Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-08-18
70 the Editor Of the Missouri Democrat:

40 the Edttor OF the Missouri Democrat:
Wm. Cary Jones, who has of late been deal
ing out his cards" to the public with aprofuse
hand, has repppeared in the columns Of the
Missouri: Republican in communication which
purportS to be areply to my speech delivered in
ST Louis on Saturday night previous to the late
lelection: This man Jones has well earned the
title "of great liar and dirty dog" bestow-
/ ed by Col Benton upon one of his calumniators.
The rowing commission" paid out of the secret
service fund, from which he has streturned,
was earned from the administration by living on
his brother-ln-law, Col. Fremont, during the
last Presidential election, and he Is now attempt
ing to sell the reputation of his father-in-law,
Col. Benton, for a continuance of executive ia.
| vor Every man who conVersed with Benton
during the last six months of his life, knows
that he opposed and denounced the policy of
Buchanan administration:
| His last political work was the Determination
| of the bred Scott decision,''--which, is recog-
nlzed by Mr.. Buchanan in several of his mes
lsageS to Congress as the ground work and
foundation of the policy of the administration
with the most overwhelming argument and
the blttereSt denunciutiOn. | have in my DOS:
session the autograph letter of Col. Benton to
my father, denouncing the administration for
Its folly and wickedness, !" and rejoicing that
| providence" "had so fixed things to the hands
of the friends of union and harmony as to en-
able them to crush the administration which
had been guilty of such "folly and wicked
ness. have also in my possession the reSu.
lutions written by Col. Benton, and in his own
handwriting, in which he denounces the whole
slavery policy of the administration, land it
has no other policy and the letter in which
l lie enclosed those resolutions to me, re.
/ questing me to consult with Hamlin and
4 King of the Senate, (both Republcansl to in
duce our friends to adopt his PIN of assailing
the folly and wickedneSs" of the administra-l
ton; all of these matters have been made pub.
and o1c 81,
Benton exerted himself when Buchanan was
first lnaugurated, and before his policy was de.
veloped to obtain appointments for one or two
F! of his old friends, he was unable TO obtain the
smallest Office for any of his friends, or the
slightest recognition of his services to Mr.. Blu.
lchanan. Carey Jones is the only person in the
United States who is fool enough and knave
enough, in the face of these facts TO assert that
Col. Benton favored the policy of Mr.. Buchan-
an, and the blackguardism he has Wanted upon
me, grows out of the fact that have been in
strnmental in thwarting his attempt to sell the
ashes and reputation of Col. Benton ito the
administration for an Office for himself 1t is
known to the people of Missouri, that the best
| years of my life have been spent in Colonel
| BentOn's service, and shall not hesitate toi
defend his reputation after his death, from such
an administration hircing as Carey Jones.
1t is simply because am and have ever been
| Col Benton's friend :hatthe public treasury has
been plnndered by the administration to supply
money to hire ballot suffers aud bnllies and
liars to accomplish my defeat Jones is the
| least respectable of all the vermin of this kind
engendered by the prohgate corruption of Blu
chanan's administration, and although it would
be n service to the country to destroy the whole
| tribe and u favor to Buchanan himself as he
would thus escape the necessity of paying them
tor their dirty work, after 1t was performed vet
l cannot consent to become a.public cxecutioncr,
but shall leave them, aud Jones especially, to be
extermtnated by his own vices. The immunity
/ from personal accountability which his want Of
4 character has gained for him has emboldened
I him to renew his blackguardism. The same i'm
mnnitv which the ballot suffers enjoy who were
hired by the administration to defraud me in the
late election, will attend the hirelings employed
to stuff the newspapers with fasehoods. against
me.
FKANk P. BLAIR, JE.
st. Louis August 10, 1858.
Tue NEWSPAPER REPoRTER's SCARS TuE In
SEPARATION OUT oE Bk1nuAM YouNG.--B righ am
Young is much moreexercised apparently about
the appearance of the newspaper reporters, who
went out to edo" the army proceedings and
Utah generally, than he is about the guns and
cannon of Uncle Sam. He won't open.llis mouth
in preaching way any more at all, since the
4 Knights of the quill have invaded Mount Zion
He's afraid these fellows will take down one of
their awfuIly accurate photographic reports of
his sermon, and Brigham has sense enough to
know that wouldn't do him much credit. Con,
corning this silence Of the great Brigham the
correspondent of the New York Herald writes:
4 A gentleman who was conversing with two of
Brigham'S wives last Sabbath, expressed great
anxiety to hear the Prophet preach, and asked
when there would be church service here again,
so that he could hear MIN. The sisters replied;
Brigham will not preach again so long as you
have Gentilr shorthand reporter here to take
down his discourses.'' Considering this fact 1T
might not be an injudicious missionary specula-
ton for the good people of New York to employ
an able shorthand writer, and send him on here
to stay the tongue of this supreme plasphe,ner
by reporting his sermons in their native hideous.
ness to the world.
Te concurrent testimony of Gentiles who have
resided several years in this valley of Mornions,
!! in good church standing and out of good church
Standing, is, that no sermon preached by Brig
iham Young was ever laid before the public as
delivered. The Mormon reporters, some Of
whom are competent men, have always correc
ted the Prophet, put good instead bad gram.
mar into his mouth, softened his harshness,
,crn "a.