The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-08-14
COL. BENTON-THE INTELLIGENCER-
THE GLOBE.

Colonel Benton is in Missouri, and has mounted
the stump. He evidently despairs of getting back to
the Senate by Democratic votes-hence he has been
making speeches, having for their object to gain the
Wing votes With these and the few Democratic
votes he will be able to command, he expects to
succeed in being returned to the Senate again, after
his present. time. expires, on the h of March
next
One Of the speeches which be has made is so
ceptabe to the Wings that the National Intelligent
Ger has given it conspicuous place in its columns,
and by special notice commended il to the attention
of its readers
This speech is full Of bombast, and is replete with
abuse of President Tyler Colonel Benton will not
allow the dead 10 rest in peace While he absolves Mr.
Adams from having given occasion for the abuse
he lavished him for nearly quarter Of century,
he shifts the charges from MIR. Adams upon Mr..
Monroe and the other members of his cabinet and
this too, on the declaration of Mr.. Adams No
one knows better than Colonel Benton that Mr.
Adams has been charged with being so blind that he
would not the truth, and that when he darz
he darzed not a, the facts wre, but he pished the
facts TO be-and further, that there exists up to this
day, question of adjourned peracty between Mr.
Adams and Mr.. Clay; while the latter allegation,
has been reiterated again and again by Mr. Benton
in the Senate Chamber Notwithstanding these i'm
peaehments OF Mr.. Adams's veracity, Mr.. Benton
takes the simple declaration of Mr.. Adams on which
TO found allegations against the character of the a..
hls 'rious dead a.,
Mr.. Benton strives to concilate the South by pre-
tending to be in favor Of the annexation of Texas,
and at the same time seeks to gain favor with the
Abolii'ons's of the North, by providing against the
admission of slavery in portion Of that rrory on
It's being annexed to this Union. While thus coque-
ting with those against whom his hands have uni
formly been upihed, Mr.. Benton is unmeasured in
his denunciatoos'ofthe Texas treaty and those who
negotiated IT. and # It were possible surpssses
Henry Clay, in gvingl uttsrsnce to his malice and
hatred of Mr.. Tyler.
1t Is the man, who is now pursuing such a course,
vitality affecting the Democratic party ard its cause.
who arrogOnty undertakes to dictate to that party as
to their future preferences and selections. He ha.
proclaimed that the candidate of the party,
in the election of 1913, must be taken from
the North. We should have supposed that ordinary
delicacy weuld have restrained Mr.. Benton from at
tending to that subject.unt the election of 1874 had
passed over We venture the prediction that Mr.
Benton will not be a member Of the Democratic
party in lS4S, but will be found arrayed against it
IN the ranks Of the party opposed to it.
But to the Globe. The time was when every
thing that was uttered by MIR. Benton was forthwith
spread out In the columns of the Globe Nov,
when the speeches of Mr.. Beoton find an early place
in the Intclgcncer, the Globe preserves a profound
silence. That paper the laudations bestowed by
the Intelligencer on the speeches Of Mr.. Benton
and appears Indifferent How is thisi Does II
love Cesar more and Rome less We should think
that The position which the Globe pretends to bold
with the Democratic party, calls for prompt erps-
nation Of its course in this matter