Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1844-08-22

Since The adjournment Of The Senate. Mr.
BEEras has hesa among The people u Missouri
speech receaily delivered By him Il Boongill,
has been published, in which be dwells Al SON,
lengih upon The Texas treaty, and the objects j
lis con,rivtrs, more especially as connected viii
sPeeulations in Texas lands and scrip w,
quote The following extract:
'Dlsunion was . primary object Of III
treaty an intrigue for the Presidency va,
liis secondary object: land speculation
and stock jobbing were auxiliary objects
and The Tour objects together brought i
forward at the lime and ia The manner il
which il came forward just forsy days be
fore the Baltimore Convention. and al the
exact moment 10 mix with the Presiden.
lial election, aud to make dissention, dis
cord. and mischief. between the North and
the South. Mr.. b. said he meant this fol
prime movers aud nesoiiaiors OF the trea-
ty, and not for those who supported the
treaty without participation 10 the views
oil its makers He had in various speech
les exposed the disunion scheme. and i6e
intrigue for the Presidency be had no.
shown The part which land speculation
and stock Jobbing acted 10 connecting the
treaty, and pressing lis ratification. He
bad not noticed this part; but il was a
Conspicuous one, and was seen by every
body at Washington. The city was a
buzzard roost; The Presidential mansion
and Department of State were buzzard
roosls, deiled and polluted BY The foul and
yoraeious birds, IN thes hape Of land spe-.
culaiors and stock jobbers. who saw their
prey in the treaty. and spared no effort to
secure it. Their own work was to support
the treaty and is friends TO assail lis OPP
ponenis-to abuse the Senators who were
against tito Willy them aud lie uaon
them IN speech and in writing-and 10 es-
tabiish committee, still sitting at Wash.
lngton. 10 promote aud protect their inter.
est The treaty assumed ten millions of
debt and confirmed all the land claims uh.
der The laws OF Texas. The treaty cores
pondence claimed two hundred millions
Of acres OF land in Texas, OF which Two
thirds are represented as vacant and claim.
ed a. fond out oil which the debt assdm-
ed was 10 be paid. Vain aud potent at
tempt al deception ORer. fraudulent at
Tempt 70 assume abubble deb, for the bane.
1T q stockholders without any Adequate
either to Texas or the Uni
led States Texas in all its proper ex.
ient-in its whole length and breadth.
the Sabine to the west OF the Nueees.
and from the Gulf Of Mexico tofhe Red
liver contains bui l35, 900 square miles, \
equal 10 "a millions OF acres, and 10 pei
he remainder of the Quantity Of 200 mil,
ions of acres they have TO count the wild
county under the dominion oil Camanche
Indians, and the left bank Of the Rio
irande from head 10 mouth, all Of which
s under Mexican dominion, and great part
II which has been settled and granted a,
,ove two hundred years. Il is Donsense
Q talk Of Texas possessing vacant land. IN
I there is any Thing vacant. il is because
is not worth having. Texas itself has
'een settled az San Antonio, Nacogdoches, |
ind other places, about one hundred years,
md has been under the dominion OF three
Iiferent Governments, each o: which has |
leengranllng away its lands, and that not |
" 40 acre aid so acre tracts, but BY /
eagtaes and parallels Of latitude and longi- /
nde and BY Hundreds of thousands and /
Millions Of acres al aAtime. The -Kiho Is
,exas nuited as one State, made grants
rom 1920 10 1885 when the Texas revor
u,ion broke out; and since that Texas has
zen granting By wholesale and Fetail, hav-
ng a General Land Office al The seat Of
Government, and a locsl1one inv every
county. all employ 10 granting land, and
hal toIlhe Anglo.Saxo1 race, whose avldl-
\ for land is Unsuitable. After Sall this,
land can there be in Texas
N OF an acre worth having so that the as
,nmption Of her debt BY the treaty was
,raiuitnus, and without consideration
And what debt! created apou scrip and
Certificates at every imaginable degree Of
depreciation, and now held by iobbers,
most OF " HON have purchased at two cents
and Eve cents, and seveRcenis in The doll
lar. and would have seen their scrip. where
ii Sore six per cent, worth upwards Of one
hundred cents ID the dollar the day the
treaty. was ratified; and where il bore TEN
per cent. interest, as three millions Of. III
did. would have been worth upwards Of
two hundred cents 10 the dollar on the day
Of the ratification Of the treaty. And all
this TO 20 to the benefit, not even Of Tex
as, but Of spectators and that while the
United States refuse. and righifully refuse,
to assume the debts of their own States.-
These scrip holders were among thesmost
furious treaty men at WashingtonS and
cannot Bear the idea of having their scrip
scaled asihe continental bills Of the Ameri
can Revelation ISSUED under the same
circumsi4nces) were scaled. SO as 10 give
them back their outlay and interest; but
they want them funded. as the soldiers
certificates were 10 The year 1871 not for
the benefit Of soldiers. but for lie benefit
OF jobbers aud members Of Congress. who,
by law, turned two and sixpence into thlr-
~ shillings ID their own pockets. and that
10 the amount Of millions OF dollars. The
Yszoo land speculation. and the, soldiers
ceriiicaN speculation, were grains Of mus
lard TO- hs mountain, compared 10 the Tex
Al land adad sesisA are e.Al4A;.>--- h.-L 49,
In another part Of his speech. Mr.. Benton pre-.
scented il as The design Of the Texas treaty mol
to get Texas into the Unicn, but 10 get the
Southern States ont Of il /; and he mainisined
thai the whole treaty, and all The correspondence
relating ID IL, was studiously and artfully con-
nised for thai purpose. He charged the Secre-
tary Of State with the deliberate intention oil
raising a quarrel with Great Britain and also
with the non-slavehold.ng States on the subject
Of slavery. To present The acquisition Il
Texas as 4 Southern, sectional. slaveholding