The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-05-22
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 il; although he has
ceased TO harp on that subject in the columns OF
the imperial Globe J" 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
lration. We are told he denounces the Treaty
because il 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 as preposerous MS TO stipu-
late that Englishmen should not spit upon Anne
ricans! There is as much right TO do the one as
the other-but in either case it will be al 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
auihihis id'iou W. NOPy io'h '"' 'O"'h"' VI
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 TO 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 detan, examine capture,
and deliver over for trial and adjudication, by some
competent tribunal, Of whichever of the two coun-
tries IT shall be found on examination to belong 10,
any ship vessel concerned IN the Illicit traffic OF
slaves and carrying the flag of the other, owned
by any subiects citizens Of either OF the two con-
tracing parties except when in the presence of a
ship of war Of IFS nation and 1t is further
agreed that any such ship or vessel captured shall
be either carried sent by the capturing officer to
some port Of the country to which II belongs, and
there be given up TO the competent authorities or be
delivered up, for the purpose, to any duly com
missoned officer of th other party, It being the in
ten,ion of the high contracting powers that any ship
vessel within the puryiew OF this convention, and
seized that account, shall be tried and adjudged
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 that bo-
ldy. If we had not consulted The RECORD of the
! proceedings in the Senate on that occasion, aud
| seen The contrary with our own eyes, we should
have laken it for granted that Mr.. Benton had
certainly made speech, OF at least a hundred
and forty columns, against such proposition.
What agree that Great Britain should "de
idin erdmine, CAPTURE" American vessels,
whcG not in sight OF an American ship Of war;
Why, tioo hundred column speech against
such an inqutous proposition, would be the We
| nv least a reader of the Globe 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 RECORD
! "YEAS-Mcssrs Barbour, Barton, BENTON
n Branch, Brown, Clayton, Eaton, Edwards Finday
! Hayne Holmes, Of Mississippi Jackson, johnson
| Of Kentucky, Henry Johnson, Josiah ). Johnston
! Kelly, King Of Alabama, King, of n. York, Knight
! Lloyd Of Massachusetts, Lowrie, McIlvslne Mills
Parroit Seymour, Taylor, of Indiana, Taylor o
Virginia, Van Dyke, and Williams.