The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1847-03-04

arms ct others--cease TO labor 10 involve tba
whole army in his own unmanly retreat.
oP"n me evidence now given. drawn from ri.
public official acts alone. he stands the undispu,sa
author and architect of that cslamty History
VIII so write him down. Inexorable H,sropx
with her pen of iron and tablets of hrass. will 90
wriie him down: and two thousand wears hence
and three thousand years hence, the bow AT hs
lesson shall learn 1t in the book, that as Heler
was The cause of the Trojan, and ANTONY the
cause of the Roman civil war, and Lord NORTH
made the war Of the revolution, lust 81, ee,,a;,i
Is JOHN =. CALHOUN the au,hor of the presen,
war between the United States and Mexico
lie now sets mp fur the character of pac6cator
WIEN what Justice. let The further act proclaim
which ! now expose. Three hundred newsn,
Pers' IN the summer of 1914. in the pay of The
department Oh State, spoke the sentiments of
me department OF State, and pursued as traitors IN
The United States all who were for the peacefI
annexation of Texas by settling the boundary oe
ieSas with Mexico simultaneously with the an.
ne%atmR. Elere is the instructions nnder which,
the three hundred acted:
/" As the conductor Of the official journal here. bo
request l comply with readily "'"
,stu regard 10 tho course of your paper you
can 'ake the tone OF the administr ton from the
think, however, a nd would recon-,
mend that you would confne yourself to nttaoh,
| upon Benton, showing that he has allied bmseIf
with the wings the Texas question. omn,n
Jackson's letter on Texas where he denon,cSs Ii
,rea. traitors 70 the country who oppose the
by attacking Mr. Tyler and his friends. and dr;w.'
ng tnem from the party. is aiding the election of
ieat Mr. Poik, and insure himself the sue cesson in
lolo and claim that full justice be done 10 The ACT.
and motives of John Tyler by the leaders Harm
upon these strings. Do not propose the Union.
1T is the business OF the democrats to do This and
orange II to our perfect isaction. quote hire
from our leading friend at the South Such il The
course which reeommr nd, and which Won cnn
pursue; or nos according to your real attachments
to the Administrations
/" Look oat for my leader of tomorrow rs an in.
dcations and regard this letter as one of the most
strict ana invioablc confidence of charactcro
make no comment on this letter nor read the
other parts of il: time will como for thar n
is an original, and will Keep, and will prove il.
sell. merely read paragraph now to show
with what justice the person who was in the he.
paTtment of State when these 300 newspapers in
lis pay were thus attacking the men of peace
now sets mp Tor the character of paeifeateri,
MIR. Calhoun. Does he intend TO saw thai 7
ever wrote such letter?
Mr.. Benton. read it. I say nothing.
MI Cashoan. never wrote such letter as
Mr.. Benton. J have not said so.
MT. Calhoun take this occasion to say that
never exercised the slightes, influence over that
paper never had ihe'slightest connexion with
It. never was subscriber to it, and rvery rare.
y read it.
MIR. Benton. h was the work of one of the
organs OF the Administrations, not John Jones and
The instruction was followed by three hundred
newspapers, in the pay Of the Department of
have finished what propose To cav ~
this time, in relation TO the authorship of this
war confine myself TO the official words and
acts OF the senator. and rely upon them To show
that he. and not RIr. Polk, is The author of this
calamity. But. while thus presenting him as
the anthor OF The war, do not believe that war
was his object, but only an incident to his object =
and that all his conduct in relation TO the admis
sion of Texas refers itself to the periods of our
Presidental elections and to some connection with
those elections, and explains his activity and i'm.
activity on those occasions. Thus, in NAV. 1896
when he was in such hot and violent haste for
Immediate admission, the election of that wear
was Impending, and Mr.. Van Buren, the demo-
cratic candidate; and if The Texas question cond
then have been brought up. he might have been
showed aside just as easily as he was afterwards
IN 1914. Ebis explains his activity in 1885,
In lS4U, :he senator from Sonlh Carolina was q
sort OF supporter of MIR. Van Buren,, and might
have thought that one good turn deserves anoth.
er; and 80 nothing was said about Texas nj that
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS as the least delay four
years before and this may explain the inactiyi-
ty OF lS4O. The election of 1914 was coming
on, and the senator from Sonih Carolina was on
the turf himself; and then the Texa. auestion
with all its dangers and alarms. which had so ac-
coTnmodatlngly postponed themselves for seven
good years. suddenly woke up; and with an ac-
tivIty and vigor proportionsd TO its long repose-
Instant admission, at all hazards, and at The ex-
pehse OF renewing h0siihiies between Mexico and
Texas. and involving the United States in them.
became ispcnsable--neeessary to our own sal
Vatlon-a clear case Of self.defenee; and then
commenced alb those Vaccinations which ended
In tba &c n
Tor the presidency, and in producing The present
war with Mexico; but without making the sena-
tor President. And this may explain his activity
IN 1914 Now, another presidential election is
approaching AID, IF there is any truth in The rule
whch Interprets certain genlleTnen's declarations
by lhelT contraries, he viii be a candidate again;
and this may explain the reason of the nrodnc,ion
of that string Of resolutions which the senator laid
upon the table last week; and upon which he has
required us 10 vote Instantly as he did in the sud-
den Fexas movement in 1856 and with the same
maglsieTIal hook and attitude. The Texas slave
question has gone blythe Florida slave question
has gone bY-there is 10 chance for il now in any
OF lis old haunts: hence the necessity for new
theatre OF agitation, if we have to 90 as far
as California for II, and before we have cot Cali.
tornia. And thus, all the senator's conduct in re-
atlon to Texas, though inyofving his country in
war, may have bad no other object than TO govern
presidential election.
Our northern friends have exceeded my hopes
and expectations in getting themselves and The
Union safe thrOagh the Texas and slave questions.
and are entitled TO little cpose. So far from that
they are now TO be plunged into California slave
question, long before it could arise Of itself if ever
Ibe sizing Of resolutions laid on The table by the
senator from South Carolina is TO raise new slave
question on the bOrdeTs the Pacific, which upun
his own principles. cannot soon occur, if ever.
tie VIII not take the country by conquest
only by lresty-aad tia, treaty to be got by sitting