Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1843-09-16

G. P. BRowN, Platte City, Platte co.
THOMAS JAcKMAN, Rocheport, Boone CO.
WIN. D. MALONE, Huntsville, Randolph co.
GEO. H. HUBBELL, Trenton, Grundy CO. -a
INTERESTING CoRREspoNDENcE" between
the Hon. Thomas H. Benton, of Virgin
ia, representing the State of Missouri in
the Senate of the United States, and
Committee of the Democracy of the
patriotic county (clique) of Howard"
FAYETrE, Aug Z, ls43.
DEAR S1R-At meeting held by a por-
ton of the Democrats of Howard on the
present inst, the undersigned were deputed
to express to you their high sense of the
many services you have rendered to our
common country in the councils of the
nation, and in their name, and in behalf of
the Democracy of Howard, to invite you
TO Fayette, and to welcome you to the bo-
SONS of your friends.
We should feel that we had lily perform
ed the agreeable duty assigned US, if we
were to permit the present opportunity to
pass without apprsing you of our hearty
appreciation of the eminent position you
assumed against the measures and policy
of the Federal party in Congsess both
since and during the memorable extra
session. @
True to the principles of the Democracy
and the cause of the people, you have ever
been found upon the watch-tower, faith
full and vigilant sentinel, ably scanning and
fearlessly exposing the plans and schemes of
the then dominant party, to lay the founda-
ton of policy, the contamination of which
would have entailed upon us an american
Aristocracy. Never before the accession
of the present party to power, were there
as many palpable and reckless violations of
both the letter and spirit Of the constitu-
ton. By these means they aimed a dead
ly blow at the liberties of our country
This they contemplated by protective tar
IF, the natural workings of which serves
but to drain the pockets of the many, to
administer to the pampered wealth of the
mobile and high born" .fe,o; by an United
States Bank, whose known course and pol
icy has been to accommodate its favoriteS,
and defraud the great mass of the people
by an odious gag la,D, to prevent the pro-
mitigation of their dark and nefarious plans,
until they were permanently Saddled upon
the National Domain, thus breaking
ton, and, by an appeal to the basest pas
sions, making sovereign and independent
States pensioners on the bounty of the Fed
eral Government--and by mad attempt
to abolish the veto power, delegated by the
Constitution to the Executive of the Union
for wise and patriotic purposes-thus con-
verting the President of the United States
into a mere automaton, and an American
Congress, with "wi unchecked" into the
most absolute of despotisms.
Thus have they proved themselves the
disorganizers of our Republic, and, against
the adoption of these measures, one and all
we are proud that you were arrayed on the
side Of liberty, pre-eminently advocating
the Constitution and the rights of the
people. 81 u. 81"
Nor is this all: the noble and patriotic
stand you took against the ratification OF
the late British Treaty. treaty which
failed to redress the fragrant wrongs and
outrages committed upon the lives and
property Of our citizens in the memorable
instances of the Caroline and Creole
treaty which abandons our merchant yes
sells to the degrading right of search" ano
"uisitdtion" by the authorities of an AFRO
CANT and naughty Government, and which
surrenders up to that Government valua-
BILE portion of our territory, our title tC
which was as clear as it is to the soil o
Missouri: we say, sir, your able efforts t.
defeat the ratification of that treaty, merit
and call for our liveliest appreciation anc
highest admiration. ~ a.
But, sir, among the long and many i'm
s,ortart services rendered to your country
If there be any one subject upon whic
your action has given us more satisfaction
than another, it has been your devotion I
, the establishment of the INDEPENDENT
TREASURY-to the entire divorce Q
Bank and State, and your "uncompromizin.
hostility" to National Bank, and the Who'll
American banking system which require
no responsibility of either stockholders Q
DIRECTORS system which has enriched tn
few and beggared the many-which ha
bankrupted many of our States, paraize
the energies of our citizens, and reduce
The widow and the orphan to Penury an
want-which has banished our gold and 81
yer and given us rags in its place--whiee
has encouraged crime and gone far in Il
work Of seducing our people into the habl
of idlencss and extravaganza, and which.
not checked, must sooner or later end
fastening upon the necks of our citizens Il