Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1858-08-12

} Mr.. HAIL makes An Otheilo of Col. Ben
ton to tell the President himself of ahi
exceeding honesty" Mr.. Hall goes on t
say:
"He gave me verbal message to tn
President, in accordance with these senti
ments, ,whi ch he requested that 1 should de
liver. This | did according to his request
and ms recollection of the same. **
have thus briefly complied with your re
quest, and as it does not seem necessary a
present to enter into further particulars.
81 am yours, very respectfully,
| "JACOB HALL.
"WM. CAREY JONES, Esq"
"Further particulars" are withheld ga
present" only because they do no,
seem 10 be "necessay." Before these
| deferred "verbai" particulars are recollect.
ed and produced, subuft for the couside.
ration of those who have the preparation Of
them, ioritten message to me under the
hand of Col Benton, to which hope they
may be reconciled:
| &C STREET, Dec. |.
"DEAR SIR: If your health permits, 1
acould uish you to come in as soon as conrs.
niens, as deem At very material that the
right LEADS should be taken at the beginning
Of the session. Providence, and folly, and
'cickedness haue fred things in the hand, of
the friends Of harmony and the Union, and IL
Is for them to aoal themselves of its aduan-
toges. Respectfully,
"THOMAS H. BENTON.
"FRANcIs P. BLAIR, Esq of Silver
"sPring, Washington City P. O."
"The leads" given me by him to be SUBJ
mitted through Messrs. King and Hamlin
to the caucus of the members in Congress
representing the Republican party. were
embodied in two sets of resolutions here
tofore publshed-one organizing resistance
to the whole system of the Administration
measures. founded on the decision of the
Supreme Court, to spread slavery over all
the Territories of the Union, in virtue Of
the Constitution of the United States, end
another preamble with series of resou-
tions designed to give effect to the princi-
pie of the Ordinance OF ;7S7, in all newly
acquired Territories, beginning with Ari-
zonia, and prohibiting the existence of
slavery therein.
These leads were recognized as the fixed
policy of the Republican party, and were
urged in debate in Congress to prepare
public opinion for their effectuation. Col
Benton found, in the Republican party to
whom be appealed as "the friends of har-
mony and union," ready adoption of all
his views, and conviction tha: Providence
had permitted this foolish and wicked Aa-
SO "to fix things" that the
lovers of our country and it's institutions
may svail themselves Of its advantages, is
now prevailing belief throughout. the
country.
The Republican party could not have
had filter prophet to lead the way to it's
restoration. He was for thirty years in the
Senate the most unchanging, unwearied,
thoroughly practical and irresistibly cogent
Of all who were distinguished in Congress
as advocates of Mr.. Jefferson's Republican
system. His policy was marked by econ
omy, retrenchment, reform of abuses, strict
of the Constitution, simplicity
and purity in the eAdminstra:io a:ion-hostility
to monopoly, TO paper-money currency, to
great ornaments, naval or military, to
speculation in the public lands. as engross-
ing them and excluding actual improvers-
and, above all, was signalized by opposi-
tion to those who would repeal the limit to
tie encroachments OF slave labor that would
defeat this policy. The great points in the
system which Benton spent his life in
and which he isbored to restore
when impaired BY the false Democracy,
constitute the cardinal policy of that party
to which | have shown Benton turned the
eyes of rope in his last illness; and with
pride the Republicans, when triumphant,
will recur to the happy augury with which
this ilustrious laborer in the cause Of pop
ular rights, throughout long life, blessed
their efforts at the close of it.
But it was not only by cooperation with
the Republicans that Benton marked his
want of confidence IN the President and
his Administration. He put a codocil to
his last testament, bsqueathing to his coun-
trymen his legacy OF political principles,
which proves that be believed the Presi-
dent and the SeLate's oligarchy are want
ing in honesty to their official trusts. This
is the last warning that ever fell from his
pen in political discussion. 1t is added as
a note to his examination Of the Dred Scott
decision with the ominous prefix marked
ib capitals:
LAST WORD.
81 was breaking down under the terrible
attsck which kept me, for two weeks. face
10 face with death when was writing this
and had to break off abruptly,
leaving two heads untouched, and not even
alluded to. Besides these two entire heads,
now postponed. tn ere was another which I
wished to bring before the American people
10 wit: The conduct of the administration
and Senate (cslled Democratic), which
nas done, and is doing, what no former Ad-
and Senate whether Wing,
Federal, Democrt tic or Republican,, ever
lid! that is to say, suppressing and conceal
ng the evidences OF foreign negotiation,
lfter the negotiation is all over and done
with; which negotiation is surrounded by
which connect it with
scheme to bring on separation Of the
Slave from the Free States. ! speak Of the
iadsden negotiation,and of fifty millions he
vas authorized to give for abroad side oil
Mexico, with port on the Gulf of Califor-
,ia, and a railway to it, to suit the United
States South after the separation; to which
,oint all the schemes for Southern Paciic
Railroad tend, while the credulous public