Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-08-12
COLONEL BENTON

Has addressed a letter to such of his constituents
as have recently nominated him for reelection.
We give paragraph or two first Of the nullifers;
The Wings are for the Union, and for the hari
mony and stability of the Union and this is q
point of community between them and the DEM
ocracy which enables them to act together OH the
questions which either too high or too low for
PARTY | act very well in Congress with fhe
Wings, (both of my own State and others,) OH all
questions unconnected with party; but the nuis
hers oppose me in everything from the Central
Pacific Railroad route down to the ST. Louis Gus
tom House; and that, not fairly and manfully,
but silly and insidiously, with secret undermining
and foul whisperings They are enemies to them,
l and would vote for under circumstances
and want no votes for them. They are enemies to
the Democracy, and ready at any time to trade with
4 the Wings to defeat them.
y The last Baltimore convention adopted, an
article in the Democratic creed, the Virginia reso.
! lutions of '4S-49. | was struck at the time with
that ezhumation from fifty years grave, Of those
resolutions to put them for the first time in the
Democratic creed had my suspicious, and de-
termned to watch, and lind out by events what
was meant by this anomalous proceeding-what
was its HIDbyN sense. have watched and have
found out. 1t is, in the South Carolina sense
that sense which President jackson, with the ap-
plause of the entire Democratic and Wing parties,
proclaimed to lc HIGH TREASON if carried to the
overt act.
1t is to that treasontlte doctrine that we are now
indebted for the condition of things in C5hgfgss
and the Cnion-confdence and affection destroyed
political parties disorganized, Congress nearly
alyzed, and all wholesome and legislation be-
come almost impossible. The series of measures,
attempted meditated Of which the Ne'
bsaska bill only the entering wedge hdv6
worked this mischief. You have all heard of that
measure: bnt you do not know that it is the work
cf night caucus of eight nullferS, who had the
bill changed after it had been brought in, and did
,hSitt I'D
TUE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
The condition Of the Democratic party is now
seen in New Hampshire and Maine-two old limo
flagstaff democratic states-now torn to pieces'
and if to be saved at all only saved by the anti:
Nebraska candidates. The condition ~ Congress
is seen in the general apathy for public business
une third generally absGnt-debate crushed under
the previous question, and perverslon OF rules-all
kind temper destroyed, and that in congress- ~hieh
met in more harmony, good feeling and public spirit
than have ever seen.
Its present condition may be seen in almost every
vote, and especially in that the general appro-
priation bill yesterday, bill freighted with EIGHT
oI NINE millions in money and the list of the gov:
ernment in its consequence 1t was defeated 81
nays "A yeas 7G absent. Certainly it will be pass
ed yet; for we have not yet got to the place where
the federal government is to be broken up. But
the vote is not the less significant and ominoussa
significant, both of dissatisfaction and apathy.
Seventy-siX absent. being two more than voted
for the bill.
! The notification of this day is as much worse
than that of Mr.. Calhoun, as its champions are
below him in talent, in purity Of private lifo and
in decorum of behavior. He only nullifed the
laws of Congress they nulliiy trcaty-that WIN
Mexico about the ''Mesia Valley" that desoiat6
mountain is caled--to get up pretext for getting
broadside from Mexico, TO BRING on ANOTHER
SLAVE QUESTION. lie was for peace with all eoun-
tries they are for war. lie was for economy;
they for extravaganza and they would have carried
the appropriations to NINETY millions this session
if all their plans had succeeded they will probably
ret 1t TO SEVENTY MILLIONS as it is. Mr.. Calhoun
was for the reduction of duties, and commenced
notification upon that point; they are for Keep
ing up duties and have caused all idea oil reducing
the surplus $50 earnestly put forward by the Pres
dent and Secretary Of the treasury to be silently
and sneakingly abandoned. lie was against tho
high tariff party; the present nulliiiers are with
them, and they vote together for enormous arpro'
priations to keep up duties
nay-W. E. Bebb, formerly Governor Of Ohio.
now a citizen Of Illinois, writes to the I1onne as
follows:
"You may rely that the North has at last re-
solved to stand by the right. If we are wise, we
can carry every State north ot AdS1" ana D'ron'
Even Illinois will not sustain Douglas. We have.
YOU know, four Wings, Washbornc, Norton, Knox.
and Yates Wentworth and Bissel dare not go
apainst u.s. Richardson cannot be returned from
that Yankee Quincy District we will have seven
of the nine. Whether the two Aliens can be sent
back from Egypt Southern Illnois) remains to bs
tried The people there say not