Litchfield enquirer., 1837-07-27
THE UNITED STATES SENATE.

but as 1t is a branch of the Government eXer-
 clslng powerful influence over the Legisla-
 ture of the country, and better fitted from it's
 slze to exert an influence directly, it is very
 important to ounderstand it's composition. The
 van Buren men outnumber the Whigs in the
 Senate now nearly two to one, for Ohio, In-
 diana, Tennessee, New-Jersey, Georgia. and
 North Carolina, and other states, differ in po-
 litics from some of the Senators ofthese states.
 and the admission of Michigan and Arkansas
 into the Union has changed the whole char
 acter of the body. Nevertheless the Benton
 doctrines have not more than seven or eight
 senators who support them, whereas the Tall madge doctrines will have twenty or twenty five Van Buren senators to back them.
 The U. s. Senate, however, cannot be call
 culated upon. The House of Representatives
 will be a much more liberal body, with less tanaticism and less party bigotry. The two ablest Van Buren men in the Senate are pro-
 bably Senators Rives and Wright; but Rives,
 who has talent enough for a leader, has not courage enough, and Wright is embued with all sorts of pestilential notions of the worst kind. Again, Benton has the skin the told hero" to drum upon, as the Protestant Refor- mers had the skin of Ziska, and the Kitchen Cabinet to help him drum it, which, with such men as Senator Norvell of Michigan, Niles of Connecticut, and some others, is an influ- ence of much importance.
 Formerly, when Clay, Webster, Calhoun, Leigh, and others had voice in the Senate, that body being small one, could originate measures, and so shape them that they would pass the House. Thus the Compromise Bill, the Land Bill of MT. Clay, and other most important measures, had their origin and form there. But the day for such men as Webster, Clay, and Calhoun is about over in the Sen ate. When the Senate submitted to Benton's expunging process, it degraded itself and its members; and when :he majority submitted in silence to the personal attacks made last winter by Ger. Jackson upon MT. Calhoun for words spoken in debate, it rendered itself contemptible. Again, the prejudices, the tenn per, and the character of many of the new Van Buren Senators, is altogether of cast different from such as have appeared hereto. fore in the Senate. MT. Cuthbert of Georgia, for example, is Senator of very violent, un- compromising, and bigoted prejudices. The two new Louisiana senators are not such as have come from that state. MT. Fulton of Arkansas is new man. Mir. Sevier is man of a good deal of intellect, but is connected with Col. Johnson in some way or other. MT. Buchanan of Pennsylvania is an able man, but, like all renegade federalists, feels it his duty to make up in violence now what of sus- picion may have attached to him for having been federalist in olden times. The like is the case with MT. Wall of New-Jersey.
 Aware of this composition of the Senate, we are quite sure that any plan for the recon. struction of the currency will meet with the greatest Instructions in that body. Our own senator, Talmadge, will, after all be the man more to be depended upon than any other of the Van Buren members. Rives is timid, and lofD Mo- o. Eo:A now have four senators who are men of very what is necessary and proper; but these states are under the strictest party drill. Mir. King of Georgia is an able financier. He may do something: we hope much from him, but as he will not wear the collar at all times, the administration do not trust him. Grundy of Tennessee could do wonders, but he is as slippery as an eel, and he appears to be bon- ded to Gen. Jackson for life, because Jackson did not keep him out of the U. s. Senate.- After all, the House of Representatives is now the body to be depended upon; and the friends of sound currency in Mary land, In- diana, North Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee and Rhode Island, who are now constructing this House, should bear all this most especially in mind.-N. Y. Express.
 Rasca1ity-At the second session of the 18th Congress, Daniel Burton and Thomas Hart Benton were the Senators in Congress from the State of Missouri, both residing in the city of St. Louis, and of course both en- titled to equal amounts from the Treasury for mileage and. attendance. At the end of the session Benton claimed and received, as his pay, $3,3O2 40
 Mir. Barton, 1,693 20
 Benton rec'ved more than Barton, $1, ,619 20
 Now Benton got his excess of sixteen hun- dred dollars over the amount really due him, by downright cheating and swindling-by the commission of just such an act as has sent many poor and humble rascal to the States Prison and yet he sets himself up as the exclusive and most devoted friend of the dear people! What a world of villainy and hypocrisy we live in!
 Do not let it be supposed that we talk so plainly about Benton because he happens to be political opponent; we don't care a farthing about his party name We would do just the same thing for Whig if we knew of one just like him, guilty of "obtaining money under false pretences, contrary to the laws of the land.'
 As Benton is dieting for the Presidency, it would be we'll to circulate this item of intel ligence relating to him, that the people may be enabled to see how well qualified he is, morally, for the high office he aspires to fill.
 The above paragraph is from the Conneaut Ohio Gazette, and we do our part towards giving it circulation, not because it gives us more pleasure to record piece of rascality than highway robbery or horrid murder, but we must nevertheless, as public journal ists, present our readers with something like a " Newgate Calcnder.'