The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-08-11
soathern Opinion OF Mr.. taIsoun.u Address.

The following criticism upon the recent address
Of Mr.. Calhoun, 10 the Southern people, sccords
so well with our own opinion Of thai document,
that we cannot refrain from giving il a place 10
our columns- Wecopy II from the New Orleans
CTesesHt:-Lou. CouT.
Ma. CALsoUs's ADDREss.-The manifesto of
the South Carolina Senator has al length appeared
A. we dad not publish The speech Of Mr. Benton.
10 which Mr.. Cslhoun's address is q reply, we Go
not teel called upon 10 give up our columns 10
he neutrality-suspicious. entirely personsl-whieh
The South Carolnisn has attempted We shall
moist present attempt even an analysis of the long
document which comes 10 US from Fou Hill We
propose 10 notice only one Of the assumptions Of
the address.
The address Is directed TO the people of the
southern States; aud throughout Mr. Calhoun
seems 10 consider every attack upon himself as
IN attack on the southern people. Mr. Benton
has often been accused of arrogance. He has
hardly ever made more conspicuous exhibition
of this trait of his character than in his recent
Missouri speeches. But Mr.. Benton, in his bold.
est fight OF presumption never re ached the he sht
TO which Mr.. Calhoun sttains when he pretends
hat he IS the represe tative of the opinions and
The feelings OF the whole southern people. The
arrogance of Mr.. Benton 10 entirely personal or
al most confined 10 his family. II INJURIES no one
but himself and his particular friends and il mat
Ter more for ridicule Than for censure. Mr. Cal.
h1uns PTesump tion-not open and bold as that
VI his competitor, but Of that sickly sort which
pgetends not to be what il isis more serious in
It's effects--more dangerouly in its consequence
Mt. Benton defends his son.in-law, Fremont. and
no one but the poor Lieutenant Colonel feels the
fatal consequences Of Bentonian arrogance and
Bentonism friendship. Mr.. Calhoun-loftier in
his pretensons-assumes 10 be the champion OF
the south. He damns US with his eternal defence
OF orr ights. He smothers US with his carresses,
and oveTwhelms with bis protestations of de-
votion 10 our interests. We would fain have fewer
professions and more discretion -sf conduct--a
little less zeal in the words and little more wis.
dom in the deeds. We would not be the victims
Of Calhoun's vanity as Col Fremont was of his
aIher.in-law's indiscreeI interference.
Ii may be very well tor Mr.. CaIhoun 10 sneer as
he does in his address, at Mr. Benton's over esti-
mate OF himself Like the Pharisee in the tenn
pie, he seems 10 thank God that he is not as the
publican, and very od-msidishly affects 10 have
very small opinion Of hmselfand his abilities But
in our opinion, he far out-Benton' s. Benton when
he puts himself up as the great representative and
advocate of southern interests and southern rights
He presumes 10 have for his constituents the peo-
pie OF fifteen sovereign States-unsstisfed as be
is with representing the Immaculate State of
South Carolina. When he furnishes US with Gre
dentials of his Senstorship from the south, we
may admit his right to speak in the name Of the
whole southern people.