Piney Woods planter. (Liberty, Mi. [i.e. Miss.]) 1838-1840, 1839-03-16
REMARKS or AIR. BENTON,
or MISSOURI,
IN REPLY TO MIR. DAVIS,


the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr.. Da
= Wis, could not have concluded his argu
ment without an attack upon Gen. Jack
son, and especially an attack going bacI
TO the veto Of the Bank charter, the re
moyal Of the deposites, the specie circular
The suspension of specie payments
formerly figured in party controversies
had lived out their brief day, and now qui
city reposed in the tomb Of oblivion. n
resuscitatc these old topics would seem &
be in bad taste; TO debate them over agaii
seemed 70 be getting up discussion flat
stale, and unproffablo But the Senator
from Massachusetts had gone into thi;
work; he had commenced the business
and he has given us new edition ct tho
old panic speeches of '32, '33, 81, '36 aRo
'37. We have been again informed OF
commerce ruined, confidence destroyed
manufacturers stopped. the laborer without
work, shops shut mp, distress universal,
misery in every house and dispair in eve
ny bosom; and all this mischif the sad do
ings Of one wicked, wanton and Ignorant
old man. We have had new edition of
all this served mp TO us, as unexpectedly
to me as fit hal all fallen from the clouds,
and as repugGant to my feelings as could
be the disinterment and exhumation Of the
dead. Bat since the Senator has chosen
10 revive the memory Of scenes on which
the curtain had long since been dropped,
and has characterized them in a way to
suit the purposes and The feelings Of him
clfand his party, must be permitted to
say TO him that have lately read histo-
nv Of the very events which he has been
describing, written long time ago, IN a
foreign lnnd and foreign language, but
so asourate in its details and so just in its
representations, that every reader would
recognize i to be the true history ofwhat
has been done in our own country during
the exhibition of the domestic manuiactu-
red distresses, the performance of the arr
tiiicial panics, and the enactment of the
hlood!ess and sabbafhioss revolutions with
which The public sensibilities have been
so mach excited of late. This piece Of his
tory is found in Vertot's History of the
Portuguese conspiracy in the year 1910,
by which the Spanish dominion in Poru-
gal was overturned, and John, Duke of
BragaEza, was restored to the throne Of
his ancestors. The politicians and mer-
chants were in the conspiracy-there were
no banks in those times; but politicians
and merchants were not sufficient to car
~ u on they could not perform the manu-
Al labor Of attacking the Spanish guards
AMI garrisons. they wanted other hands
for the manual labor part, while they con-
tined themselves to the headwork part of
the revolution. To obtain these opera.
tlYos the merchants of Lisbon fell upon
plan which you shall have in the histori-
ans own words; say in his own words;
Tor, while the Senator from Massachusetts
was speaking, aud bringing this piece of
history to mind, ! despatched one Of our
little messengers witha note to Mrs. BEN
TON, to send me the book, "L'histoire dc
Ia co'yaratioR de Portugal;n and here it
Is; and now the historian speaks for him
self Tread in French first, and then in
English, that those who understand both
languages may know that the traslaton
IS just. At page 1872 he says:
els aYaient meme ccngodic p!usieurs
dc ienrs oayrlers, principalomont les plus
mullins, SOUS pretexte queIc commerce
etant RUNE, lis ne pouvacnt plus les en-
tretenir; mais en- effot atm que la msnre
ct la faim les portat plus aisement a Sc
souleycr: ct dependant lis les assislaient
de temps en- temps, ahn dc les ayoir tout
ours cur deyotionn
"Thcy 1.-THE mcrchantsl had even dis
chargcd, On purpose, many Of their Labor
ers, principally the most mutinous, Under
the prctext that commerce, being ruined.
lDy the tyranny Of the Spanish Govern
men',) they could no longer employ them;
But IN fact to the end that misery and
famine might carry them more easily to
instruction assisting them from time 10
70 retaint hcGi IA devotion to themselves"
ihis, continued MIR. b. is the true his
tory Of or pancs and home made distress,
ana wants nothing but change Of names
to be written Of tho United States durin,
the scenes Of which the Senator from
massachusetts has 50 unexpectedly reviy-
Cd the memory. Lish.n, read any or all
q ohr Iigo enos; for the year 1910,
'eaa lS5>-4; for the Spanish Government,
Ieaa Jackson's administration and the
history q our own great panic bloodlcss
revolution is complete The body of the
working people Of Lisbon could not be
trusted with the secret of the conspracy;I
SUI It was Indispensable to have their ser
wees. Starvation could drive them to re-
vol'j by charging this starvation TO the ty-
rahny Of the spnniards, they could be ex-
cnea against the spaniarls; and, by hy-I
pocrltlcal distribution Of aims TO those
whom 'hey had deprived Of bread, they
COULD make the victims Of their policy the
instruments Of their conspiracy. All this.
even down to the crocodile distribution of
alnns, was done in our own cities; done a
Eainst General jackson, and 10 excite Al
deceived, outraged End wrongcd popua-
ton against him. II was moi quito sd