Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-05-21
WASHINGTON CRY, March 80, so.
To ALEX. WALKER. ESD

To ALEX. WALKER, ESD
Sir: have to acknowledge tie receipt
Of your letter of the 10th inst, and 10
thank YOU for that mark of attention. and
for the sentiments personal TO myself
which YOU express. But while do this,
land to prevent the misconceplion into
which my silence might lead you, if said
nothing on other parts of your letter |
feel it due to you to say, that | cannot ap-
prove the plan of your paper, nor see any
thing in it but injury 10 the democratic
party and TO the Union.
Your paper, so far as can Judge, is to
be revival of Shadrach Penn's old Re-
porter, which was itself the successor to
all the Calhoun papers which had success.
sively sprouted up and rotted down in ST..
Louis during thirty years past. If your
paper is to be one Of that family, il will
share the fate Of lis antecessors, and rot
down also.
The contest now going on in Missouri,
and in which you say you cannOtinterlere,
is a 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 a convention at
Nashville, evidently to organize the seces-
sion 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 Cat the last session.
of the disunion resolutions Of Mr.. Cal
houn, of February 10, l847, and which
are the parent of the Nashville Conyen-
non.
The time has gone by for holyday pro-
ressionS in favor Of the Union. The time
has come for works and the paper which
does not work against the dsunionists is
for them. Thus far the inlamy of the dis.
union movementrests principally upon the
democratic papers, from the conduct Of
some which have been leaders in the par
ty-,the Uashington city Union and the
Richmond Enquirer for example 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.
Republication of the disuniOn resolutions OF
the last General ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
of the Nashville Convention-repudialon
of secession, notification, and disunion, as
remedies for political evils-submission 10
the laws of the land, until repealed by the
people, or invalidated by the judiciary
These are the tests which the times re-
quire, and have no communion with any
one who cannot adopt them, and work up
TO Them.
The citility Of your letter, and the de-
sire not to leave YOU in error by my 81
lence, has drawn from me this candid re.
ply. 1t is the first time that | have ever
written a letter to any editor, on the course
of his paper, nor is this intended 10 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 yoI 10
know that no personal good viii 10 mc,
even TO the extent you initiate, can have
any effect Upon my feelings, in relation to
your paper. The Union IS menaced, and
Us preservatiOljs an ovcrrulIng consider
alton with me, before which every hing
personal sinks into insigniicance. and dis
appears from my view. Respectfully sir,
your ubedient servant,
THOS. II. BENTON.
We shMnot stop to defend ourselves
against lie foul charge OF dIsunioD brought
agairsl us by Col. Benton. Oar position
las been frequently explained and fully
yindica.ed.-Ric tmond Enquirer.
Cg Siniuan's Journal contains 4 Sc
r.cs of observations omthe size ofhe brain