The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-04-27
THE RECORD.

Although Mr. Benton was so sisnally deIeal-
ea in the Senate on the Treaty; although his
seventy column speech written against II has
found an abrupt termination ia the actual break
ing down of the only country press in the
Union that undertook to print it /; although he has
ceased TO harp on that subject in The columns OF
the "imperial Globe I" yet, we are assured on
good authority, that he continues TO growl, in
his conversations, against the settlement of our
difficulties with Great Britain, by this Admins
tralion. We are told he denounces the Treaty
because it was not EXPIRE ssly stipulated in sep
arale article that England should not search OF
visit American vessels, as if such stipulation
would not have been as preposterous as to s'Ipu-
late that Englishmen should not spit upon Anne
ricans! There is IA mnch right 10 do the mn"
as the other-but in either case il will be at the
peril Of the offenders.
But if Mr.. Benton is so particularly outraged
at such an omission, on the part Of this Admin
istration, 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 Monroe's
administration We copy from the Journal Of
the Senate:
"Article l. The commanders and commissioned
officers Of each of the two high contracting parties,
duly authorised under the regulations and instruc-
tons Of their respective Governments, to cruise on
the coast of Africa and of the West indies for the
suppression OF the slave trade, shall be empowered
under tho conditions, limitations, and restrictions
hereinafter specified, to detain examine, capture,
and deliver for trial and adjudication, by some
competent tribunal, Of which ever of the two coun-
tries it shall be found examination TO belong to,
any ship or vessel concerned in the Illicit traffic OF
slaves, and carrying the flag of the other, or owned
by any subjects or citizens of either of the two
tracing parties, except when 10 the presence OF a
ship Of war of its own nation and 1t Is further
agreed that any such ship vessel so captured shall
be either carried or sent by the capturing ofcer to
some port Of the country to which it belongs, and
there be given up to the competent authorities be
delivered up, for the purpose to any duly COM
mssioned officer OF the other party being the in
iention of the high contracting Powers that any ship
vessel within the purvicw Of this convention, and
seized on that account, shall be tried and adudged
BY the tribunals of the captured party, and not by
those Of the captor.
At the time this proposition came before the
SENATE, Mr.. Benton was member of tina, bo-
dy II we had not consulted the RECORD of the
proceedings in the Senate on that OCCASION and
seen the contrary with our own eyes, we should
have taken it for granted that MIR. Benton had
certainly made speech, OF at least hundred
and forty columns, against such a proposition.
What agree that Great Britain should de.
tain, examine cAPTUnE" American vessels,
when not in sight OF an American ship Of war?
Why, TOO hundred column speech agans,
ry least a reader of the Globe would expec,
from Mr.. Benton on such an occasion, after
what he said against the Treaty of Washington.
But what did Mr.. Benton say and do ON that
OCCASION Here is the vote on its adoI 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, Lowrie NcIlvsine, Mills,
Parrott, Seymour, Taylor, of Indiana, Taylor, OF
Virginia, Van Dyke, and Williams.
"NAYS-MessrS. Bell Chandler, D'Wolf Dick
erson, Elliot Gailiard, Holmes, Of Maine, Macon,
Ruggiss Smith, Thomas, yan Buren,, and Waren
Mr.. Benton ''never changes" He was GER
Isinly not Van Buren, man at that Time, at all
events