The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-03-31


Too near my State. Therefore, my Harry,
Be it thy course to bury giddy minds
With foreign quarrels; that action hence borne out
May waste the memory of the former days.
,"We already see the beginning of the end. The
hopes of the true patriot only be safely placed
in the indomitabIe energy and the infiexibe sense
OF justice OF the Wing party proper. We have never
known any other sort of Wing party in Tennes.
see. And let Tennessee Wings but do their duty
In the coming State elections, and they can, and
know how to, when they will, and they will make
themselves the starting point, as they are now the
stand point, of that true, patriotic, wholesome and
conservative influence, which, in spite of oppos-
ton and against all odds, will save the country
from domestic trouble and from foreign broils.''
Colonel BENTON has given to the county a
letter addressed to him by two of his colles-
CUES, Messrs. PHELPS and LAMB, touching
the future of Democracy in Missouri in gene
raj, and certain Of the Colonel's truthful but
obnoxious utterances in particular. Mr..
PHELPS and his mate scent ssforebodings of
evil, =" ''war upon the organization of the De-
mocratlc party" and sundry other perils, as
likely to arise from the course to which the
Colonel and some of his friends have commit
ted themselves. The Colonel is asked there
fore, to explain-to purge himself of all here
sies-and to join Messrs. PHELPS and LAMB
in worshipping the political calf which they
set up. The veteran knows his strength too
we'll to be catechized or paganized in this way;
and with curt intimation that their epistle
''bears internal evidence of having been pre-
pared for publications." he sends Messrs.
PHELPS and LAMB through the post to St.
Louis, there to be judged and handled without
mercy.
The New York Evening Post mentions a
circumstance in connection with Mr.. PHELPS,
which may help to explain his agency in the
premises:
"Mr. Phelps, until he allied himself to the for.
tunes OF Senator Douglas, some time previous to
the last Baltimore convention, was a warm Benton
man, and three several times was elected as such
to Congress. He is now canvassng for the Office
of Speaker in the next Congress, and tor variety
OF reasons may be fairly suspected of desire to
purge himself in some public way of all commu-
nifty OF action or counsel with the colonel
'sThere will always be large number in every
Congress anxious above all things that the
chair should not be occupied by any one who
would hesitate to give the floor at a critical mo-
ment to the jobbing and class interests in tho
House, to the exclusion of man like Colonel Ben.
tom who is VIGOROUSLY the terror of such people
wherever ne may be, whether in or out of Con-
gress. These classes and their representatives are
likely to be attracted to tn, support of person
who wantonIy and without provocation declares
war upon the most active and vigilant opponent
they expect to encounter in the next Congress-: for
such quarrel is proverbially difficult to ma Ike I'D
Chow wisely did Milton improve the sad no,;t;
cal experiences of his day when he wrote
"sWho aspires must down AZ low
AS high he scared; obnoxious fret as last to ba
sest things.''