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THE RECORD.

Although Mr.. Benton was so signally 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 to harp on that subject in The columns OF
the "imperial 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
tration. We are told he denounces the Treaty
because il was mol expressly stipulated in sep
arae article ihal England should not search OF
visit American vessels as if such a stipulation
w1uld not have been as preposterous as TO supu-
late that Englishmen should not spit upon Anne
The other-but in either case it 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
istralion, 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
admins ration 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 instruc-
tons OF their respective Governments, 10 cruise on
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 detain examine, capture,
and deliver over Tor trial and adjudication, 10y some
IF nlsE. Is IkxA
tries II shall be found on examination TO belong TO,
any ship or vessel concerned IN the Illicit traffic OF
slaves, aud carrying the flag of the other or owned
by any subjects or citizens oil either oil the two con-
tracing parties, except when m the presence OF a
ship of war of its own nation and II Is further
agreed that any such ship vessel captured shall
be either carried or sent by the capturing officer to
some port of the country TO which IT belongs, and
there be given up to the competent authorities, or be
delivered up for the same purpose, to any duly COM
missoned officer Of tn other party, II being the IN
tention Of the high contracting powers that any ship
or vessel within the puryew OF this convention, and
seized on that account shall be tried and atudged
by the tribunals of the captured party, and not 10y
those of the captor.n
/ At the time this proposition came before the
Senate, Mr.. Benton was a member of that b)-
DIV. II we had not consulted The RECORD of The
proceedings 10 the Senate on that occasion, and
Nttu lHt NOulldl1 WIN bhl bNh )'Sf w N''N''
have taken it for grained that Mr.. Benton had
certainly made a speech, OF at least hundred
and forty columns, against such p oposilon
What agree that Great Britain should "de
lain, erdmine, cAPrunEn American vessels
whea not in sight OF an American ship of war;
Why, tioo hundred column speech against
such an niquitous proposition, would be The We
nv least a reader of the Globe would expect
from Mr.. Benton on such an occasion, aitei
what he said against the Treaty Of Washington
Il But what did Mr. Benton say and do on that
occasion Here is the vote on its adoption
taken from the RrcoRD2
II "YEAS-Mossrs. Barbour, Barton, BENTON
Branch, Brown, Clayton, Eaton Edwards Finday
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, Nclyane, Mills
PARROT Seymour, Taylor, Of Indiana, Taylor, o
Virginia, Van Dyke, and Williams.