Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1849-06-21

sure, vermont and Rhode lSland-Was even
through Massachusetts-and came nose
ahead on the Northern track. He actually
beat Mr. Adams in abolition states-and
with Justice. He had done more than him
for free soil, and with more merit, being
himself an inhabitant of slave soil. told
him all this in my first CdlhOunidc, in Me
Senate of the United States, four days az
ter he put in his lire-brand resolutions, in
my speech to show him to be the true au-
thor of the Mexican war.
Mr.. Calhoun then disavowed all respon-
sibillty in the matter, by saying that he was
not then a member of Congress but evi-
dence since developed shows that as mem
Der of the Cabinet, his action was more in
! fluential than it could have been in Con-
! gress Mr.. Benton thus excuses these de-
tailed personal references to Mr.. Calhoun ::
am mortified to dwell upon Mr.. Cal
houn. 1t is neither my habit nor my pleas
ure to speak of men. In near thirty years
that have been in Congress, have never
brought the name of any man before the
public. l am now forced to do it. Mr.
Calhouns resolutions are those of the Mis-
souri, Legislature. They are IDENTICAL
One is copied from the other When the
original is invaIidated, the copy is of no a.
vail. | am answering his resolutions, and
chose to do it. 1t is just and proper that |
should do so. lie is the prime mover and
head contrver. | have had no chance to
answer him in the Senate, and it will not
do to allow him to take snap judgment up
on me in Missouri, and carry disunion res
olutions in my own State, which he has
been forced to abandon in the Senate Du-
ty to the country requires me to answer him,
and personal reasons reinforce that public
duty. He has been instigatng attacks up
on me for twenty years-ever since stood
by Jackson and the Union in the first war
of notification. His Duff Green Telegraph
commenced upon me at the same time it did
upon Jackson, and for the same cause--be-
cause we stood by the Union Last sum-
mer, in his own State of South Carolina
where never was, he dragged my name
and that of Gen. Houston before his con.
sttuents, and denounced us in public
speech, and held us up to public reproba.
ton. He accused US of detection to the
South-the Interpretation being that we
would not Join him in hi, scheme Of a
Southern Convention, to array one half oil
the Union against the other aud form a
Southern conlederacy. 1t was an audacious
attack upon two absent gentlemen, and who
as Senators, were entitled to senatorial cour.
tcsy from him. Neither Gen. Houston nor
myself thought it right to suffer such an at.
tack to pass with impunity; but we did not
think the floor of the Senate the proper
place for replying to an attack made out o
doors. The forum of our respective States
was deemed the proper place. He had as
sailed us before his constituents, and we de-
termined to answer him before ours. Gen
eral Houston has replied. He did SO dur.
ing the past session of Congress, in pub
lished address to his constituents. 1t was
published while Mr.. Calhoun was in the city
aud where he might answer it if he pleased
He did not SO please. He stood mute-a.
/ if the antagonist was not worthy Of notice
privilege of dignity which did not belong
to him after he had began the attack. lie
said nothing; and in that he did better
| than when he denied his support Of the
Missouri compromise act. He did well il
saying nothing. 1t was case in hich pub
, lie attention should not be raised by contro
versy. Houston soon showed what the
| charge of detection" meant, and then car
e ried the war into Africa. He charged hin
: with his designs against the Union for TWEEN
= ty years past, and supported what he sale
= by an array of facts which could neither bt
e explained away nor denied That address
] of Houston's should be republished by tn,
: papers friendly to the Union. 1t is full o
7 truth and patriotism-worthy of the disci
!. pie of Jackson-and killing to Calhoun
f He did well not to fix public attention upol
e il by replying to it. told Houston that
; should reply in speech to my constituents
e and that | am now doing
t This is one of my personal reasons 70
: dwelling Oh Mr.. Calhoun; but have anoth
r er, which | will now state In the yea
t 1874. as it will be remembered, when N
!, nth election was coming round, there wa
= an organization against me in the State
: supported by every Calhoun man, and eve
If ry Calhoun newspaper in the State, and il
d the United States. There was coinci
e dence in their operations which showe
C that they worked by pattern. | knew a
= the time where it all came from; and tn
s. source has since been authenticity reveal
l. ed to me. There is a law in the mora
IF world by which "murder wW out" B
o virtue of that law, one of those who wer
l. employed to do the work upon me, and VIII
o was then stranger to me, and alterward
n repented, revealed the plot to me, and pla
h ced in my hands an original letter of il
d structlons, of which this is an extract
l. With regard to the course of your pi
re per, you can take the tone of the Admins
d tration from | think, however
l. and would recommend that you would cor
r line yourself to attacks upon Benton show
Re ing that he has allied himselfwth the whig
2, on the Texas question. Quote Jackson
fl letter on Texas, where he denounced a
ID those as traitors to the country who oppos
a. the treaty. Apply it to Benton. Proclail
Of that Benton, by attacking Mr.. Tyler an
l. his friends, and driving them from the pa
Of ty, is aiding the election of Mr.. Clay; an
lie charge him with doing this to defeat M
Iy Polk, ahd insure himself the succession
e. ls4S; and claim that full justice be don
J. to the acts and motives of John Tyler,
lie the leaders Harp upon these strings. d
ID not propose the union it is the business
W the Democrats to do this, and arrange it
he our perfect satisfaction. quote here froI
n our leading friend at the South. Such
s. the course which | recommend, and Whic