The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-08-17
FIGHTING FOR THE DEMOCRACY


and the editor of the National lntelgencer, with
regard TO the question of Annexation, and their COM
bned efforts TO defeat object which is, in the opn-
ion Of many intelligent as themselves, OF para
mount interest 10 he lovers of free Institutions and
vitality essential TO the stability and prosperity VI our
Republic.
Ii may appear to some Of our friends that we al
tach too much importance to the deciamatlons and
harangues of the Missouri Senator, as he People
generally are already placing him IN position, III
their estimation, which will deprive him, TO great
extent Of his power Tor evil, and forever preclude
him from an entrance into the path that leads to the
highest honors in the g,it Of lrsemen. But when
We consider the TO which his speeches are APP
Piled and the four ish Of trumpets with which the
Wings receive them, imperative duty suggests
that we sound he alarm and expose the machna-
lions OF the enemy.
Had Mr.. Van Buren, been the nominee OF the Con-
ysn;ion that selected Mr. Polk, then indeed might
Colonel Benton have el4imed Jor himself the rght u
the succession; but as gentleman OF the Wes was
preferred, it cannot be expected that The Dem 'crac
party shall aga u, Immediately after he coming cleo
lion, take another candidate from the same section
and with him, co 6dent of victory, enter into The
Presidential contest.
1t is reasonable to suppose that this consideration
operated upon the mind Of the Aspirant of Missouri
--wesned him from the old Republican landmarks
ard weakened his enthusiasm for his own motto
"svsrylhing far The cause, and nothing Tor men, and
from letter written by him to General Van Ant
werp, on the Sd of June last, it is paipable that
MIR. Benton not quite so well pleased with what
had just taken place in Baltimore, if he himself
had been nominated for the Presidential chair! Ne
vertheless it i, his sapent opinion that "neither Mr..
Polk nor Mr.. Dallas have had any thing to do with
the intrigue Uhich has nAiJfed the choice q Me
People, and the rights " The People, and the
principles Of our Government in the person oi
Mr.. Van Buren, !" and he very afiectionately says,
and so smoothly and calmly too, "and neither OF
them should be injured prejudiced by it" And
in connection, if he had been gratihed with
view of the patent eccaeobeon, chicken. machine,
he continues: "Those who hatehsd that intrigue
have become its victims. They who dug PIT for
the innocent have fallen into it, and there let them
lie for the present, uhe all hands attend 10 the tte
tion and girs fun majority u ten thousand IN
Missouri. For the rest the time will come, and the
People now, as twenty years ago, (when tAeir choice
was nufed in the person Of General Jackson,) VIII
teach the Congress ntiguers TO attend TO ia'o making
and let President making and unmdkng alone IN future
The Texas treaty, which consummated this in-
trigue was nothing but the final act in long con-
.piracy in which the sacrifice of Martin Van Buren,
had been previously agreed upon" sc.
These were the Colones private opinions, pub
Icly expressed, on the Sd of June, 1871 and 10
a.. H., .IJ 10
pie of Boonville the l7ih Of July, the same story
with the addition that "DisiniOn pas primary Oh
jsct of the treaty. but like a comet it had long TAIL
which in his eyes plainly discernible
Now, we should certainly suppose that there were
sixteen other men in the world, or in the Senate,
who almost knew much as Mr.. Benton on the sub
ject, even though they were not quite so pompous or
egotistcal; and we believe that, in recording Their
names for the Treaty, Senators Atchlson, Bagby,
Breese Buchanan, Colquitt Fulton, Haywood, Hen
derson, Huger Lewis, McDufhe, semPe, Sewer,
Sturgeon, Walker and Woodbury., voted not for "di'u-
nion," but for AssEXAros-and this was the "prima-
~ object" of the treaty, Notwithstanding the I'M
tenable assertion to the contrary As 10 who were the
"Cobgress intrguers," whom MIR. Benton says the
People will teach "to attend TO law-makng and
Ie, President making and unmaking alone in
future" we may never perhaps be INFORM
Cd but IT is sufficient for US to know that
that on the subject of the Presidency the COLONEL
Vas NOT ALLOWED DICTATE TO THs CONVENTION
THAT NOMINATED Ma. Polk. The members com
posing il acted irrespective Of the triumyiraie al
washngton-they bad too long the effect Of the
bunker system upon the freedom Of the People-snd
hair ul
eeved TO be the public good, they Of course drew
down upon them the sxecratsns of the patrician
Senator Aud now, under the preteIt Of promo
ting the success Of the Democratic party" we hnd
him making speeches TO be caught up and deveured
with greedy haste by those who heretofore esteemed
him "Bumbug," and would have willingly sunk
him into that river up which once upon Time, gold
was to flow in the greatest pfofuslon! We oeh Id
daily the result Of this course Of conduct-and, al
though he told call hand" on the Sd of June, "to
attend to the election, and gipe full majority Of
t,n thousand in Missouri" Mr. Clay, on the 2ls was
enabled TO "REJOlCE IN TIE PROSPECTS OF
THE DELIvERANCE OF THE STATE OF
MISSOURI FROM THE YOKE OF LOCOFO
IsM;"on the St. Louis Reporter, as in contrast,
despondngly speaks Of "the extent to which the DE.
mocratic parry has been weakened by the ultra and
dctatorial conduct of Col Benton" in the late cleo.
ton the result Of which has not been fully ascer-
tanrd and expresses the sincere belief "that Benton
10 the worst enemy Of the Democratic nominees for
the Presidency and Vice Presidency which they have
10 the Union.'
Alas poor Benton, like Corolanus, has gone over
10 the Vosci to Auus Tulus-but he will never
march against Democracy TO her serious injury and
even should he make the attempt, the voices of pat
riots, not the entresue, Of women, will force him to
retire into the ranks Of his born friends, there TO
die, not bodily, but political death