The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-30
WASHINGTON, June Is, 1913.

WASHINGTON, June %, 1913.
The Senate The Proriso- The P,csidency--Infc-
resting Situation of Colonel Benton.
When the wooden horse was admitted into Troy,
it was found to be full of men, armed to the teeth.
So of this Wimot proviso 1t has got into the
Senate-its armed men are there; and though the
horse may be thrown out, the warriors will re-
main in the citadel.
Mr. Berrien spoke to-day on the subject, deny
ing the power of Congress to exclude slavery from
the territories of the Union, and entered into an
elaborate legal refutation opposite interpre-
tation, of the Legislative acts and judicial deci
slons quoted by Mr.. Dix in his speech of Monday
last.
We should like to hear Thomas Corwin on this
subject, in connection with the Presidential con-
test. The most vrulent denouncer of the war
the most emphatic IN proclalmlng Its injustice and
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS his opposition even
to voting against the supplles--the most decided
sfree soil" advocate--the most nveterate opponent
of slave extension--the fixed, infexible enemy of
Presidential aspirants whose claims are brought
from the well won fields af Mexico-we expect
(Dery great, peculiar speech, if Mr. Corwin shall
empt TO rec oncile these things with his advocacy
of old Rough and Ready for the Presidency. We
suppose that he and MI. Giddings consider them
selves as wings first, and as abotionists only
when circumstances will suit. Or, peradventure,
Mr. Coewln, finding that he went too far in his re-
nowned speech on the Mexican war, seizes the
present occasion for such atonement as he may be
able to make
But the situation of Mr.. CorwIn is not half so in
terestng as that Of Col. Benton Mr.. Crutchett
feels some at the taking down and casting aside
his long pole and lantern. The night before the
Navy Yard bostswsn went up on the dome, to
make his arrangements for easing down that i'm
mense hemock and its prodigious lantern, said
lantern was Illuminated for the last time,
casting its beams for many mile around. So OF
Col. Benton; standing at the top of the demo-
craze NOMINATIONS, he casts his beams of
APPRECIATION all over the region round about, like
Buren, takes him down. He hardly returns from
New York. when this letter Of his " old friend and
pitcher comes in upon him. For eIgIr long
years the great end Of Col. Benton has been to Sc
cure the reelection of Mr.. Van Buren, He was
ruled out in '44-Co Benton rebelled for while;
but assented at length TO necessity, looking with
hope where all others had ceased to hope, to the
denomination of Mr. Van Buren, in 1S4S Of course
he failed again Then, believing that the case was
o0-that the day and the hope OF Mr. Van Buren,
werHone-he promptly adopted his friend
General. Cas-, whom he had watched with vigil
lance, dtsRrusf, and great Partially. and
urged him upon the democracy of the North The
question will inslnuate itself, would Col. Benton
have gone TO the North, with Gen. Cass, as the
lesser AJAX. had he been assured of what has fol-
lowed at Utical Would he not have remained
at9tasf quiet and neutral, even if he did not Join
~ the Van Duran conspiracy We incline TO
thinlhe would not have gone TO New York out of
resrcci TO thHc x-presldent
lie went AZ mediator with the barnburners.
ne now tnds himself, and in spite Of himself, q