The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1843-05-10
THE RECORD.

Although Mr. Benton was so sgnally defeated
in the Senate on The Treaty; although his sew
enty column speech written against IL 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 70 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
tralion We are told he denounces the Treaty
because il was not expressly stipulated 10 sep
arate article that England should not search or
visit America an vessels; as if such stipulation
would not have been as preposlerous aAlo supu-
late that Englishmen should not spit u ybn Anne
ricans There is as much rgh 10 do the one as
the other-but in either case il 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
istrayion, 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 l. The commanders and commissioned
officers Of each OF the two high contracting parties
duly authorized under the regulations and nstruc
lions 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 dean, examine, capture,
and deliver over for trial and adjudicatiop by some
cOn ne ri n
tries IT shall be found examination to belong 10,
any ship vessel concerned in the Illicit traffic Of
slaves, and carrying the flag Of the other, or owned
by any subjects citizens of either of the two con-
tracing parties, except when in the presence OF a
ship of war OF its own nation: and it is further
agreed that any such ship or vessel so captured shall
be either carried sent by the capturing officer to
some port of the country 10 which IT belongs, and
there be given up to the competent authorities, or be
delivered up, for the purpose to any duly COM
mssioned officer Of tn other party, 1t being the IN
tenlon 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."
AT the time this proposition came beto:e 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
have taken il for granted that Mr.. Benton had
certainly made speech, oil at least hundred
and forty columns, against such proposition.
What agree that Great Britain should de.
lain, erdmine, cAPTunEo American vessels,
| whea not in sight OF an American ship of war;
| -r"y, at~U Hu"uTe en- column specch against
such an iniquitous proposition, would be The We
ny least reader OF the Globe would expec,
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 tha,
occasion? Here is the vote on its ADOPTION,
laken from the RECORD
"YEAS-Messrs. Barbour, Barton, BENTON,
Branch, Brown, Clayton, Eaton, Edwards, Findlay,
Hayne, Holmes, of Mississippi, Jackson, Johnson,
OF Kentucky, Henry johnson, Josiah s. Johnston,
Kelly, King, Of Alabama, King, Of ~ York, Knight,
Lloyd, of Massachusetts, Lowric, Ncllyalne Mills,
PARROT, Seymour, Taylor, of Indiana, Taylor Of
Virginia, Van Dyke, and Williams.