The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-11-20
Col. Benton in Ste. Genevieve-CoI. Bogy
after him.


Col. Benton I'm Ste. Genevieve-CoI. Bogy
after him.
correspondence of the Missouri Republican
STE. GENEvIEvE, Nov. 6, lS49.
Yesterday was grand occas for the good
people OF this town and county. giraffe from
Asia, u kangaroo from Australia, an elephant, or
an ostrich, would not be greater wonder or curl
osity than Col. Benton was here. Ste. Genevleye
has seen, with her own eyes, "great bullion
There was grand turnout From early dawn,
agricolous county men, on unruly colts-Bruns-
wickers and Brabanters, bebritched, bepipcd, and
bcstride OF pdrtHtet nayes-Creoes by the cart fu
with the garcOns gambolling in the rearall poured
In to see the show-"performance to commence at
one O'Clock precisely, and for one day only" Just
as the Colonel mounted the rostru.n countryman,
by the patriotic name of Wallace constituted him
self a committee Of one, sided up to the speaker
and handed him note, containing some deep ques
tons on the subject Of Free -Sosm. The Colonel
told the committee Of one to read it, The commit
tee replied, "Read it yourself, Col. Benton, if you
scholar" The Colonel brushed it from him
he would yellow jacket, and the committee
shrunk back perfectly annihlated, amid the litter
ing sympathies of the meeting
The Colonel commenced by paying well -mer-
tied eulogy to the memory of poor LINN. He told
them that, if he had been spared to his country his
family and friends. Col. Benton would not be com
PEELED to stoop to the degradation of defending his
votes and honor against the ISLANDERS and misrepre-
sensations of traitorous nullifiers. He told them
lthe anti Bentonians) that what he had done
yet was nothing to what was to come; that these
were merely the drops of the approaching storm.
They the descendants of the old Soffs; and he
said that 1t was law of animate, as well mani
mate matter, that nothing remain long in soft
state. 1t must purify or Petrify. He said that
when the long warm days Of August came round
the dog days of sunimer-they would all rot; that
burnt brandy, Cayenne, aquafortis could not
save them. They had heretofore hung to his
coat -tailhad hung to his skirts, that he might lift
them up to offices and places that neither God, ma
education. intended them
He flung them oil, the impatient buffalo does the
green flies OF the prairie; they might yelp and cry,
he needed them not, individually; but, when the
pack assembled in full chorus, he would turn round
and kill them all at blow. He would make
but one job, and have but grand squcal of it..
He looked at them, and talked to them, as
seer would to mutinous plantation. Charles the
First, before the rump parlament-Louis the Six
teenth, before the revolutionary tribunal, never
looked down with more contempt, and denied the
authority to try them, than Benton does. What.
to dig his grave before his eyes! Snatch sceptre,
before which they have crouched and trembled and
did homage for thirty years out of his hands They
want Benton's place, he Indignantly replied.
'tWouldnt they look well in Benton's seat!'
He spoke about two hours. When he left the
stand he made for the door, accompanied by some
eighteen twenty followers
Col. Bogy was loudly called on, and addressed
the meeting with great power for about one hour.
The Colonel is pleasant, and apparently prac-
ticed speaker.
Now, gentlemen, as / am neither holding
to Benton's coat tail, yet dabbing for first
cnch on his political roundabout, my opinion
of the great 81 ann may be worth something. A
friend of mine who has license to break the sixth
commandment, and who has a great curiosity to
look into mems brains by saving out piece of the
Uranium, says that the mans cracked, crazed;
that he ought to be trepanned, confined to dark
room and put on a cold cruel diet concur with
the doctor perfectly in this opinion his face, his
eyes, his head and hands, seem to me to indicate
arrangement. The disease, heretofore, appeared
to be what physicians call monomania, manifesting
itself in entire conviction of his greatness,
an immense hate of Wings, inordinate love of
General Jackson, so much that it extended to
the name. Witness his making his thanks a few
years ago to the 1lustrious Claib.
Lately it has taken more violent turn His an
tipathies directed against banks, benches coats
friends the most attached; legislatures the most
Democratic, composed of men with heads the most
hard, so hard that the idea Of Bentons being ty-
rant, nor indeed, any other idea of common sense,
could ever enter there. All these are now the OBJ
jects of his greatest hate.
His whole love is bestowed on the North; north
ern men, northern votes, northern money and
northern aims, placed in provoking contrast
with southern men and southern principles. All
this indicates disturbed mind; for believe that
am entire change of tastes and feelings, regarding
things and persons with favor that we accus-
toned to regard with indifference and regarding
with suspicion and ll-will things and persons that
we were accustomed TO look on with appreciation
and esteem, are considered physiological evidences
of mental arrangement This question i leave,
however, to the doctors Gas Captain Cutie says) to
note and make a point ont. SPECTATOR.