Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-06-28

e ton insists he has shown, are the subversior
e and destruction of the Union. In the exc
c cution of this design, Col B. says he can
= not be an instrument. He appeals from the
!. instructions he has received, he says, be-
: cause they are in conflict with instruction:
e already received and obeyed because they
t did not emanate from any known desire, oil
I. understood will of the people because they
, contain unconstitutional expositions of the
f constitution which am sworn to support
] because they require me TO promote disuu-
, ion; because they pledge the State to CO.
operate with other Ssaies in eventual civil
war; because they are copied from resolu-
, lions hatched for great mischief which |
} have right to oppose, and did oppose in
= my place of Senator in the Senate of the
{ United States, and which cannot cease OPP
: posing without personal disgrace and official
dereliction of public duty; and because |
, think it due to the people to give them an
opportunity to consider of proceedings SO
gravely affecting them, and on which they
, have not been consulted.
appeal to the pcople-the whole body
of the people. 1t is question above party,
J and should be kept above it. | mean to
keep it there.
COL Benton proceeds to expose the man
ner in which these resolutions were intro
duced into the Missouri Legislature. lie
says it is the result of conspiracy against
him formed by few citizens of the State
who are " adjuncts of Mr. Calhoun" They
attempted similar plot in 1874, on the an
nexatlon question, but it failed, aud its con-
trlvers went back into their perpetual state
of incubation. When the Calhoun resou-
tons were introduced he says he knew their
object, but determined not to expose it I'M
I'll the plot was ripe as exposure would
only postpone their plans. He, therefore,
wrote nothing about it to any Of his friends,
but let the thing take its course. They
waited for Calhouns address, and when that
was issued they brought forward their reso-
lutlons, too late, says Colonel Benton, for
the purpose Of instructing me how to vote
at Washington. 1t was too late for that
but was early enough for the summer cam
palgn at home; and, therefore, they were
passed and now | have them. | mean the
pIotters; and between them and me, hence
forth and forever, high wall and a deep
ditch aud no communion no compromise,
no caucus with them. Nor does it require
any boldness, on my part to give them de-
nance. There are only about dozen of
them-a bakers dozen, perhaps-and half
OF them outside of the Legislature. Woe
to Judges, If any such there are in this
work The children of Israel could not
stand the government of Judges; nor can we.
Col. b. closes by replying to the accusa-
ton that he was " Barnburner" He saws
hn IL. L.
his influence to prevent Mr. Van Buren, and
his friends from maintaining a separate or
ganzation, because it was wrong in prin-
ciple and would be injurious to the party
As to the Wimot proviso. he says he con-
sders it Jeflersons proviso-constitutiona
and, if passed by Congress, to be obeyed
like any other law.
California and New Mexico, he says, are
now free from slavery both by law and by
fact: and will forever remain free from it,
both by law and by fact As general pro-
position, unnecessary laws ought not to be
passed; but if it is passed. it is an empty
provision, having no practical effect what
ever. To make an issue against it between
the north and SOUTH is unwlse, for it is an
issue about nothing, and on the part Of the
south an issue made for defeat for Della
ware has instructed for it and that ensures
a majority in The Senate for the proviso,
there being already large majority in the
House Of Representatives. instructed for it.
But there is strong reason to claim for
bearance. This provso is the last card in
Calhoun's hand his last stake in the Slip
perry game which he has been playing
Take that last card from him, and his game
is up - bankruptcy comes upon him-po-
/ lilical bankruptcy-and he must be driven
to take the act. He will have to haul down
his sign, close his doors, shut up shop, and
give in schedule Of his effects aud stock
in trade; and beautiful schedule it will be.
As to his own opinions, he says they
ought to be well known from his writings,
his speeches and his votes in the Senate.
lie has always tried to avoid extremes, To
secure property, prevent agitation and give
general satisfaction. But if personal de-
claratlons are required, he says they shall
have them.
Then follow the two concluding para
graphs of Mr.. BIS speech published last
week.
have made no slave speeches in Con-
gress, and do not mean to make them. Prop
cry 10 tlHiu ana slave property ABOVE all.
1t is not right 10 disturb the quietude of the
owner-to harass him with groundless ap-
prehensions. 1t is a private wrong to dis
turb single individual, by making him be-
lieve, untruly, that his property is Insecure.
1t becomes public evil to disturb a whole
community. 1t creates general uneasi-
ness, generates animosities, deranges BUSH
ness, and often leads to hasty and IMPROVE
dent legislation. have seen no danger to
the slave property of any State in this Union
by the action of Congress- and cannot con-
tribute to alarm the country by engaging in
discussions which assert or imply danger.
But have still higher reason for not
engaging in these discussions. We are
republlc--the head of that form of govern
ment-and owe great example to a strug-
Cling and agonzed world. All the Amer
lcan States of Spanish origin, in spite of the
difference of religion, language manners,
customs, have. initiated our example; Europe
is now attempting to initiate it. Liberty is
now struggling in ancient empires, and her
yotaries are looking to US for the exempli-
iicaton of the blessings Of which she is in
search, and for All argument in favor of her
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