Daily gazette and comet. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1856-186?, 1860-06-09

Much is not expected of him, who
has but little with this rule TO
measure mankind, we could not Of
ten be wrong in our Judgment
II is great faculty to know how
TO carry the truth home to the heart
Of humanity, in tones Of music. -
Despicable in the same ratio is the
effort of talent to throw the shining
drspery Of truth over the shoulders
of error and deformity. Such
talent, as this we speak of, has J.
J. Benjsmin, 40 intemately associ.
atcd, with Mr. Slidell, in the Senate.
We blame him not for using his
talent in the cause of his colleague
but to gloss over the irregularities
Of the administration--aHd for pol
itical ends only, to attempt to prove
Lincoln n Conservative and Doug
las an Abolitionist, must appear to
the American people presumed to
know something of the current his.
tory of the tines in any other than
a commendable light. The motive.
for his effort TO show mp Mr.. Sii.
dell, as martyr, entitled to can
nonization for his services in the
Missouri Land Bill, is better under
STOOLS more transparent. In
this behalf, the Washington cores
pondent Of the Philadelphia Press,
makes the following notice of Mr..
Beniamin's last effort
The terrible pressure Of the news
papers on Messrs. Slidell and Benia.
min, in reference TO the legislation of
1858. settling the land titles of Lou
lana, squeezed out Of both the Sena-
tors speeches explanatory of their po-
sitiou. Slidell, as his wont, refused
to vindicate himself, but delivered
clear and brief statement. He com
plimented himself on the forbearance
which would not permit him to agi-
tate a question by which he would be
the sufferer and denied that his elo-
quent colleague struggled the resolu-
ion Of 1858 through Congress to sub
serve his (Slidell's) interests. As
for the amount involved-only n mil
lion or so-Senator ,Slidell laughed
at it, What was it. that II should
force him from his Senatorial purity 7
What was n million or two when
compared with the Senator's idea of
his own self-respectH Nothing.
The benign aud selfcomplacent
Senator was a martyr He was n
victim to Miles Taylor and Miles
myrmidops of the newspaper press.
He was a gullible CULVER impaled
on the pens Of the literary Lilliputians.
Mischievous Miles, Tantalizing Tay-
lori Why wilt thou league to take
down thy colleague in the Upper
House 7 He who is n model of Chris
tan effulgence--a perfect banquet of
Christian virtues--a cataract of consci.
entiousness he whose humility be-
fore men is as much above competi-
ton 10 is his temptation before mil
lions. But there is no fathomiug The
motives of men who cannot or will
not believe in the uprightness of such
| Senators.
Senator Benjamin, being unlike the
accomplished Count de Grammont,
who was, rs Anthony Hamilton tells
us
"a sworn foo of ali long speeches."
made very elaborate explanation,
definition or vindication, Of the act,
land himself) against which the Sc
lect committee had reported. His
speech was a perfect blaze of colonial
history, chronology, geography, to-
Biography, variegated with Spanish
law, French law, land law, the law
Of custom, and the law Of levees. 1t
was plausible to miracle; and it
would be matter of much astonish.
ment if the chubby little colleague of
the serene and snowy John could not
provo that black was white, or the
still more difficult problem touching
the green-cheesy material Of which
the mhon is said, by some, to be