Col. Benton

The following letter from Uiis gentleman, now publihing in the papers, comnnitshiin fully ngainst the scliemes of Slavery Propagandism sel in motion by Calhoun and hts friends. The letter is plainand speaks lor itself. It s thoughi to point very stronglv at S ilas Wright ns the nex'. Democratie nominen foi President,although bis name is not mentioned. Perhnp Col. Beniion woiild have no objection to form an nlliance wilh Silns, run on the ticket with hirn in '48 as Vice President, with th? reversión of the Presidency in '52. It lnoks somewhat like iliat. But how stranga it seems to hear the rights of the North set forth by a veteran Slaveholder! This letter was written in reply lo the uction of a meeting in Missouri, held last December, by which Col. Benion was nominated!forthe Presidency. "Sr. Louis, May 26, 1847. "Dear Sir: - I take the first moment ol' leisure after my arrival at this placo to nnswer your kind communication of the 13th of January, nnd to let you know how much I was pained nt seeing the proceedings of the most respectable meeting of which you were chairman. It was precisely to forestal nnd prevent such manifestalions in my favor, that I spoke to t'e point ofthenext Presidency in my soepch at Boonesville, in tlie Summer of 1844, and all the sentiments which I then pxpressed remain in full force now, strengthened and confirmed by nll that has since happened. I then brought faeward the glaring fact that in above fiCty years' existence of this federal governtnent, the demooracy of the North had given but one President to the Union, and that ono for but a single term; and this (of late) from a Southern opposition to Northern men. And I then took it on myselftosay that this course ofthing-s would hnve to be changed, otherwise there would ba an end of the Democratie party, or of any party founded on political principies, and expressed my gratification that Mr. Polk's early and volununtary sell denial had cleared the way for a Northern Democratie candidate in 1848. " These wererriy sentimentsin 1844 ; thpy are my sentiments now, and are rrnt 10 I e nbandnned nt the coming elnction when I see a new scheme deve!oped IVom ihe Soulh for the permanent exclusión of all Northern men frooi Southern support for the Presidency. The fire-brand resolutions introduced into Ihe Senate toward the close of the late sesion, and their practical npplicalion to Oregon (by which we lost the Oregon bill, nnd leave the people of th.it Terrilory a year longer without law or governmentj reveal this scheme, and present a test on the Slavery qucstior. which no Northern mnn can stand, nnd which, ifadpted by the South, must put an end to all future support of Northern men from the Southern Democracy. Ileretofore we, the Slaveholding Slates, hove stood togelhnrupon two pointe - defence and compromiso- the defenre of propeity ond institulions nnd the compromise of the lawg nnd of thp Constitution; and on these two points the great majority of the North, of both ;;olitical partie?, have been nble lo stnnd with us. But now a new position is to be inken - one on which no Northern man can B'and. "Propagandism is now the doctrine of ihe political sect which assumes to be the stnndard-bearerof all the Slaveholding Stales; and to plnnt Slavery, by law, in all the territories of the United Sla'.e?, even tho most remoto hyperbort.an - even in Oregon itself, and against the will oí its inhabitanls - Locomes the design and and the altempl. The words of the reKoiuüons, tho speeches in ïheii" favor, mu) thoir practical nppliciiinn to th Oregun Ui II, all prove thi, and show tliut he ne doctrine ia intended to be made i new politica] test tobe npplied to all Pi-psidential cimdiHaies u lime lo coinr, i :ind, like all ntw lets, inlcudod to super ] -ede all furmer on'S, tind to cnnstilute the ; solé eriterioli Ibr'.lie trial of candidntes. ! Now ee ybixiy must see thnt if tliis new : tot sbnll Le arlopted by the ! ing Staloí1, there is an end to all politica] support of Northern men in these States ' - ihat ïlie present oranization of pnrlies must be broken uj, and a new party l'onnpd, bnunded by gi;ogrnrliical lines and resting on the solo principie of Slavery pr.ipagandism. I am not prepared tor such a stnle of pnrties, nor for the effbct which il would havo upon the hormony and stabiliiy of our Federal Union. "I see pi-pat danger in this new move, and feel the neeessiiy of meeting it at once. In i'act we mast meet it at once, or not ut all; fur it is preSsed upon us now, nnd will conquer uí, if we do not conquer it. The Presideniinl election of 1818, is the crisis; nnd ïf the new lest etui be inocle to govern that election, I consider the dnnger consummated, nnd lh.it lliere must soon be an end not only of the Democratie party, but of all pnrties founded on principle,and, evontuaHy, an end of the Union it.-elf. Inste.id,tl e i, ofindulging a personul or local feeling in favor of particular enndidates, let us, (the Democratie party) look to what the good of ihö Union and of the party quires-, and wait to receive a candid.ile f rom that section of the Union whic'i has given hut one Democratie President n r.enr sixty yenrs, nnd that one but for a single term, nnd which is now threatened, so far as Southern voters are concerned, with permanent exclusión fioir. the Presideniial office. "This, my dear sir, s my plain and seltled answer lo your kind communication,andl wish you to make it known to the members of the meeting of which you were chairman, among whom 1 spe the names of my old friends, and recognize the voice of that powerful county, which has stood by ms in evei-y trial, from my first Senatoria! e!e3tion in 1820, to my fifth and last in 1844, and to which I owe my thanks which it is my intention to mske in person duriiig the coui'se of the present summer. Respcctfully, sir, Your friend and fellow-citizen, Wade M. Jackson, Esa. Howard Co., Mo."