The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-13

was an euloglum on General JACKSON,
delivered in the capital of Missouri, on the
9Th of January, lS49, by invitation Of the
General Assembly. OF this eulogium Mr..
BENTON says that nearly two-thirds of the
whole turned out to be the notification
doctrine of Mr. CALHOUN. After citing a
number of passages from this eulogium,
Mr. BENTON says
THE reader will think | am quoting from Cal
houn; and, in fact, il is Every sentiment quoted
is his-often the very words, though usually boat-
| ed and distended into turbid bombast-and what
has constituted the staple of all the notification ha-
rangues-the wool and warp, chain and filling-oi
| all these delectable harangues for fourteen long
years-from the proclamation of the crisis in 1885
down to the publication of that Southern Address
| now adopted as the second 'sDeclaraton of indie
| pendence," TO which the State of Missouri has one
| signer All is the same, and all picking quarrel
with the North upon false and absurd grounds, for
the purpose of getting pretext for that Southern
| convention, and Southern confederacy, which has
| been the vision Of Mr. Calhoun's fancy from the
time he knew that Jackson did not wish him for his
| successor.
''Ths is the ground the resolutions were to cover,
and did cover. They were to be- and were, multi
fcation and disunion falsely charging Congress
with design to abolish slavery in the States, and
| making the passage of the old Jefferson provlso,
falsely called Wilnot's, the signal for the imme-
dfate separation of all the slave States from the free
States. No wonder it was oreseen that would not
| obey such resolutions"
| Mr.. BENTON complains that, though
| these resolutions were introduced in the
Legislature on the 18th Of January, they
were not passed until after the adjourn
ment of Congress, and in the very last
days of the session Of the General As
sembly. 'They were held back,' he
says, g to the last moment and then
gagged through by the help of the Abo-
lition lie, and the scare-crow provso
Members present, with speeches pre-
pared to show the character of the reso-
lutions, were gagged down. Amend
ments in favor Of preserving the Union
in favor of substituting the compro-
mise instructions of the session before
in favor of leaving the constitutionality
of the Congress Legislation to the judi
ciary and the ballot-box-in favor of
reserving to Missouri the privilege of
deciding for herself in what manner she
would co operate-all, all were voted
down! and the resolutions were passed
precisely as drawn up by notification
Judge of the Supreme Court, to cover
the ground of notification harangue by
BIRCH, compiled from the notification
essays of CALHOUN. Thus passed, they
were to be enforced, according to the
original contract, under the preconcerted
wolf-howl OF obey or resign"
Mr.. BENTON complains, further, that
among those who have assailed him, though
generally at the respectful distance of an
hundred miles in the rear, are four of his
colleagues in Congress-Messrs. ATcHI.
SON, GREEN, HALL, and JAMESON. His
colleague in the Senate, Mr.. ATcHlsoN
T seems to have denounced him with grea
bitterness, and in language singularly in,
decorous. Among other things, Mr.. AT.
Gibson is reported to have said that he
regretted that, at the bursting of the great
gun on board the Princeton, "Martin Van
Buren,, Tom Benton, Henry Clay, and
John Tyler were not sitting astraddle of il
at the time"
After having developed the objects and
exposed the agents of the alleged conspi.
racy, Mr.. BENTON says that he knows nc
cause for II except that he is the natural
enemy OF all rotten politicians, and, since
the death of General JACKSON, a chief OBJ
stacle to MIR. CALHoUN's scheme of a
Southern Confederacy. He adds that he
shall arraign the conspirators-now, at the
bar of the people; next summer, at the
elections; and, the winter after, at the bar
Of the General Assembly. That body,
he adds, " should be one of publication.
We want men elected who feel for the
STATE and the UNIoN-men of head and
nerve, who will put the knife into the rot
ten and cut if out"
We have reviewed the documents thus
put forth by Mr.. BENTON, to show the
hopeless alienation that exists between his
friends and those of Mr. CALHOUN at the
South. Ii is Paralleled by the difference
between the followers of General CAss
and MIR. VAN buren, at the North. 1t is
impossible that these personal feuds should
: ever be reconciled. Meanwhile the houses
OF Richmond and Albany are both in the
dust. The pride of the BRocKENBRoUGHs,
the STEvENsoNs, DENBYs, OsBoRNEs,
+ RtTcHiEs aud HAsoNs, has had a fall.
Derlslon and contempt are the lot of the
, elite of the distinguished Democrats OF
Richmond. The last vestiges of concen-
, trated power have been torn from the once
potent Regency of Albany. Look where
we may, the old Democratic organization
Is dissolved. Old Hunkerism has seen