Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1843-10-10
LETTER from Gel. Bensoa.

all hs predictions
GrNTrFwIN Your Kind letter of invitation 20 visit
the old and patriotic county OF Howard and To accept
public dinner from my political friends has met ne NJ
tins place and l. the agreeable to me - coming
from old aud valued friends, and long approved and
seadfst friends Of democracy The dinner l. declined
I'm conformity o my long established rule but te visit
10 the county intended make wlihou, an nsiiaiion
and remain long enough to lie an opportunity Of
seeing their convenience, ana without he form
aly of a public meeting. such Of my iellow-cItiZcus
should do the nonor TO exchange saulalions with
have to make YOU many thanks for the indugcnt
view which may have taken of my public conduct
and While my own estimate of my public lahors J. much
below YOURS least say that my course has been
DISTINGUISHED and In twenty three
service have hadno changes account or. neon
siscncics reconcile have provided office
tract for any OF my relations and have refused every
thing that has been offered myself
You pleased TO refer. with much appreciation. 10 my
conduct in relation the British treaty and here Il l.
cxcuSab,e accept applause for time has already con
frrncd all my objections that instrument The
boundary line be the miia, frontier agreed
upon by council of British Generals for the protection
OF Quebec The fugitive criminal article l. for the pro-
lection Of slaves who murder their owners and carry
their horses or boats to Canada Nassau The African
squadron article admits the right of search and visitation
The rcdine map laughed at The DIR. Franklin let
Is rcpuda,cd The old boundary, (sacri-
feed by tins treaty, admitted to have been the true line
The threats admitted have been experiment
the ncrvons system of our leaders. and tie CONNER
cal pulse of cities And all that the British now
ask that they have the American neso,laor
TO regulate with them 10y treaty ard to settle
all other differences between the two countries
did, indeed fight the British treaty and not only Tor
hat contained bur for something else also 'ct fought
ho Oregon question an that fght' Myself and colleague
were sounded upon it. We answered like Americans
and saved the Ny worthy colleague was espe-
callv sounded his killed their hopes and al
forwards the exposure which made of the sacrifice OF
the northeastern and northwe boundaries showed
the danger of adventurng upon new sacrhcc ana mus
the surrender of north bank of the and hall
the country to the British postponed I" i"ture gay
Happily the result Of the elections has restored The De
mocTacy power and adjourned that posponemeni Stae
die. .lnd IN say fvc-and twenty years ago, IN
series OF that subject. presented tins qes-
the people under the aspect which II now wears;
title 1.-THE British designs upon 1.-THE necessity
for is immediate possession hy cGuny-and the iol-
" of the treaty of ISIS which admitted the British TO Ms
Joint occupation. On all these points the public mind i
at the point that at y years ago but there
another point then which the public mind
has not reachednamely the Introduction If The Fast In
din trdde 10 the raicV Of NE Mississippi through the mouth
of the Columbia! The invention of railroads, and the
discovery of he South Pass that time, have crown
ed the feasibility of this idea.
notice in detail of all the topics which your letter
contains, would require much for tins bret an
swer; but there of them. which, from their daily
hearing the daily business of the people aud the tou-
bic they still give rs, demand from word support
of what YOU say speak of national bank, andth pa
per currency One might suppose that, after the great
bank had been repndaed by ITS greatest champion as an
ObSOiete tdCd after lis explosion had shown II to he "a
whited Spchrc Gjcd ,ri dcad mans boncs and corrHp
ton after the equalization of exchanges shows II was
not necessary their reguatiOn-a the introduction
of than hundred millions of gold aud silver
shows that II was not wanted as mandatory OF paper
cucncyatcr the reduction of interest TO four or five
per per annum IN the cities where people paid one
and half per per month while the great bank and
her branches stood among them ,-aer all thus, and 50
many condemnatons Of the institution at the elections,
might have been expected that the question was at rest
and the country relieved from MS agitation But not -
the fact Tho ghost of the monster sui stalks upon the
land. The old edeTaiiSiS oi the llamllomn school
now. forty years still follow 1t the leading star
of ihcr policy and many good cizcns ~ other respects
good democrats wn" "e.' "''u mo supposed he''
SHY Tor u ia le times oi suspended banks dtpeclled
paper money der"sed eNcang' ana u" 9'd or i't'r
haze not Vel recovered nom the deu>t' c'' "'" 'hrn
uP Hence the question of national bank must >ii he
snJert at political contest h' strongest 'iIo's "i me
cdrraSt- will be made Tor u.s. chel advocate "r'r
unicc eNerions VII or 1i,e''' ~ ~ i'' M''' 'n '
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tho courage and PNuoli~h iodtc'fe me >'hl'ul Nhi'"
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