouri, either alone or when aided by the arm of his friend from South Carolina, that need deter oven meo from espouising whatever opinions I. may choose to espouse, from debating whenever I may choose to debate; or from gyr~king whatever I may see fit to say tpon the floor of the Senato." Mr. Hayne had cited the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions oif'98 pa his load -ng authorities: he hifd cited Madison's Veport, Jefferson's protesth written for the Virginia Legislature in 125, and ~i ~trto Mr4 .iles of the saue year, k~lagua ideotigfar had yhing stated ~ c~gi'ns t~e~ ongy cit tr o 5 edie o theiadth t sub doeit. -ut 'Mn ? tetablish i's a don- it.- a sow he 8u~1 days -exceed teIi an eran hi 8SI 6~ his end an upon with Pride . Even. Mr. CUallWn cognised thlift great expoiunder i 4 - secession doetrin e, presence ought, in goudt excused him from the for his share of eommendati64r6 then champion of Southern 1'A' (Mr. d enton.) Thus he spoke f and of other illustious Carolina: "The e is one South, the name and praise the events of this from the stones -of the LW63. could rise up this p It is the name of that Stateupon the vials, filled with the Acqu wrath of years, have nb6e,1 .iid and unexpectedly emptie betoig' , a motion tofpostpoue nioz1c that State whose microsco sp in the obcure parish ofetoe be hung up in equipise with ized~reason and deep damnio n fe Htheoeent Covetios 'dhat Se, ~ coulndisle to in triff wichstaig ot he vitals, is wt temaetero of exctiong the Wstoi aaisth hl So;that State whose dirooth tiff laws obsure ade of jItxtf setting up in esupoise -wtit the II SHrfor Coureto; that Statebcb p ot herldiongrss into be made the teas rfeuctingo the pes agans the wpotl tafla s to b mde a ofteji~ metinmu, whichoti in 18,rd~ gure v otemaurt that evec that od Congress cmies5tdo Fallsio of the iceo thatt asth pero tohl of the laew prsn aftes wa Cos and aed byiots fghevt the atesure that everh aptoled sly the oteationofte Nth;o th t companiet tlint. hals sno teOio; chambe Stte eao [L.ownde Chse libra andlle lightndspho the sattlet of the -e6 public lands has been seized upon and made the pretext fer that premitated assaults upon the whole South shieli we havo soen met with a pripteudo energ ygalts~tn , and effect tt' foc~eaasai ants to cry $ Ared times ethat he w aW1 thouh weod alse4 anund~ s hc 04 am --t.. - ttend4 fow tr. Y K miieoy: T%7: IIr a taI suau \ N.eb ;y'. AT ---news., 0nainser 5cSa4e Onar a s mnai #ar =~ti mamarms a* n=-am.=m.ry m = = Yaas twt 9%" - M~~% g1 - .HH~ m -. .,.. .. . are e nt Mange aie S of- uean , towering siong the clouds, and 6iorstwibsher I Softh bolts of this i6idg ]u tet Tonans ? 14t% an:iiun bfiand-:he who ie*Wk tDot or say tl,.Poroy is o ioat and deealttdt It wke a Fastaffthrust. There is a species of gaithifry that al' wayrses as its antegomst fals-ren 1 vies s the blodgat from hiffdli I a;an do evrsadleswys sitiks as na I rises.,- This species is-always bluster- I igillngandhectoring, in nn , mi6n,-*detone. 2It is -the' true Falstift I order. It was an ungrateful, thrust in i 4th thigh a lareare, an.lkhe ,Wbo gave 4 Wis io native of our valley. ,Ro- came I fnus uninvited; compliined of h'aving i A driven by tyrany :and persecu- i e ; desired our opitality and aspi ces, and a little room to lie 'doWi and A repose. The Percy found him. weak 1 and disteme/peliticaly;and nour ished and e'dismed him-put on iis I own collar and inscription at large, with I a special Be- pointing to the words j "cousin to Percys wife." These gave < him currency and consideration, and I introduced him-toghe grand hunt.- I Without the, helpof this collar and in- ] scription, it would have been as impossi ble to have elevated ' his present rank, as it would-be to dip-from the I depth ofthe:ditch, by -i woolen thread, sooe ponderous and inert mass. 011ers thrust afinger under that oollar ind pulled, who have since had -ease t regret it, and washed theiriariis of the whole affair. In what you call'the , falen fortunes of the assailed, and' "46 1 4i4a0knowledged absence, it was in.1 grateful thrust. And why was 16it rade'now atthe'first session of the new ud promising administration, and be. oresuch an audience, attracted by this i san masam a peenae accom- I .d ed too, by a full renunciation .Of LI e American system- -likethe shrewd 1 animal in the fable lions h') into th ionka ig off Achill against the pave c has ben so much glittering in arms, the plainb-for ne& fourteen yea. tis p q ungrateful stab: for, but ~i ikid oftlie assailed, there Ne o t to have O li.! There the'i)W a tW et l~ihamstr* aing nam peon ba f pa ug horse, an on d'0 ing the stakes. re th paid or are they still in' ikadj~udged fair riding, or ' jo g The assailed stands to the the relation of Acteon to dtat unfeelingly pulled down evoured their master, who had kindly fed them with isa band. The meritg~an the West stai 4the as 's inti the koltiowf th usband ~it~te ~der fouhid chiilled at his e ~;'hohven brought in and sffi ~jywniie, udexily thry f 9l ~~ the ta' oson Wefound 'te as brst statrs and our me-.a 4.earing spcis.! W11 ii~i~ae, tad i~ ga;-when lo t; sate and enngrillitlid ed60:iaWid-ahle t MGedo~ieiesons1 bildq 4 ,'lothric~ thh iin the last'e 'ti is un ii opposed Te*Ofn annex 9 rory near derlbainit' thiefly by. his irmstuiiI~ *irt ofourieluabIeO, hd ~hale' &ortbwe Wta~as mgirDmmocrats elgdi' qu~aibet o~a d" - :wa,.o te Sente tof ,-omproruse. Pf qAesi n i6 -Teritoris, sndto ji IS. oIbedeepperil"o theU *t.~ ~ Beuse le: msi~uil - laiti4ii h ion,'to set npths Pritool ast the Mexican f - Ueieatour title to. IFnn Wfexico. -10th. 4eas lie 0' instigate, anm eahnuto lepiresentistives, dwi~ug~ pee him and hiwhle c-iff t rng Mos0 piofl~s so~n 4V L Ii6_ll upon it, thol*nt q'.place in' the Snte 6-,',i n U. -Wi ies li onyb""'Y apertape righ beA V.." o Mr.~l4e6. itaned'- thnt ievertnjuse A r~~ve to at iove :f''r n j tit unihi