Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1847-03-11

allied himself with the wings on the Texas question Quote
Jckson letter Texas, where he denOunces all those as
traitors the the country who oppose the treaty Apply Il
to Benton. Proclaim that Benton, by attacking Mr. Tyler
and his friends and driving them from the party. aiding
defeat MT Polk and insure himself the in
and claim that Justice be done the and motives Of
John Tyler by the leaders. Harp upon these strings DO
propose the Unions ait is the business Of the democrats
do this and arrange it TO perfect satisfaction quote
from leading friend the south Such the
which recommend, and which you can pursue OF not se
cOIding your real attachment to the administration"
"LOok out for my leader Of an indication,
regard this letter Of the most sct and nvOate con-
hdenee Of character"
make no comment on this letter, nor read the
other parts of it time will for that. 1t is
original, and will keep, and will prove ITSELF 1
merely read paragraph now TO show with what
Justice the person who was in the Department Of
State when these 500 newspapers in its pay were
thus attacking the Of peace, now sets up for the
character of pacifcator.
mr. CALHOUN. Does he intend to say that ever
wrote such letter
Mr. BENTON. read il. / say nothing.
I MIR. CALHOUN | never wrote such letter as that!
Mr.. BENTON. have not said so.
Mr. CALHOUN. | take this occasion to say that
exercised the slightest influence over that pa
per. ] never had the slightest connexion with 1t. l
never was subscriber to it, and very rarely read IL
Mr.. BENTON II the work of one of the organs
of the administration, not John Jones; and the IN
struction was followed by three hundred newspapers
in the pay of tie Department of State.
have now finished what | propose to say, at this
time, in relation 10 the authorship of this war. |
conine myself to the official words and acts Of the
senators and rely upon them to show that be- and not
MIR. Polk is the author Of this calamity. But, while
thus presenting him as the author of the war, do
not believe that war his object, but only incl
dent his object; and that all his conduct in rea-
laton TO the admission Of Texas refers itself TO the
periods of presidential elections, and TO some
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activity and inactivity those occasions. Thus,
in Nav. 1886, when he was in such hot and violent
haste for immediate admission, the election of that
year was impending, and Mr.. Van Buren, the demo-
cratic candidate; and if the Texas question could
then have been brought up, be might have been
showed aside just easily he was afterwards in
1874. This explains his activity in 1886. in lS4O,
the Senator from South Carolina sort Of
supporter of MIR. Van Buren, and might have thought
that good turn deserves another; and nothing
was said about Texas at that Acknowledgements as
the least delay four years before and this may
explain the inactivity of 1910. The election of lS44
was coming on, and the senator from South Carolina
the turf HIMSELF and then the Texas question,
with all its dangers and alarms, which had so
modatingy postponed themselves for good years,
suddenly woke up; and with an activity and vlgor
proportional its long repose. Instant admission, at
all hazards and at the expense OF renewing hostites
between Mexico and Texas, and involving the United
States in them, became ndispensable-necessary to
our own salvation-a clear Of self-defence: and
then commenced all those Vaccinations which ended
in the overthrow of Mr. Van Buren, ard MIR. Clay for
| the presidency and In producing the present
with Mexico; but without making the senator Presi-
dent. And this may explain his activity IN lS44.
Now, another presidential election is approaching
and If there Is any truth IN the rule which inter-
prets certain gentemen's declarations by their con-
traries, he will be a candidate again and this may
explain the reason of the production OF that string Of
he tab last
week and upon which he has required US to vote
instantly as he did in the sudden Texas movement Of
1885, and with the magisterial look and atti
tude. The Texas slave question has gone blythe
Florida slave question has gone by-there is no
chance for it in any of its old haunts hence the
necessity for theatre of agitation, even if we
have 10 90 as far as California for it, and before we
have got California. And thus, all the senator's con-
duct in relation to Texas, though involving his coun-
try in war, may have had no other object than to
govern presidential election.
Our northern friends have exceeded my hopes and
expectations in getting themselves and the Union safe
through the Texas and slave questions and are entI-
tied to little repose So far from that they are now
to be plunged into California slave question, long
before it could arise of ITSELF if ever The string of
resolutions laid on the table by the senator from South
Carolina is to raise a slave question on the bor-
ders Of the Pacific, which, upon his principles,
cannot occur, if He will not take the
country by conquest-only by treaty-and that treaty
10 De gOl by Slltng Out lne DieACanS Oh ihe vi OC
{ cupaton. At the time he shows that he knows
that Spanish blood is good at that game, and shows
that they sat it out and fought out for 500 years,
against the Moors occupying half their country. By
| the-by, it only 7U0; but that Is enough; lO0
years is no object in such matter. The Spaniards
held out 700 years against the Moors, holding half
their country and 800 against half Of the other half
and, what is material, whipped them both out at
the end of the time. This is poor chance for CALI
ornia on the senator's principles HIS i've regiments
would be whipped out in fraction of the time; but
e no matter; men contend violently for nothing
than for something; and if he get up the Califor
MIA slave question now, IT will answer all the purpo-
ses of reality if the question should never arse
: In point of fact.
The senator from South Carolina has been wrong in
all this business from beginning to endIng-wrong
: in 1919, in giving away Texas-wrong in 1886, in
his sudden and hot haste to get her back-wrong IN
all his Vaccinations for bringing the Texss ques-
ton of lS44-wrong in breaking up the armstice and
peace negotiations between Mexico and Texas-wrcng
D In secretly sending the army and navy TO fight Next
+ CO while we were at peace with her-wrong in Sc
cretly appointing the President Of Texas president
general of the army and navy of the United States,
e with leave to fight them against power with whom
we were at peace-wrong IN writing to Mexico that
he took Texas in view of all possible consequences,
meaning waI-wrong in secretly offering Mexico at
the same time, ten millions of dollars to hush up the
war which he had created-wrong in refusing
Mr. Polk three millions aid in getting out of the
war which he made-wroDg in throwing the blame of
this of his making upon the shoulders of Mr.
Polk-wrong IN his retreat and occupation line of
pocy-wrong In expeng old Father Richie from
the Senate, who worked hard for him during the
4 Texas annexation; and more wrong than ever
in that string of resolutions which he has laid upon
the table, and in which, as Sylla In the young
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