The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-04-27

The Free Trader thus speaks Of the recent com
ment By the Crescent on its denunciation Of Mr..
Benton
aThe New Orleans Crescent administers a salty
reproof to the Free Trader for sustaining Gen,
Foote in his late assault in the Senate upon Coi
Benton, and then, as If forgetting his own advlce,
turns round and assaults Gen. toote worse man
we assaulted Col. Benton. We only callsa me
latter Senatorial ass and solemn owl, while the
Crescent saws Of Gen. Foote, that he is "a man oil
yesterday ever heard Of beyond the circumference
Of the county court yard
Now the only difference between the structures oil
the two papers is that the Crescent spose the TRUTH
while the Free Trader did not. Is not MIR. Foote
man Of yesterday? Has he a national reputation
which any man envies Is he in the first or even
second class Of Senator'S? Is it not notorious that
he has talked more than any other Senator during the
time he has been in that Chamber? He is troubled
with that disease, so annoying TO every body, the
cacoefhes lOguends Hence his ncessant talk on
every subject-untl the ear and the mind Of the
Senate are worn out Mr.. .Foote is as much a
member Of the bar Of the Supreme Court as Daniel
Webster is" Every respectable man, who is a
licensed attorney of any State, may become MEM
Der of the bar of the Supreme Court by paying
the Clerks fee. But surely the Free Trader does
not pretend to claim any rank for Mr.. Foote as a
lawyer? Mississippi has an able bar; no South
ern State can boast Of a superior. Holt and Prem
tss, Mayes and Yerger, Boyd and McMurran, are
men who would appear well in the Supreme Court
by the side Of Daniel Webster or Walter Jones.
Mr.. Foote'S notoriety is undoubted. He is the
Merry Andrew Of the Senate. On one occasion
we heard him at political meeting attempt to
take off the personal bearing of Clay and Webster
representing Mr.. Clay as feigning trembling ago
to avoid personal responsibility.
',And with ridiculous and awkward action
Which slanderer he imitation calls,
And then, forsooth, the faint defects of age
Must be the scene of mifth; to cough and spit,
And with a palsy, tumblng on his gorget,
On the contrary, Mr.. Benton has been for more
than quarter of a century
.sA Senator in the Senate.house,''
Of superior Abilities of toisome industry, Of vast
and varied attainments, Of commanding eloquenee--
arraying his thoughts in all the pomp and panoply
of highly ornate rhetoric; both from the SINH
larty Of study and fiorid dction he may be styled
the Gibbon Of the Senate. His mind has i'm
pressed itself on the institutions and society of his
country and age. Naughty, overbearing, self
sufficient he is. But his acknowledged talents his
long experience in public affairs, his bold and
manly bearing all questions, entitle him to the
respect and consideration Of his countrymen; while
his powerful, unremittng, support of the admins
trations of Jackson and Van Buren, should protect
him from the presses of the Democratic party. But
it seems that the politician who dares to exercise
the right Of private judgement, and to differ from
the plan Of party leaders, must expect the punish
ment due to deserters. A long life of public ser,
vice is to be forgotton-he is to be vilifed and sci
upon, like the lion by the gad-ilies, until he i;
maddened to his own destruction.
The Free Trader and Mr. Foote, with host o.
others, succeeding in their efforts; and as ii
the fable, A." the noble beast of game may fal
beneath their petty but numberless stings.
The public character Of such man as Bentor
is the property Of the nation We are not willing
to see it deiaced because he unfortunately differ
from the South on constitutional question, affect
ing its prosperity and political equality; he ough
not to be denounced in the coarse and vulgar Ian
guage used by the Free Trader and kindred presses
We, in no degree, approve Of his opinions; but, a
the same time, we consider him as one of the grea
men Of America, who should not be butchered al
the shrine of party politics.
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