The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-25
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"I,ook at the exctements getting up about Indians
slaves, masonry sunday mans &C, anu S or sanat
cism The senator from Massachusetts Mr. " co
ster) had vision in the after part of his secont
davis speaking. He saw an army with banners
commanded by the new major general OF Sonth Gar
olfua the senator who sits my right (Gen Hayne'.
marching forward upon the custom-house In Ohdres
ton, sometimes expoundIng law as clViilan' soule
times fighting general. 1t was pieasont VlSloh
sir: but no moro than vision. Now, can nave
vission ALSO and of banner with the inscriptions
nnon it. floating over the head of the senator from
Massachusetts (Mr. Webster) while he was speak
inu. The words Missouri question, colonlzatlor
societies anti-slavery, Georgia Indians, lands
more tariff internal Improvements, ant-Sunday mails
anti-masonry, "a cavacade under the banner mot
lev oroup-a most miscellaneous concourse-the
sDeckled progeny of many conunctions-veteran fed
lost their caste-national repubIicans-all marching
on to the next presidential election and chanting the
words on the banner, and repeating under these
signs conquer
- :. Did YOU see it, Mr.. Presidentl Your look says
No. but cannot be looked out of my vision. did
see something-the shade, at least, of substance,
the apparition of real event-makng its way from
the womb of time, and casting its shadow before.
shall again at Philadelphia and that before tne
Greek Kalends about the ides of November, 1882"
] have thus, my dear sir, as fair as deemed 1t
proper or necessary to 60, written you and through
YOU to the good people of the whole Union, In con-
r.
against the signers of the Southern Address; and
have even carried the war, more or less, into the
enemy's country, with view of obtaining t'idemnt-
tn for the past and security for tie future And now
an interesting question arises: What IS likely TO De
the effect of Mr. Benton's operations Can he be
elected to the presidency 1852 Can he be reelected
to the United STATES Senate from Missouri? feel con-
fdent that a negative answer may be safely given
to both these interrogatories. will briefly give my
reasons for SO believing. And first, it is plain that
he cannot be elected TO the presidency by abolition
and ree-soil votes alone. ou and L, and every In
teligent southern man, know that 1t is Impossible TOR
him ever to obtain the support of single southern
State Can he obtain the rank and file of the whlg
partvq think not for though he evidently concurs
with the wings in regard to the question OF internal
improvements-and has lately brought forward
GRAND internal improvement scheme far SURPRISING In
exorbitance any project of this kind which has ever
originated with whig statesmen; though, when the
present democratic tariff law on its passage IN
the Senate in 1916, he expressed the strongest dlsre
lsh for it; though he concurred with the wings on
the Texas annexation Question-on the Oregon ques-
ton-on the Mexican treaty. and in his recent violent
opposition to Mr.. Polk and his cabinet, personally
and politically-yet predict that, account OF old
offences and one two recent ones, he will not, can
not be cordially forgiven by the whig party in gen.
eral. The friends of Mr. Clay never forgive him
his former signal ingraude to their great leader.
This ground powerfully enforced by his COL |
IeaGue, Mr.. Barton in the debate on Foot's resolu-
tions that beg leave to call your attention toi. MI
Benton, it seems, had been very unkInd IN his cr-
mination of Mr.. Clay and ali his friends. Thusdid
Mr.. Barton respond
In nv humiliation, am willing to imagine my
self an humble shrub the earth, not reached by
this mdheaven thunder and lightning. My asso-
ciates are tall enough to be within its magnificent
range. Was it aimed at the oak of Kentucky, tow
ering among the clouds, and more within the range of
the bolts of this modern Jupiter Tonans! 1t was /
an ungrateful bot and he who threw it is not of the
west! He is no native of our magnificent valley of
the Mississippi. You say the Percy is down, pros
trate and decapitated! 1t was a Falstaf thrust.
There is species of gallantry that always rises
its antagonist lls-reVves as the blood spous from
his ugular; and UerSd always sinks he rises.
This species is always blusterng bullying, and hec-
toring, in manner, meln, and tone. 1t Is the true
Falstaf order. 1t ungrateful thrust in the ,
thigh Ia reare; and he who gave it is native of
our valley. He to unlimited; complained of
having been driven by tyranny and persecution; de-
sired our hospitality and auspices, and little room
10 lie down and repose. The Percy found him weak
and distempered politically and nourished and med
icined him-Put his collar inscription at q
large, wiha special 0F pointing to the words cous
In to Percy's wife, These gave him currency and
consideration and introduced him to the grand hunt.
Without the help of his collar and inscription, it :
would have been as impossible 10 have elevated him
his present rank, 1t would be to drag from the
lepth of the ditch, by fral woollen thread some
)onderous and inert mass. Others thrust nuer un.
Ter that collar and pulled, who have since had cause
regret it, and washed their hands of the whole af-
fair. In what you call the fallen fortunes of the as
ailed, and in his acknowledged absence, it an q
thrust. And why 1t made now, at .
The first session of the and promosing admins =
ration, and before such audience attracted by this
PARTISAN massacre and page? accompanied, too, by f
full renunciation of the American system-like the >,
hrewd animal in the fable casting the lions hide into
he bushes Thersites pulling off Achilles armor i,
md dashing it against the pavement-n which there ~
las been much roaring, and so much gittering in
rus on the western Pains for near fourteen years.
(" 1t ungratefn stab for, but for the kind n
ess of the assailed there would have been no op-
ortunity to have introduced the graduation bill 3,
here would have been no opportunity-aer riding II
he noble spirited Kentucky steed. until, surrounded
nd hamstrung by the Catalines of the day, he Stun
led to the falI-of leaping, with true circus SOM o.
rset upon the back othe parallel and winning horse
nd going and claiming the stakes. Are these II
aid, they still in prospectu Was it adjudged A.
air riding, gross jockeyngl The assaed stands "
the assaant in the relation of Acteon his dogs
hat unfeengy pulled down and devoured their mas
sr, who had kindly fed them with his own hands g
he minority in the West stand the assaiIant in the w
elaton of the husbandman the adder found chilled
his door, which when brought in and sufficiently n
warmed, suddenly threw itself into COLL and stung -
he faVorate of his benefactor. We found the ~
ssaant of characters and our motives serubby al
otcal scion; and thoughtit fruit-bearing species
We nourshed it, and it grew when 10 it proved q
otIcal bohon upas, and blighted and desolated all
Or miles around its stem.'' h
The friends of General Taylor and Scott can nev-
pardon Col. Benton's ungenerous and presunp- ar
lous attempt to supersede and disgrace both these
distinguished officers, when he claimed, as a Junior 81
aJor general, the authority of commander-in-chef al
I the armies In Mexico. Other reasons for whig n,
pposIon could be easily given butI hasten to stale If
ne opinion, founded upon investigation, that
democratic party such, can never take I'D Thom-
Hart Benton, of Missouri for the presidency. And F.