The Sumter banner. (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, July 18, 1849, Image 1
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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
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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