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COLONEL BENTON IN MISBOURL 7 ry 4 be jroved,as weilas to be Gen. Taylor, for not giving hia support to the eame | seovon ; | weed. Twill do both Thisis tne statement: easure? t Was that lorsement of wnesanammanal apd with the lor ot mation Whee Mr. Clay broogh: in his resolativas for Mr Clay's aa poets poy Apel | of thet deiumen—coaed epeech- | the jate Coorideration of all the measurescon- Omnpibue? HIS SPEECH AT ST. LOUIS,ON THE 9TH INST, es. Now | will elt pow delamoa with slavery, he semed to be unsettled in |] feel it an act of duty and pleasure to defead —what potan red te thet bebef [wall tli you | hie mind in relatien to the boaudaries of Califoraia. | Gen, Taylor thus attacked, by implication, in a for the "eee what it Wes [i wee the Comuny together, faee to | Hu reseiuven in relation to her admission, de- | pablic meeting ia St. Lovis. He Was just ind spiracy Revi of = of the scr, 0! the Northera avd Seatnern members — | clared that che at to be admitted with “suit | to me and mine, and | will be just and grateful to purpose ew the Proceedings their peroneal ateroourse—thett acted acytiat- able boundaries hat quaiifying phrase, “suit: | im. When he gave Mr. Fremont that counties, Late Session of Cougress. apce—the daily suerchos, aad verre f the mplied that the boundaries which she had | ent of boundary commussioaer, putting him over spootate ern men ; all of when showed that there we hersel were not suitnble, end that an alter- | the head of army officers, and without solicitation, + een ere foundation for the bevef—tnat 1 was all a mistaue, unecessary, This wus 0 understood | or even expectution from us, we felt it, and every in fell i i ISSOURL «20d delusion, and (ha Su here slave proyerty was HIS OPINION OF His rkEATMENT IN 1 yy yn tg ee mye ny 1 ern feoietion, The queue! the Seathere mem Fellow-Citizens:—Whea | left this State last ja © } and good eotrems of thee State, whe fall, to attend the receut session of Coogress, | w have been deceived ond detaded by the real dix under a pledge to reuew iv the Seaate, (he discus. Unions Ameng He, would be eadeerived tm the sion of the pullificanon resoluvous of our last same manner if they could off go to Congress, and, General Assembly, wach had occupied me here in hike monnrt, ee Northern members free to | dumng the summer; and thus, to carry back to its face. Thi ne South; aad gow Lem tell source, and to the which it came, the i, obo o everything eter, hat gab | war upon the Union, oud upou myself. [did not WTP FeMpret tO the Reeramty of Une redeem that pleage ; «na | nave never stated pub- Wilmot prove | wer the predecuen of the licly, the reason 1 od not. Thetime has Mexican law, comeuteneme! aed etetute, im the come to tet that reosen, aod L shall do it whch | a@ede im the Sem. Nivel I found Me. Cashoun the United Staite show he total whole | if i Senators, who saw, in that alterauon, | ihe couduct of that court martial. I feltgrateful to conmummetion of their first wish, namely, the | bim for that, and now muke my public ackuow- jection of the Califoraia constitution—its remix | Jedgements for it Bat I will go further, and do see to the people for their assent to the altered | jim jusuce ov another point, on wh’ch he nas in- benedery—the consequent postponement of the | curred ceusure. He said he would not make re- of the State—and the double chance of | y.ovals for opinion’s sake ; and in that I am certiia future rejection, etiber from diragreemeat | that he was sincere, and yet such removale my peuple of Cabtornia, or by either House of | ave been, and probably have been made. A Pi te the proposed uew boundary, The | dent must net upon information, and must be often j i Senators, intent upon the rejec- | misied. What teers to say is this, that I believe | measure. | wed eee bees high upon this calculation, | him to have been sincere in his declaration, and | — This is what I said the 8th day of April—before ther upon Mr Clas, and voted | that whenever a case was fairly brought before | the Omnibus commitice was raised—aad when the | 0 himand biscommittes, So tar, 60 good. | him, and the facts daly made known to him, he | fugivive bill might jnst es well have ocea passed, ih Not make the declaration with- the committee came back with all the | veted upto hie noble declaration. I know many | as five months ufierwards. 1 was then ready to | out Yifiention, and without the chance of cor- to roger mm the violent contest Hon of siavery in the Mexiran 0, betare las’ Califoraia bill | justances of this—one pre-eminent, and ima coa- | vote for any bill under the Constitutina, which | tradiction from any person, except those Who mad> which that digcucsion would involve. He was we acquired the oouptty : and the cous great fea f botiadaries 4s | Gition to be proved ; and I will cite it, both for its | would be eflectual und satisfactory. The whole | pose Ritchie beheve that there were not above evidently sinkibg into the grave; and L had no | existence New Meaieo, Usitorata, of | wit, and Mr. Clay advocating those | own sake, and as an illustration of others. It is | Senate was ready to vote then ; bul it Was evidert- ty men in the State peoheneused Fy to be ean heart to raise @ controversy with a dying mam, Uthat t j theu they became sstouished and de- | thie:—Mr. Monroe appointed a democrat, of | ly kept back to go into the Omnibus, aad swell | didutes for Denton. | heve exam th When in health aod vigor | had ofea engaged Who had prevwunty bevewed the provine to Be me The wasinadein | the Jeflersonian school, consul at Tunis—his | the number of “ peace measures.” | jefferson City, and am able to aay that ia covery um him. But dying, be bee ie 4 sieved object ta cessary, but now maw the comtrory epee Seawin It wan, indeed, a case for an expla: | peme, Dr. Heep, a brother-in-law of Commo- | and published my sentiments upon it, and that stauce ia which aa anv: Beatoa min was elected, he eyes. He soon ceerrd to atiend the Senate; am These were the great eaters which quieted the | gatem, and fora pablic one. It was given, aad | gore Poster—a mun so adapted to his place that led ** concealing eentiments.” 1 voted upon it | got hie election by a combimation with whigs, or oy his written s,eech, the la-t he ever made, read by slavery agitation in Coagrres, end met the Cmate to this fleet: chat whea he used the word “suit | he beceme the intimate of the Bey, his phy: five times, and twice upon vital amendments—the | votes from Benton mea, under a pledge to go with Mr Mason, (for be was ton weak to speak it, or bus, He coatenin, or conductors Taat was a tese | bie” a his tesclution, he had been under the im- | cian, and the encceestul protector of every Ameri | jury trial and habeas corpus—and upoa every part | the majority ef the democracy. Further, I am ever reud it himeel!.) could wot tempt to reply gulls; and (hes caught come The fe | preestow thet the ordin er of the California con- | icen interest. Mr. Tyler removed him to make ori, on motions to strike all out, and insert a sub- | able to sey that there is not one el-cied—not @ —much less to attack hwn That last speech laid lich morelet, Dr. Joharom, wae seems | vention gave amthority to Congress to modify the | room for Mr. Howard Paine. There was no fault | stitute. every time with the friends of the bi single one—in which the anti-Beatons could be him open to new asauite—nared his side to new tomed to may that thete Wes & certain emeaat of | bewederies, which impreseion he hid since die | jy Dr Heap. but Mr. Tyler perceived a merit in | And t called, “concealiug sentimeats,” an riven to a separate orzamization, to rua a ticket of blows; but | would vantage of it. Aad gullibility ia the public muad whieh rquied te be | covered to Be erroocous. This explanation, to be | Mr. Paine. He (Mr. Paine) had written for the | great inquiries are made about it, while there is no their own, as they did im this snaaty and a few when the next J y brought back upoa — epauully provided for; aad that there were alw sore, Wes mother leaky—not teht enough to bold | steve—written plays, though not with Shakeperian | inquiry after the sentiments of those who never | others, in which they were not totally defeated, a couch, by the nelp to repalse the at persons to provide it. Car Omathas cond sete —tor it only epylied to the power, wad nor to | ben. Now, there was some histrionic coanection | voted, though delaying the bill, to convert itiato and proved to be a taiserable minority. Further tacks which were m hiu-whealsawhim seem to have had the same Oommen, ead alee to erpedienry, of making the alteration, The | and proclivity in Mr. Tyler’s family. He felt for | one of the ** peace measures.” sull: Lam uble to ey, that there is not a couaty borrowing force thou mtizuanoa and contend. have supposed that there wae om aausuatly lerer | quewnen of alteration depeuded upon the extent the stage, and took all opportunities to favor it; so But I did not vote upon the engrossment. That is | in the State in which aua-B-nton candidates caa ae courageously west double numberg-—-1 | demend tor the guilible article chix season, and that | the himits: aad they remaimed the same; aud co- | that it me a phrase, during his admiuistratiou, | true. I neither voted for it, nor against it, and will | now be elected againet me oa wal-euton demo- felt more like defenany then attacking him— | they then were charged wah souplyine (oe | Howrdequaliy suitable of uasiteble, whether tae | thatthe stage-road was the high road to office. | tell you the reason why. I deemed the billinju- | cratic votes. ‘i defending, not uper ciple of right o° | Whole deme nd (hereapon produced the whole | ordiownes gave power to Ooagress to alter them, | And go the excellent Consul, Dr Heap, was re- | dicious ; but was willing for its trienda to try it. 1 The appeal is decided and sustained, and I have wrong, but on the wn ity which takes | supply, at oner, hat Conaihas, 14 cooteats aed | ormet. Gut that was the explanation—-the one | moved to mske room for Mr. Paine, the com; | voted with them, to make it suitable to them. no farther interest ia ihe Cou'es< thau to see execu the part of the sick ond the dying, against ths | marvellous virtues consisting Wholly of t+ name, | given, and ostensibly acorpted. Bat it was well | of a pood song, and of some poor plays hen | There was no constitutional objection ; and] was | tion done on the condemwed resoiunoas. Ail my well and the strove who hod jumped upoa him. | which wae compromise, It was a rel gull tre» | koowa that there Was « mority ia the Comnitee | Mr Pon came into office, hy erste thie proce- | willing for them to page it, if they pleased, without objects have been acco nplished. The people of ‘That is the rea Tdi vot redeem my pledge at | Mr. Clay is great at setung « gall trap; be fre | of Tharteen for California, as was; and that | gure. replaced the gentlemen as they were—Dr. | any drawback from my opinion of it; and such Missouri were waked up Ww 4 sense of their dap the opening ot ‘he ersswn | could nov attack | quently catches some hundred theassad at atime | she could get have bere got inte the (maibus ex- Heap in Tunie, Mr. Paine in New York—and so | would have been the case, if it had not been for | get! The whole U sion was waked up to the dan a dying man; and ates wis dentin, [ would not et- Hf he had been equally great at eotting bearer trams, | cept ee 8 whole—« unit—her boundaries as she | they remuined during Mr. Polk’s administration. | the silly and false attacks on me, for missing one | ger of disunion' My appesl—my wix tack a dead nian [ -utl-ved the time to pass oa | he would have caught more braver than ever | bad fixed them When it became evideat that the | Bui as soon as Mr Polk was out, and Gen. Taylor | yore, by those who are ro indifierent to the con- | ing to the ray oe ot Missour— waked up tae 3 without opening the emrn ud soon there | John Jacob Arr hought, or sold, aud would Crombie could Bot grt alone without mere belp— | in, then Mr Paine concluded that his chaace had | duct and motives of those who missed nearly all, aud all the States 3 have been the ‘Was no occasion for ut I hed in view | been the richest euap 9 the waste thet tantl, Trae stock, ard Thomas Box Kitehie, | come again; und immediately applied for the re- | And now I should be glad to koow, how these | condition of the country if I bad not made tas ‘was accomplished, «nd uw "r more agreea- | | gave my opinion of that Omaihus trap, ead Sh Geatrees aod pane, end ery baby speeches, | moval ot Dr. Heap, and the re-appointment of him- | sapient editors feel, who have been so distressed | stand I did’ In the first place, the demveratic ble tome. £ had oy uesion in this —_ io a certain speech ia the Senate, commonly could wet ge’ it alone, and it briag deemed « ease iM | self, To make sure, he filed charges of miscon- | about me, and so indifferent about others. I think party, 68 a party, would have gone the whole leuyth State, ond made mv sy al to the people, not for | called the Sar iia speech You have aiiheard | whieh the end help from en- | duct ogainst Dr. Heap. It was a case to try the | they must feel something as the sportsman did of the nullification resolutious of the last Gens iat apy pereonal object (o mys It—not or any ob- | of it; and | ot repeat itte you now bat Lc cher quarte: The | prwciptes of Gen. Tuylor—did try them —and they | that Hudibras writes of—the gentleman who aimed | ——— They would have co-operated with ject limited to the Site of Messour-bat for an | have great a for stn faet « grateful aflecs | South epereac ‘ OTs | Come out like pure gold from the fire. He direct- | the gun | the South. They would have sent delegates to the object geperal aud pottenal in vs mecare, and co- | Lon for it. It is the only speech that ever broaght | offeted the mutiletion of California—ampe ‘Y | edu copy of the churges to be sent to Dr. Heap, “That miseed the mark, both duck aud plover, | Nashville Convention Ali the elive States would extensive in its reope wih the limics of the | me areward. Other speakers receive comtinusl | ome 35 degrees 3) minutes, or 3 degrees 3 mi- | then five housand imiles distant, on the Barbary _ And kicked the holder sprawling over.” have been represented there. Tae convention Union. My object was to wake up the people | rewards; | have only receiwed this oar. It was | muvee tue, if they would agree to vote for the Om- coust, With leeve to come home, if he chose, to Let us come nearer home—to the rise, progress, | would have renewed and prolonged its sess.ona— of the United States t the kuowledge of the | from old Dr. Jacob Towpsend—two large boxes of | winus, wiih ber boundary restricted to thet boum | make hie detence. Dr. Heap did come home—an- and oreseat condition, of nullification in the State would have acted the part of a Congress—and ol > pa whole Senate, and especially by the | hody feitit, to be as much ss to say, I dieaporave the tr in no conditic the fact that there was a sehen, npe for execution, | the real genuine double compound exirect of the | dary. swered the charges—refuted them—received jud; issouri. [11s notaplaut of new growth with | eventually the secession of the Southern States for the dissolution of the Union; and that the | reot, prepared in his best manner, aud accompanied | ir Clay mode that overture. The Southera oases in ‘nie ft at was Pnatary ition jan - us, but an old tree, with deep Ad and wide | would have operaied itself, without the form State of Missourt wa- pl durd to a co-operation | by a most flattering letwr. orpted both; and | Senators refered it. Aud to that refusal the salva- ip. ‘Then Paine, or his backers, tried | epreeding branches I will touch its history. of an open declaration—and thea the fixing of ¢ in that desiga by the volificston party which | now make my public ackaow!: eats for the | tion of Celiformiat: duc. This ie the statement: — had been long nestliog im ber om This was | same; but being in perteet health [ have met yet | pow for the f And, lew my object-—the objet of my appeal—of my ix | Wied the article. 1 have it all, untouched; aod denes, ot which there months speak u the —and the odject of | mean to have it breaght out to St. Low i) edmiesion of Mr © my further iatendes ow tu the Senate. * | next spring, by Adams & Co’s express, and « ing—the democraey ot lr. Heap—and Nullification plot No. 1, took place in thy winter | gecession hne would have commenced; und al- out all ochet evie | ocrempted jo femmerval on that visto But Gen, | of 1832~'S3—its pretext a protective tarifl-its ob | though it never could have crossed the Mississippi ch, come directly t | “‘Teylor refused it; and the case was closed during | ject the separation of the slave from the non-siave~ ver, yet the event would bave been sullicienriy ay himself; for ic ro hap | his administration. holding States—i's point of attack Gen. Jacksoa-— | calamitous when ony part of the Union stood out him into full ade I bave made this statement to do justice to Gen. | and its actors, so far as deaths and removals have — in open separation from the rest. From all this mp expected if to De to follow up at | distribute it wherever needed, without distinenoa sett. The day | Teylor; and would be glad to stop it where it is; | left them among ws, the same who are enciged in | appeal saved the country, by waking up the people Warhington the blows « ( struck in Mus- | of party. In fact, | expect (0 deliver the greatest ws, he came ito thE | hur the course of events require me to go a little | the work atthe present day. Gen. Jaeksva ued | of the whole Union, and preventing the Scate sourHbut it was vet That labor was spared | partof it to my friends, the whige in St. Lows, senwe, evidently ima sad temper, and apparently | further with it, and to introduce a proof of what I | issued his proclamation against the nullification of Missouri from co-operativg with the South, and me. The task wes tekeu off my heads; and | and their friends, the oullitiers in St. Louis, wad with eo other { then to tke leave of Mts | hove guid. Gen. Taylor died; and no sooner was | proceedings in South Carolina, and it had been re- | being represented ia the Nashville Qoaveation. taken off by thore who ld execute it better | that justafter the next April’ city elecvous. 1 | frends about in the etyle ia whien aschoolmarter | he dead than Howard Paine puts in again for | ceived with applause by the whole body of the | The fate of a party, a political party, is almost wo than I could—by tho» whe iotended to do the | expect them to have bad coughs about taat ime, | of the old actos Was accustomed to take leave of Liewp’s place—applies to the new President for it | ¥! and by the Union part of the democracy. | small an object to be considered ia so great a work—by the oper-tors thee selves. The de- | and will cheerfully relieve them, #0 far as sursi- | hoe seholors the eve of a temporary absence— 2 gels the nomination te the Senate-- Pubie meetings of the people, and State Legisla- | catastrophe. [ut what would have beea aow the sige wee avowed ou the floor of Congress, and | parilla ean go. a call up the boys, and wares their jackets al! roan: but therecame a balk. I told the Senate what | tures passed resolutions in favor of it. The procla- | condition of the democratic party ia Missourt, if [ jusnified under the dela-ive ovlier that the people The Omnibus! you have all heard about it, and, | by wey of setiling up old scoreeund aduninesteriog & | Gey Taylor had done, and proved it by @ letter | mation was issued December 10, 1532; the Mis | hed not come to the rescue, and saved 1 from the Of the von-slavholding Siates wtended to eoolish | no doubt think you k.ow all about it, and, without | cantion to them forthe fawure. lt was Thursday, | from hie Seeretary.of State, Mr. Clayton; which I | souri Legislature bad met in November. It was | danger before it? Nulliters had the management slavery in the slave Site nd that, consequent- | doubt, you know a great deal. For example, you | the first day ef August; the Omatbos hed been will pow read to you, in justies both to the Vresi- | in session when the proclamaton was iseved. It | of the party; they had all the mesus of actumg Hoa ly, & reper de of | know how it got capsized, and how the eft | overturned and smashed, about sooret, the evening | de t This ia it:— was democratic, and should naturally have moved — public opinion--judges, bank directors, presses, gaving the it in the road, and rau off three hundred mites! and | before. ‘The Senste wt enemas tees | ne oe Sa. promptly, and through a democratic member, in , members of Congresy, aud of the Gener Assem= selves fre | then, after the passengers had been gathered up, | deys, aod mark © ory. They geve | Dean Ben—I received your letter support of the proclamation. @a the coatrary it | bly, and an organized band of conspirators to work tion, The and carried home by others, how he came back | scenes which mught be mete inte p otures, fra: ju regard to Mr Heap. this — was not until the end of the session—the day be- | in concert T ould have carried Che party,as @ fore the last day, and at the close of that day, and ry, inte nullification, wnd that would have been gd a whiy, and oe it ape ae a | its ay erm ager og — re ~oaaete a = the democracy was avoiding the question, that the | union State we party wou! ave a ruined. was vb ag 7 aang resolution approving the proclamation was moved | The whigs would have taken the Seite, aad woald st the Pashaw ot Tavis, and had reerived | in the House of Kepreseotatives. It was moved | deserve to take 1t »gainst a disauion democraue duced those avowal» a made out my Gee tort than 1 could bav- jitinear ; nod thus | and claimed all the credit—and got it from those | end heng wp. 1 limit myself to the last day te bey | that, when ore tutly ond ellectually | be had cought io the trap. Youknow, stilltarther, | gave it to hie friends ae Sampson Jid to the Vai. | Jebw Th n ont mycelt, and re- | thet Gen. Taylor was against 1t; aad that, for berg | lieones, bip and thigh, or ae some trenelations of | eumet a re dieved me trow all turther tronbie abootit. Inere- | agocnot it, Mr. Clay arraigoed bimin the Senate, | the Bible heve it, ke and belly. He Iwached it dulity then war veuguiehed Phe blud eaw. The | and aitacked him, as he used to do Gen. Jackson: | inte them; but that is no aflaire! mine. Le only deaf beard. Aud (owe whe bad called me a false i fut I don’t thiok you know all about it Ident | touched the * Sewthere Sem ” by a0 uaphes ment from the Pasbaw, for his inault to the Ame- | by Adem B. Chambers, of Pike couaty, and was | perty. From this I have saved the party; and let alarmirt-—who bow beveved tere wae no scheme | think you know how it got ita aame—or rather how | ton, by inuende, and by letang them eee thet they | rican tag. im seizing, at the Uonsulate and impressing | in these words :— eny retional man refiect upoa the conse waces if of disunion--ceme nud thavked me for the vigi- | \¢ gotthe name fastened upon at. I wiil tell you. | hed lost their dar oejeet by wot joining hum | the Dregoman. The charges made by Mr. Paine are | | “Kerolved, by the House of Representatives of the | my conduct had been dilterent; if | had been awed lance whieh hed detected, aud the courage which ! i* was ‘ten. Taylor that did it. Asa wise man he | io bis darling pre He taunted them with | om Sie in the Department of Stace. and are very grave | State of Misrouri That we disapprove of the ‘ples or flattered into silence; or, What Was worse, taki had proclaimed the oxnuwer Then [felt my part | knew that every legislative measure ought to be | the loseot then Sbdeg mia. for Califo by let | #00 serious Mr Leap was heard in his detence, Ga to be at an end. Tkhorw thor the people would | kept by iteeif; he was, theretore, against jus ting them see that they om take care of them-e) wheo they saw the dan- | citcor ant bills together. bien forthe Onomibus. He of pullifieation, as advanced by the State of Sou, what was culled the Sow hern side of the 4 ion, ited States, and that we fully coneur | 224 Decame an instrument. under the resolarons by some persons. em the ground that he was ade- | with the opinions and principles avowed by Aadrow | Of os appcgpga Assembly, in co-operaiiog with tae cy President Taylor declined to remove bim on the sean, Of ing Seoneeiens with the compact existing grounds elleged by Mr Paine Mr. Heap was objected | betweon there te ger—that they w ', Orset of men, to | things by their ngh me; » | have hed what they wanted—the mutilacon of ( 4 | Bave the Union ‘ety was in themselves; | Clay's omnium gutherum bill, the Ouiuous bill. | forcii—itthey had only agreed tou ilate her Peete Mca Chsties alia he memcend ec naciees | ceasaniie atten tai betenien thes eed Ix tans: | ! Anti-Benton party! Anew mode seaunel to give the | That made Mr. Clay very angry; and he complains | ( have vored for % deg %O | him on secount of his democracy. tage to Comgress of the 16th January, 1833.” of designating a poluacal party, aud more worthy of alerm—a watch re ed to the Senate about it—told them he ¢ alle “ with pleasure” ia the Omolbus bill, prowld- Mr Paine came well recommended, but President A Seognd sesottion: oflered by Mr Chambers, | demons than ot men. To characterise a party We have had a to * Congress—ebout | ed his bill omuibus. This he did in open S » | ed they would have then voted for the Ororbus | Tesler would not remove Heap, This i+ bat one am: affirmed the Supreme Court of the United States to ' their love fora men, their zeal in bis Cause, an twice as lov hive beea, or would | and ia @ pathetic speech, and from that time forty | bill—bet ee they would not, they ehowld gor *& heedred testances which [ could enumerate, whic! be the constitut al tribuacl to decide the cousti- | devotion to bis success—'o give them his name, es ouch have been. if il hos hope tne Gack President | ome ious Was the name of the vehicle. it ine seperate bill ‘Thie w the substance of what | *Pow Bow utterly groundless was the tutionality of acts of Congress. Both resolutions | on that account, ts natures! wed commen, and may Taylor, Senator Clay, ‘senator Beaton, and Se much for the name, he origin of which you | he eid; and Low forkisown words. This is what Te: cen ny ma pee pantry ‘f “y t met with opposition from the detaocracy. The | be amiable, if not wee. Bat for a party to charace | many others, all storied (her—staudiag upon | bave now learned. Next, for the passengers; and | he ewido second one was rejected, ae a similar one was at | terize itself by its hatred to 4 man. aad to conse. one | platform: ft of common sense, | bere, 1 think, you do not know all, You kaow Dave raid. from firet to lect, that I war in fe the last seseion ot Our general assembly. The first crate itself to bis destruction, ts aot only unaataral Tearon, just avd portiamentery baw: that is | some, but not all. I willintroduce you to the others, Hetoe of Califor ) one was pessed, but with some negative and mioy and uncommon, but diabolical i that every me sore should rest upon its ewa | You know very well the four inside passengers, tow of my worthy capital by represen reluctont voles, omong the democracy. The jours | spi re mdvet merite—Calitor ie by herseit, first and foremost; | nemely, California, New Mexwo, Uh, aod Texas; martyr tor pelitteal prinetples, nal will show the negative votes; and some of she | Uta end New Mace by ta-mselves; Texas to | and aleo the outarde Pasweng ra, hamely, she fugie euseiaeiee 7 eaeee y thet te mp at | voters are alive and still in Missouri, to work | herself; the Faginve 40 Dl aod the Distriet of | Ove recovery slave bill, ana the Tier column auage ee. a only Ps) ~~ 'y Gepart- | sgainst me now, es the’ ny son thea, Catenstie Gave Tre bill, each by it | din slave trade suppression Dill, All these you kpow; ere ere Seeres aCe waey Tete tenets the a ~ TE nn meget | self Thiststhe way Taste Choy, Benton and som: | end now for the fucrodyeten to the two others. wicca Ger ily and retuctantiy passed | rf t this I gol feantey. § about the same fat of 1812, and the other as | a Fe RAY rill aay sidewipe votes-the jonraal will show | latly pap ec thet the groun who. But the journ the two houses will not h his prating contract This iv what he seid. and itis cnoweh. If the | yr — is for the removal of pele Nea me potty Benge apo that was | om on | Southeta members hed met ais worthy (vend’s pro- others dd Tavl kept the teeck till he died Ove was the whig |. 4. LH: | Thomas Ritchie. ot t —an | tithesie, the Union, prea. | These two passe nuers were neither ineide, ty upon the principle of katred and coaspiracy— r constitute themselves his haters, and coasprte his Lam, dear sir, very slacenly and traly yours. dope by the nullifiers at that time. Forced to yore ; destrection, pot for bad, bat for good acts, bec wuse ticeehiy ' the Poche es orehaneime He ehanged | the outside; but 1 the boot, under the driver sition HN M CLAYTON. | for Chambers’ resolution through policy, they deter- he mey stand ia the wey of their crumimal de: his course and reve eed Las of 5 see buck = ia pant i ang 4 Pas mee ar yy J ; eashingtoD DO se tho | Mined to make a trial cmong the erm cctablieh | then the iniquity of thelr de gaation becemesarre. opeider tien fore very mense for winch he had ahoa hole in o orn, bke Joha Bo. \. vi - a ands 7 t _ i | Ch al rm Sct out, he tut heve « evugion-tate eonside- | Brown. 1 suppose you all understand that. If | Now what was that proposition Otlce, of which 1 | SUUification inthe State. They held a night meet- | cious and revolting This is the case wih the ration Of the Whole tovether. He mast have | you do not, I must expltio, though it is @ bad | fornia in (woe Upon the lime bills bundled ther, und all tied in | business for an orator to have to explain his owa | Testreting the State to the mo ing iu the low, long log house, which stands west | party in this State—! only speak of the couspirator ig: , While L remained Secretary of Beate, | 18 Mec ey House," nek was ealied, thick which siyles tself Jenon. Tt hates 0 " ake Wes then the p pal boarding house of the mem- | femion, because it Can neither seduce him, all monde brooght to unite in oae | metaphors. The e nation, then, is this: Joha ¢rreting & Pew terriery to Up | have read this lever, and made the statement b . * 4 . hirmiorione Voice tor a tererogencots mass of | Was @ slave in Charleston, S.C. and was cated | that he would have vored with which it intvodoced, ag an act of justice to General | D&M 3 and in that meeti i resolved to take the f Md, | deceive him, nor per-aade bi ¢ rey 3 eoch nullificr in his county, and bring out the peo- | nto their nullification designs, and th direordant mersures, Thea vame on the struggle | Brown, efter his muster. “He bad heard of * free | the Soathera Seusters would then hive voted for | Teylor and Mr. Clayton, I now present it in | Te ig favor of the Southers doctrine, as w wae | spired ogwinet him to Kill how eft hit eee whieh consamed mnort ting the bills | ee and wanted to see it, He took it in his | the Omnibus; but would net vote for the seme °F point of view—as an example worthy to be | cated thi in favor of nullifi nd agai rt b . . : . ; aa aes ny bill fo edeniasin Salil follow t ny > nts, Wi u 8, in favor of nullification, and against | lemation, be they coul tied logether—tnen efforts to peas | heed to make a vovage to the north; and as he | popecition ina bill for the edimiseion Ny wpe | ée seenatia, tn Mr mon coy Prades yg “+ Bh Jackson's proclamation. Many nulliters, besides | Rot de with truth, in the open field. They hae sto unite them. | chose to travel incognito, he got into a box, with | elove. “Thie is hie own adm, th | a hole in the bottom to breathe through; ad thas | clewt and authentic thet he would voyaged to Boston, where he was nabbed ay & —ent her in twom ae he by them together= too a % thove in the general aseembly, were in that meet. | deceived many gord men—got m WY good Mee nd when, at bee ing, ail that were in reach of Jei!»rson city, aiding | into their reuks ond to ascume their devigned cured an opportupity to anawer—hear him ia his dr tener decide justly, according to the evidence meareres peseed f, " id abetti ign. i Me mf it . sic nee Chay. And this w su os of the lengin of the | wards callec Jobn Bex Bro a ui pa eo child—if the : “ ol sara. nod - sthem. Ont: ane el er ce The ground on (be vital port ot seyerate, or conglome- | gers in the Omnibus boot. ey otes for evel ° ny Oy naht to do. p on " “ ty Fate consideration ot the ailies res like Joha Box Brown, and breathed through a huie | These are f they will situttrnte the | lena how give yousome insight into this busi- | POhtical exirtence for the rashact: | the designe of the disaawus We have had a te oat all oo- | 2 the bottom hike hin; and Were both nabbed whea | ¥ hole mordity of the Omaibos optrarion, aad who | pert et Westington—how it ie done—and how a selation, and I eames . as a Se tas | SeManS nd cmaies ry ic pee “0 sar they got out, tine him, and sent back, like him, to | it Was seved Coliform i who twas that would | l'reeidemt whe is pot vigilant, may be sometimes » it, gh, ti is ie hese two cupied with ove Beyer: wa ithe in ry . . . - 1 bemesake of old, he has hada fallsiace. And [ | great facts being seen lecewved men will right ae te te ; wt the place they started from. They were 4 seri of | have cold her. The boundaries of Californin were | deoenwed. It is the custom in the department - . oo Ath a he 7 Denied ton teen ameaeee q and who | deck passenyer, to work thelr wey they were to | first questioned a9 vneuttable—thea admitted to be | Where long levers are peceived, to make : | fear may sey, tm thie case, of the whole whig | themselves. The decrivers will be left alone. The reat iojary te wasiefal ¢ party, os it wae said in jore comprehensive | Tél Hulitication demoerete will be leit alone! he ip Ornibus, and Ornoibue was to help them; and | Tight, in order t© get @ majority of the committee | Street Of ther contents ina brief endorsement on when Omnibus broke down, all failed Both inet | to put her imto the Omaibae—thea proposed to be | the buck. This te dene by the clerk to whom the their fate in the same place, Hoase of Represen curtailed, nearly one hall, to purchase votes to pees | filing of it is committed wae it done in the case . united in death, as they had been tn the voy. | the Ommibue— then refused to be jied et allie | ot Dr twice doar, once truly and once ope and alone they should forever stand Neuner Wwhige nor democrats showd affiliate #ith them Both pasties wilt be stronger, and cleaner, without Mf fromthe | them. ‘They were but wbout a dozea in the R ree—though dreadful enemies to each other ail | & bill by herseif—and ail thes wi auy fr taleely wos an cadormement on Paine’s the principles of Jackson's proclamation, | last General Ascembly, and ehout the same a weet pune laods to States | “herr lives before! ' t—whet was for 5 for | have ween the original ally whea those principles became aa object n this. Most ofthe © es are be “ny ened Tetirends, Catifornta land bills | Who passed the “peace measures,” ae they | Bo eanet Pat Spe pnts es, to chews wh lification attack im my person. | in the banks, and in some nullification presses. d-ted about liad titles, aad | were 60 affectionately called by those who had fa. weine, Vindiontery of hie Now, Adam was undoubtedly the first man, aod | There are but few beoies An regulating keg of the god mines, the | delayed end endangered them for so many months! | [a Mf bron med le ia the pe ronwal of the Unwed vent Tu | A BC are the firet three letiers of the alphshet; | and me, now and force pay egsin, as Is Caivornin tatut bill to sive the imicers trom being | Who passed them! i will tell you who did. They | Sid Wes of NorRerm voles, to paws the aboumimatte | oe thin we Daan ieeeaeen oe Mele bat Adam Hronson Chambers cannot be the fist | cree before, ta derp dich! No u ed of ther i e lertey * pare ven! y ae en } . “ rap enju L y ow! « » 1b ioe pundenr’ oF 06 ee ei | ey ceed a neleee They hed (ec niet: | It was the Suthers Senator whe saved Calon. | yet they weve ait tede on tbe prodern oystem of | parted the melilion ce che beck to cree ae mace 3g eg a > 7] via. Their high howor dd it They wanted her | etteck, that of welt defence Then came the se- | to attack me for me taming the prince ue guibtrep is the w ontrerd of bd . ~ 4 dv ided— wanted het defeated but @euld pot ell | Cond indersement im a large hand and black jak, iT ~ to coneide a he an end weir fore a own resolution ye fall thet a 5 3 le " ¥ Ny 4 consumed la crea (of eccing on | to save fife, und as suum aa Untied, euch mveumeoit | {helt votes to the Onuattae for che p they | crowded im, part above and part below the email socartened Ado Breamen Geom | thes Petes ter cbainres cual, were, Wr ave ctemamied is evening vorrite to the shore, and saves himeclfe ie of there mule | bad eo voted, California would hive hera sactific: | witag, end evidently put ow afterwards, cod in & le my whole account with him at | They will eompromice npon auy plan bue Beotoar ne eng een bas themselver, that is to ery, tarit own | Ct Ther vote would have effected the i diferent hand, these worde vavalave Tunis. | once. Short settlements make tong friends. [| that te to say, having fered pon Anim he + = Of Wane, bad the consequent | fo many ¥. strength and merit pasted them! and he that tetle | Wea sand them all the tree frends of Calete Changes prefert: d eainst Mr. Payne | forgive hirt all that he has ever doae against me— | will buy him give him wil the others vn Mimmact bie Bille. It teen ‘worthy for the peo- | you otherwise attributes theit prseage to | WOUld have woted agninet ber. Te wee torenibed by Mr E duecharged | in fect it did me no harm-in consideration of that ie cites ceo Gon ple to make, bat one which | enould never have | any particular man, of set of mev, ise prnder und | WOU have brea ver bis ety, and teks for revolution of 18S3-—forgive all, one thing only ex- | compromisers He mroccsed ce ects’, 5 Tuade it it hed for attempts, here and | ®sycophant, or careless and ignoront of what he provcripties cepted, avd thet is, hie having taken 1 iato hia | Christ, undedlered him at the lond ta the wort t elvewhere, to place the blame oa innocent shoul- | cays, They parsed themselves, and woold have aration, herd to suppose that he could make me hit the uu'= | tlc old serpent not owning a foot of Py sg) dets, and fo bestow apylans= where coademaation | dene so at any day, many months before, it they a by | Oy way of wing attention to them, and the pro- | jiflers ope lick more or leesJorone feather’s weight compromise now oflered by the anti-D ie due. There can be no dispute aboutit. The | had been let alone. But there were some cireum- mv ite ew tipten for doing bie duty wae three times ander: | heavier of lighter, by aay pattingthat he couldgive | they do not own an office ia Missouri, yet Omnibus did the miechiet! that fates | meevare, | stances ia caving and passing each, which deserve | Kim" who would have hough ( ad ont to 5 & ok ln tee mane Ge aan suenate, whens te , d Sepive bien all bat that, ead re vat the moralicy of conden ped by partion tery lew, condemned by te ter known then they are eal we be a 80, he will oaly never do it rd sferwarde condemeed by two-thirds | First, the tenitorial bills for Vinh and New Men. | eT et ee eee ee ents Ff aay where cee, to ous | again, und stick to what he is now at—patting the eoute, aud three-tourthe of the House of | ico were helped on by the exposition of the Mext- voce Resuee o mand gua de | te 8 if General Teytor and Mr. Olayton fiers, : about the peace meneures, and the etory dee to | bod merety looked at this radersemeat, provide t Plot No. % took place ia: 1544; these, nod mony erher tnoortant bulla, were lost, or | they passed themerives. They had been hike a | feed ever, or hur © want of time | percel of men, tied together to swim a river, and tative: There were but seventeen votea | can law ehowiog the abolition of slavery in the a " } 4 union rf ing bee nvte for all four of the messurea whieh | Mexican territories, before we acquired any part of thee Who parned the Mp tot the blame open ttne- | & en Gee Gore, Oa PG hove tren deorived, | rejection of the Texas annexation treuty of tha: | tween whise cad nulliters, Those ive get thes the Omette Mr. Clay, who | her territory ed the contest about the who oppor d them ‘bet i the @ a wed | os Mr T tmere and Mr . probably were. | year. I could not support wnat treaty, lus objec. | selves together, let no man put ni, and it w a Wilmot proviso to a d e about gaat’s wool; and cae aan tenant’? Frome Wed teguiber and | | een py MLL ; may | Was, pot to get Texas into tae Union, but to ge: | meeting, to endoree whigs aod whit Alleounted; and that wae the stre that coon deprived the dispute of ail is charms oa , hen they hecaime peace | be 7 ih ngton, ov, njaet Seuth ovr of it, nod that at the expense of a coalition, and a wedding between the partes + Omni were left free to ¥ o ide, aud of all ite terrors on the other. measu roling virture=tnengh while ie | fm rele apes felee aceusaniess from office huat with Mexico, and through the ia romentality t them sray ether We will make the whe fas they le vatrammetied by the eonjanctio: Next, the Texas boacdary dill. There the con- | the hands of thor who dr w them, the te here may be ¢ouatly unjast removals won Nashville convention. [ts ebject was to make | a bill of sale of nll the nulhfication ant old. soft Of other rrmters Torre were but four of the | duct of Houston and iiusk did most to pace it. | thine but comm the least preterm eine cadoreement. of & poliuesl party hack of : » aquarrel between North sad democrats who were there thatevening—Sut wit grand comentire of thirteen that voted for all four | They were neither dem=cogoes, nor disunioniets, | “08 1 great aft” se Gary ott 6 ame means of effecting a separation of out recourse. We will wartent them soucd Of the meesures: and yet this acre! miaority were | bat faithfal Senatore—‘riends doth to Texas and | "e od his he tetra myerll aod the prace mesetre Sourh from the North. Ite object wae t nothing, except on the Wilmot proviee; oad there able to keep the veticle on va wheels for many | the Union,—and anxious for the harmonious set. | on a nal by wingien. Alera ai 6 wute—Cnr vole—one, me 6s in plot No 1, only with a different pre’ | they are all sound, and nothing exe. We wil! nut mMoathe, and have it celebrated aa an atk of aafety, . Uement of questions, which every wise man fore- | | a mage plac e wer fore on of tra months, and in a service of thirty | I denounced all that, and drew upon myself | warrant them to work--netiherto draw wa ’ instead 01 Cursed as the wooden horee of machief. | saw must result from tie “ heeleover head” man. | all drawn by other bands, befor miter | veare—the Pusitwe Mave tall. | believe ihe cry | whole vesgeance of ‘the plotters. 1 waa no com- | hew wood; they prefer todriuk water thet war raised In the peat place, ‘at ef coonptetat we me The mearures were ali pasced by large majeriues, | ner in which Texas wae brought ioto ¢ wmdied down to that—aut | promiser in a case of disunion. Tam no man to cr draw, und use the wood that + Oumuebe | They di > pas a = ll bills was delayed fer four montin, by kere og then | Qrrat w the dives ofsome of the whie editors aad | pour rose wate . - i wl been pasted at auy F 1 before | inthe mode of aunenation’ ond ell cof hice T rane | pomeed readily, and with little aid from the lene | have Re distiees @t the cheevce of any body elec, , i. qaich them if $00 can; and whet If moe wal 7 : i told, and tried to preveat at Ure time. ’ boa perty when did pase. Only fous 4 the | cithet at thet the oF any ether tine, oF all thee thine. in the Senate, and the one at Boon- | them if you con, after you have caught thems a The session opened violently for dieunton ; long hd isis co Prand Commitice of Thi: een voted tur all (oar of } Were aberat at the same Si h the grand refusal of the | if you ean do thet, T advies the Whigs, when they before it was over, the disuaion speeches had reag 4 dit not vote for this bill-—the reason why Thave | the bills which the yee carrie’: auly even St that—ee dlaress 08 a0- h e surrounding country, | go fiebirg. to betske themerives cone when they edto be heard. Thev hat died out. Everybody | often ld. twas becauee it mutilated New Mex: | wen of the Mr med are to eked 4 . to vufier the Gieutg | fe preckory ieee ah ce to that ronch of Knows that; and the Cambus party, seizing won | ico cut off the country above, ic! Paso, aad gave | Clay himmell wi at cue for fault *9 find | convention (o rit in theit town—ob, how chinged | cele by theif tails, and holding thems | eas the even', sey they did it—-chat their great aneeches y vad Lhadataried togetheron during all these v = bh these twenty-one. Mony ate wbarnt at half | since thet day !—stilled the plot. "The aullifers | ‘Ana be ing them. did it. ‘They hed as well say it was Noah's flood e# others. Each stood of | mittee get nd bio tends ane | the Petes of the seen; aed no objection to that. | were much more numerous in owe general assom- | guien Wee oe te eeemnincence. An ex anbtres- that did it” The fact is, that disnaion speeches en thet Be ber { New Mexico was to be | ke come Te Geum every | Beme hve the hives of fuginve claves the bly ot that Ome then now, and about equally intent Cater Naw, ot jhe head of that meeting--e ute died out before the Omnibus wae constructed—be- pb Ane . on + caremed more determined on | time they fig ht—wlether wh woot. Me Cle tthe Whole Hme—fagacious mee, | upon getting me out of their wav; but the phot was | ° oo &, and approving its proceedings. ow, fore evew Mr. Olay had changed ground—and at potn' than I was, for bis resolution declared | pimeeif gets tbe tithe of Pac Te Weil fe tt jostly be ineleded ta the eanerments of | cheeked. The people were sretty well waked tp. = ty er a certe: tm W Pa Citys while he aod others were still coutending for | thet no part of New Mexico, rither enst or west of | have knowa many military offeerm to be fe | &Pogiuve Bill—ard Bo Boe token of that. I The nullifiers voted for me without being able to | Caen ne. sub treasury was repea ad when the separate conaderaion of ali the measures. | the Rio Grande, should be ceieu to Texea; Loaly | vere for actions Which they greer certwncd | Demeaw? the closely watohed aod deily fellow | ootlin war carried in procession, having a deud do History end) memory tell that the disuaion mede defener 4 het was on the enst of that | which others had perf reel but they ale are | Renton! let hun bo tetariag oon tn eoeeoge ba pd Ep net er tb yt ey | Bite cienty the deed sut-treasurers, and burie ech oat early in the session—that the | river—knowiag that Texas had nevereisimed any- | ad to be uresent ai the bat se Coait bs | thengh be vowrd pon it fice vies Before—aad i@- | sve their own bacon. ‘This was the ead of 0 | Catone helt inthe cenal. And all this in glorit= Omnibus wes not constructed till ve fifth month of | thing west of it, einer the time what Liesilent | brewetted wiv was three, hialied mies sbanns loud dutreme tieuks forth. A ory of la. | entien, plot No. 2, in the State of Miseouri— | {rin 'gt Mt, Clay. who murdered whiggrry 1 ths the ression—that it was ecaperzed in the eighth Houston vetoed the bili to claim the country \o the | sepecially ene whe had the fiet4, dee! ol | toewtetion rere from (he ved, but not extirpated; seotched, but not | thirty days of his ealted session, in which he re month—and chat it was not until after that catas- | Pacific, cean. Mr. Giay chanwed; i did not. | was low vmiog heek lure rortens, They exhale ia hu , : peated the sub-treasury. And now, it rem=mie trophe, and un'il after Mr. Clay had left the Senate, | To get Texas into the ( mnibys hs agreed to mati: | when all Yo aiiiniary brew: Nellifiention No. %, ie the leet, and the present | Ti’ *t, the ex subtreassirer, officiating at this meet that the bentiog bills, as they were called by the | lete New Mexioo—cut her off below the hips, and | Lees granted under mich ciroumetences. ht was hee one, and the boldest and moet desperate pol: ofthe |! &+ one of those eo typified that night thirteen doctors, were got out of the broken-dowa | give the lege to Tex se, and that was what be oa! reserved fer civil #1: ifa—tor parame . iuagined neeei 4-9) Tet ws change the subject, end vehicle and parsed. Everybody knows thin; yet | ed stopping &@ ‘bleeding wound.” After all, the | <1 originate brevets for ench here —4 ool tes ‘ b Weil, object okt come the Snmetion of the ‘an Ppreenble topiee You want rath the Omnibus purty iovist that they did it, They | Texas boun lary was setiied upon the principle city of Lovie hus been among theres to hetow ’ from tiv now-clavehoidng Btates—its pretext dif. | T¥€TS, amd swompa made dry 5 lines had a8 wel! incist that Noah's flood did it. I know | | hed proposed at the time of the annexauon, aud | jt,” 1 allude to the te ating bere—the miscel neers e ferent from botn being changed to North- what did it, aod will tell you. A letay preporioea egain at the corr emeat of the seasion, aamely, to gelebrare the passage of the peace aboitt wery in the elave of the Southern members came to Washington | the tesuietion of the boundary— the cession of t mrasnier: end Which did not limit itelf to the | & Mf the object of attack; the cone ‘under the ful) belief that Northern membersintend- | eurplas to the Unie! States fore co Of those Who had not earned, but want . the pume, as far os purvive 4 to abolish slavery in the slave-hold oe and the partition of (re soil from ala Kine , nd bestowed ceneure. | do not ailode eo the State—as those who Were carrying on a system of sarees longitydinal, inetond Jetitudionl line myer came, of course, from tar eompoa- en's upon the South, to end in that con- lathe third place, California was saved by the | om of congregation--whige aed ov! inane summation. Moony members the south, like | Southern Senators, as they were: those who | @0¢ Who cheuld he mnay Citizens in our own State, were deluded | adhered to ile Sovthera wish, to California into t_dreadfal belief; cod these members ar- we . ) min —to whom that obj ot Was car. ‘ aede vived in Wreshiagsen * their frends inflamed | dinel am dashing, but whe ould aot accomplish | hegt "Prana ond Lie anon hoon i tod while’ thet celusten laseed | which may be new to seeny of thle a edasinictration 10 the