The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-07-25

mo one iss;an :i; Neses:,ss;,ry toyahe Dena-
ss9stss Sal ics sarty. &y
Pub blicSnen are ofteataug htssevere snd :
ter lessons; but proPoftionass they suffer
sthossswho are benefit tedsand
fore%sf fned .TRes strdth sWithsmostScof-
gstantly hisloEysotthose states
sameh who, full sof extgayaggallts their.
value TO Their |. elIPt tie,
will of the masses is ths-that no one man man
snecessaryto the great cause. Such az asnlap,
smaNSbe poteritiaK for a long series ot5yea5s,
schils s cooper tes sOitla But
when he sets sup himself sai1fde breaks out
g against the rules&he has enforced upon 9th;
'ers, @rudely tramplidg under foot the &Prece.
sdents ofhs own life time, he soon falls mSthe
struggle, orsremains in the1feld with his stan
81 dard Surrounds ed$bystbose sWhohaye denounced
q and opposed hin during long and exciting exc
q years. Colonel Ihemas ii. Benton Is no"
reaping the fruits Of 6issown infatuated policy.
9 When, in 1s43S,, 'Alf. Van Buren, gave way, on
Ssthe questioTof Che annexation of Texas, and
q the democratic party Immediately resolved to
,sS dispense with his services as a candidate Tor
;sssthe presidency; Colonel Benton should have
s xspathe rec dsfrom, that event ample admoniton.--
s. But from thai moment his scharacter seemed
s. to Change. TIndignantSatE Ethe resoute spirit
s. WIhcf animated il noble party sacrificing man
IS who had previously been true, because ot,hls
q failure to meetwithout blenching question to
s Sbbie ellSthe popular heart 9turnedF with nstinc'
.sitise enthusiasm, he set himselfup to undo the
q work of the best years Of his life-and from
81 that niSment he fallercd and failed. He had,
b as he supposed, read sthe heart and the hlsto
Spgso fsdemocracyw aprophet's eye; and all
IS menssGppoSed that sooner would the nlonu-
= meiits dedicated to our countrys heroes crum-
BILE to the earth than that he should iail in tea-
=; tysfo those WHO never failed to him; but both
q were mistaken. He who had SO often led to
- fipht-he who had so often hurled himself like
sa a thunderbolt upon the toe-he whose name
8 was cherished in crowded cities and lp the tar
- thest extremesso our continent as the friend Of
~ theSd denocratic party-and ne who might have
Swon for himself that prize which sf5tiptr y richer
~ than the crown the Bourbon wore - even he,
- asifatfthe Same time to set an example to
others ,andsmost fearful! yto test the strength
& %rof,the.democratic organization he gave
musthave been lis 'chagrin, how
ever: to find that lie was left. alone! what
5 must shave been his amazement to see the great
ssssdemocratc column unbroknn by his uuexpec-
g ted;defection-!s But his hs sRould have un.
8. ravelled.,he.mystery had hsssehsuIied it faith
- fuf1y;sfor more than once has he,E 'Piu.
zszatarch's or Gibbons eloqnence described just
sEssucha picture with other names as the actors.
~ He had but to add his own to show his for
s mer sincerity and present dilemma The pow
FER that he welded when united with the dem:
= = ocracy had departed from him forever; and he
s 9felt.in his hearts core the deep and deathless
s. itruththat no man as necessary to a great cause
ssSThs tits that teaches rs the double lesson
g first, ofour own insgniicance; secondly. OF the
.svalue 'ofa good name springing from a recSrd
3 redolent of good deeds. 4%s
= The worst ofColonel Benton's conflict at the
s; present moment is lbs conflict aCM himseE-
He has written library sound doctrines
Every new movement against his old friends is
6 at once met and rebuked by &himself-b the
4 witnesses whichhs own history a.d his own
$ brain have created and they come forth not
in single spies, but in whole battalions 1t is
u Acteon devoured by his own hounds over again.
sgW neither he, takes ground against popular SOW
s ereighity ntheir Territories, orn favor OF the
IS abolitionists in their war upon the constitution
3 zor against his party organization; it does not
q. require any other voice to reply but his own.
Thomas II: Benton was an imbooimcnt OF a
y democratic statesman and democratic leader;
8 and the democratic creed itself might almost
Il as readily take up arms against ITSELF and hope
to survive, as that he should expect success in
q S& his war upon his own example and his own
opinions. Washington Union.