Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1830-02-04

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the transaction Of further business according TO the
usual routine. the House, in Committee OF the Whole,
resumed the alton of the Maine election ques
ton. Mr. Suther land concluded his observations, and
was followed by Mr.. Coke, until, on motion OF MIR.
Mercer, the House adjourned. u. s. Tel.
MIR. BENTON AND MR. WEBSTER
The debate on Mr.. Foos resolution gathers nteres,
az 1t progresses. II was late yesterday sore Mr..
Benton resumed his remarks in reply TO Mr. Webster
The latter had asserted that the inport,nt measures
Tor the benefit OF the West had been carried by Eastern
in opposition to Southern votes. Mr. Beut.n. in strain
Of imprisoned eloqusnce, seldom rquaiIed, even on
III hoo- contrasted the policy of the political friends
OF Mr.. Webster, with that pursued by the South 10.
wards the West He quoted the celebrated letter CT
MIR Adams, then Minister abroad, charging the poll
teal aders in the East OF that day. Sl3 with oppi-
si,ion TO the West, and attribung that opposition 10
cannish enry and jealousy. He contrased the votes
OF the Eastern leaders. upon questions relating to the
vital interests Of the West, with those from the South
Of date anterior to the memorable of 1885, aud
proved, couclusively, the reverse of Mr. Webster's
proposition TO be true He went back the perisd Of
the late He spoke OF the time when General
Jackson, with forty men, was pent up in fort in the
enemy's country, and suffering every extremity. He
showed that at that time the whole North western
frontier was in the possession of a savage enemy
He drew an animated picture OF the dspredaions com.
United on that frontier He adverted to the scene at
the River Ra,in, Chicago and For, Meigs; and at.
ter contrasting the condition of the West with that Of
the Eas' he produced aud read extracts from the
speech Of Mr.. Webster on the militia BILL in which
Mr. W. not only refused the means of protect and
defence, but in language OF coll blooded irony upon
the caamtes oil the West, identified himself, ~ MIR
Is said with the course OF violent federal OF
opposition, which resulted in the .'dcep danaation
Of the Hartford Conuenfion' itself
MIR. Benton probed deep The motives which led Mr..
webster 10 attack the South. He reviewed the Mis-.
souri, question. He spoke Of the union with Mr. Clay
as having answered its end; and that it had been
dissolved Tor the purpose of some new coalition He
indicated his belief lhM MIR. VS. speech was the frui,
OF deliberate aud ured plan, by which the West
purchased ~ he Eas rn
iedsraists. He proceeded to remark that memory
was the lowest OF the ha,aaa hcuties-that il was
common to the bru;cs. He said that the very cattle
the West could recollect the hand that fed and the
foo, that kicked them.
He spoke OF the course that had been pursued by
Mr. w. aud his political associates in attempting TO
withhold the me ms OF defence at the time that our
tern frontier was bleeding every pope He said that
was not Tor him to compare such proceedings with the
dongs OF those who gave aid and comfort the enemy.
That distinction he left for those ingenious gen. en-
who could discriminate the difference between the
North west and the West by North side of hair; but
he declared that OF the West, who had been thu
upon the stag OF action, and remembered that at that
time South Carolina had sent forth her Lowndes and
her Cheves, and her Calhoun to thu ir aid, could now
array himself with Mr.. Webster and his political asso.
ciates i'll their crusade again.t the South.
we cannot, IN mere sketch, do Justice to the ar
gument; the research or the effect of Mr.. Ben,on's
speech lie spoke in high tea M OF commentator of
The Democracy OF New England the bold and fearless
iew' VINO III all former times, as well nOu, and in
her severest trials, true 10 aud 10
country To these, he said, the Republicans Of the
South were the natural and faithful allies who would
always all them in resisting the expressions of theI
own arsocracy. Mr.. Benton's spesch will be an an.
,ido'e TO the poison which the Hartford Convention Fp
drrasis OF the East have been preparing, ever suce
the late Presidential Election, to be scattered among
the Western people
1t will satisfy The intelligent observer that the oil!
partnership IL dissolved; that Mr. Clay is abandoned to
hi- fac; AMI that the Eastern F-deraists are now at
'rinpt ng 10 make some new bargain Upon Mr. Web.
ser IL VIII hx so deep stain Of political trans.res son
That he like MI Clay, and Mr. Websters own gre PIC
'o'ype, josiah Quincy, (who moved the Impeachment
oil ihomas Jeiie'son) will be dead weight upon an,
party. GB