The Madisonian., 1840-01-23

! Ienclose you a letter, which find was published
some weeks since in one Of The New York papers,
defining preuy accurately the relative positions d
Calhoun and Benton.
| A casual observer, at least one not acquainted
wiIh the relative positions of Benton and Calhouh'
could not fail 10 be amused at The manner they eye
each other In the Senate-they both look as lhousn
they expected 10 be assaed the by the oIhef and
Stood ready 10 parry the blow. They are not inaply
termed heIe BY the gentlemen Of the press, me ms
soart Bafaio and The Carolina Cfocodih. since
the latter has gone with all his forces To the ad
minisiralion, Mr.. Benton views him as an intruder
come 10 wrench with unlinea hand the crown. Mr.
Calhouns idea in giving In his adhesion 10 tue de
siruciives that he would thereby BE- able 10 car
ry with him large portion OF that party and all the
Wings; though what could induce him TO make
such preposterous calculation, after his shameful
deseriion, at The moment when victory about 10
perch on their standard Is d ficult 10 determine
The movement OF This politician, however, have
been strangely eccentric from his first entrance into
public life. AT one time we find him the advocate
Of National Bank; al another, joining in the hue
and cry against such an institution. Al one PERIOD
the friend Of high tariff-again its marked enemy
now friend 10 the system OF the m 81 pronigate
expenditure-anoD radical in the severest sense OF
The term His alliance with men and parties, has
alike been fatal to them and delusive to his own
hopes. His VIII lie career has been one OF political
intrigue, from the time Of the far famed A. b. pio',
and the vile SANDER ol "the bargain" down to the
evidences that the present reignng parry VIII oe
oyerlhrown is the Connection he has so lately formed
with IT,
Had Mr.. Calhoun retained his former position he
could scarcely have failed to have reached that emi-
nence for which he has long panied All his ieel-
ings should have led him 10 have proved 10 lhat
man, who, in the darkest hour, came forward IN The
spirit OF coDclialion for compromise, which saved
the Union from being endangered. Notwilhstand.
ing his adhesion, II was only al the last session OF
Congress that Benton treated that compromise with
contempt, and said il not TO be regarded, speak
ing sneeringly OF the boasts of the nuters on that
occasion, by saying, he would have agreed TO put
all the killed and wounded in his breeches pocket"
yei this IS the party to which Mr. Calhoun allies his
interests and those of the South Al the very mo
ment when the country was coming en- masse as II
Were 10 the rescue OF The government from us pre-
sent misrue, Mr.. Calhoun suddenly discovered that
the victory " would not mare 10 the benefit OF him
or his party" and, as suddenly wheeled TO the right
about and carried his forces over TO the aid OF his
former enemies. he now pretends in the face OF all
that Is recorded to the contrary, that he is not only
with the administration on the Sub-treasuIy, but in
all its leading features-Mrdbik!
Al grea, crisis like the present, when all the lead
ing interests OF the nation at stake (and lost only
through The absence of one Wing member from The
House and another from his post,) find Mr. Calhoun
and his personal friends with STATE rights" in their
mouths, attempting to strike at the sovereignty OF New
Jersey by seeking to eject her members, and with the
view OF throwing Benton in the shade endeavorng
elect nuher for speaker, which ended in the choice
Of Wing. He called his friends to for the
Globe-"h he IS desirous Of making grand political
more :" fyou wish for your president, said he you
must vote for the Globe, and neulrasc that print be-
tween Benton and mysslf-ihdfs indispensable no,r,
and must nor be objected 10. His "husy erew" imme-
diately follow his orders. and determine that Blair shall
be the printer maugre all that said about the gal
vansed corpse, whose face every hdeous feature
blended in csdaverous union" !"
After all these grand political The end will be,
should Mr.. Van Buren be reelected, that Mr. G. and
his friends will be let down the wind prey fortune.
and instead Of reaching tho top Of the ladder, he will
have the modification and chagin find himself used
by ono party, and despised by the other
II evident that the present position ol Mr. Calhoun
is any thing but agreeable himself but, having set
his prospects the chances he stand the hazard
OF the die. He sits seemingly selfabased, having lost
entirely the proud position he occupied when side by
side with Clay Webster. Southard, White, and that
class he baed against the frghliul enormtes OF exc
cutlve usurpation
am not prophet the of prophet; but |
do predict that the hour not distant when this poti-
cal Machavel will discover that hs present grand
hticai more" will be less likely to to his benefit
than any that have preceded it, and that If the present
incumbent is reelected that the world will find him de-
sertlng Benton, and carrying his forces to the aid OF
some OF the asprants OF which there is no dearh
just now Nc.