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Al I A 1~~J 4f 'l 3? #t~ 3kr * ~ 4~# Vi I~7-A * lolitimal. Gen. Foote's Le (Concluded I ad not wlish 'to be tcdious; 10&as there is a cry ctrious coincide' con ncted with the point under considera tion, I shall take leave to suggest it. I may be. amusing at least, if not in -*tructive. Mr. Benton not only pro. sumed, in his late Jefferson city spech) to denounce the signers of the 'Southern Address as disunionists; lie not only road a part of Washington's Farewell Address against Mr. Calhoun, in order to bring odium upon him, but actually read the solf-same extract which nine teen years ago had been read against himself. .Lhe _as is a still stronger one; he actually tole the very ideas of is former Impeacheri and almost his words.1 wTill exhibit this curious af fairin parllel columns, thus: Extract - fron Mr. Extract from Mr. Barton's speech on Blenton's Jeerson Foote's resolutions it spch, delicered in reply to Mr. Ben. Alaq 26, 1849. ton, in 1830. Nurely the F-arther of In our cheap republi, his Country had in his can experimental form mind's eye this adirees of goverr.nent, with of Mr. Calhoun when, comparatively few offi. in Ils farewell to lia ces, the vnst throng of children, ho warned the people of the United them against the mis Sthtes must, ornecessi- representutions of do. ty, be out of oflice. The signing men, who, for vast throng, if agitated their own ends, would by office hutiters, demn. raise up sectionul differ pogues,, isifrntnts, tnd onces for the purise of Cutilines of the day, alienating one part of may be abused, deceiv- the Union From another. ed, and led astray. Sol lia propietie vision thought George Wash- forcsaw the present ingtou, the Fa'her of state of things when ie his Country, when it. wrote this paragraph: penned thesolemn war- "In contemplating nuig, with a - father's the causes which may care and patriot's fear, diatuib our Union, it oc. in tite following extract curs as a matter tf so front his' Farewell Ad rious concern, that, any dress: with such a pro- ground should have phetio truth that one been turnished for char might think Itim person acterizing parties by ge al, did he not recollect tographic.tl dincrimina, that Missouri was not tions--Northera ant admitted Into th.- Union southern-atiantic and the late presilentii western; whence designi contest had had net ing ien muy endeavor happened, aud this ie- to excite a belief thtut bate had not occurred, thete is a real differetce when the venerable he, of ltcal interests and rd penned tht lines, snd views. One of these cousequently, ie could expedientts of party to not h-ave ltttended such acquire influeance with djrect personality.- itt particnlrar districts, Tlise are his worda: is to misrepreseant the "lu - contemplatin iopintionas ani ainms of 4 the causes which muy other districts. You disturb our Uniun, it cannut shield yoursel ccurj as matter of seri ves tto much against ous concern, that any the jealousies and he-arta ground should htuvn burntings which spring . 'furnished for c ha'- fron these niisrepre-e. .Wt.rizitg parties by ge- Iatitoni; they tend ti agtaphicul discrimina-render alien to each tonts-northe rn andiothor those who onght routhern, atlantic and to be bound togetier hy western; whence de-frrternal affection." signing men may enl deavor to excite a be lief that there is a real difference of locul inter eats and views. ".O.e of the expedi ,ntis of party to acquire inflijectet it partinlar listricts is to mnisrelre seat tite opinion.-' and nimns of other districts.! You cannot shield yourselves too much against the joulousies and heartburning which spring from these mis.. representations; they tend to render ulion to each o'her those who ought to be bound to gether by fraternal af fcction." I will certainly, I think, be consider ed surprising, on both sides of the Fa ther of Waters, that Mr. Benton, whose shrewdness has been commended at~ ~. leasit as often as his oratory, should have been~f weak enough to perpetr-ate this silly plagiarism upon his deceased col league in the very State-house whet-e they had both been elected to the Unii ted States Senate, and amidst the very " people to whom Mrli. Benton's public career must needs be so familiar. Could ho reasonably have hoped, that the gilant, gifted, generous-hearted Biar Aon liyed no longer in the remembrance .of those to to whom lie was once so ,dcar? Could he imagine that lie 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 him whom lie hated liv ;ing, those glittering rhetorical vest ments which but lately sparkled before 'the eyes of admiring thousands; with out at least incurring serious risk of having all this rich plumage torn pub. licly from its jack-daw wearer, oven in the very, moment of his most exultant self complacency? Well, for fear that L1b0 good people of Missouri have near ly forgotten their once loved Senator, the brilliant "little red," and from the more selfisnh fear', also, that the, asper -sions ci Mr. Bentton may cause mecn really worthy of conlidence and respooL as I hold the signers of our Southiegd Addres3s, one and- all, to be, to snffg sut.s -erved discredit among strangadt0. I will lay before you V4 place, one other glowip M 6 the 'senatorial syeech whip" 'as ready so -freely, quoted froie N r. Barton thus graphicall 4 sillistrious deliverer of 110 l is refering to Mr. Benton a r mer conductor of a newspaper: "The St. Louis Enqui-er--_n0 edited by the public printer-keous the ex-President Adams of attemp-tin at Ghent to bargain the Mississip . i some fishing privilege at the Nor hea"f' and after impressing and rivetting calumny upon the public mind, refUse, even to publish his triumphant refut - tion! No, sir. Truth has not yet even discovered the author of the East Room letter!. His place of residence became an object of as much curioity and inquiry as the birth-place of Hon. or. Some located him at Richmond Virginia-some elsewhere. Public cu riosity was on the alert. Our frank huntsmen 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 men, say (to use their parlance, and draw my figures from my own country, and the scenes of my own country) that they tracked this prowler for human reputation and civil discord to a deep and dark recess, amidst the vast prairies of the magnificent valley of the Missis sippi, that they fire the prairies, and ran their line of fire into his retreat un til it scorched his very nose, and envel oped him in smoke; and still he lay sul len, and silent, and concealed. And they had given tip the hunt, until he walked forth again upon the prowl for Inian reputation and civil discord, in the darkness of night, under the mask of 'Americanus,' and committed an outrage more flagitious than the first. Ie will be hunted again. It is pro bo no publico, that such calumniators and Catilines should be known; ay, and im paled on high-shigh as a Roman cross or American pillory could place them, as a warnimng 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 lie sometimes says, "In order to vindicate the truth of history," I must send one or two more shafts at him. Would any man bclieve, who is only familiar with Mr. Benton's more recent history, that lie was once a raving Nullifier and Seces sionist, and an advocate for armed resis tance to laws regularly enacted by Con gress, in pursuance of the established parlianientarytrm ula, and backed and sustained by the decisions of the Su. prene Court of the Union? Strange as these accusations may appear to sonic 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 If.yne, of South Carolina, in the celebrated controversy between himself and Mr. Webster, asserted, boldly and fully, all .the extreme doctrines of the nullifving school then prevailing in his State ~ In this grand strife of arms, Mr. Benton was actually so closely associated with the South Carolina champion, that Mr. Webster thought proper to take very special notice of their apparent combi nation against him, complaining partic ularly of their "mutual quotation and conmmendlation," of their "casting the characters in the drama, assigning to each his part; to one the attack, to dn other the cry of onset," and said fa thcr: "I offer myself, sir, as a match to no man; I throw the challenge of debate at no man's feet. But then, sir, since the honorable gentleman has put thme question in a maniner that calls for an answer, I will give him an answer; and tell him, that, holding myself to be the humblest of the members here, 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 even me from espousing whatever opinions I may choose to espouse, from debating whenever I may choose to debate; or from speaking whatever I may see fit to say upon thio floor of the Senate." Mr. Hayne had cited the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of '98 as his lead ing authorities: Ito had cited Madison's report, Jefferson's protest, written for the Virginia Legislature in 1825, and this letter to Mr. (Giles of the same ye" inwhich language was used going ... vety far indeed beyorid anything statedl n oQUedouthern Address. You will I itj f-i1 ththblde indi ided he einier t is our z66et You mightias witil the' themAb%' arms? &c -N' li resource. long forel-earo-4 &c. and jrt'io1 only i a dissolu orsubii l limited P ht evils, when can be no h, the aathoritie by Mr. HA' did Mr. Bett its author? T "Irtesuinm nA at'the point A when I gav; laudable im aneo from South rO a right, (Mr. Hiayne, self, his State, and t1.8 itu appeared to me toUbe aggression. Well h done it. Much as. to establish his reputirow asi qtalo'4 a statesman, a patri"t-1el son of the South, the sfobts of 4 days exceed them al1 They anera in his Senatorial caer l his friends and hiscounrywilthj~kbaek upon with pride and exitatio. Even Mr. Calhoun h cognised throughout theU s great expounder of the nullltm'inganc secession doctrine, thoughdiLs per-na presence ought, in good tae t o ehb excused him from the infliction CanIe ni for his share of commendation froknifhI then champion of Southern inteibsI (Mr. Denton.) Thus he spoke-of bini and of other illustiious sons of Sdii1t Carolina: "There is one State in-tlfi South, the name and praise of wei61 the events of this debate would-drip from the stones of the West, if :they could rise up in this place and spak It is the name of that State upon whici the vials, filled with the accumnt4c wrath of years, have beei sud'.. and unexpectedly emptied before I a motion to postpone a land that State whose microscopic o in the obscure parish of Colletonid. be hung up in equipoise with the o*gan ized treason and deep damnation of the H~artford Convention; that State, whose present dislike to a tariff which is tearing out her vitals, is to be made the meanm of exciting the Wecst against the whole South; that State, whose dislike to the tariff laws is to be made a pretext foi setting up a despotic authority in the Supreme Court; that State which, ii the old Congress in 1785, voted for the reduction of the price of the public lands to about one-half of the preseni minimum, which, in 1786, redeemed after it was lost, and carried, by its siti gle vote, the measure that ever was adopted for the protection of Kentucy that of the two companies sent into e Falls of the Ohio; that State which, j the period of the late war, sent us Lowndes, a Cheves, and a Calhoun tc fight the battles of the West in the Capitol, and slay the Goliahs of the North; that.,State which at this day has sent to tl'iis chamber the Senatoa [Mr. Hayne] whose liberal and en lightened speech on the subject of the public lands has been seized upon and made the pretext for that premitated assaults upon the whole Seuth whidl we have seen met with a promptitude energy, gallantry, and effect, that'have forced the assailants to cry out an heii drod times that he was still ilie though we could all see tlsf he9 most cruelly pounded." 'No. one, Ltid, who carg amines thoeat8 o 'i speechl onFeiesp t .in'. -was to , p Pa~~the She kiucceed in S,,upon the ment: now al He uttered 4n ~ n~h;S speech of 1VWebster. It is ~r~expecting 40 jIrP,"p ecy in his S -,p the., prophecy: gttmg up Sasory,-Sunday - ere are.no mate Ngion of fanat u *Massachu. S visionin the speaking. erg,. comi T-;ral of e no sits on 4~ming for ZVI,6id "' irle ; eshi eneral. n but no ha q, g-p, w ve a ision 4 tI inscriptions 0 head of the i*isttts (Mr. Web 4 eaking. The colonization Indians, , internal im __ VANA ONS, anti-ma "4 the banner, rSeLlaneone 49,9 0, Q M.814R90 pr~gpy-o ~ey~-fe alists tioias who ia i s il 4te ubli I~ah 64res' on the words ueignder TR Vof ei t p,-vent akm ts wof Scati shllseatgainlU wd that fore e Gek bout he r as I d4r 4to go, tt yto the 4hio, in Sonltra. amalev blg ddithe Aftrs of hefouthiI 'have even wars in ;to th'erin~ itwh iwt obtaininbgirideinit f'j. o and 0curit Weow an testinesti a is Pr.einoyin 1852 eIeotsd .tohthe Vbi te fr6i'1issduai? b at a ve answer may ven these i oaro ries. I will eflyive Iy r'asont. af believing. idfim; it is plainiihat hcannot' be elec to th s bolition 'and freo-soil or ne. ouand I, and, everyan~i entR ~otin ima know that it " 'brrmta evo tobtain the s'afUa8u to iik of-the nk an9 q1~~o Texas Vann ~,~Oegon inh o4 mkptt Mr. of dO 5;c en ones; le ~ilnot~iAb ~~~ The friend 0br so powezu io~&r ~ ct~~ r esobxtions~ta n & ~ tohea~ul~cf heaven thunder and lig hning. M asasociajes are tall enough to be withs itp maglficent range. Wui it aime; at the bak of Kentucky, towerinj among the clouds, and more within thi range of the bolts of this modern JupI ter. Tonans? It was an ungratefl bolt, and he who threw it is not of tl West! He is no native Ofour magnif cent valley of the Mississippi. Yo! say the Percy is down, prostrato an: decapitated ! It was a Falstaff thrust There is a species of gallantry that al ways rises as its antagonist falls-re vives as the blood. spouts from his jugt Jar; and vice versa, always sinks as h rises. This species is always blustex ing, bullying, and hectoring, in manner nien, and tone. It is the true Falstal order. It was an ungrateful thrust ii the thigh a la.reare, and he who gav it is no native of our valley. Ho cam to us uninvited; complained of havin been driven by tyranny and persecu tion ; desired our hospitality and ausp ces, and a little room to lie down an repose. The Percy found him. weal and distempered, politically; and nouz ished and medicined him-put on hi own collar and inscription at large, wit] a special gii pointing to the word "cousin to Percy's wife." These gav him currency and consideration, an: introduced him to the grand hunt. Without the help of this collar and it scription, it would have been as impossi ble to have elevated him to his presen rank, as it would be to d from th depth of the ditch, by a frail woole thread, some ponderous and inert mass Others thruet a finger under that eolla and pulled, who have since had caus to regret it, and washed their hands o the whole affair. In what you call th fallen fortunes of the assailed, and ii his acknowledged absence, it was ai ugrateful thrust. And why was i made now, at the first session of the nev and promising administration, and be ore such an audience, attracted by thi ,irtisan massacre and pillage ? accom panied, too, by a full renunciation o the American system-like the shrew: animal in the fable, casting the lion' hide into the bushes,-o* Thersites. pul ing off Achilles'armojr,,and dashing I against the pavement-in which her has been so much roaring, and soismuc glittering in arms, pn the ibtor plains, for near fourteen years." "It was an ungrateful stab: for, bn fo the kinditess of tlie assailed, ther would- have .been no opportunity to hav introduced. the gkrduation bill ! Ther would have been no opportunity-afte idin the noble spirited KentuckZ til,surrounded and hamstrinj bjthojAatilines of the day, he sttinbiet to lepin ith atimd on CUs eojii!ijf- upon the back of th paralnel ,"wiining horse, and goin on and claiming the stakes. Are thes paid, or are they still in ' rospeq Was it.adjudged fair riding, or gros jockeying ? The assailed stands to th, assailant in the relation of Acteon t, 'his dogs, that unfeelingly pulled dowi and devoured their master, who hai kindly fed them with his bands. Th mninorityv in the WVest stand ato the ae ailaat in the relation of the husbanc man to the adder found chilled at hi doer, which, yhen brought in and sufi ciently warmed, suddenly threw itsel alto a coil, anid stung the .favorite so: ~fhis benefactor. We found 'he ai sailant Ooiurpharacters and our me tives~ scrubby political scion; an: thougiht it a fruit-bearing species. W< nourished it, ra1d it grow ;-when lo ! I proved a political bohon. upas, an: blighted and desolated alifor mile pround its stem." -The friernds of Generals Taylor an: Scott can never pardon Cold'~Benton' ungenerous and presumptuous. attenr to supersede anid disgrace both thea dstinguished officers, when he clain~e aa junior .Muje General, the ~utk 11 tyof ommader-in-chief of the avfrnc in Mexico. Other reasons for iiI oppositione could be~easily given; bn( hasten to'state the opinion, founded.ij oa somn'inwastigation, that the Den; 3ratie prty; as such, can ne'ver ta rpThoinaa Hart Benton, of Missour frthe Pd dno.And, 1st. The an i q do so because/it ~ Q~rabl fp , that ior somne year $~h~a~ otsordially. coioporate wt -orj6ithpiar the Sonate orels4 b~eause ho is noua wi~o upon te tariftf avi~a r to build up andest i faith, in oppodition I platform and Case's ; under which the whol, t' 1. lied in the last Presiden .64 . 4th. liecatise he is unsoudd bt'itia h pioveinents, havingi at is se*, aon of Congress, proposed schi a tem as, if adopted, would nevitahl i lead to consolidation. -5thb I opposed Tekan annexati very near defeatingit. chiefly by his instrumentitality loot part of our valuable Oregon d oessuions to which our title, in the Judgment - of a the whole Northwest, and Of many s.ter-. -lg Democrats elsewhere, was "clear and of unquestionable." 7tl. Because F he did all e could, in the teret set a sion of the Scnate, to defeat the I*, a can treaty. Because he voted wW 3 few Whigs, Free Soil, id AbolitioRn 7 Senators, last winter, to defeat the compromise of'tlie qiestion of slavery in the Territories, and to l eep the ques. I tion open for his own advantage and to the deep peril of the Unine 9th. Because he insidiously labored,~in the s last moments of Mr. Polk's adiinis tra i tion, to set up the Protocol, socslld4 3 against the Mexican treaty, and thu 3 defeat our title to California and -HIe* I Mexico. 10th. Becausdhe attempted - to instigate an impeachment of Mr. Polk, by the action offie House. of Representatives, designing t is t' din. * t grace him and his whole cabinet, said to bring most profound dislonor upon tbe i whole Deniocrati party. 'iiimay need.alittle deve16pment. I will not r dwell upon it, though at'present, as in % my place in the Senate last winter, I f charged his guilt upon him to his face, and offered to supp ,prooff I on the siubect, . it' be havin aU. witness present a' t tors angum iand Claya i r plied only by "expressive si is perhaps right here simply a addition, that if Mr. Benton, that he handed the copy ofr f to Mr. Clayton, Which was I handed to certain gentlemen a House of Representatives, and upo th -basis of whieK these unia d j* t procedings were Icommenc 1 0 House against the lamened k i signed to resultin his inip achvk t, i pledge myself, as a man Ao71 prove the facts to be precisely as INAj stated them to be. His conduo.aQ4 this proceeding is most L when Tou recoflect that Mr. IM never injured him-- done iumi i t - 3 kindness at any- ti-e'- but had put ti - popularity of his administration ngrm ont li tul resn1 dio ia sio o itnht body thatt mineration of General I thoriough scrutiny of alitlt a true inogen feeling,(I iautf1j 3 to do them justice,) refusied to isuu Mr. B3enton in his protocol i4 I and nobly resolved to maintau B dicato the course and eonce to this e tt prosecetedb~~ B Polk; hr. JI f v tgi nga t t thorisin; 4 aik.nitoinhspt64 respee'no'Ipallor f A solution,'i-awn pu4 assesty' of the Got atrard weii secet '~si s ifhideed, a at all did oc~,it sB ~ notmypri~lgeto speak. Ir oise, th5~uh~tgh aperft a e excaerov 14izay tei~i~e a o..ers of -th a wenoeritich caddte he si4so at to beat; and prbab o fros