Litchfield enquirer., 1830-03-04
Ertract from Mfr. Barton's Speech.

oAu"C'S So"0 OI ouT TeaOeTS may need tC be informed, that Mir. Benton is related b, marriage, to the family of MT. Clay, anc was raised into notice by the influence O that single circumstance. The "nymph which MT. Benton is represented as car. rying under his arm, may be considered as the personification of the Southern States.
 |" The unlincaI and bastard sons of rhc West !"
 In my humiliation, I am willing to in- agine myself an humble shrub, near ll!c earth, not, reached by this mid -heayen thunder and lightning. My associates are tall enough to be within its magnifcent range.
 Was it aimed at the Oak of Kentucky, towering among the clouds, and more within the range of the bolts of this mod = ern Jupiter Tonans! It was an ungrate- ful bolt, and he who threw it, is not of the West! He is no native of our magnif- cent valley of the Mississippi.
 You say the Percy is down, rrostrate and dccapitatcd It was falstaf thrust 1!
 And he who gave it is no native of our valley.
 He came to us uninvite3--complainel cfhaving been driven by tyranny and per secuton-desired our hospitality and aus pices,and a little room to lie down and re- pose. The Percy found him weak and distcmpered, politically; and nourished and medicined him. Put on him his own collar and inscription at large, with spe- cial GF pointing 10 the words "cousin to the Percy's wife"
 These gave him currency and consider alion and introduced him to the grand hunt.
 Without the help of his collar and inc scription, it would have been as mposs;- hle to have elevated him to his present rank, as it would be to drag up from the depth oftho ditch, by frail wooIlen thread, some ponderous and inert mass. Others thrust a finger under that collar and pull ed, who have since had cause to regret it, and washed their hands of the whole aC- fair.
 Has it been observed that all the prom inent dogs, most distinguished in your late grand hunt of the Kentucky Bison; all who had first throstled the game, or sank their fangs deepest into his Hanks or his sides, or hang heaviest at his tail, have been we'll heshcd, and raised to the peer age among dogs? Was it noted that This IS the road to BySantium?'
 The minority in the West stand to the assail mt in the relation of the husband man to the adder found chilled at his door, and when brought in and sufficiently war med, suddenly throw itself into a coil, and stung the favori.e son of it's benefac- tor!
 We found the assailan, of our chnrac- ters and our motives, a scabby political scion and thought it frui.-bearing spe- cies. We nourished it, and it grew, when To it proved political Bohon Upas, and blighted and desolated all for miles around its stem
 And, not content with the triumphs of and our motives has drawn upon his in,- agination, and exulted in antici patton over the ,riumphs of 1882, with semi-barba- rian insolence ofjoy that might have suit 1 cd the age of Suwarrow {; but with the mo- dern Nicholas or Dicbitscl, at Adianoplc, wosld have repressed or punished, had it been indulged over fallen Turk. ! He has amused his audience in this the atre, with description of the minority a. gain defeated, discomfted and fying,- aye, flying, and measuring their doubIe- mileage OCT the eartll-leaving their fe- males far behind to the magnanimity of the conquering hero coming And even coun- sels our ladies not to go with us to the war, nor risk their "little feet" on such rout, with such protectors as we!
 I advise them not to risk their jewels to the magnanimity of such a conquering he- TO ; they might be lost in the prairie grass and never be found.
 Whence this insolent idea of our flying & leaving onr ladies? We never fled either from public enemies,o or from domestic Cat alnes.
 But suppose our abandoned ladies over taken by such conqucring hero. In hi. right hand he holds an old New England grand mother, a prisoner to be led to the stake-ourraged in the feelings of her hus. band or son, her brother or father! Under his left arm he holds that beautiful, oWtre and somewhat watery nymph, the river Roanoke, whom, ever and anon, he ca resses, kisses, and hugs!
 Ladies are not much depressed at tn, loss of an election. They are said 10 be inquisitive and much given to feeling