Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1844-09-05
From the Baltimore American.
MIR. BENToN's SPEECH AT BooNvILLE.

MIR. BENTON'S SPEECH AT BoONvILIE.
Since tho adjournment of the Senate Mr.. Ben.
ton has been among the people in Nilsson.
II. speech recently delivered by him a,
Boonville has been published, in which he dwells
at some length upon the Texas treaty, and the
objects of its contrvers, more especially as con-
neeied with speculatons in Texas lands and
Scrip. We quote the following extract
"Disunon was primary object of the treaty;
an intrigue for the Presidency was lis secondary
OBJECT; land speculation and stock obbiup W ere
auxiliary objects; and the four objects touether
brought 1t forward at The time and i'm the manner
in which 1t came forward, just forty DAYS before
the Baltimore Convention and at the exact mo-
ihent TO mix with the Presidential election, and TO
make dissenon, dscord, and mischief between
the North and The South Mr.. Il. said he meant
TINS Tor prime movers and nego,ators of the treaty
and not Tor those who supported the treaty with
out participating in the views Of its makers. He
mad In various speeches exposed the disunon
scheine, and the intrigue for the Presidency he
had not shown the part which land speculation
and stock -jobbing acted in concoc,ing the treaty
ana pressing its ratification. He had not noticed
'his part; but 1t was conspicuous one, and was
seen by every body at Washington. The city
was buZzard roost! The Presidential mansion
ana department OF State were buzzard roosts de-
hled and polluted by the foul and voracious bi IDS
IN the shape oil land spectators and stock jobbers
VINO saw their prey in the treaty, and spared no
enort TO secure 1t. Their own work was TO sum
port the treaty and It's frends-to assail its oppo-
hehtS-to abuse the Senators who were against il
Ito Willy them, and lie upon them in speech and
In wriung-and TO establish committee, still sit
tihg a! w ashington, TO promote and protect their
interest. The treaty assumed ten millions of debt
and confirmed all the land claims under the laws
oi ieAas. j he treaty correspondence claimed
tw hundred millions OF acres of land in Texas
OF whlch twothlrds are represented as vacant and
Claimed as a fund out of which the debt assum.d
was 10 be paid. Vain and mpotent attempt a,
deception! Open and fraudulent attempt to as
sumo bubble debt for the benefit of stockton
bers without any adequate consideration either to
| texas or the United States! Texas i'm all its
proper extent--in its whole length and breadth.
from the Sabine to the west of the Nueces and
from Inc Gull OF Mexico 10 the Red river-con-
tains but $4,000 square miles, equal TO 81 mil.
lions OF acres, and TO get the remainder of the
quantity OF 2GU millions of acres they have to
count the wild country under the dominion Of Ca
manche Indians, and the left bank of the Rio
Efande from head 10 mouth, all Of which is under
Mexican dominion, and great part of which has
Deen settled and granted above two hundred wears
IL Is nonsense 10 talk of Texas POSSESSING vacant
iaiu, III there is any thing vacant, ii is because
IL is not worth having. Texas itself has been SET
ted at San Antonio, Nacogdoches, and other
piaces above one hundred years, and has been I'M
DER the dominion Of three different Governments
each OF which has been granting AWAY lis lands
and that not by 10 and so acre tracts hut bv
leagues and parallels of latitude and lonoitnde
and by hundreds of thousands and millions Of acres
at time. The Kings Government made Grants
There from 1920 to 1920; then the States of Goa
huIia and Texas united one State, made grants
/ from 1890 TO 1885, when the Texan revolution
oroke out; and since that Texas has been GRANT
| Ing by wholesale and retail, having a General
! Land Oihce at the seat of Governments and To-
Cal one In every county, all employed i'm Uranling
I nd at In the A
vidlty Tor land is Unsuitable. After all this, VIVA,
| vacant land can there be in Texasl Not an acre
worth having; so that the assumption of her debt
ny the treaty was gratuitous, and without consid
Grafton. And what debt! created upon scrip and
certificates at every Imaginable degree of depre-
citation, and now held by jobbers, most of whom
nave purchased at two cents, and Eve cents. and
seven cents in the dollar, and would have seen
their scrip, where it bore six per cent worth up-
wares OF one hundred cents 10 the dollar the day
'ne treaty was ratIhed; and where it bore ten per
cent interest, as three millions of il did. Would
have been worth upwards of two hundred cents
TO the dollar on the day Of the ratification of ine
treaty. AND all this TO 90 10 the benefit rot even
OF Texas, but OF SPECTATORS and that while the
Ohi'cu STATES refuse, and rightfuy refuse, to as
sumo Inc debts of their own States These scrio
ho.Ieis were among the most furious treaty men
AZ w washington, and canrot bear the idea Of iay-
ing thel scrip scaled the continental bills of the
!, American Revolution ISSUED under the same cir.
cuns'ahces) were seated, so as to give them back
the'i 0u'idy and interest; but they want them
funded, as the soldiers certificates were in Che
year lI9l, not for the benft OF soldiers, but TO,
me beneht oil jobbers and members OF Congress
VINO, by law, turned two AMI sixpence into thirt,
shiillngs IN their own pockets and that to the a
, mount OF millions Of dollars. The Yazoo lane
speculation, and the soldiers certificate specula
tion' were grains Of mustard to the mountain com
pared TO The Texas land and scrip speculation
when the rejection of the treaty baked"
In another part Of his speech Mr.. Benton pre-
scented 1t as the design of the Texas treaty not t,
get Texas into the Union, but to gel the Southeri
n States out of IT; and lie maintained that the whole
Treaty. land all the correspondence relating to it, wa
studously and ariully contrived for that purpose
He charged the Secretary Of State with the delib
G crate intention Of raising a quarrel with Grea
I Britain and also with the non-slaveholdinr State
on the subject Of slavery. To present tho acqui