Mr. Benton At St. Louis

The followirg i.a poriinn of Benlon's la'e speech at St. Louis. He i nnxious, it 11 be sepn, lo keep open the ground of compromiso on the ilavory qupstion : ' Mr. nentoti passcd to a nnw subjftri - one which had-ivt ypt excitrd he publii altentiou - bul ivfi&h, in his opinión, was )iegn-int wiih mucli danger, and requiie I pn.lv atteniion, It as n t n qun-tton of fireign war, to 3e .-e ilpd by arnv or diplomaev, but of domesHc kgislation, to he fe'llfd bv public opinión and ly vote. - Hb a'lnded to tlie slorery propagandist resnlutinDf, imrdrlured iii'fn the Siuid'te townrds th close of t1 o lnt sessipn, and which he had stigman'zed ,is n (5 re-brand, on iIip diiv of their introduction. On ihe:r Ci'cr, these resolutions contémplate n Sdbversion nf tlie Union, thmwing tlip gnili of the nhvprsi'in npnn those. who oppO'e their ennctment inio law. Atihe snme time, they propone wlmt no citizen o.' a non-sl.-ivt In ld:ng state can evertnnd, and whnt miny fnun ,ile .slaveh.ildin"' St-'te-, himself in the Runtber, wnuld not star') if thev conld: They propose thf abolition of all c mprpmisps, pnst and futurp, on the elavery question, and trpat a viulntors of tlic r'ghts of the Ptnies nnd of ihe Constituiion, nnd as subveriers of 'he Union, all who wil] nol ag'ce to ex'end sliveiy to ;ill ihe Territorios of the United Ptatee, even to the most rpinote and hyiKrliore.Tti - to Orfgon itself, in the Iniitude o!' Vyiseonfin nnd the Lakf of the Wo'ds. T'hey gr lo the pwoiVe 'engt'i of the Northern Abolitionialg. and with t' e snme praciVal conspque'ice,oi)]v in n rpvprspd fornr The AJiolition c.-rpd is, thnt the ndmission of slivery in anv part nf the Union is a violition of the Conslitution, nnf a disolmion of the Unir'ii ; the npw rpsoliition-! d'=clnrp thnt the prohihin'on of slnvery in any territory of thp Union i-; n viola'i'in of the Constitution and of the right: of the Slnts, and a subpi-s:on of the Union, ño mie il is, thni pxirms meet, and tliaf nll finatioism, for or nsainft anv rlogma. tprminnte'i nt the same point of int 'leranep and defia'ice. "The first pflect "f this new slnvprv cred, wliich the Soutjl as .=iimmrnpd to dopt most summarilv, would be t'1 esiablish a npw politieel lt for tryin? the "fthodovv of all rai didnte for the PieiHency ; and a- no Northern man enuld -tand si.ich n tpst nt home, the wh"le of thpin wonld b" lnocl''d in tiie hend. so fnr as the Ponth wna coii'-ernpH, ni a signg'e l'cl. The i,pt i flyit nf ihfsn res'ihition, if aHopiod, in the non-slavfh"lding Slat' s, would lip to put nn pnd to the presont political divi-ion of partie-:, nnd to ■'libs'itutf n npiv partv in thp South, (with i's ntigonist in tho Norlh, bo'jndpd by geographi-al line-!, nnd founded on thp solé principie of slaverv pi'opag mdism. The 'liird efleét of thef rcsolutions would Ie tha! which isstited, bypoihetically, on 'heir lace, namcly, the subversión of the Union. "Sering thee rSiilut:ons in thi daneerim point of view, he (Mr. H.) hal stigrmiized thHi as n firehrnnH on the i ny of tUer intro iuction, atid had sinre i'eprecnted their Upptieat ion to the Oi-pgon bill, by which tho Oi-pgon peop'e were ]pfi without law or gnvernment for a yeir longer."