New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-13
Old RuIlion. Greeting,


Old Bullion, Greeting.
CeyeposGenee bsfaseen Judge Walker aad Col Benton
NEw-ORLEASs, Saturday, March lS, 1850.
Hon. T. II. BESToN-Dedr Sir: Though pc
sonsly unknown TO you, do deem myself sufcen.
asusnger TO consider l. necessary 10 apologize for q
dressing you thus; As member IF the same great par
Ssas 90 sS ana ss ps
speet admiration. is this feeling prompts me 70 81
dress you The 81 Louis Republican OF the 7h Marc
has sla.eneri the effect thar new benton psoe
to be started IN few days Ia that city 10 be- siied b.
Judge Walker OF The Deita am the person referred e
sraiLed BY certain considerations from mGkng public
there Ir1h In this statement have requested
by many persons TO take charge Of Democratic paper ii
81 Louis and have consented TO do on the dstnc
eonoitop that not 10 NEEDLE In controversy the
merits OF which did NOT fully understand ian Interference
which on my part would be nPe1unent and presumpuOus
Ard further thai said paper was 10 DO conciaioy and
c.hoHe IN its and sentiments further made IL
condtop that the Union being for sze) should DO bought
ont ana one strong, permanent Democratic paper estab-
Ssrs5 IJnul these conditions compiled with, have
.s,svey declined all connection With any Democratic pa.
reT in 81 Louis, though u is field upon which feel a
great desire 70 embark under favorable auspices Tnsrs
which nav differ from you but there ID nothing at
ssnt 10 your course which would justify ms IN Withholding
bs support and respect which have heretofore extended
10 he views ard course pursued by you
am with gresIIespecL your obedlert servant
WASHINGTON CITY, March 30 1850.
To ALEX. WALKER, Esq.-Sr:-I have 10 &C.
knowledge the receipt Of you letter of the 10Th
inst. and TO thank you for that mark of attention
and for the sentiments personal TO myself which
Won express. But while do this, land 10 prevent
The misconcepton into which my silence might
cad you, If | said nothing on other parts OF your
,etter) feel it due 70 you to say, that | cannot
approve the plan Of your paper, nor see anything
in It bat injury to the Democratic party and to the
Union.
Your paper, so far as can Judge, is to be a re-
yival Of Shadrach PENIS old Reporter, which was
itself the successor TO all the Calhoun papers which
had successfully sprouted up and rotted down in
st. Louis during thirty years past If your paper
is to be one OF that family it will share the fate Of
its antecessors, and rot down also.
The contest now going on in Missouri, and in
which you say you cannot interfere, is contest
which concerns the life OF this Union and which
has been going on for twenty years in some parts
OF the United States, and which has now ripened
into an open proposition for Convention at Nash
vile, evidently to organise the secession of the
Southern States. This is the contest now going
on in Missouri, and which has been brought into
our State by the legislative adoption lat the last
session. OF the disunOn resolutions OF Mr. Calhoun
of February 10, 1s47, and which are the parent of
the Nashville Convention.
The time has gone by for holy day professions in
favor Of the Union. The time has come for works;
and the paper which does not work agains. the
disunionists is for them. Thus far the infamy of
the dsunion movement rests principally upon the
Democratic papers, from the conduct ofsome which
have been leaders in the party--the Washington
City Union and the Richmond Enquirer for ex-
ample)- and have no communion with such papers.
The condition Of the country requires new tests
for the Democratic party, and these tests have
been adopted in Missouri Reputation of the dis.
union resolutions Of the last General Assembly
reputation Of the Nashville Convention
ton Of secession, notification, and disunion, as
remedies for political evls-submission to the laws
of the land, until repealed by the people, nvali-
dated by the judiciary. These are the tests which
the times require, and have no communion with
any one who cannot adopt them, and work up to
them.
The civisy of your letter, and the desire not to
leave you in error by my silence, has drawn from me
this candid repy 1t is the first time that have ever
written letter to any Editor, the course of his
paper, nor is this intended to alter the course of
yours In fact you could not now change your
plan with profit or honor to yourself but it is due
TO you to know that no personal good will to me-
even to the extent you intimate, can have any
effect upon my feelings, in relation TO your paper
The Union is mensced, and its preservation is an
overriding consideration with me- before which
everything personal sinks into Insignfcance, and
disappears from my view. Respectfully sir, your
obedient servant, THos. II. BENTON.
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