The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-05-19
THE RECORD.

Although Mr. Benton was so sgnally defeated
in the Senate on the Treaty; although his sew
enty column speech written against it has found
an abrupt termination in the actual breaking
down of the only country press in the Union
that undertook TO print it; although he has
ceased 10 harp on that subj ct in The columns Of
the "impera Globe" 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
rraton. We are told he denounces the Treaty
because it was not expressly stipulated in sep
arate article that England should not search or
visit American vcssls; as if such a stipulation
would not have been as preposterous as 10 stpu-
late that Englishmen should moi spit upon Anne
ricans There is as much right TO do the one as
The other-but in either case il will be al the
peril of the offenders.
But If Mr.. Benton is so particularly outraged
at such an om ssion, on the par, of this Admin
i,tralion, what would the reader infer was the
extent of his Indignation at the following agree
meut, which we take from the records of the
Senate, proposed during President Monroe's
admins ralion2 We copy from the Journal of
the Senate:
Article /. The commanders and commissioned
officers Of each Of the two high contracting parties
duly authorized under the regulations and nstruc-
tons Of their respective Governments to cruise
the coast of Africa and of the West Indies for the
suppression Of the slave trade, shall be empowered,
under the conditions, limitations, and restrictions
hereinafter specified, TO detan, examine, capture,
and deliver over for trial and adjudication by some
4. -
tries II shall be found examination 10 belong TO-
any ship vessel concerned IN the Illicit traffic Of
slaves, and carrying the flag of the other, or owned
by any subject, citizens of either of the two
tracing parties, except when in the presence Of
ship of war of its own nation; and IL is further
agreed tina, any such ship vessel captured shall
be either carried sent by the capturing officer to
some port OF the country to which IT belongs, and
there be given up TO the competent authorities be
delivered up, for the same purpose TO any duly
mssioned officer OF tn other party, II being the in
tenlion Of the high contracting powers that any shp
vessel within the puryiew of this convention, and
seized on that account, shall be tried and aiiudged
by the tribunals Of the captured party, and not by
those Of the csptor.n
AT the time this proposition came before the
Senate, Mr.. Benton was a member Of that b.
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 aken it for granted that Mr.. Benton had
certainly made a speech, OF at least a hundred
and forty columns, against such p,o1osilion.
What! agree that Great Britain should "de
lain, erdmiHe, CAPTURE" American vessels,
whea not in sight OF an American ship of war;
Why, tDo hundred column speech against
such n'quitous proposition would be The We
ry least reader OF the GLIDE would expect
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 adoption,
taken from the RtcoRD7
"YEAS-Messrs Barbour, Barton, BENTON,
Branch Brown, Clayton Eaton, Edwards Findlay
lIayne, 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 NcIlyaine Mills,
Parrott Seymour, Taylor, of Indiana, Taylor OF
Virginia, Van Dyke, and Williams.