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Thomas Benton

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Parent Issue
Day
10
Month
April
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Benton is a caricature likeness of Louis Philippe - the same rotundity,pearshaped hond, and about the stature. The physical expression ofhisjface predominates. His lower features are drilled into imperturbable suavity, while the eye, the undriïlable talc-teüer, twinkles of inward slyness as a burning lamp-wiek does of oil. He is a laborious buildcr-up of himself- acling bv syüogistic forecast, never by in)pult:cs. He is pom)ously polite and never abroad without '-Executivc" manners. He has made up his mind that oratory, if not a nationalweakncsp, is ami-Prcfid itiiiil nccomplishment, and he delivers himself in tliö Senate with a subdued voice, like a judge deciding upon a cause whicli the other Senators had only argued. He wears au ampie blue clnak, and a broad-brimmed hat with a high crown, and lives. moves, and has lus being, in a faith in himself whichwill remove moihítñins oferedulity. fhough representing a State two thouand miles ofT, he resides rcgularly at Vashington, drawing a handsome inomo f rom lus allownnce of rnileage, nd paying rare and brief visits to his constituency, whose votes he has ictained for more than twenty years - an un-accountablee- c?ption totho anti-coniervativc rotation of the country's gif:s of'

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Signal of Liberty
Old News