The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-03-25
LABOR IN VAIN.


Colonel BIS course are TOO threatening 10 DC
either forgotten or yindicated at this particular
junclure.
But what seems TO be a herculean task TO
others-thal of extorting from The great Repuo-
lcan party an ungraceful acqusscenee In disas-
irons movements which have been once con-
demned-may seem TO be quite easy oil accom-
plishment 10 the writers, and capitalists and
machinery Of our formidable neighbors. oppo-
nents of humble pretensions may be overaSed J;
rivals of limited means may be crushedj and
thus, with no competitor smear the throne,
such an oyershadowlng press may not only adj
vance Colonel b. to the head of the party, but
even assume TO assign secondary position to
the President himself. That it has one grand
object in yiew-the advancement OF It's peculiar
fayorites TO supreme command IN the Demo
cratic party, and the demolition OF all others,
even of Presidents and Cabinets, should they be
found among the protestants-has been more
than once asserted and seems to be justified
and confirmed by rigid adherence to the in
tolerant and dictatonal course it adopted seye-
raj years ago.
Whenever the Globe shall succeed in con-
vincing the Republican party that Colonel Ben
ton was altogether right, and merits immeasurabe
praise, iOl his conduct in relation to the treaty
of annexation-to the letter of General Jack
son, which he asserted had been "Yicariously
obtainedn-to the last presidential campaign, in
furnishing electioneering documents for the lri-
umphant Wings in Ohio and Tennessee-then
we shall no longer dispute that he is one of the
greatest of men, and that his organ is one Of the
mightest of journals. But when it shall de-
monsuate that the negotiators of the treaty
merely designed TO furnish carcass Of couup-
lion, for the birds of evil omen-apd that Gene
raj Jackson Colonel Polk, and all of the dstin-
guished men who approved the treaty were
loalhsome buzzards"-and moreover, shall
compel them to confess the charge, and reward
the accusers for making it-then we all should be
ready to bow to Gesler's hat, for the Clique will
be content with nothing less than to GOVERN THE
GOVERNMENT ITSELF.
The Globe says there was vote of two
thirds against the treaty. True-but if Colonel
Benton had not carried portion of the Demo-
cratic voters against it, it might have been rat-
fed, nevertheless. Archer, Rives, Berien,
Johnson, Barrow, Merrick, Henderson and one
or two others might, and we think would, have
voted for it.
That our readers may see that we do not mis-
represent the course and purposes of the Globe,
we append the article alluded to- or at least all
that portion of it relating to "the Tyler treaty.
From the Globe.
THE PASSAGE OF THE TEXAS ACT.
Injustice has been done to several of the prominent
men who took leading part in opening the way to
the restoration of Texas. near observer, in our
position, cannot discharge his duty wtho correcting
false impressions and Misrepresentation a subject
of such Importance.
COLONEL BENToN's opposition to the Tyler treaty
has been industrlousy misconstIued by his enemies,
hostility to the recovery of Texas His labors TO
Illustrate the alienation Of this fine country in 1919
his anxious efforts made in cooperation nth Gen
Jackson Mr.. Van Buren, at every epoch tina,
seemed to render 1t possble-stand for nothing The
opposition to the attempt Of Mr. Tyler to identify this
great measure toih himself at time which repder red
such Embodiment fatal to its success is held un "a
conclusive proof thai Coz. BENTON sought to defeat
what his policy was meant to save. Time has made
manifest to the whole country, what was perfectly
manifest to the Tyler administration when the treaty
dominant in that body, would, under no crcumstan
ces pass it. So far from getting from that party
to make up two-hirds Majority the treaty could not
command solitary ay from that side in its support
and it fell by vote OF two-thirds against it. Bul be-
sides the repugnance of the party which Mr. Tler had
then recently betrayed to any which they
ed was shaped by him to to his personal
there were other ingredients thrown in by Mr. Tuier's
minister to defeat the measure. 1t was made to sub
serve the principle Of slavery not only as an existing
mat ntinn hut N Y,y nj 7
vanced with or without the Union These crcum-
stances put the badge the measure as presented by
The Tyler administration, which called forth COLONEL
BENToN's opposition to IL. Although the most devo,-
ed defender OF every inch of territory embraced in
the louisiana treaty-athoush infexbIe in the asser
ton of our right to The ,ohote valley Of The Mssspp
and all the tributary streams ,ohch perpaded IT, vel l.,
would not; TO reach the recovery of what our gov
eminent had most shamefully abandoned, against his
circumstances quarter of a century before seek il
through a mode ,ohich promised no success-whicb
was coupled with political intrigue--which shocked the
political feelings Of both the great parties Of the Union-
which shocked the CONSCIENTIOUS con lotions of the
larges, section upon question of abstract morality
and which was contriveo to make the dissolution OF
the coniederacy an issue in the controversy.
1t was this aspect Of the question of annex ion.
as embraced in the proposition of Mr. Tyler present
ed Nth knowledge that hras abortipe in the beginning
as tar as the pretended object of the treaty then SUB
mit'ed went but dragging after il political intrigue
JO' e""e use " HUiuence We preStdcnftot election,
which called down COLONEL BENToN's reprobation
No one can mistake the nature of the imputed
intrigue in the final paragraph. The treaty was
reprobated, and is reprobared-by Col. Benton
for we presume the article in the Globe comes
from his pen-because it resulted in the over
throw of Mr.. Van Buren-who might have
made Mr.. Benton his Secretary of state-and
the elevation of Mr.. Polk. Mr.. Tyler was not
named in the Convention which worked this
Revolution.
LAMENTATIONS OF THE ENEMY.