Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-05

alt will be perceived that the above few lines VI
terly demosh a multitude Of theories and columns
of defamation which have been spent pro and CON
upon The so.caled Benton's bill aud the compromise,
and will give concise history of the reasons which
led Senator Haywood TO this course, which resuilt d
in The passage Of The resolutions.
81 have ascertained that while the House resolu-
tions were before the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tons of the Senate. inquiries were diligently made as
to the support which they were likely 10 meet among
the democratic Senator'S, From these inquiries
Senator Haywood ascerIaned that IN their then form
il would be impossible 10 pass them, several demo
cratic Senators being irrecUnceably opposed 10
them ,iand others yielding very reluctant support.
In tins dllemma, Senator Hay wood drew up the bill
known rs "Benton's Bill, - and, hacked by Senator
Dix, he induced Col. Benton To offer il in the Sen
ate. 1t will, too, be remembered that all the pa
pers, Of whatever politics. Tor some time after the
House resolutions were before the Senate, we're o
the opinion that The resolutions could not be passed
bet would be dafeaied in The Senate; nor IL un
Ill some time after the Introduction of "Benton's
Bi that hopes Of contrary result were entertain
ed, and fears expressedb by the wing presses.
SHOW, il has been supposed by a very large mum
her of person. that "Bent0n's Biz WAS introduced
for the purpose Of defeating the annexation. If the
Cnlonel's twenty years devotion to Texas annexa
ton were not sufficient 10 disprOve the charge the
above facts do so mnst completev tor 1t is showr
the House resolutions could not have been passed -
Apaln, if that had been the object Of the Bill, VIII,
was moi offered as ''substituie" for the House
resolutions, instead of separae bill That il could
have been substituted is certain, for all the wings
ould have voted for such substitution. What IheI
becomes ofthis superstition? Does it not fall Of il,
own weight? The fact is, that Senator Haywood
fureseeing the danger of the loss nf the measure
| knowing thai the House resolutions could not b.
passed alone. and knowing that although the whgi
| would vote for the substitution Of "BeniOn's Bill,
vet the, would afterwards vote against the amende.
measure, when tie, might be joined by eXaspeIa,e,
/ a uttA If....
Senator Haywood seeing Tins, proposed the Com
! d. omise which Mr.. Walker offered, and thus uniiet
the demuc ratio party, by advising with its ndividu,
members and inducing them To yield hearty supper
TO the amended measure
| "Thus II might lie acknow lodged by the most cas-
h, and reasoner, that ''bent0h's BIZ WA
offered, not destroy, but to accomplish the
alton of Texas. and that il had actually that effect
| foI without il, annexation could not have been car
ried. Col Benton, as | have before said, has pub
icl attributed the authorship Of the Bill to Senate
HAYWOOD; and he ascribes the whole proceeding an.
success Of the measure 10 The patriotism, sagacity
and state smanshp Of that Senator, being too big
minded to claim honors which belong In others; ant
this short history of "BentOns Bill" and the Com
promise, shows that though Senator Haywood doe
not put forth claim before The public for the mer
Of the passage 81 the measure, yet he is none The
less entitled to Il, and that TO him belongs the homo
of having done more than any other Senator to car
~ Texas annexation thro' Congress, and To unit'
MS parry upon tlat Important WINE VI ie
moves all ground from the arguments which have hat
''sInister otves' for their burden in relation Il
s.Benton's BilI' and its supposed author''
Thus will be seen by the foregoing, that Senator
Haywood was the author Of the bill introduced b,
Mr.. Benton, IN afterwards added, on motion u
Mr.. Walker, 10 The Resolutions of MIR. Milto
Brown, which finally passed both Houses; and tina
Mr.. Benton himself, with nagnanimily which n
man knows better how 10 display than Mr.. Benton
attributes to Senator Haywood the authorship of III
amendnendnenr, and beslows upon him call th