Independent Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1842-1844, 1844-06-29


satisfied with his opinions on nationa
bank now, even if he was once banl
man. lfformer opinions on this subjec
separate him from his party, where would
Mr.. Clay be?
Mr.. Benton has published the subjoineC
card in the Globe. He had referred IN
his speech on the Texas treaty to the
agency of Mr.. A. V. Brown, of Tennes.
see, in getting "the General Jackson let.
ter" as he calls it, as follows:
"The war was expired, between Mex
leo and Texas. The armisiice, and the
interpositIon Of great powers, was bring.
ing it TO close; and the day was at hand
when the reunion of Texas would have
come of itself, and with peace and honor,
when this insidious scheme of sudden and
secret annexation, and its miserable pre-
terts, was fallen upon by Our hap less ad
ministraton. From the moment that
scheme, and its prctexts, first rerealed it
self to the public view, at public dinner
in Virginia, in the autumn of last year,
denounced it as an intrigue, got up for
the election; and to add in the disgrace of
its authors, and in the defeat, delay, and
embarrassment of the measure which it
professed to desire. particularly made
this denunciation to the gentleman Mr.
A. V. Brown] who had got the letter from
General Jackson in February, lS43, and
who seemed to be ricariouSly charged
with some enterprise on my humble self.
twas at the commencement of the pre-
sent session of Congress; answered him
on the spot; and as have no concealments,
the gentleman referred to is at liberty
TO reate all that said 10 him to the rhoIe
world"
Mr.. Brown, on the floor of Congress,
read this paragraph, and taking exception
to the words ~vicarious," denied that it |
could apply to him. He admitted he had
a conversation with Mr.. Benton, called it |
"a "chance" conversation, and said he had
brought up the General jackson letter"
10 influence Mr.. Benton. The letter We
ny cuUlly puts Mr.. A, V. Brown aside in
this way:
A CARD.--My attention has been
called to Mr.. A. v Browns statement on
the floor of the House of Representatives,
in which he discIaims the vicarious char.
acter attributed to him in the affair of Cen
eral Jackson's letter, and the converse.
ton with myself, and in which he says
"the conversation Glanced to fall on an
neration." This is a great mistake. -
There was no chance about il. Mr..
Brown accosted me coming down the steps
of the Capitol, and returned his saIuta-
ton with entire civlity; when he imme-
dately began with glad to see me-wan-
ted to see me- and commenced talk up
on Texas, as thing of Fermentation, and
the evident cause of his wishing to see
me. !, seeing the Texas movement then,
as see it now--a scheme, on the part of
some of lis movers, to dissolve the Uuion
ON the part of some others, as an intrigue
for the presidency--and on the part of
others, only speak of prime movers, not
The millions who follow,) as land specu-
lation and job in script,-answered alb
ruptly and warmly-he may tell what
But never attributed to Mr.. Brown any
other agency in the movement than the
vicarous interpolation above referred TO;
and as to his and my Ven Burenism being
the same thing, must beg to be excused.
l knew that his would evaporate when and
where il did, and said so to some friends;
and knew that mine would stand any test.
The General Jackson letter always ap.
pearcd to me to have been vicariously OBJ.
tanned; and nothing that Mr.. Brown has
now said impairs, in the slightest degree,
that first belief
THOMAS H. BENTON:
SENATE CHAMBER, June l3.
1t will be seen from the above card that
Tom Benton, in terms, accuses Mr.. Cal.
houn of wish to dissolve the Union by
means of the rejected treaty. This charge
Of course, the unprincipled ruffian does
not believe. His great object has been
10 secure his own elevation TO the Pres.
dency. He saw that Mr.. Van Buren's
rejection by the convention would lhwart
his plans. He had been accustomed to
consider himself the natural successor of
that gentleman. To find himself no longer
in the cline Of safe precedents" has exas.
him almost AZ m, Jnon, Ar.