New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-19
COL. BENTONS BOOK.

The Richmond E1aminer has the following sashlng
review of Col. Benton's " Thirty Years View, from
which the reader will gather some idea of the mutual
affection now reciprocated between Old Bullion
and the Slavery Propaganda which he so long and
so faithfully served
1.-The long anticipated and anXously expected volume
from the pen OF Benton has az last been issued
The publisher adroty bated the psbc through Inc news
papers and periodicals for many months with choice ana
very credable fragments of Mr. Beni0ns huge volume
But they were the and meager grains OF wheat which
the publishers a cred the dreary dull eaden pages
Of chat which passed through their hands ia winowing
the refuse trash OF Benton exhausted intellect In read
ing this huge volume, cannot exactly say that from
Dan 10 Beorheba-fIon preface 10 cOnclusi0nal bar
rem but In the vast typographical desert Of common place
il only long very long intervals that the reader re-
ieshed by occasional oasis OF Literary freshness anu
IQuancv. Tie book dry, heavy, tedious hlstO! OF
lie most familiar aud common place political events which
have occurred u Washington since 1890 Any literary
drudge bookseller hack could, by lbonOus aud pa
tient clipping rom Niles Register the Congressional De
bates, The Ane c'4 state papers the document. Of Con
greer and the journals Of the Senate with sketches bcr
Iowed from iettevrters introduced here and there have
made much more readable OJok lnleed IN literary
nert, The job much inferior 10 the hurried ePes daily
written to Tho leading papers by the letier-wcrs, who
are the eSnecal aversion Of Mr. Benton. II falls vastly
short of the book written by~Ntbsters literary serving
man, Mersh, which IN much fewer words goes over the
ground over which Benton has just drawn las numbering
Dutch wac Of o book. The volume before possesses
generally the single merit OF hlthulnes The author, eyi-
denily believing that hs credibty historian aud an.
na.s would be questioned fortes every statement with
extracts om the debates and the vote. Of Congress upon
every measure whether important not Hence Hedging
politicians examining the geological qualification OF dead
and forgotten political measures Will find the arrangement
in Benton book emnently useful lie not only formally
dsintc every unimporiant and exploded measure, but
what is s les parlonable he resurrect every dead den-
agogue and Wondering political adyeniurer who has
figured in Congress for thirty years. He calls the roll
these insects az the commencement Of nearly every chap
o and seeks to propate aud make subscribers Of their
tescerdGnts ny grayey declaring many of them have
been very able men.
The work il utterly destitute Of sa,esmanke sent-
megs and thoughts, and barren OF any thing Ike broad
fhos0 bic views Il the multitudnou great questions OF
foreign and domestic policy of which the Senate Of the
United States has always been the chosen and appropriate
Of discussion. One thing must however say in
favor Of Benton. While he unsorupuously borroxs aud
adorns his eonceiied vain head with the aure ana
honors which the Legitimate property OF his conem
porare he treats the living and the dead statesmen who
were his associate with remarkable and ted kind
ness He ayshes sugar pums upon the living and scars
garands Of flowers the graves Of the dead in many in
stances where those familiar with his magnancy and nv
nature thought be would have yoied nothing but oah
some abuse and vitrolc billirgsgaie. Bu, while this
poor fallen LucfcF If the Democratic party arnably
showers cncomius and euloges where nothing but the
odor Of birthstone expected ho cannot refrain from
occasionally shoullike, -Denkingy, qaiey, yet malig