Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-12-28

red i; Washington that Benton, !y his ilcoia and Teacher
Gus course, has forfeited the confidence Of The Democratic
party We subJdln few proofs from the neutral and oc
presses Ion, in the Baltimore Sun SAYS:
The Democratic Senators have is supposed read Mr.
bcnon ont q the party. Al last they have undoubtedly
hsfad nm, anu dld not, IN Arranging The committees pm
nm at The head of single committee liz appointt,
Chairman Of The Committee Foreign Affairs the extra
SESSION. IN March last and Is now turned lie obtained
Two votes is Chairman Of the committee Foreign Alinrs
and These said la he the Mr. Hale and Mr. Chase
We shall witness some casng between the adverse power,
and prncpairirs i'll the Senate before long Mr. Benton
comes July armed for the conflict, and 10 his adycr
sarics
~, i'll the same paper writes:
Mr.. Benton is not chairman of any committee and is only
proposed as The third gentleman the committee Fn
reign Relations In caucus, motion had time PIE.
vailed 10 leave him Of every committee bit he was sub
srIently brought in the suggestion of Northern Senators
Col benton VIII, oi course, not committee
der sich circumstances Int IL will only cmbiticr iii,
already deadly hostile feelings between him ana Mr. Cal
lon and render The debate in the Senate personal and
vindictiye.
wards have doubt all the great questions now aailat
Ing the country will he settled notwithstanding the evil fore
holdings in The extreme North and South Of the Union
The Bambuning New York Glob, has the following on the
PRESCRIPTION OF THOMAS II. BENTON-Thc
slave owcrlas demanded and reccyeanothcr vciim Thos
II. Benton The oldest member of The Senate if not the
alcs the inicShlc Democrat The friend of Jackson and the
foe "f corruption in all moods and lenses has been dis.
placed from his natural and just position head of the
nillcc on Foreign Relations Thomas II Benton an old!
officer Of the army who if hr had not resigned would now
by seniority have ranked General Scott has been made
stand aside rs Chairman of The Military Committee. The
ciext under which this gross wron. pcrpctr;rd is the
pretended leaning of Colonel Benton towards Zachary Tag
Tor II Ii enough 10 say of this shameful proceeding that
Senator Fooc of Mississippi originated and dictated il in
the Democratic Thus il il that after another The
friends o! freedom sacrificed the altar slavery An
independent aud free people will the procedure
Finally "Alrln,' the correspondent Of that free soil abo
lion Wig organ, the n. u Tribune, speaks follows by the
rG and takes up The cudcIs WARMLY for Col Benton. 1t
Is 'damnng enough for nominal Southern Democrat Ia
he endorsed by such paper, follows:
learn from an unqnrs.ionablc source Tint Col Bcnton
without knowing that Calhoun and Fooic organizing
an opposition 10 him. had requested that tc selection
The Chairncn of the yaons Committees by his party friends
his might not BE- uscd although from sense duty
c was willing 10 bear his portion of The public burdens
member Of the Committees of which hr had usually
designated Chairman But sooner did he hear of this
outbreak against him the part of the Nuiiicrs and
drs of The Union, in the Icoloco cacs than he al once
Withdrew The request from determination give his oppo
ncts no other excuse for "sacsng him other than that h.
had stood by the Constitution and the Union in the Slavery
agitation. and against lis extension territory free