The republic., 1851-04-16

that the Democracy" have gone over to Mr..
CLAY and the WHIGs.
Mr.. Benton's Speech at st. Louis.
We find in the Daily Union of St. Louis, of
TONS recent speech to the Democracy of that
city. 1t was delivered at the rotunda, which
was crowded so marvellously on the occasion
that thousands went away without being able
to obtain admission. The colonel was received
with shouts of applause.
Mr.. BENroN's speech, as reported by his
friends, is very funny. As Mr.. WEBSTER once
said in the Senate-we think in reference to
something of CHARLES INGERsoLL's-''it is
rich, exceedingly rich" He begins by an espe-
cial appeal to the Democracy. 1t is to the De-.
mocracy that he addresses himself This is
clever and characteristic. Mr.. BENTON knows
the force of names. He is resolved not to love
the Democratic prestige. The very last man
in the country to claim any thing on party
grounds, he opens the ball with the assurance
that Wine policy was never more active and
dangerous than now, and never more intent on
thedestructon Of the Democracy! This capital
This is 'sfrst-rate." For six years or more Mr..
BENTON has never given party vote. During
nearly the whole of Mr.. POLK administration
voting more frequently with the Wines than
with the Democracy-the recipient Of favors for
his two sons-in-law from the administration Of
General TAYLoR-the ex-senator from Mis-
souri, opens his new campaign at st. Louis
with exclusive claims to Democracy! What
says General CAss to this demonstrations
What says the Union newspaper? We ap-
prehend that they will say. with Mr. WEB
srER-sthis is rich--exceedingly rich ~
And Mr.. BENTON denounced deserters from
the Democratic party! Gone once, he said,
they were gone foreveH This was BURR's
case, and CLAY's case, and the case of TYLER.
How is it with Mr.. BENToN2 When he solicited
from Wing administration and obtained ap-
pointments for Mr.. CAREY JONES and Mr..
FREMONT, was it with the view of final or
temporary abandonment Of the Democracy
Two places for two sons were pretty well in a
family-pretty well. They ought at all events
to render the recipient measurably modest. He
ought not to be very loud-mouthed in his out
cry against Whiggery-or to claim any re-
markable merit on the score of his exclusive
Democracy.
Mr.. BENTON apologized for having called his
opponents in the State "scamps." The word,
he said, had its origin in the Latin, er campo
e1ire. We suppose the ex-senator meant to
say campo erire; one er ought to have been
enough for him, but he has fancy for doing
every thing up strong. The anti Bentonians,
he said, were scamps, because they had scam
pered off to the Wines, and had therefore
earned the right to be called scamps, or scam
perers. Was there ever any thing more en-
tirely Bentonian than this2
Thismovement in Missouri. he said, was not
an isolated movement; it was part and parcel
Of the new device for an Union party, which
was nothing more than the WING party under
a new name. Its father was Mr.. CLAY. His
plan was to transfer the Democracy to the
Wings, under the name of the Union party.
The Union, in his judgment, was in no danger,
and the Union party was gull-trap, an
impudent juggle to absorb the Democra-
cy in Whiggery, to swallow up Its loose
followers, as Aaron's rod swallowed up the
little conjuror's rods in Egypt. Missouri, Mr..
Benton said, had been sold to Whiggery, sold
into Wing bondage, and bitter war, for which
he had enlisted, had been commenced for her
redemption.
Mr.. BENTON proposes to redeem Missouri,
we suppose, from Clay Whiggery into Blair
and Van Buren Democracy. The only alle-
glance that he has recognised for years is that
Of the Free-soil Democracy. He has been the
darling Of such Democrats as are represented
by the New York Eucning Post and john
VAN BUREN.
For years he has openly and warmly opposed
the leading Democratic measures, and has been
relied upon in almost every important crisis fol
good, sound VINO vote. He sustained the
present WHIa Administration on the measures
Of Compromise, though his hostility to Mr.
CLAY, and the favors lavished on him by Gen.
eral TAYLoR's administration, induced him tc
take ground against the Omnibus bill. And thi.
man sets up in Missouri for an exclusive
Democrat