The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1844-11-23
THE GREAT NATIONAL MEASURE.

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The Missouri Reporter, received by the las
mail, states thai Mr.. Benton has "declared II
public that he will not advocate the lmmedial'
annexation of Texas, even If he should be In
s,ructed to that effect" We trust there Will b
found some mistake in this statement, or at leas
thar some qualification of the declaration was
made at the time which was not communica
ted 10 the editor; and we notice the asser'ioI
not to censure the author OF the declaration
without more distinct ayowal, but 10 express
hope thai an error was committed In report
ing his words, and that he will himself embrace
an early occasion TO disclose his purposes III
such manner as TO preclude the possibility o
misconslruction.
Another incident, which transplred IN the
Senate Chamber last spring, and which has
given rise TO much speculation, and TO no htlie
animadyersion, it is hoped by large mass OF
the Democracy, will be fully explained by Mr.
Benton. We allude 10 the "bond OF Union
sealed by the Senator from Missouri with John
Quincy Adams. The explanation sought for
is whether he pledged himself TO unite with the
Massachuse member in implacabe hostility
10 the purposes OF the negotiators of the Treaty
of Annexation /; and whether he enlisted a
yindicator of the motives and action OF Mr..
Adams, against the charge of Mr.. Brown OF
Tennessee, and of Gen. Jackson, founded upon
information derived from MIR. Erving, once our
Minister at the Court of Madrid, that, after a
treaty negotiated by Mr.. K. had been consumma-
al IF tba IF w
our Southern boundary, he (Mr Adams) being
Secretary of State, under Mr.. Monroe, thrust
the treaty aside and negotiated one himself, fix
ing the boundary at the Sabine, and giving
away, or refusing TO have the territory OF Tex
as? An explanation on this point is unanl-
mously desired by the advocates OF immediate
annexation and the more vehementy, because
Mr. Benton has appended note TO one OF
the recent speeches, acknowledging that he
did Mr.. Adams great injustice in one OF his
editorials, wherein he ''imprecated curse" on
HIM for having given away this territory at the
time, and under the circumstances mentioned
above.
Understanding that Mr.. Benton has arrived in
this city, or is expected TO arrive in day OF
two, we will embrace this occasion to draw his
attention 10 another matter, not in a captious
spirit, or in the attitude Of assault but by a
respectful interrogatory, at the request of De
mocrat in Tennessee, to elicit information
Our friend in Tennessee has sent US a number
of the Jonesboro' Wing, dated October the 9th
containing what purports to be speech deliver
ed by Mr. b. in Boonville, Missouri, on the 18th
of September last, and written out for publica
ton by himself. Our correspondent has mark
ed sundry passages, which he desires US Il
copy, and to inquire if they were really uttered
by the orator. We comply with the request
knowing that if the extracts be not genuine, W,
will deserve the thanks of Mr.. Benton for thus
afIording him an opportunity of denying thei
authenticity:
"Mr Benton proceeded to the subject on which
all were anxious to hear him speak namely, the An
nexation of Texas Much Of the first part of IN
speech was taken up in establishing the position
which he had maintained upon the negotiation of th
first treaty, by which Texas was lost to through
the fundamentally Of Mr. Calhoun and other South
ern members Of Mr.. Monroes Cabinet. He rea,
the bill introduced by him at the last session Of Con
gress giving authority to the President to open nepo
explain and defend it. Let those who want Texa
~uh the Union he said, go for the bill let thos
who want Texas without the Union adhere TO tn,
dead treaty."
"Disunion was a primary obee, of the treaty al
intrigue for the Presidency ITS secondary object
land speculation and stock, jobbing were auxiiar,
objects and the four objects together brought for
ward at the time and in the manner in which il cam
forward, jus, forty days before the Baltimore Con
vention, and at the exact moment to mix with thu
Presidential election, and to make dssenson, discord
and mischief between the North and the South
Mr.. b. said he meant this for the prime movers an,
negotators OF the treaty. and not for those who sup
ported the treaty without participating in the view
Of the makers. He had in various speeches expose,
the disunion scheme and the intrigue for the Presi
deocy; he had not shown the part which the land
speculating and stock jobbiDg acted in connecting
the treaty and pressing its ratification. lie had no
noticed this part but IT was conspicuous one, an
was seen by every body at Washington. The cit
was a buzzard roost the Presidential mansion am
Department Of State were buzzard roosts defle
and polluted by the foul and vorscious birds in IN
shape Of Interpretations and stock jobbers VIII
their prey in the treaty and spared no effort l.
secure IT, Their own work was 10 support the trca
" and its friends-to asssi its opponents-to abus
the Senators who were against ito villify them
and lie upon them in speech and in writiug-and t
establish committee, still sitting in Washington t
promote and protect their interest.
"There were others who wanted il (Texas) fo
very different purposes-the disunonists for exam
ple-wbo wanted 10 use it for separating the slay,
holding from the pon-slavehoding States; Presider
tal intrguers, who wanted TO make and unmaL
Presidential candidates; and land-spe culators an
stock-jobpcrs, who wanted to enrich themselves
Throughout this speech, MIR. b. presented il :
the design Of the Texas treaty not to get Texas int
the Union, but TO get the Southern States out of !
and showed that the whole treaty, and all the CORE
pendence relating to II, was sludously and artfull
coptrivcd for that purpose To pick quarrel wi,
Great Britain, and slso the non-savehoid,ng Stat,
the subject Of slavery, was the open undisguse,
object Of the negotiator from the beginning TO IN
ending. To array the slaveboding against the no,