The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1845-01-18
THE RUMoR AGAIN !

the annexation Of Texas, which required subse-
quenr negotiations with Mexico, and the cree
ton of certain number Of free States in the
Territory, and which, because Of lis immediate
impracticability gave such courage and hope TO
the Federal and Brush enemies Of the greatest
national question which has agilated The eoun-
Try for quarter Of a century.
We need not say that the pursuit Of such a
course on the part Of Col Benton will secure
the adoption Of the measure by majority in the
Seaats; nor that be would receive the sponla-
nrous thanks and congratulations OF the Demo
cratic party but We are quite sure that il would
produce an internal satisfaeton-a proud con-
seiouspe-s Of having done night, and Of having
corrected and redeemed an euor-whieh would
NOR. than compensate for all the jeers VI his
political zdyersaries for having apparently, and
for the first Time in his long Senatorial career,
deliberately rerrseed has steps, and promptly
abandoned a position In which The foes of An
neIAtion Mad vsinly supposed he had inevoea-
bly, enuenched himself. Such a recantaiion
would be greater achievement in the eyes OF
The world, nobler victory lover himself-ln
the estimation OF his political associates, than
aiding BRUSH diplomacy to achieve victory
over his country, and by distracting and diyi-
ding the party which has bestowed upon him so
many high honon.
II is said 10y the N. Y. Evening Pos) that
twenty Of the twenty -four Democratic mem
ben of the House of Representatives from
New York, have been induced to consent TO OPP
pose immediate annexation IL is farther said
(and, as we understand, on good authority } that
Governor Wright is making exertons TO have
the place of Messrs. Dickinson and Foster, who
are good men and true and we are credibly
informed that all these opponents Of the mea-
sure, have calculated upon the great weight Of
Col. Benton TO sustain them in the stand they
have determined TO make against the expressed
will of the sovereign People. But, if the signs
do not deceive US, he will disappoint them all !
Like Corolanus, leagued with Aufdius, Col
Benton has been placed in hostile array against
the Capitol-unlike the Roman, however, he
sured, he has determined TO save, rather than
destroy his country. Nor will he be the victim
Of The Vosci for his patriotism.
Col. Benton must be we'll aware that these
New York members (but we doubt the num-
ber) would never have yielded 10 the importu-
mites Of the opponents of annexation had it not
been demonstrate that their great State turned
the balance in the recent Presidential election
in favor of Col. Polk. But he is also aware
that, but for his own unfortunate course in the
West, Tennessee would have been carried BY
the Democracy, and which would have pro-
duced quite different state Of things. And
now he must be conscious that it is incumbent
on him TO retrieve the mischefs of the past,
and that while placing himself rect,ls in curid,
it is his duty 10 put his gigantic shoulder TO the
wheel and assist, at once, in pushing through
the great measure Of the People. He had only
to be told (and it was substantially done in
Gen. Jackson's letter to Mr.. Bair) that the ene-
mics Of his country relied upon his services, to
make him resoute 10 "crush them like glass %
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