The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1849-07-18

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heaven thunder and lightning. My
associates are tall enough to be within
its magnificent range. Was it aimed
at the oak Of Kentucky, towering
among the clouds, and more within the
range Of the bolts of this modern Jupi.
ter Tonans? 1t was an ungrateful
bolt, and he who threw it is not of the
West! He is no native ofour maenifi.
cent valley Of the Mississippi. You
say the Percy is down, prostratc and
decapitated !! 1t was Falstaff thrust.
There is species of gallantry that al.
ways rises as it's antagonist falls-re-
wives as the blood spouts from his jugu.
lar; and vice versa, always sinks as he
rises: This species is always buster
ing, bullying, and hectoring, in manner,
mien, and tone. It is the true Falstaff
order. 1t was an ungrateful thrust in
the thigh la seare, and he who gave
it is no native of our valley. Ho came
to us unlimited complained of having
been driven by tyranny and persecu.
ton; desired our hospitality and auspi-
ces, and little room to lie down and
repose. The Percy found him weak
and distempered, politically; and nour-
ished and medicined him-put on his
own collar and inscription at large, with
a special 8Ss pointing to the words
"cousin to Percy's wife," These gave
him currency and consideration, and
introduced him to the grand hunt
Without the help of this collar and in
scription, it would have been as impossi.
BILE to have elevated him to his present
rank, as it would be to drag up from the
depth of the ditch, by frail woolen
thread, somc ponderous and inert mass.
Others thrust finger under that collar
and pulled, who have since had cause
to regret it, and washed their hands of
the whole affair. In what you call the
fallen fortunes of the assailed, and in
his acknowledged absence, it was on
ungrateful thrust. And why was it
made now, at the first session Of the new
and promising administration, and be-
fore such an audience, attracted by this
partisan massacre and pillage? accom-
panied, too, by full renunciation of
the American system--like tho shrewd
animal in the fable, casting the lions
hide into the bushes, or Thersitcs pull.
ing off Achilles armor, and dashing it
against the paveinent-m which there
has been so much roaring, and SO much
glittering in arms, on the western
plains, for near fourteen years."
1T was on ungrateful stab: for, but
for the kindness ofthe assailed, there
would have been no opportunity to have
introduced the graduation bill There
would have been no opportunity--afte1
triding the noble spirited Kentucky
iSsteed, until, surrounded and hamstrung
by the tCatilines of the day, he stumbled
to the fall-of sleaping, with true cir.
Gus somerset, upon the back Of the
parallel and winning horse, and going
on and claiming the stakes. Are these
paid, or are they still in prospect !?
Was it adjudged fair riding, or gross
jockeying? The assailed stands to the
assailant in the relation of Action to
his dogs, that unfeelingly pulled down
and devoured their master, who had
kindly fed them with his hands. The
minority in the West stand to the as
sailant in the relation of the husband.
man to the adder found chilled at his
door, which, when brought in and suffi-
GENTLY warmed, suddenly threw itself
into coil, and stung the favorite son
ofhis benefactor. We found the as.
sailant ofonr characters and our mo-
tives Q scrubby political scion; and
thought it fruit-bearing species. We
nourished it, and it grew ;.when 10 it
proved a political bohon. upas, and
blighted and desolated oil for miles
around its STEM"
The friends of Generals TAYLOR and
Scott can never pardon Col. Benton's
ungenerous and presumptuous. attempt
to supersede and disgrace both these
distinguished officers, when he claimed,
as junior Major General, the authori..
ty of commander-in-chief of the armies
in Mexico. Other reasons for Wing
opposition could be easily given; but /
hasten to state the opinion, founded up
on some investigation, that the Demo.
cratic party, as such, can never take
[up Thomas Hart Benton, of Missouri,
for the Presidency. And, 1st. They
cannot and will not do so, because it is
an nndeniabie fact, that for some years
past he has notsccrdially co,operated
with thcm, eithersin the Senate or else.
/ where, Cd. Because ho is notoriously
unsonnd; upon the tariff, having, as al.
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