The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-05-04

| From this extract II VIII DO sssa shst lhen
viewed the Texan question phaet sli ltS aepeets'
and considered what was dye TO Mexico and the
United States, well as what wished In rela-
ton to Texas itself"
"For myself it might be supposed that take
some pride in seeing so many marching up now
to the point at " hich stood solitary and alone
twenty five years ago but it is mol so. | am too
old for that puerillily, and too much friend to
popular government to rejoice in anything which
| is discreditabe TO it,"
"Wth respect to Texas, her destiny is fixed
Of course !, who consider what am about, always
speak of Texas as constituted at the time of the
treaty OF 1919, and not as constituted by the Re-
public of Texas, comprehending the capital and
forty towns and villages of New Mexico"
No one can deny, after reading the above ex-
tracts, that Col Benton has proited by the tuition
of that gentle and unobtrusve old sage of the
Hermitage. Where else could he have acquired
such dlffidence of his own judgment? Where
such Difference for the opinions of others! Or
where, but in the atmosphere OF General Jackson,
could Col. Benton have formed so modest sense
of his own consequence! The hero of New Or
leans was wont to say, :" take the responsible
~" swear by the Eternal" His pupil, Mr..
Benton, says, " am man of head and thought"
81 knew" 81 said" | saw twenty-five years
ago" what others are vaguely beginning to un-
derstand now.
The attentive reader will have noted, in addi-
ton to these literary excellencies, that the gall
liant Colonel has aimed fling or two at Messrs,
Calhoun and Tyler, which we confess we relish
very much. 1t is highly credtable TO him that he
takes occasion, en- PEASANT, to do justice to Mr..
Adams which, however, is at the expense of
Mr.. Calhoun, who was one of "the majority Of
Mr.. Moaroe's Cabinet" He says:
Mr.. Adams, the negotiator and the ostensiblc
author of the treaty, was the statesman against
whom all my censure was directed, and was
certainly sincere in my then belief of his great
culpablllty; but the declaration which he has re-
Gently made on the floor of the House of Repre-
sentatves absolves him from all censure on ac-
count of that treaty, and places the blame on the
majority of Mr.. Monroe's Cabinet, by whose votes
ne was governed, contrary TO his own opinions, in
establishing the boundary which he SO much
condemned
Our limits debar us the pleasure Of extending
our extracts from this notable production, which
should not be held amenable to the rules Of En-
glish criticism, formed and established under the
arbitrary denomination of Courts and Kings. The
people of this free country will not much longer
submit to such dictation, and it well beseems such
heroes as Col. Benton and Col. Johnson to lead
on the revolt. In becoming the champions of this
reform, they will only be following in the foot
steps of their illustrous predecessor" who, it is
known, has ever shown as much contempt for En-
glish grammar, as he has done for English bayo-
nets.
We subjoin the conclusion of the Cooners let
ter, which strikes us as possessing dash of the
originality for which the whole production is dis
tnguished:
Respectfully, gentlemen, your obliged friend,
who will be happy to salute you as his esteemed
fellow citizens, THOMAS H. BENTON"