The Arkansas banner., 1849-10-09
Cnl. Reninn at lInm.

We find the following notice of speech made by the Missouri Senator In Lafayette county. tn thai State.
 | Col. Benton commenced his speech by sayine It is from no persanal considerations fellow sit;- xens, that BOw appear before yoas-nad us veS re- gard this fair specimen ol tho truthfalness of the speech, we shall not attempt an extended wyDopsts of it, promising that readers will be sattaled with knowing that be did net discourse upon the Wiluiol ProSiso, the right of iastrulon or the right Of appeal. Oa the cenraty. he spoke sgaiast tinae | nearly four hours ia defcaes of the States of ths North, and eadeavoring 10 prove that not lhey bat the South. had been the aggressors He augeIt us length npon the oFigia of The Hi-sosrt resas abused Judges Rireh and NsptoR ed h6ifhs and resd private letters which low toady had pat iBto his hands In violation oT honor sad coma,on courtesy. to prove that Birch had bargsined with some to attack BsntOa, provided he toox the Free Sol etaie, in consideration of which be- Birei, was to receive the appointment of supreme Judgs IT such bargain were made 1t could have teen made with no one but Bsnion's present ''aaJuHes." Aaslin 4. kiag g----.---
 He read the fourth of July toasts drank at the celebrations in South Carolina, and applied the seA- tients they expressed 10 his opponents ln Missouri He read letters from Abbott Lawrence. Robert C. Winthrop Wm. Sturgis, and other leading free soil Wings of Boston, inviting him to visit that city, and regretted Jas did most of his audience that he could not nov be with his northern frien nds in per
 
 son, As he Is in feeling.
 Finally. he boured his audience with an elaborate description of his pian for boring tunnel through the Rocky mountains, Ca distance Of about sevea hu ndred miles.l make way for his great raIlroad His "adJuncts listened to this last position n si- lent wonder, aud then looked al each other much say ''aint Old Tom some l''-bat tor our part although we have believed in the practicsbility of road since it proposed by MT. Whitney. who houg this last plan rather 'rsai#g the thing into the ground"
 A nnmoer of Benton's 'adjuncts'' from the neigh boring counties were present. and evidently desired that insult should be offered their idol, ia der that he might have public sympathy. ana that the cry o persecution coad be raised in his behalf Bot they sadly disappointed. The people of old Howard showed the world that they not quite barbarians, nor were they much alarmed at a wind mill, 10 indulge in the Quixotic reerea- ton of fighting Old Bullion; these vaoreus lad Juncis had the pleasure of returning home, carry ing their loaded pistols and hoodless bowie knives which they had found no oppor unity of nsing.
 Resolutions in favor Of Col Benton, had been prepared by MT. McNsir, but the colonel very pru- dently remarked, in the of his speech, that he never looked 10 resolutions passed at public meetings expression of the will of the people, but to their counienances." Bah Sour grapes. The colonel did not think at Liberty, when he held his resolutions in his hand and called upon his friends to pass them ''on the spot" lie knew fuil well that the powerful appeals he made 10 the whigs to come to the rescue would not save him in old Howard, and so disnissiug the audience which had been gradually diminishing for two hours, he and his friends precipitaey left Fayeite.
 Immediately on Col. Benton squittng the stand, Maj Thomas Jackson proceeded to read series Of resolutions, the conclusion of wh ch Hon. C. F Jackson addressed the meeting briefly, denounc- ing as utterly false. of tine positions taken by Benton, and adducing the proof. He declared that since il seemed 10 have become matter of so much importance, that he intended to luy before the pub He in q manner not to be controyerted minute statement of the manner in which the Missou uri solutions were prepared and the opinions of every one who was consulted in regard to them. Mr, Jacksou's remarks received with applause, and when he had concluded the meeting gauized and the resolutions which appear in anoth- CT column, were passed by acclana ion.