The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-24

Extract from Mr. Barton's Ertract fro
speech on Fools resolutions, ferson CT
In reply to Mr.. Benton, in May Dc, i
1880. Surely fhs
In our cheap republican ex- try had in
perlmenta form of government, address of
with comparatively few Offices, his farewell
the vast throng of the people of warned ther
the United States must, OF ne re-entations
cessity, be out of office. The who, for tn
vast throng, il agitated by office raise up sec
hunters, demagogues, asprants, the purpos'
and Caulines OF the day, may be part of the
abused, deceived, and ted asiray. His prophet
SO thought George Washington, present stat
The Father of his Country, when wrote this p
he penned the solemn warning, g In cont
with fathers care and a pa which may
triot's fear, in the following ex- occurs "a
tract from his Farewell Address; cern, that ar
cih such q prophetic trafh that been furnish
one might think him personal, parties by K
did he not recoiiect that Missouri nations no
ras not admitted into the Union, atlantic an
the late presidential contest had designing n
not happened, and this debate excite bell
hud not occurred, Dhen the rea- difference 9
cradle Aero prnncd the lines; views. On,
and, consequently, he could not party TO AGO
hare intended such direct per particular d
sonaiity. These are his words: resent the
.'in contemplating the causes other distrc
which may disturb our Union, il yourselves
occurs as matter Of serious con- eaIousies
cern, that any ground should which rprii
have been furnished for charac- reservations
terlzing parties by geographical der alien to
determinations northern and ought 10 b.
southern, atlantic and western, jraternal all
whence designing men may en-
deavor 20 excite belief that
there is n real difference of local
interests and views.
"0ne of the expcdients of par
~ To acquire influence in pariic-
ulsr districts IL to misreprcsent
the opinions and aims of other
districts. Yon cannot shield
yourselves too much against the
Iealousies and hearrburaings
which spring from these misre-
presentations they tend to rem
der alien 10 each other those
who ough, 10 be bound together
by fraternnI Affection"
1t will certainly, ! think, be con
on both sides OF the Father of
Benton, whose shrewdness has bee
least as often as his oratory, should
enough to perpetrate this silly plaQ
deceased colleague in the very State
had both. been elected to the Unit
and amidst the very people to wht
public career must needs be so Tar
reasonably have hoped, that the gal
erous-hearted Barton lived no longer in
OF those TO whom he was once so deal
CINE that he would be permitted TO brea
cred burial. place of the glorious dead.
steal from the clay-cold corpse of h,'
living. those gli,tering rhetorical yes
lately sparkled before the eyes of ad
without AT least mourning serious risk OF
plumage tornpublicly from its jack da
the very moment of his most eYultant
Well. for fear that the good people Of !
allyforgotten their once-loved senator,
TIE RED" and from the more selfish fe
a::perslons of Mr.. Benton may cause r
OF confidence and respect, as I hold
Southern Address, one and all, to be, to
oIscredlt among strangers, will lay Def
This has become favorI.c word