The New York Herald Newspaper, July 21, 1849, Page 1

NO. 5523. MORNING EDITION----SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1849. ‘THE HON, JOHN C. CAL W'S tives, carried it through by his address, and gloried in | buteven of there few, two have beoa contradicted; | chance before to answer them wo whet! uld get and ; War own ¢ ‘There Cn wes ‘treaty made i C. CALHOU. the reputation of being ite author, It is little oruel | (one, if my reeollection servos me ) related to General | chunoe from February, 1847. until June, isbap (etnrante | qittone jantacause Wit aud Od at aoe ren | ciara ee eae Tee ADDRESS ‘© strip him of the honor of being its author at tuis | Jackson. and the other tos Vr Harris, of Philadelphia, | of hia speech), a period of upwards of two veara? Could army to the Rio Grande was an invasion of a weighbor- | ministration. which m: any stol afeoreniane in tte late date, and te bestow it upon another who no o1 during the administration of Mr Monroe. get no chance when they wore first introduced and dis | ie, it he i ever suspected of being 80 until Col. Benton disco- Opt to the statement «f Mr Adama, stands the | cussed? None during tho long session whieh f lo wed, “Coe anges got | Ayegs ao tl _ be iy mageng cae Tne iNet. oF sag To the People of the Southorn States. vered it tacts Unat no opinions, as 1s admitted vp Got Beaton, | and which tested mare that clght monttet Nowe | Lisa ‘scematt ee eee eee tet ah tes: | Cesrnslte, (0 my knowisdge, The making of Indiew east Bank of th ver full investi; nner that al) tl efi Bi But if he could really make out that | am the au- | are to be found on the files of the Department of State thor of the Missouri compromise, he must go one ste vi were ‘Geveral reasons would have prevented mo from taking | further to make me the auchor of the Wilmet, proving, filed. a hhoweh Remain canisuele ath sany notice of Col. Benton, if his attack in his late | He must prove the two measures to be identical; thid diary of Mr- Adams speech, ivered in the capital of Missouri, had been he has not done, or even attempted. Instead of that, them to be filed. 0: contai: tipulati during the long and fulb discussion on the Oregon T iver, for some bundre: I esi of the Sdigehaieah eee torial Bill. when the principles of the resolutions | belonged to the Mexican republic. aud emphatically de- | a large portion of it ag +: iting to be from the | Aen: dthe basis of the argument on the side of the | clared “he washed his Bhods of all attempts to dls. aud mich of edges tn they seneanules renee” Msarce Sreated - | gee ba gy i bee wd i) =. hers oA yore and, wanheres Menace Fepublio by seizing her dominions, tion, Much the greater part was the work of Geacral seem, 1° 3 es 1 1) controversy ? we io phuahua, © ibe, ” . 5 b Gizedted. exclusive eaniant me... Thelipeal comdust he bas adopted his usual course of assuming what he clear—cither he fell tat in making the entry, | None during the discussion of the report of the elvet | voted for thie bill! Ha wont furthest bina as i ° Moshi anscsianeds oot a which het had romotent Se Ne te eee Lal eee a proving It is a very easy way to reach or that he fuiled to place them on fi committer, of which Mr. Clayton was chairman? None | the Chairman of the Committee on Military affairs, in liaence to make himself responsible for no. anmall Pr yeelt, » ia, & conclusion that is desired. this, too, he hasdis- of some subsequent direction from the President. it ig | OD the discussion of the bill trom the House of. Repre- | totil disregard of his own motion, made the day before, | rhare of its doin; specially as to what related to bave as little to do with him as possible, aad I socor- cinned his wonderful aptitu hat no one ever hardly possible. if they hed been placed on file but that | sentatives which applied the Wilmot proviso to the | to refer so much of the message of the President as re. | west. ‘Atenas reg to “inutile off his gthedd ingly never notice what comes from hia, even in his | Heforesaw, or suspected Heretofore all had supposed they would still be there. or some evidence, in exist- | Oregon territory, and which was passed by his voto and | lated to declaring war. to its approprinte committee— | the Tespouaibility, and that of the administration, wad pees Ficaggtimn kteethgearr emer age “at they were very different tbings—that compro- ence, that they had been there My own reosilection is, | his friend General Houston's?” None during the whole | that on foreign relations. Comment is unucces-ary. to place it on me, who was hostile to it, speaks badl. araO' . ig $9 con | mign was cesential to one, while the other necessarily that Mr Monroe requested the opinion of the members of the last session! and, still more wonderful, none in | But I am not yet done with Texas, nor with the ef- | forhis ‘manliness, or regard for the chargeter of the istently with my public duties. I regard him in a light ite it— that one pré-supposes a coutlic: of opinion of his cabinet in writing; but that in consequence of | waking hie Iast speech? 1 say none. tor he centined | frontery and absurdity of the charges he made against tration of General Jackson, for which be rO~ very different from what he seems to regard me. if we page ata -— grind sg OM: gent saps of time to prepare ig anger og someother | joi heerigiracomie 4 hong’ ubuse of Ld resolutions, | m a ne toit. He says I g way —gave it bala 5 cause. none was given; and this | stated in the Seuate, | Without even attempting to answer them No; he the Florida treaty, How could | give . may judge from the frequency and violence of bis at- aurrendered right or opinion. The other, ou the when General Dix brought up the question as to | Rever could get. and never can get. a chance to answer | b; that, or any other treaty ? The power t to mane | to make the Beary sheepe’ Be bans ennines masmenes: a? tacks on me, He seems to think I stand in his way. come. 7 ntsc nese assertion of right, or opinion of the Cabinet of Mr Monroe. before the fact | them, For every other purpose he can get a chano treaties belongs to the President, and never was vested | which he was the author, and on which he so much and that I am ever engaged in somo scheme to} (yu0B tothe exclusion of all compromise, Thus. in was disclosed that there was no written opinion ou the | whenever he pleases. No one is better at getting @ | in me, It was at the time, vested in Mr Mouroo, as | prided himeelf , eee Perce ne rgscuri compremive, the North and files of the department. | have entire coufideuce, that | ehance when he is dispored. He had no difficulty in | President of the United States, Nor did | negotiate it. | — In his eagerness to assail me, he has lost not only miles wide, | and t! removal put him down 1, om the contrary, have never for | South differed on the ooastitutional question whether if any was given. it amounted tono more than the y ounges| iven, m- getting & chance to pour out a torrent of ebuse, to | I was only one member of the Cabinet, and the it | his discretion, but hi: d the right to prohibit the introduetion of ple affirmation. or negotiation of the power. ‘The time | empty srats. against the late General Kearney. day'af- | of the whole. How could I, then, zive away Taxes? To | that the ‘anti-slavery party of the North duly epprect ¢ says @ moment thought of raising btm to tho level of | Congress PeonIDit the iy @ competitor, or rival, nor @ehsid 5 ion of admitting a State into the did not admit the preparation of an elaborate epinion, | ter day. for the: greater part of # week, and that, too, | prove the charge, he resorts to bis old patent reason- | ated th t servi & pace he ae . : copa rays Union. One contended that Congeess had the right and if apy such had been given. it is impossible that [ just at the close of # session, to the utter disgust ofthe | ing; but I was Hy powerful—so much rae oe | Ohat rt ed pgp eo Ps , whe @ should be put down | to impose whatever sondition it might think proper om should forget it; and next to impossible that it should | Senate. aud at the hazard of defeating many bills then | President and all the members of his Cabiact mere | then a candidate tor the Vice Prostdeney or not, He must chink he has something to | ® territory about to beceme a State, and theother,that so long have remained qpncealed from the public, Ag ready for final action | might go on and repeat simi- cyphers, He would have it, that the; dames f " 5 y were but tools | the favorite of the North, beati Mr. A gain by jling me ; I,on the coutrary, feel that 1 it had no right to impose any, except that prescribed to the insinuation that"! am the only member of the | lar qomstions, until they would fill pages; but enough | in my hands; and | alone was responsible for all that | himself on the free soil track.”’ Sonmeeing Chak hi assal by the constitution—that its government should be re- Cabinet of Mr Monroe, who has since been Secretary | bus been said to prove that his explanation is puerile | was done Well—if he will have it so, | meet the chi id just before, that! was Vice Presi have nothing to gain by noticing him, ani when com-| publican. The North on that case waived the elaim of of State. and_all others of like churacter I pace them | and hollow, Girectly It is not true, that the Florida treaty gave | when he well know that I was elested for the Gre pelled to do so, ain eatisfied, if I escape without some | POWer, on F proporal made by Mr. Clay tofix the with the silent contempt due to their bassness,aud the | He had many fair chanoes to answer the reso- | away Texas I did not believe, when the treaty was | Vice President with Mr. Adam: loss of self respect. Ihave another reason for not de- | BOmthern Munite of the territory, into whieh # souree whence they came. lution, and could have made one, if he desired it, wt | made, that Louisiana extended. or ever did extend, to | vote of the North could not have been given me for akan at “4 . might be introduced, at 36. 30. £his proposal. althoug! ‘There is. beside. & fact which clearly shows that there ny time; but there were two reasons whieh prevented | the Rio Grande, or even to the Nueces and that it was | the reason he assigns, siring to notice bin on the present occasion All his | made by @ Southern member, was taken up and had been # considerable change of views from the 4th | him ‘Vhe first is, that although he bad made up his | uncertain whether it extended beyond the Sabine. I | His next charge is that I supported tho abolition of | | ad, of cours charges against me, with few and trifling exceptions, | carried by the vote of the North, and thus becaine,in to the 6th March; I ullude to the tact, that the draft of mind to desert you avd your eause before the intro- | knew it was claimed to extend far beyond, even to the | slavery ina State Among his other traits, Colonel are but the relieretions of those often mado heretofore | £#c% thelz offer Loaompromive ‘Che South acquiesced, the letter intended for Gen. Jacksoa was never sent. | duction of the revolutions, he raw the hazard, and was | Rio Grande: just as we claimed the whole of Oregon, | Benton is distinguished for eharging on others what wever, yielding her principles or asveuting, It is inferable from the fact that there is no such letter unwilling to take that step hastily T'be Missouri | and with just about as little title Ihave seen nothidg | he knows he is guilty of bim-elf. Most men from by himself and others, and which I have met and suc- | or dissenting, as to the power of Congress to exclude to be found among his papers, after the most diligent | resolutions foreed him to disclose his intentions, aud | to change this opinion On the contrary, if my ia- prudence and # sense of propriety, cautiously abstaim cessfully repclled in my place inthe Senate, That they | *Avery from the territories, It was a compromise, in search It is not imprebable that the same change of | to proelaim his desertion before he was fully prepared | formant Is correct, there are now documeata im tha | from arsailing others for whet they know they may im ‘ which both waived, but neither yielded its opinion, as circumstances which caused the striking out aud in- | to execute bis design ; and hence the depth to which | State vepartment. obtained within the last fe turn themselves be justl ited Not so with hi made no impression against me at the time, either in | ") the power of ir oe ae ie 2s | ne ett ee are cee = © the power of Congress. serting.and which induced him not to finish and trans. they have exeited his The other is. that he had | which conclusively prove. that Louisiaua never extend: | He is one ef the few who are ever more fierce in their the Senate or community, there can be no better proof Very different was the case in reference to the Ore- mit the letter to Gen, Jackson as intended. induced him, too wush diseretion to address such @ farrago toa body | ed an inch beyond the Sabine | ascoults when they know they can be assailed for the y than is afforded in the laboricus and tiresome effort ho | $9 Dill, passed at the session preceding the last. also. finally to dispense with a written opinion, and will | too well informed to be impored upon by old. stale, and In reply to Col Benton’s assaults as to the treat; | same thin, Phey seem to delight 01 made in his prevent speech to reviveand give thom eir. | £ut¥,the North contended for the absolute right to account ‘why no euch opinion ia found on fle oft repeated charges He kuew bosides, that they would | annex an abstract fi spoeeh in answer Rays were | hoa oet Peta level, sonia hepa hes oy c 6 exclude slavery from all the territories; and anounced —_ But. suppose the case to beas Col. Benton contended ; | bave been promptly met and repelled, and that the wati- | he made the same ebarge. in 1847. It was an off-hand | in thinking that others partake of their own deform culation. thvir determination to do so, agniust the efforts of the of what importance is it, or how does it enable him to dete would go with the poison He knew this from ex- | reply to ® premeditated attack ty itis trait so detestible, that those who are dis- Under the influence of these reasons, I would have | South to compromise the question, by extending the make out his charge that the reselutions which he so perience, He had tried it betore Ittailedmost sigually, | “The Florida Treaty, furming another subject of at- | tinguished for it are usually likened to @ notorions Missouri Compromise line to the Facitic Ocean, Lhe vehemently devounces. were introduced for the purposes It was in the remained silent had I alone been concerned But such } offer was scornfully refused. and the bill passed, with- of dixunion? The opinions of the cabinet, whether for or | introduced the is not the case. His blow is aimed much more at you | out any compromise. It w: | ssion of 1847, @ few days after | had | tack, figured also on that occasion. in con ion with | personage reproving sin Colonel Benton has strikingly rf esolutions. Ia that attack he paraded | annexation and what he said now is but a repetition of | displayed this trait of character in the present charge. inteuded, Indeed to be against. whether unanimous or divided whether writtea nearly the ame words all hat he has charged in this, | what he ead then He then, as now, made me respon- | He well knows how uttorly false he was to you through- than me. He strikes at.me for the double purpose of the practical assertion of the naked principle thatCon- or unwritten, were given under circumstances which | ®bout the Florida treaty, (exas, and almost ever; ible for that treaty although | was but f out on the Texas question. He took,as has been state Weakenfog me In yout contdence, ond of ateiking at { STez* had the power to claim for it, by the Wilmot pro. would entitle them cobut little weight Inthe first place, other subject. He hud taken time.aud prepared fase | mesuitars Of My. Monroe's Cabinet, nod the yommgest ct | Suneeive pack te ceases the-tionas eh pemennttons od 7 your confidence, and of striking at | yiso. 1t was the first act of the kind ever passed. and there was notimetor consideration. But one day lays: liberately. It was gi that he would demolish | its members—responsible. without aivanciuga particle | tiated by me on the part of the United States. He knows 7 and your cause through ne, which be thinks can | was carried by the desertion frou your eause by Col. ed from the time the questions were putand -eat tothe me ‘The Senate wax crowded by those who wished to | of proof that | even gave it my support or done more effectually indirectly, than directly. Thus | Benton and Gen. Houston, It ix not surprising that members of the cabinet. until a final decision was ura witness the eacrifice | ro-6 and repelied,off hand. his | He rests the charge on some disc regarding his attack, 1 feelit tobe a duty lowe you and | the former should be desirous of confounding tais tar In the next pl * twas little understood, and charges. | leave those who were present to decid yeur cause to repel it. % more odious measure with the Missvuri \ompromise, @ bad at that time received but little cunsideration The with what effect. It was certainly not to his gr: some time made that he was not responsible for the | extend the Missouri compromise line across [exas to ite ‘The effort of Col Benton. from the beginning to the | much less odious one, in the hope of mitigating yoar int in the discussion of the Mi-seuri question | cation or satisiaction. He did not even atten.pt treaty. The Senator may be right as to that; but how | western boundary, and was informed that it would aid end of his speech, is to make out that | have ever been | deep indignation. occasioned by his betrayal of you, on ether Congress had aright toimpose any other | jomnder, But what becomes of kis apology that he had | can that, by any possibility, show that [ wasresponsi- | in securing # coustitutional majority in the Senate, im unfaithful to your e nd trae to that of the free- | @ question so vital to the South Buc he ha limitation on the admirsion of a State into the Unioa, ho chance to reply to my cesolutions? They had been | ble? But lam prepared to take my full share of re- | its favor. | peremptorily refused. Me knows that he soilers and abolitionists; while on the contrary, you | motive, which will be expl hat prescribed by the consiicution The question | introduced but shortly before, and then he had @ full | eponsibiiity, as & member of Me souroe’s Cubluct, | offered @ propesition to abolish i inoue halt of the had in him ae unknown -but faithful friend on all oc- power over the territories did not come up until chance to answer them. He then assailed every act of | without having any particular agency ia forming the | whole of Texas, and that by a line, not drawn east and. cations, He assumes that you and they have been both the end of the discussion ; and, according to my recol- | my life which be thought he could distort so as to | treaty, or influence in inducing the cabinet toadopt it, | west. but vorth and south, so as to hem in thy South mistaken in reference to iny course; you in regarding | it comes to be explained, it will bo seen that it was ne- lection. wax searcely noticed. much less discussed So wake & plausible charge against me. Why, then, omit | | then thought. and still think. it @ good treaty, and so | on all sides, by surrounding her with abolition States. me as friend and supporter ef your cauve, and they | cesary that they should be, im order to extricate him — loese. indeed. was the prevailing opinion at the time, | to answer resolutions which he now holds up as the | thought the Senate of the United States; for,if my | He also knows that his frend and supporter on the in regarding me as hostile to theirs Judged by ap- | from & very awkward dilemma ia which he has placed that the power of legislating over them was believed to | Worst and most objectionable ot all? Can any answer | memory does not deceive we. it reevived every vote « occasion, Mr. Heyward, of North Carolina, went still earance, his object would seem to be to dispel this de- | himself Job exclaimed, * Ob that mine adversary had be derived from that portion of the coustitution which | be given. except that he is either not sincerw in what | the Senate. (A Senator: “yos—every vote.} Itthen | farther, and offered resolutions toextend the ordinance probation, | thatit contained no provisions that countensaced the lainer, as it seems, abolition of slavery in any portion of Pexas. | was strong- that the then Secretary of State (Mr, Adams) hay, at | ly urged during the negotiation. to insert a provision to aed, he: watter. jusion, while, in truth, itis to give you aad yeur cause | written a book; ” aud well might | have exclaimed, provides “that Congress shall have power to divpase of, | he now asserts. or that the time had not then arrived | received the unanimous yote of the Senate, of 1787, not only ail over Texas, but even all the Per- what he hopes will prove deadly blows. This the ab erary might make @ speech’? His and tomake all ncedful rules and regulations respyot- at which he could ately venture to betray you? | given. Of course if that treaty was the caw ritories lying west of Arkansas, and south of 36 30, litionists aod free soilera weil understand Tho dis- | adverrary must have been very much like niov. We ing, the territories aud other property belonging to the | But, according to his own statement, ho is impelled, | war with Mexico as the tor Feems to suppose, this with, however, proviso excepting the of guise was not assumed to deceive the ut to deceive | have ever heard whether his had the folly toaccom- Luited States.’ Such would seew to have beea the | in making his attacks, by private grief, as well as pub- | body is as much the author and cause of the war,asthe ‘T'exas lying south of a line drawn east and west in the you. They understand bim and have bailed with ac- | modate him, as mine bas had to accommodate me. opinion of Mr. Monroe, judging trom his manner of | Ii He says | instigated attacks on ‘on whom he is now 60 anxious to fix it | ath degree of parallel of lautade, The presumption clamation bis speech, and published it and circulaced | | have now effectually repelled his preposterous propounding the question, Ne puts it in language bot- |b aty ye J instigate wttacks on him! He id it i# @ good treaty, not without due reflec. | is strong that in offering his resolutions, he acted with it far and near, and glorified it aud its aathor to the | cbarge,that fam tho author of the Wilmot proviso; rowed from the provision “to make # regulation proki- must bave a very exalted opmion of himself, I mover tion. We acquired much by it’ It gave us Florida — _ bis friend, Col. Benton. to whose course hy adhered on skies, ‘They rejoice in the beiief that it has demolish- | for it is utterly impossible that he ever can show that biting slavery in the territories,” and not (o make slaw | thoughtof suchathing We move ia different apheres. | an acquisition not only important in itself, but also | the Texan question But, be that asit may certain ed me; and this, too, while it holds me up as the traest | | am the author of the Missouri Compromise, or that to prohibit — But since then a more carefal examina- | My course is, and bas been, te have nothing to do with | in reference to the whole southweetera frontier. Chere itis he rat mute He raised no voice of indignation and best friend to thair cause It remains to be seen | that compromise and the Wilmot proviso are the samo, tin has established beyond all reasonable doubt, that bim [never wanted his support, nor dreaded his op- | wes. at that time, four powerful tribes of ludians, two | against a measure which proposed to exclude siavery me whether you will understand him as perfectly as they | Dut ay he bas made it the position trom which to a-sail Uhis provision was intended to be limited to the dispo- | porition. He touk the same ground in his speech just | of whom. the Crerks and the Choeiaws, were contigu- | tor ever from that very region whieh be charg do, and will mect the speech, so lauded by them, with | me with the charge of disunion, and through me you, sition and regulation of the territories, regarded simply Teferred to. and endeavored Lo establish the eharge by | oux to Florida, and the two others—the Uhickasaws | with baving given away to the /adians, and losing it the reprobation due to effrontery und desertiva It is | including his own constituents, | shall follow him step as land or propwrty, and that it conferred uo power what purported to be an extract from a letter, which | and Cherokees—were adjoining They were the most to the South. As bad as the policy of Mr. Adams and not the first time that adeserter has bad ths assurance | by step through the long process by which he makes whatever beyond, much less that of prohibiting slavery. | he states. was delivered to bin by some person w merous and powerful tribes in the United States, Jackson may be. in reference to that regio to address those be deserted. and while professing ro- | the desperate endeavor to establist lis preposterous Under such cireumstances. even if it could be made out | pamed, and was written by an unkuown person town and from their position, were exposud to be acted oa did not exelude slavery ‘Che Indians who oc gerd for their cause. denounced those who remained | cbarge, by attempting to show that | have changed my beyond ashadow of doubt that the cabinet was aaaai- | Ubknown perrov. He introduced it into the Senate, in and exeited against us from Florida, It wavimportant | are slaveholders, and baving an interest in common with s faithful to it. ‘The history of our revolutioa faraishes | opinion as powers of Congress over the errito- mous, and that its members gave written opiaions in & manner tomake the impression that { wasits author, | that this state of things should terminate. which could you. may be regarded as faithful allies on that vital ® notorious insiauce of the kind, The deverter ia that | ries but my purpose is more to expose his inconsis- the affirwative. it could have little weight in settling 1 arore, and asked him if he intended to assert that | | only be done by the obtaining possession of Florida | question The resolutions of his feiend, Mr. Hey wi instance, failed to deceive those whom he addressed. or | tency contradictions and absurdities than to refute the consututional question ; and yet Col Benton, in was. He stood mate at first; but was forced to admit | But there were other and powerful considerations for | were designed to deprive you of this advantage; a to shake their confidence in those who remaiued faith- | what he advances as au argument. If he could prove bis zeal to strike at me, aod throgh me at youand Was not. | then repelled his charge with a scorn theaequisition, We had a hort time before,extin. | yettol Benton now raises his voice im loud denun- ful to them. and in retura for bis effrontery and deser- | to a demonstiation. that! bavechanged my opinion, it Sane cause. insists that the opiaion of Mr. Montve'sca- | which the bare insinuation that | bed any knowledge guished the Indian title to large tracts ot countryin ciation against me upon the false charge of givii tion, have rent his name down to posterity with re- | eceuld have no weight whatever towards snowing that binct torever foreclosed the question against the South. | or counection with it whatever, deserved, He was Alabama, Mississippi. and Georgia, lying upon streams away the territory to the Indians, while he approw atdisunion, Nor dol deomit @ ‘To establish a doctrine so absurd, he, by implication, | covered with confusion; and yet he has the effrontery and rivers which passed through Florida to the Gulf— at least by hia rilence. of excluding you entirely from portance, ia this connection, whether lays down arule, that the opinion of Congress, or any | to introduce it again to the public, accompanied with | lands in a great measure valuelvss without the right of the territory, and one half Lexas to boot and to ex- or has not undergone # change, in the tof the government, ones expressed on 3 | the same insinuation which covered him with disgrace navigating them to their mouths. The acquisition of tend the principle of the ordius of '87 over the thirty years, since the aduption of th j wad th at ite Grst introduction Florida gave us this right, aud evabled us to bring iato whole, including Texas awd the territ So much At that time. the power of Coa. nown that it wasin direct contra- | But the deepest wound, it reems, was inflicted by a succerstul cultivation a great extent of fertile lands for his own position, in reterence to the subject of the statement ip my address to the people of Charleston, which bave added muck to the increased production charge home, after the session fo “4745. thathe of our great staple. cotton Another important point it is, like all bis other iil establivhing the territory of Oregon, was effected by the acquisition. [t terminated a very #, destitute of foundation. He resus bis charge probation, It remains to be seen wheter such will be | my resolution ai the fate of the deserter in this instance matter of any He commenced his speech with attacking the resola- | my opinion hi tions J offered to the Senate the 19th Febcaary, 1517, and ebarges that they were introdaved for the parp ose of dieunion. That you may judge for yourselves, whether they are liable to the charge or not, 1 insert | them :— subject of vital interest to you, and. too, when it is well ived but little con- diction to the course he pursued in reference to ti years it has beena Bank of the United States, he right of Congress Ov my return 4 such, has been to charter such a ban* agein aud again been voted for the “ Resolved, That the territories of the United States | thoroughly investigated by myself and others, whose fanctioned by Congress, and by every departmeat of con'aining the principle of the Wilmot proviso, and troublesome dispute with Spain, growing out of the abolished slavery In Texas, on the fact that { belong to the several States compuring this Union aud | duty it bas been to defend your rights in the councils the government That he did not coasider ail this that he and General Houston were the only two South- capture of St. Marks and Pensacola by General Jack was then Seoretary of State, and that | selected the Gre held by them as their jsint aud commou property. | of the Union, in refereuce to it, fs settling the coastitutional question, thedoag war ho | ern Members who voted for it—that, without their _ son. in the Seminole war, aod, finally. it perfected our resolution, ns it passed the House of Kepresentatives, ‘Resolved, That Congress, asthe joint ageat aad | To substantiate the charge of a change of opinion, waged against the institution proves conclusively, votes, it would not have been defeated followed by the title to Oregon, by ceding to us “whatever right Spain instead of the amendment originally proposed by hia, Tepresentatives of the States of this Union. bay no | he intreducrs a copy of what purports to bs a draft of @ It ie bis fate to involve himself to dilemmas at every €xpression of an opinion. that for so doing, they de- bad to that territery.’” as the basis on which to aunex Cexas. Thus far, he right to make any law, or do letter found among the papers of ir. Meucoe. {tis step he takes, and which he is either too blind to see, server the reprobation of the whole South, Neither of Nor ishis nvxt charge. in reference to the tract of bas departed from his usual rule, and stated the faate shall, directly or by its effwets, make uny said to be in his hand writing It is without date, not or Wooreckleestoregard. He has labored through many” - them huve ever denied the truch of my statement, nor land lying west of Arkansas and south of 3690, less baso- correctly, | shum no responsibility. [am wililog te tion between the States of this Union. by whieh aay vf | sigued, of addressed to any person by uacse but con- columns to prove of Me. Monroe was ever can, Every word Is true, as the Journals of the lees. He asserts that this strip of land, as he oails it, take the whole om this occasion; but It is due to the them sball be deprived of its fall and equal right i nod expressions. which keave no doabt tha unanimous in favor of the Senate show. The statement itait is in plain lan- wasenough to form two States, and that“! required President amd the members of his admiaistration to any territory of the United States, acquired wr to be | intended for General Jackson This paper was found slavery from the territories, nd free trom distortion or @ tis strip of land to be given up to the indians, a+ a say—they were unanimous ie f ent abode; and that it lost te acquired. filed away with anothor, endorsed “lucerrogatories— opinions to that effect, in orderto prove. that! am the d to official acta, rm siavo made | not only seteoted it, b “Resolved, That the enactment of any law which Mirsouri—Mareh 3d, 1820." * To the heads of Depart- real aud responsible author of the Wilmot proviso, y ts should know. ates’ This, like his other awertions,is without for making it, in ee? nh to should. directly or by its effvets, deprive the citizens of ments and Attorvey Geueral.”’ It contained twoques- without apparently peroeiving. that if he ovuld succeed, aching motives: foundation. He makes no attempt to establish it, but Texas, Mr Donaldron assigned them. becaue | am ithin the rules of decorum, and those that leaves it to be inferred, from the more statement that ticipated that there would be an attempt to undo whae any of the States of this Unioa from emigrating with | tions, of which the one pertinent to the present subject it would destroy lis conclumon; for if the Cabiart was was done Lbeir property into aby of the territories of the Culted | isin the following words: “Has Congress a right ua- Unanimous, how could | alone be respousible? Io govern parliamentary procecdings, Wherein, then, ‘I was at the time Seervtary at War. and member of wandone, after the expiration uf mr. Tyler's admlute- States, will make such discrimination, avd would,there- der the powers vested in the coustitution to make a seems to have felt the dilemas after he got iato it,and Covists the offence, | am at a loss to perceive, except of Mr. Monroe's administration.” He know it would tration ‘This I was resolved to prevent, by sunt fore, be violation of the constitution, aud the rights regulation prohibiting slavery in a territory?!’ he bas made a desperate effort towscape from it. For that the principle be adopted, that the greater the truth not do to go into details, av they would refute his reasons for the selection, that could not be ov e States tro hich such eitizens emigrated, and only material sentence in the draft of the letter, in re- purpose, be had to faleify the Constitution, the greater the libel It may be that it was regarded charge; and hence the vagueness of the ianguage in ‘The attempt, as | surpeoted. was made, dthe late in deregation of that perfect equality which belongs to ference to the point ler consideration, is ia the fol- Fert that tho veto power was v &* an offence, because it was calculated to embarrass which itis couched, What he omitted, | shail supply. ublie: them as members of the Union, and wouldtead direct- lowing words: “I took the «pinion in writing of the nd notin the President, when wh ated and ‘The history of the affair may be told in a few words ly to subvert the Union iteelf administration, as to the constituti-oality of restrain- pressly provides that Executive powe ‘ted into execution an opea desertion to The ¢ hoetaw tribes of Indiaos. at the time inhabited to over- © Resolved, ‘48 a fundamental principle in our ing territories, which was explicit in favor of it! vested tn the reside, nd that every bill shail by abolitionist: the State of Mississippi. and o tte entire rule what his predecessor had done. The following is itieal in forming aconstitutien,have These are the exact words of the sentence, as doaily presented to the President for his approval or disappro- next charges. fle asserts that I territory General Jackson and General Hine fan extract from the despateb. reed i a Seocatitlenal sighh to form aad adopt the govern- corrected by its author. Itis explicit as tothe state. val; and chat, if he approves of it it shall bevome a , i to make it out be ment which they may think best calculated to secure ment, that the administration, as a body, was in faver law. aud if be disapproves, it shall not, uuless pawed ‘leras belonged to the United States. when t no proof wuat- by two-thirds of both houses of Congress He foliows with Spain was made, by which she ceded & portion of their lauds, They succeeded in obtaining — It will be sufficient to state, briefly. that the provisions reto, no other coudition is imposed by the ever of its members being unanimous and of cvarse no up this false assertion by auother. that | had on»-afin us. He claims that Texas was a part of Louisiane. aad a large tract. lying in the very centre of the State, aud of the reselution. as it came from the House. are more evidence that lor any other particular member of the of the veto power in my haw .in fact, bad no that its boundary extended to the Rio Grande; that it extending from learl river to the Mississippi. in ex- simple in their character, may be more readily. and vor. part. and when the paper on bh he reties to ~ Was allsiave territaty, aod looked to as the natural change for all the territory lying between the Red with less difficulty aud expense, carried into effect, sb o sorts that Mirsissippl, were appointed by Mr Monroe to treat It I not deemed necessary to state at large the with them. for the purpose of obtaining # cession of grounds on which his decision rests (the President). liberty, rosperity, And happiness; aud that.in com. of the constitutionality, but furnish formi federal constitution on a State, iu order to Ler adn: Cabinet was in it: This dedeciency vot ton undertakes to suppl out his e! om its face, that the tabiaet outlet for their great looreasing slave population; aed ri 4 the Arkansas. west of a line drawn from the and that the great ebject + ontemplated by them is gress, would not only be in violatio first from the interlining, aud next from sitted o lof course. if a mad the fmally. that it treaty of ean opporite to where th lower line much levs exposed to the hazard of ultimate defeat. tion, but in direct conflict with the principle on which purporting to be from the diary of Mr. Ada\ veto power, bat di But ds, made ip 1810, dur tration of vir. Indians struck it, toa polaton Red ‘bat they are more simple in their character a very our political system reste.” as to the interlining, instead of the expre: this doubie mist Meient of iteelf covapport Movroe, of which | was 0 ber river. three miles betow the mouth of Littic river, and few remarks will suffice to Sre. a¥ you see. confined to asserting principles was “ explicit’ as it now stauds, it read in the origi his charge. ‘The question woutd still remain— | statement, be rests bis charge that | gave westwardly to the source of the fork ot the resolutfon as it eame from the appertaining to the nature aud character of our system — draft, “and the vote of every member was explicit.” could : be Folely responsible, wheu according to his | Itis difficult for one who lacks sincerity Arkansas, and a line drawn due iver, necessary than that th of government, and making inferences clearly deduci- ‘Chese words were all struck out except © explie.t,” own showing, | had but @ fifth of power Upon ated by violent passions, to escape the greatest incor But the treaty io making the pro- called together, its consent given to th Indian title to contained in it, and the adoption of a tution by tistency and contradiction in defending himself of as vision to change the character of th or vthers, in making & loog speeeh. Col. Benton the land given in Arkansas in exehange for that which — the people in Convention, te be submitted to the Con- trovg Hiustration of the truth of this poste we received in Mississippt. Nov didit make tt the per. f the United States for ite approval. in the same ble from them; and whioh are of vitalimportance in in their place the following words wore inteciined in What principle of justice evuid | bo made responsi the question between you and the North. la relation to the fret instanee, "which wero wuaniaous wad” attor. for the acte of the other three or as the fact renliy in | saills the Wilmot proviso. if the facts be. as the resotutio wards the uvoanimous and’! re out, the othertour? To escape from this dilemma, be at | furne . stated in no denying the inference; whieb left perasit now stands, Now I hoiditto tributes tome the most commanding intluence over the lou, and never more fo than ia making the above manent abode of the Indians, as hoe arverts Theyhold manner as when one of our own torritocios is admitted: with your rlaves into be elear that the imteriining aud striking out, «0 far eabinet~ Ko commanding as to be solo Lo deaw over to hatement. In order to aggravate the act of giving it just as they held the | they ovded in Visvisstppl as a State On the contrary, according to the pro- Nothing was lort by the siavebolding States. but a great visions of the Senate's amendment, the Congress of Lionable under the con. thening the inference that the Cabinet were my side ® rufliciont number of members to man neny Texas, which charg with, be hay ma stitution. This he felt, and hence his bitter denuncia- mous, ae Col. Benton contends, it sreogthen: majority, and this toe, when itis apparent from che " onsistent with the grounds deal gained by the treaty A large gud valnable tes ‘Texas must. in like manner, be convened, it must them tion of them. Buthe bas coufinedhimself to denuacia- and sustaius the very epporite. So far, thea. it lscer- paper from which he draws his statemeut that sr, 4 the cour pursued, while the question of in the very heart of the cotton region. aud lying gh the slow aud troublesome process of oar vi tion, without making an effort to retute the resolutions tain the draft of the letier stending by itself. instead = Meuroe bad no doubt as to the power of « {he annexation of Texas was before the Senate He ket,was wequired by siisnissi pp out of @ part of its territory; Pennant, ppoint agents or commissioners to moet OF commiswior then. ia order te command & majority would LOW wererts thal by showing they contain error, either as to the facts a¢- of furnishing proof that the ( abinet were unani perted or inferences deduced. He knew that to be be- furnishes proof directly to the contrary, & to control three other members again-t bim, which Louiriana, ext yond bis power, and prudently avoided it Gut. if the Benton himself seems to have been conscious that it rl Benton seems to think | could na treaty of Florida was made, in the very teeth of tie as. Fesolutions be true, as be is complied to admit they furnished no satisfactory proof as to the unanimity of fly. if | had thought proper Le seems to hay serene, be made, when the quest! fanuexation was are. by his silence, how ean they bes firebrand, as he the Cabinet. and endeavors to supply this defect from exalted opinion of my abiliti L fore the Senate. inthe speech he made in May, instead of Mr Monroe and the commisste boundary of Coxss a+ part of ale sere to hur winters of the to the Kio Grande; when the ing States So that the gr hy to be appointed va var part, wand agree on the terms and conditivns om or ie responsibie for the troaty, which the State shall be admic the cxssiua of ts who the remainivg territory to the United States after t a le with disuaion? Co tat G ing to be tal "i ot his, Wherever | aw placed, whether ia vir 1544, on the treaty for annexing Coxas, be asserted, made it, and the Senate that approved of it, he ix wel- all this, and not before the people of the said State Bent i < oleae velngsy ¢ sieh op. bir. adams. Vrom these it would ¢ poet there. ee roe'y ot Mr. ‘Lyler's | ab taet, whether in the Se or that the Texas which ited by the treaty of come to do so, however contrary to the truth of the must call a convention, frame a constitation, and them pears to be very satistactory to himself, but to u of the Cabrmet was held on the Sd of March. for the the House of Kepresentativer. or iu the chair of the —— ot Louisiana ) ar te ee v= 4 = her, ont only encther treaty wes made with Sioeere g xan! 4 d se Vice Presid . in his opinion, am r ol ; je. eACepling Bear Ite mout ‘0 show that by o ¥ not co ade approval band vt :iqep RN recone of 0 a Legh F-- que rope oo weponeleles | © peat tis mou that it touchod the that tribe. while! remained in the Wardepartineot [terms agreed upon by the negotiators, and which com ing of finding anything like disunion ia the utionality. river, he said, « AUlipas one of Lis States was the commission the part of the Uaited States, stitute the conditions on whieh the Stace is to be ad- overrd both # of ir resolutions themselves, he seeas for itin the motive, It also appears that the trevident sent bim the two which he gratuitously aeigos to me for introducing questions. on the Sth of March, informing him at the them. He first asserts that they are the prototypes of same time that he desired answers in writing trom the those adopted by the Legislature of vlissourt at cher members of the Cabinet. and that th late session. and then arserte that the only difereuce — be im time, if received the mext day Suc! between them is, that mine sia directly at disuaion, stauce of the statement purporting to be taken from te pre’ 4 their: same thing for diary. Bit proviso man lie eunecting this with the draft as {t originally stood, terting that the effects of divclosing the wpiaion of the and the subsequent alterations, jaciading the date of Dix introducing the payer, evupeiied the me ain filed with it, the interpreta- t sionroe drew up and. of courre, acknowled: [ t bave fodo@ed ta its train aed «lieth cy with so much parade; but, after ail migaty buabua, Coahuila and ¢ + made ny part of u erente U tw be. they are not so much so | Texas which we acquired by the treaty of Louisiane nt bim from declaring himerif to bee Wile | He estimates the part belonging to Mexico. lying ¢ contained in the amendment of the yen uphix charge by as the east side of the Hiv tiraude, to be 2 00 abies bu Fort Smith. on the Arkansas, and thence by utiae due volve much time and difficulty in their exeo ons hole length of the river) aud some handeed south to Red river. Nor did it make the slightest while a* to the expense, the appropriation of $100 broad. wud coneluued by saying “ be wasde ge in the title to what rem sined to the Indians, or for by it isa clear additional cost. over and { ali attempts to dismember the republic of provided a permanent home fur them,as he would nave that attendant on the execution of the reso Now sexico, Uhi- you belive. So much for thi« charge in of the House * ‘The wext is of a kindred character ie atill But the decisive objection to the amendment of the is, that it would emdanger the ultimate sacceas measure It propores to fix by negotiation be eroments of the United States and Cexam, y treaty a part, aod @ wut our ceding obvious that the numerous and complic Lands Menioo by sering ber demi inion; and this, wi by ‘utmost to divcrddit me with you, a @ disauioniat; fo letter intended it is apparent his h was intenied to have its ef. i Jackson on the 4th of Wareh, the dace of the fects on you generally, as well as his own coastitacats memorandam It could not have been eariier, acco beabos Ccabuiia iam getuny ip jeularly He then ‘tn the Ac ing to the diary of Mt Adame, nor AML Unis is just Ff Jove that the object Wea cenveution of the did ot date the draft. because the letter could mot be se ¢Frovevus both as to fae 4 inferences, as are | throw bandred loug “out on which the Stace shall be od that he assumes to be pevof cva- finished and transmitted to General Jackson unil hiv statements ard reasuns, in his vain acteaps bo pi tpore xiven to the as; Come i into niom, wad the cession of the re- inion ia intended by my resolations, after he bad signed the bill The draft was draw Inake me the author of the Wilmot proriso & Inigo ian treaty — treaty m y & prowge of territory to the United States. Now, by adds that | war View Mresideatat w! ever name the agents conductiag the nny tistion the time; but gives boundary aod ide pamiog whether they be calicd comm\-stoaer, what treaty it was, with whas teibe of ludimus tm rs or by any other title —the compact agreed om me of the person he ails uy protege It ts au behalf of their respective goveruments, sdoning my resolutions, he means that ft aitheug b& tan fpolf thele principles om &. sing’ 00 the best mod Ld fe it stood, in atl probability on the basis of the opioiom it by ats expressed om th hh, the fitet compelled me to abaude meeting of " ¥ to wetule it by treaty with ber tis to show that! gave away Cexns by the the y of deserters bie “4 treaty of Fb very different language, dietment, without specification of ti di be a treaty, whether #0 called, or designated by ‘we. in wart pe prove that detaen, ts tiie wbjeot He does not rds that Cexas Cumrtauces. to which it ix tinpossible 4 ry meaning of a treaty in @ ‘that ‘they render the adjustment of che territorial of March.) which cause the in com pact between indepen wae ae ental oe. ticable, and that that was ny motive modification of the draft as it now stands. It is duit igh, Ht bs fa gotintion; and if a treaty carly Na be) saseertion. in the cult to give any other explanation prinetpies wales, a if to pres be: for -s ro aad face of facts perfectly well kaown to him, that the | now turn to Col Benton's reasoning upon the eub- ste bliel the territorial ge at » bis cbjeet was to defeat a 0 = he as given wi ap oat members, with a very few bonorable excep. ject. He alleges that the + ords and vote of every at length. at the Dext seestua mad esta! a me thing io @® more cove objectionabie Pt th — nex pratedy ould not fall to make ard hit, of who may with ample wever yet, aud. | will veature Way by using langage tha dertaken to that imprersion om ali who ken 16, whe Tend bis spereh. ® Dy argunemts thi member was explici{. were struck out, aud © explicit’ inserted. evidently Cy avutd visiating the rule ot egdi- tions, had rejec' ry effort at com had declared the eeif_ is considered by the President at daring the fon tor proposing the resolution of conclusive rea House fastead ew have ‘lat ye mane sosutmens’’ would de. file sateen ece- have tanen | Hie gos further In order to aggravate the ebacge whole period that | filed the oflee uf View.trosideat, of the niment of the Senate, as the basis of annex ei ” rebsaod—dise | Mgaiort me he becomes apparently » warm advocate of that of President was filled either by vir adams of ation Ly? ee aatment, "So for trom thie oving t Srigiaah arcs noe woven cureeh out’ Uneaten w om | slavery extension, as he calis it end evs strong ina. General Jackson, and that it was my torte ‘The above extract will place you in possesion of the Geer tos ia dover of ong tale sajanmnenn, ni 4 introdae. | 4 to show the the South, ta that opporition to bork. Jeading reasons for making the selection, was consistent with yo onatitational rights Of part of the interling at tirst. neatly struck y the eaase | Fer territory; Ubat it was like. as must be nail | aut vaty eed ao that the selection divious @ thie} gave very strong proof at the very next session, out Ail this is t from a certified evpy of the . ee | lool ooo out ‘dow uthera States me of one ~ he ng tes or perse- porti vie. a t now before me Thus bit reas yning fails to the bas maddy Mie | sing slave ‘ wasure pate Foe Ae cMciwecata cf tas teams. tee | prene. iM ‘ Impression thet te, Dig | enough to make 15 large Srotes, of \e : oures round te carries the rule of cabinet seerets very far, Hee ee aeeere sarood tet for nto nsscerates the abo- | fuuch farther than be does the same rule applied tothe ft Aitiontate a question in contre abinet. Whoever beard that itwara a ferwace to terti- | ny rule of cabinet seerets, to cay the ad- ily adjusted; avd yet he kaowing all this. | or divided’ [ft t# cut bas the effrontery (t+ call it by HO haceher name) to | ie. and not them, as opposed to any adjust ie Unies. shige esbepseatectnontaly 7n6 | Genual letter toe friend of high standing ¢ But all these aseumptions wore but preliminary to a | bis exbinet were wonatmow a ne that | imteo- | Sueb is bis language. when his object is to peore that t is fami his ima beer with wilt s charge, that I Am re-pourtble for @ treaty mute by either the one oF oMiste and their absttore at | the other of thea, it matters not emiah itwasgring vietory both for your cause the country | far to make me solely rexpousidie for Che acts of aa ad- — felt to be -o at the time, ‘That it was due to the seieee ministration of wuich | was no member, butte make tion made, | have the highest authority, Mr Dooald- Mere-ponsibie not omly tor them, bat for tne acca of — se ia letter tome after sonexation was achiwer thoee that were deadly hostile to me. ia plese of ex ura vurse bat that pursued, wor | Vaganee beyond the fesom of any individass but the Uhis Imstanee, dooms But Col, Benton now ol me t wt. carly ia the meet | gave mway Texas You would cuppose, frou wn; ior otherwise, it would mot su © tut | guaKe that he wn. Aw slavery extenstomiat. as be eaile ty tts tour duction mad tae dire res it | there whe defend your rights aud that he placed a made. that | was deterred from in: ry sug them, as | Value om Texts a. an outiet f The twee te 0 he sasson commenced | ud to preserve your just influe ay of Deew L tke that woth the the ]y wight mowels fully divcursed the privet wavered the paper at the wd my Tesetutions, oF at farthy other it. ot. aad one om by the oo ot any Fr cote. that the Hoase resota- an " author | qu was one of constitationality, ant net of potioy ZUS Wiimos provice. He colle tt thet sincen pro. What tember of aay cabinet wunid bee baw ard Did he per that ail this sould hase beew J. #0 as to leave ib ko Use Obs t00 far, and ia tion evotained & provision to extend the \iasoart Com- tu desire to conveal hit opini- ones. without @ word fram my, if be had givem the | Gage. a the outlet to your increasing sare popala tothe weatern boundary of Cexas aad aa ~¥ ] adds that promise It éates! And was Hot thad bis reason for ut giving | Be. instead af that. he unede thy unost «teva vas of ty vas negotiated by ® provegé of uae tie rerte thet this extension abeliat ry State, tribuved not a Little towardeit | must have beena fortucate maa beariag that relation mraning aa! pows, thatit prevented the intredac jut detest. he moved & ttiag of | to me to bave got an appormument from either of tae tien of riaves in the portion surth of the line, ehes at twoadmiuistrations | hate examined ail the Indian the time there was no settlements of slaves (t way ther watitled to its paternity | cowardly ® 2 to cum he fed by stroag | stitutional question scour re teag, Leration | #. that the opinion uf the eabiuet of Geoeral them fort to detent Ht. and ded on the question of caar- Col Benton seems to be consosous that it war aves. ) He wentfursber Aft atied my | Ferolutions eomtaining provictwus for tes Lanwaion viso, and rays thet | em than Wilmot hiaerelf, uber took? Col, to expiato why ‘ol any country ! . ae X aud the others, ome @ hich proposed to divide Feces tat) | tremtes relatrag to the region te qaestioa, made darta, it eee me, the resolution of thove who voted fot it of the Wilmot rs | wg ty 4 of b om aa tee . te. ao Mthatg equal ws prasibie. by a ue raaaing | their giministiations in order to avoertaia woo | os it and among them binself. #hoso vote evuid y,, Sad denounces . in easeh be pretee te oun aocates | th aud sodeh; and vo allot the id | lneky individual could be, bat have Beem unable to dis ve defented it. that abolished slarer he aavis be , Srecetr vedo th tte favor | He «ould seem to b+ par . He ascerts that 7 the @bolitionssts, ¢ cover brim. Phere te @ wingic treaty wegit 90 Fe-c1aslum, feotly indifferent of the recoil on himewtf when fis ob- | evidence Now. Shane of the simone Legisiacuce hey | of ue Sy popul during the Cee the = weguiated by any ind, teat agvucy, 7 o 0 of «fact against aay oae bat he Ove is copied trom the otuer, bea i is ta weit " Cy caued & protege “ me. There ia mo term ta the iw diary is no evidence 4 y wigieel is Qeraddeere the copy 14 Of monvail [| if not. what mat@hivas eff: mine It wu bination of im-lueseity. re | who keeps it Che opposite raie would piacs the che U yan Ay y cnn be cuates raoter aevers mao tH the merey of whoever Keaps aq 8m AGS#ering his resolutions sod choow todo it, It | make the charge Be dows age bh he attempts to make owe oe object to call ia question the vera. | if Just and proper that |sboula do so te isthe prime } dred seem to G8 me limits tw bis andactiy as with their ena a of strong preja- ver tad bead contriver, | have had no chaace te | sistency. aod be appears to have soleoted Dene Auwer him io the Sewate and it will Mot ds to atlow | proper held to make the gromiovt display of bine Chere would in But why charge me with being the author of — moa- ve | sure by whieh thea Igeye tract. sufficient. ay be to make two Seater, were lust to the stare States, w given aeny toche Indians whem the « but be wi jut © coul) | dot Om toni im. He first seaumes that the Wilmot p : ‘of the other resalations tie ert bim to t m fa stivsomy if to chp the obimas. afer Hariag so delivorately as | Meneures by whioh they were given away. to net. and to @ lect one of the the mates to 9° we tet. on ens yivg ein my a State ‘ave terted aud so sagen ly maratained tirat the weeccea | to all, and to mow better thaw al Benton? Chey were or the House, [he selvot-on was lof to him Ifthat “rT rd geod ‘of the furmer he bas been forced vo io the Senate. Duty to | boundary of Tees te the Kio Geaade, | the mensures of wr et the House was tatoted by the tiaourt yor) ye RG meer aemaeeee to Me Utey © yA it bie elery snuald & ‘him d aod personal | be placed « hele ede ie tretlven tune | with abolitioniam. os Be nates. bis rowotation ne friends and admirers | had -upgosed that Chere was | during the Htetime of those who were ow the suage with Une it did— by seatine Gy Sen © ) declared that hie smeudaent. as etopted His explanation them of that notwithetanding his | Sexico The hill @eumed it uid e vig Cat tay Indiaue to sto hie blog the rea) aachor of | bi. tte statements would be contradietet by maay, * % weet cei ccapromiee Ttwas he who dsvised tis | wud confirm alt foaveatated but few scatemeute from | burDing teal to deferd the Union aud his own ohareg. | bivod shed ow the emctern bank was blood sited oa the | territory prem ’ 4 3 i Senate. was measure, inteoduced it into the House of Kepreseata | it bave yot been brought to the motive of the pablio, | ter Agripet these wicked tesolations, “he Gould ges no | Amerionn roll; whieh could not be, Uaives Lvags eg. | property, and made the permanent bome of the Igdiags, u the at) bad introuuced af the preceding session, and