Democratic banner., 1849-08-06
JUDGE MORROW UPON COL. BENTON.
IL From the Metropolitan.

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Ny fOrbesrance 10 notice your coarse, malicious
sad scaOdalOus attack upon my reputation As q
man, and - 40 officer, has ceased to be virtue.
The motive and design Of these unprovoked at
tscks remained . mystery until they leaked out
first through the columns Of the Jefferson In
quirer. and Afterwards Though your speech at
Lexington. Ofyour motive and design ] will
speak more at large after I have shown your
entire recklessness Of truth in your assumption
and statement of facts az Q pretext for your fen.
dish assaults. Before ! do this, however, ! will
remind you and the people that you ara doing
ell this behind my back, and without giving me
any notice Of your intention 10 do so-and that
you seem to have forgotten your boast that you
never bring the names Of gentlemen before the
public in their absence. Your vsuntsd magnan-
unity towards Gen. Ksarny in sending notice to
him through Maj. Graham when about TO afiic.
the Senate, in secret session, and the country
afterwards BY its publication, with your elabor.
ate thirteen days lampoOn upon that Distinguish
ed and gallant officer; your elaborate excuse.
for assailing Mr.. Calhoun in your speech at the
Capitol; and your boast at Lexington that you
had given Judge Napton . chance 10 speak
before he was condemned" All this sou seen
to have forgotten L my case, which shows thai
your magnanimity 10 that Of braggart-prsten.
ded, for effect, and not from the heart.
In your Glasgow speech sou denounced N,
ss't disunionist-s nulli6er-a pro.estor agains
the force billiard Q scribe and correspondent
Of John c. Calhoun" As you had not the mag
nanimity 10 give me notice Of your intended a.
Sault, and as you failed to make 1t in your Jsfer
SOD City speech where you saw me fac. to fac,
within len feet ofyou. I will give you the su
thOritY BY which I speak, as 90 along. VIVA
repsatsd a. having been said ct Glasgow, i
contained ina letter from . gentleman Of uu
doubted v~erscity, who heard you.
You also said in your Glasgow speech thu
you had . "reminiscences, that 10 q remembrance
(yOur own de6nition) "that when Gen. Jackson
issued bis proclamation in 1882, against III,
South Carolina nullifers, there was q counts
proclamation Issued here 10 Howard county an
that Nsptou and Morrow were two Of the indi
viduals who signed The document" This 10 up
on the authority Of the wing correspondent Of Ii
Missouri Statesman, to whom it seems yo1
promised .oOHy 0fyour Glasgow speech mad
You Likewise said at Glasgow. 'the real copy
lists [of the resolutions Of instruction from whicI
you have appealed are Judges Napton an
Morrow" This 10 upon the authority Of th
Glasgow Weekly Times.
In youS Lexington speech, prepared for III
press BY yourself, you say; "Morrow and Nap
ton ware both Judges, and one was good sgains
the other. They were brother nulli6ers, an
that made them fellow feelsrs on the subject
They had both signed sgsinst jackson, M
therefore, were very proper to sign against Ben
ton. They had sopped together in the old dis
Of notification In 1882, and therefore, WEI
very 6t 70 b concerned together in cooking
neW dish ofthS same bash in lS4S."
Now, Sir. I beg permission to say, in th
mildest language ! can oonusnd, that there
not one weFd Of truth 10 anything you have sai
about me. All The statements from your mout
quoted b ne 10 fiji, lsttsr, are, fslss--filss j
The gross, and in dsail-apd I defy you to Ii
Isn IS dissunionist DOW. nor never wss-
Am no nuili6ss now, nor never wss-I neve
protested against the force bill sn no scrib
and correspondents Of Mr.. C~alhoun-nsver has
ing written . line Tor or to him, or received on
iFoa him, either directly or Indirectly in ID
the whole course efny' life.
Yoa state, Sir, that you hsvs . reninisesncs
. remembrance, thst ] sigrsd . counter pros
lsnatieo 10 Gea. Jaskson's in 1882. Imust b
allowed to Say d yspAs shst you have no sue
Temipiscencs % I'll. Nosuca thing svsr bar
psne3s and therefore you eannos Temenbs
II. 1asyer touched The soil Of Missouri ant
October 1883, msnths sltsF the ~issuancs Of Gel
Jsekson's preclana6on-4hs passage efthe fore
blu, sad the coapsemlss - which sstlsd q
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