Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1843-11-17

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to ABIDE the results OF their iniquy.
You have so universally declined The acce ;tance o
any public expression OF individual feeling, that
think useless 10 offer any upon this There
FORE beg the acceptance OF this simple, but SINCERE
tender of The highest esiecm for ourselves and hoss
| for whom act.
We are, Sir,
! Your obi servt's
J. b. ARCHER,
JOHN s. SADLER
JOHN WRIGHT,
WILLIAM VICTOR
JONATHAN TWIMAN.
p S.-The time Of your visit is to US nmateria
We hope, however, it will be sometime between this
and the commencement of your official duties.
Col lemons Reply.
PALMYRA, Oct. %, 1913
Gentlemen: | have 10 make you my thanks, and
through you present them to the Democracy of Monroe
county, for the approval of my public course
which you have expressed, and 70. the kind invitation
which you have given me 10 visit your county. This
s visit which have laid up in my mind 10 make and
at the time to visit other counties in your
neighborhood but The time is too short at present to
compllsh my wishes, and | am under the necessity o
postponing my design until after The next oil
Congress. This is consequence which ] regret, but
cannot avoid For several years past it has happened
that long sessions and extra sessions have consumed
the Summers, and left but little time my con-
stituens in the different parts Of the State and although
the session. which to commence, also
long one, yet trust it will terminate in time
allow few months 10 visit the counties oil
the State
You very naturally advert 10 the divisions which
threaten the Democratic party and deprecate the
sequences resulting from them. In this, you right
for be blind to the fact that such divisions
exist only in Missouri, but in other parts of The
Union and in some recent elections, in of the
States, have done the mischief In fact
what is happening in Missouri is only symptomalic OF
what is happening elsewhere, and has lis origin in the
same roo,-Me currency and The presidency. Time and
events will settle all, and trust without permanent
or fatal mischief TO the Democratic party. On one
pon, we seem TO have passed the danger that of Dis
,rct elections to the National Convention, and PEI
capita voting by the delegates This point of division
TO have ceased only abouttw counties out oil
ninety (after six months stimulating) have shown
any disposition 10 favor that mode Of election Ano-
Their, and more serious point of division is still
ahead-that of the next summers elections 1t seems
to be well understood, that political adverse
res do not intend to put up any candidate of their
for the principal Offices at these elections for
the counties where they have doubtful chances; anc
that they mean to rely upon divisions to find then
candidates soft enough 10 their purposes anc
strong enough TO break down The party and It's polio,
by their aid. This is their policy and it is good ,ha
| we know II in time. We shall he very simple aftel
such ample notice, if become the victim of their de
signs With respec, 10 the currency, shall probably
be unanimous after the loss of some more millions
| by base paper | am informed by business men, tina
there not less than forty varieties OF small notes
among from other States, all OF which drive avn,
gold and silver, and great part of which Ito saw no
thing of counterets) VIGOROUSLY unsafe nd un
sound banks. In fact the importation of paper and the
e1poriaion ofhard money, especially gold has regular
ly commenced again among us; and when the evils o
this exchange are again felt and great damage again in
lcted upon the country, shall probably all be read,
for the remedy which The cxigency demands
And here, while on the subject of our party divisions
will take occasion 10 say publicly, and to the whole
State, what have heretofore communicated To m,
friends III various parts OF it, which is that shall moi
attend the Baltimore Convention for the nomination
of candidates for Presidency and Vice Presidency
Thus resolution was taken las. winter not from any OBJ
lection TO the of The appointment or the vote
required To be given for, could see nothing obec
tionabe in the members Of the last General Assembly
having done what their predecessors had often done
before them without objection in their
preference for Mr.. Van Buren, 10 whom the people
OF The State had recently given their vote by ST,
thousand minority. On the contrary, was we'll con-
tented with what they did and, although never in
caucus, Convention willing 10 have zone to the
; Baltimore Convention this occasion, 10 save The
Democratic party the trouble Of sending specal dele
gaies) proridfd there nothing to be done bu vote
the will OF The Sale, ascertain the strongest and unite
! upon him.
On these terms, | was willing TO go but when sav
last winter the various questions which were IL
be brought into the Convention and fo.esaw the diff
cules 10 which they woud give rise, and despisina
us 90 ull ABOUT once determined 10
nothing to do with ii; and wrote TO my friends in
different parts of the State. To this determination
still adhere; and, therefore, could accept the ap
pontment of delegate from The State Convention ever
If offered to me. take 1t for granted, that Stat.
Convention will be held and delegates be appointed
by II, nov that the scicme Of district elections has
ird. and Other r'cde appointment remains. ,rs
l suin;ng, as Co. that The State will not nulllfy OF
| stuy herself by doing nothing. nor fall into The
scheme of frustrating the object of the National Con
? venton By sending nobody 10 1t.
In conclusion have to say, regard 10 these efforts
at division, that they are nothing or unexpected
to me-,ha, became acquainted with The scheme a
Washington city last winter, and communicated it b,
letter 70 Governor Reynolds naming the origin and OBJ
ect ofthe plot and the instrument to be used and th
mode 10 be followed in carrying into effect The event
! of The day are only verifying what then wrote.
Very respectfully, Gentlemen
n Your obliged fellow citizen,
THOMAS n. BENTON
c Messrs. Archer, Sader, Victor, Twiman, Comm,
u tee, &C., &c, Paris, Monroe CO, Mo.