sIr. Benton and Annexation.
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The Globe of Monday night contains Il Letter
from Mr. Benton, in reply 10 certain members OF
the Texan Congress. on the subject OF AnncXa-
ton. Mr.. Benton states that he WAS always a
friend to Texas-opposed to It's abandonment BY
the United States in the Treaty of lSl9--and
siucc that time earnestly i'll favor OF regalmng 1t.
Bnth is opposed to the present hasty and Had
viscd mancuyer of the gasping Administration
to manufacture political capita! by forcing ii
upon the country. He says:


You have Judged rightly, gentlemen, III address
ing your communication 10 me, and proposing to
make me The organ 0t Your washes to the Nncilcan
Congress- being rs | am, the first opponent OF ihe
treaty which dismembered your territory from our
Union the first advocate tur lis recovery; tie sup
porter oi all prudcn, measures for that purpose, The
enemy of Ill movements which would involve the
question in sectional partIsan politics. and tlie
lirm believer in the speedy and happy recovery OF
the dismcmbercd territory and the mutlGicd rivers,
il the question could he kept free from improper
connexions and confined TO the patriotic basis OF M
tiomatY and honor.


Leaving out of view, then, the treaty which is
now before the Senate, and only looking 10 the
general question, can say that | look 10 the re
lcovcry OF Texas, and of our muulatcd rivers ana
natural boundaries inevitable facts III the nati'-
raj order OF human events; that they naturally be-
long 10 the yallev of the Mississippi and To the
American Union, and viii return 10 II with ease and
honor if wise and temperate connscls prevail; and
that this natural consumrnalion OF u coming event
can only be DELAYED for time by throwing The
questions into our elections, per'erting il from lis
national basis, making it sectional and partisan,
proStiiuting il To unworthy purposes, running the
question at men, and making ii the means OF dis.
,urbing the peace and harmony OF the country.


AS to the rest, the Letter OF Mr.. Benton is ri,
dicuously egotstical and treats at LEM tn of what
L have done, what have thought what +
felt, believed, think and intend to do in the PFC.
mlscs, as if l , were the only person who could
or should feel any interest whatever in the sub
ect. We shall try and make room for the Letter
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