The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-11-11
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Benton on Fremont.

The following are Mr.. Benton's remarks o.
his relation to Mr.. Fremont in his speech a
ST. Louis, the evening before the election.
; Next is Mr.. Fremont, standing near to me
in relation dear as it could be to me not tC
be my own child. lie has had an eventfu
lite-great difficulties, great dangers, grea
trials to undergo ] stood by him in every
one of them as a father would stand by
child. (Long continued applause.) Nor gen.
.tlemen, did he ever have need that | did not
administer to him to the extent of my means
There are persons now on this platform, that
know that | spared nothing which | could
raise and deliver him, in ordor to carry him
through the eventfnl life in which he was en-
gagged (Warm applause.) All that was pa
,ternal, all that was nature-nature acting, ma
ture speaking, nature at liberty to obey its
mosts cherished feelings. (Cheers) At last
he has aermitted himself to be put up as a
candidate for the Presidency of the United
States. knew 1t long before you did, long
before anybody did, and there are persons on
this platform that knew what was my con-
duct-that as a father speaks to a child, in a
room by himself at the hearth, there my
warning voice was given against it. cloud
aPplause.) ALI advice, all my remonstrances,
were useless, for in the first place |, who had
had near and close view of the American
Presidents; |, who have seen all the Presi-
dents in the Chair-from Madison to the pres
ent day, who have seen them all in their
chair, and been intimate with many of them
II, who have received from the lips of many
cf them, while they were sitting there, the
overtiowing expressions of their own hearts
l, who have seen all this, who have been near
enough to see the inside view of them, di / not
fO how hal h,r, ~.
.Joyments of that place which great MANY
people have. 1t never appeared to me to be
place that | would not wish to see any good
man in it. in preference to myself or any of nv
family. never saw the day in which did
mot prefer to see any good man there than any
one OF my connexlon, and far more than be
seen there myself | could at least have been
tried for this place. / could have been nom
mated for the place, on some occasions. | put
lit down as soon as it was mentioned to me-
because l had no inclination for the thing it.
sell. knew good men whom preferred to
myself and therefore made way for those good
men. have never seen the time, from Mr.
Madison's Administration to the present one
In which these were not my views; it was
therefore repugnant to my feeling to see him
become candidate, even if he was can
didate on national views; but knowing from
the beginning, knowing from the first that Mr.
Fremont was to be the candidate of sectional
party, told him from the beginning that it
was impossible that | could support anv such
nomination. (Cheers-) No matter what
came, he must be national, he must have a
vision that could look over the Union. He
must not be on a dividing line, he must not
be on one side or the other of dividing line.
he must be national or cannot only not sup
port him but must take ground publicly
against him. All this was said many months,
almost half year, before the public knew he
was a candidate, and from this have never
departed.