Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1844-08-30
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POLITICAL.
SPEECH OF SENATOR
BENTON.

The .4nnerdtion treaty Scrme OF fooo9y Jor
the benefit Of Spectators
Let every body read the following extract from
n Speech Just delivered by Mr.. Benton of Missouri
to his constituents. 1t seems, in the first place,
that the ichoe of the lands have already been grant
ed away, so that if we take Texas are actually
to assume her debts without compensation; and in
the next place that were to pay par value or
one hundred cents to the dollar for scrip that,
really cost from itco to ,fve cents and the profits
were of course to so into the pockets of the specu-
ators who have purchased the scrip !! Truly,
this was grand scheme to rob the treasury. Still
nnexaton-immediate anneration-s pressed by
the Polk men as urgently as by John Tyler him
self; of course it must be donc if done at ALL by
this very treaty, and by the preparation of this
very robbery; Texas will hold us to that bargain.
The committee" of which Benton speaks, is now
sitting at Washington-and at the head of it is
| 0~J~J. X. POLK'S Deputy, Mr.. Payne of Alabama
In circular issued few days since, this commit
tee say:
"The Treaty having been rejected, the question
of annexation is referred to the People, to be deci-
ded by the Presidential election; but that election
does not take place until November"
The following is from the Globe, and is to the
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"To repel this interference, The Congress of The
United States, should, soon practicable, embrace
The opertures of Ieras, and add four more stars 10 The
confederacy. We should add strength to our pop
ular Government to withstand this monarchical
combination against it This great issue turns upon
the Presidential election"
i Let every body read the following extract from
Mr.. Bentons speech:
"Disunion was a primary object of the treaty
an intrigue for the Presidency was its secondary
object land speculation and stock-jobbing were
auxiliary objects and the four objects together
J, brought it forward at the time and in the
manner in which it came forward, Just forty DAYS
before the Baltimore Convention, and at the exact
, moment to mix with the Presidential election, and
to make dissention, dscord, and mischief between
the North and the South. Mr.. b. said he meant
this for the prime movers and negotators of the
treaty. and not for those who supported the treaty
without matchmaking in the views of its makers -
: lie had in various speeches exposed the disunior
: scheme and the intrigue for the Presidency; he
y had not shown the part which land speculation and
stock lobbing acted in connecting the treaty, ant
pressing its ratification. He had not noticed th,
. part; but it was a conspicuous one and was seer
II by every body at Washington. The city was I
buzzard roost the Presidential mansion and De
partment Of State were buzzard roosts defled anC
polluted by the foul and voracous birds, in thu
:, shape of land spectators and stock lobbers who
saw their prey in the treaty, and spared efforts
4 to secure 1t. Their own work was to support the
treaty and its frends-to assail its opponents-tC
ebuse the Senators who were against ito vilifi
. them and lie upon them in speech and in writing
- and to establish Committee, still sitting a
Washington, TO promote and protect their interest
! The treaty assumed ten millions of debt, and con
=, frmed all the land claims under the laws of Texas
: The treaty correspondence claimed two hundred
millions of acres of land in Texas, of which two
'' thirds were represented us vacant and claimed al
a fund out Of which the debt assumed was to bt
paid. Vain and impotent attempt at deception !
to Open and fraudulent attempt to assume a bubbl
debt for the benefit of stock jobbers without al
ID adequate consideration either to Texas or the Uni
ted States! Texas in all its proper extent-in it
whole length and breadth, from the Sabine to tn
H. West Of the Nueces, and from the Gulf of Mexic
ut to the Red river contains but 13500O square miles
10 equal TO "a millions of acres; and to get tho re
at mander OF the quantity of 200 millions of acre
he they have to count the wild country under the dc
minion of the Camanche Indians, and the left ban
er Of the Rio Gmnde from heaG to mouth, all Of whic
is under Mexican dominion, and great part {