The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-05-17
THE RECORD.


Although Mr.. Benton was so sienally defeated
in the Senate on the Treaty; although his sew
enty column speech written against il has found
an abrupt termination in the actual breaking
down Of the only country press in the Union
that undertook TO print IL; although he has
ceased 10 harp On that subject in The columns OF
the "imperial Globe !" yet, we are assured, on
good authority, that he continues 10 growl, in
his conversations, against the settlement of our
difficulties with Great Britain, by this Admins
tration. We are told he denounces the Treaty
because it was not expressly stipulated in sep
arate article that England should not search OF
visit American vessels as If such a stipulation
would not have been preposterous as TO s,ipu-
late that Enghshmen should not spit upon Ame
ricans There is as much right to do the one as
the other-but in either case it will be at the
peril of the offenders.
But If Mr.. BenIon is particularly outraged
at such omission. on the part of this Admin
isualion, what would The reader infer was the
extent of his Indignation at The following agree
ment, which we take from the records of the
Senate. proposed during President Monree's
admins ration We copy from the Journal Of
The Senate:
Article l. The commanders and commissioned
officers Of each Of the two high contracting parties
duly authorized under the regulations and instrIc-
tons of their respective Governments, TO cruise
the coast of Africa, and Of the West Indies for the
suppressiou of the slave trade, shall be empowered
under the conditions, limitations, and restrictions
hereinafter specified, to detain, examine, capture,
and deliver for trial and adjudication, by some
n a -
tries shall be found on examination to belong TO,
any ship vessel concerned in the illicit traffic OF
slaves, and carrying the dag of the other owned
by any subjects citizens OF either OF the two
tracing parties, except when in the presence Of
ship of war Of its own nation: and it is further
agreed that any such ship vessel captured shall
be either carried sent by the capturing officer 10
some port OF the country to which II belongs, and
there be given up TO the competent authorities, be
delivered up for the same purpose, TO any duly com
missoned officer Of tn other party, 1t being the in
tention Of the high contracting powers that any ship
vessel within tho puryew Of this convention, and
seized on that account, shall be tried and atudged
by the tribunals Of the captured party, and not by
those Of the captor.n
At the time this proposition came before The
Senate, Mr.. Benton was member Of tba, bo-
DIV. Ii we had not consulted the RECORD of the
proceedings in the Senate on that occasion, and
have Iaken it for granted that MIR. Benton had
Certainly made a speech, OF at least a hundred
and forty columns, against such p;oIosiIion.
What agree that Great Britain should ode
lain, erdmine Capture" American vessels,
whea not in sight OF an American ship of war;
Why, tro hundred column speech against
such an inqutous proposition, would be The We
ny least a reader Of the Globe would expect
from Mr.. Benton on such an occasion, after
what he said against tie Treaty of Washington
But what did Mr. Benton say and do on that
occasion Here is the vote on its adOT ton,
taken from the RECORD
"YEAS-Messrs Barbour, Barton, BENTON,
Branch, Brown, Clayton Eaton, Edwards Findlay,
Hayne, Holmes, OF Mississippi Jackson, johnson,
OF Kentucky, Henry Johnson, Josiah s. Johnston,
Kelly, King, Of Alabama, King, Of N. York, Knight
Lloyd, Of Massachusetts, Bowrie, Eoivaine, Mills,
PARROT, Seymour, Taylor, Of Indiana, Taylor, of
Virginia, Van Dyke, and Williams