Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1856-08-08

ii would be utterly useless Tor rs 70 attennPSi
/ to compute the numbers present At the mass
meeting of the democracy last night TO welcome
I Col Benton upon his return from his tziuhlph-
ant progress through the State Of Missouri
They could have been enumerated BY acres, for
there we're acres present, they could haze been
counted By Thousands, for there were thousands
/ upon thousands, and thousands thrice told adj
ded to that Col Benton addressed the crowd
as follows, concerning
TIE Antics.
There was faction in the StSte which was
I said 10 have no principles, bat they had N re-
/ alitv. seven-ive leaves and Two little fishes
Those persons Disseminated themselves by a
name which was by no means anlabie, Tor II
=! implied malice against one man. They called
themselves anti Bentons, having, probably, bor-
royed the name from anti-Christ the devil
was the fountain of malice He hated the whole
/ human race alike-men women, and children
I He was an impartial devil bur the anti Bentons
picked out one man as the objectof their hatred
| The devil was also the fountain of lies, but the
anti Bentons excelled him in lying. From def
! ferson City to Bowling Green, where he spoke
on yesterday, they had been SAYING TINT Benton
! was sick that Benton was iaded, that his voice
| was gone. They kept up this lying until yes
terday, to prevent the people from coming TO-
/ hear him At one place they went among the
/ people who were assembled before he arrived,
and swore that Benton would not come; and
| they were at it the very time he came IN AT
| Gallatin the people Of eight counties came TO
see Benton and shake hands with him, and the
lies Of the anti-Bentons could not keep them
away nor disperse them when they had assem-
bled They had not fogotten the man who stood
bv jackson in the darkest hour of the conflict.
/ They had not forgotten the man who refused
the highest Office in the gift of the President,
choosing rather TO remain in their service; who
had refused cabinet appointments, and the first
embassies to Europe. They had not forgotten
| tile author of the pre-emPtion system, and ofthe
revival Of the gold currency In 10 instance
was there one of his blood in federal Office, and
the people knew this and had not forgotten his
thirty years ofdisnterested service; and although
il was reported that he was dropping. jaded, and
that his voice was gone, yet they come TO hear
| him They did not believe the antics, and in
fact, those antics were now so well known, that
they realized the moral of the fable which they
all had read in the spelling book when they were
( young viz: that certain class Of people were
not believed even when they spoke the truth
But those persons, did not speak the truth or any
portion of the truth when they said that Benton
was faded, broken down, and had lost his voice.
Benton could lay whole cow-pen full of those
fellows on the fiat of their lack, and if a gap
were made in the PEN and they were sent out
one by one after him on the canvass, the road
would be marked with them as Tith mile stones.
When he spoke here forty nights ago he told the
citizens of the rule which he had laid down for
conducting the canvass. He cauvassDg for
high office and for Mr.. Buchanan as President of
the United States and he did notdcsire to buildup
himself OF Mr.. Buchanan by pulling others down.
He had not intended to say anything about 9th
Ter parties. He had intended merely to stand up
for his own, and that was condemnation of all
Iothers. Yet he was driven by the law OF retail
iation TO modify his original rule. The anthem
tons invented! published and propagated lies a.
Guinst him of all coiOrs sorts and sizes, and he
was compelled to expose them and their authors
This was the only deviation from the rule. Ben
ton had no secrets to tell. He had not been in
the lodges Ofthc know-nothings; he had not been
in the purieus of the lodges, and therefore had
nothing to shake off his skirts He had seen
eVancscent parties arise and disappear like me.
teorS. He had seen the anti-masous-he had
seen the nativistS-and he knew the RnOw-noth-
Iings belonged to the same trunsitOry clasS- He
therefore, in pursuance ofthe rule, did not con-
denim them except in those remote places where
his opinions might not be so well known. The
laws liberalization had obliged him tn speak of
the ant-Bentons but they we're no Party;-they
were Captain Dalgelty' men who fought fOrpay
and plunder, and followed any standard that
promised them either pay or plumber They ha-
ted Benton because they could not trade with
him, for Benton despised those who lived on
offices and nothing but Offices Office! Off
Gel oficet was what they were after: and
what they had been after since their birth
They were born of notification aud IN the time
of Jackson's proclamation and he would tell
the people where as well as when. There was
a public house in jefferson City belonging 10 a
man of the name of Ramsay; and west from
that house and in connection with it were three
long, low, log cabins In the middle cabin and
late in the night those antics were born. When
At.
party divided III Congress and also IN the Cen
eral Assembly of this State; and part of the
members of the Assembly met at night 10 con-
spiracy TO make . plan for opposing Jackson
Benton heard Of it from a Senator who stayed
lin an adjoining room, his name, Benjamin
Young, Senator from Galloway county, an old
Wing Young did not think il necessary to
keep secret the plot of which he was an acct
dental witness, and be guilty of rnisprision of
treason. He told Bentou Of what he had seen
and heard The men who met that night III
Ramsay's cabin, resolved TO take the stump
when they got home against jackson and the
proclamation, but only one of the brave conspi-
rators had the courage to carry out the resolu-
ton; his name, Thornton; his county, Clay
county, and he sounded his own political death
kne, signed his own death warrant by doing
So for his speech was his political winding sheet,
and since he made it he has never been heard
of This was the birth of the anti-BcntOns-
the first sloughing off from the Democratic par.
ty in Missouri; and mark! he used the word
sloughing of in its medical and surgical sense,
measing the unclcan part which falls oil, leay-
ing the sore clean and conyaiescent, and the
body sound too.
Subsequently theanti- Bentons had what might
be called an after birth When Talmadge aud
Rives opposed the gold bills and the metallic cur
rency, the democratic party again divided, and
again there was another sloughing off in Missou-
ri under one who was known in st. Lous-Sha-
drach Penn. They went against hard money
ne had given the pedigree the genealogy of
the anti Bentons They were fathercd by null
itication and mothered by soft money, by lamp
black and rags Until this administration came
into power, they were nearly extinct Their
ticket in St Louis prior to their adoption bY the