G Colonel Benton.
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T. i He wing papers are eagerly circulating q
paragraph which represents the Missouri Senator
las hostile 10 the administration. We understand


from the most. respectable authority that there j:


not the slightest Foundation for any such report
Among other pers which seized upon this mis-
representation, was the National Wing of this
city, IN which paper it was republished on the 23d
Augus,--in the following terms: o., 5000, .,i


Mr.. BENTON AND Ma. Polk. 1t is CERTAIN SAYS
the Louisville Journal Of the 17lh instant that Mr.


Benton is preparing himself for terrific attack
upon the administration next Winter in the Senate
chamber. At town in the interior of Kentucky,
lew days ago, he got into q conversation upon the
subject of the Mexican war. and became immense
ly excited-perfectly infuriated. He said that an
opportunity had been passed by of making an ad-


vantageous and honorable peace, aud that he could
show the fact, and would show it, As for the
whole management of the war, be averred that it
had been utterly dsgracetul. He stated that he
should go 10 Washington and maze speech on
the soblect-only one-and that il would be the
gfeest speech Of his life and he was willing that
It should be the last In speaking of the admins
trauon, his language barely if at all. fell short of
downright cursing. His wraihful defamation last
ed full hour. ,.:s,. b -...... ,lfe- 81 :...s


Col. Benton himself put the extinguisher upon


this article, by addressing to the editors of the
National Whig the following characteristic card ::
To the Editors af the National Whig:
GENTLEMEN: On seeing the article from the Lou


sVille Journal. headed Mr.: Benton and Mr.. Poll" {"
IN your paper OF TINS day. nave 10 request that
the paper be no longer left at my house.


.-. Yours, respectfully, . . g..


Aug. 90. 1917. THOS. II. BENTON.


We are happy to see the decided spirit in which
Col. B. meets this uDfounded assertion. At time
when we are engaged in a foreign war-when
the republican administration has not only to over
come the enemy abroad, but to cope with the op-
position at home-whrn every effort is made to
disgrace the President TO defeat the objects of the
war, and 10 substitute a whig regime for the re-
publican syslem--when MIR. Polk has complied
with all his pledges. and carried out the great
principles of the republican party, and when one
would suppose that every republican would rally
around him, from sentiment of gratitude for the
past, we'll as of confidence in his prnci ples-it
ia 10 be hoped that the whole party will! again
unite in support of the administration against an
unwavering and indefutigabIe opposition They
were counting, appears from this article, upon
Col. B. But the colonel abjures their embraces.
We trust that the same spirit of harmony and
union will extend TO that small but talented wing
in the south, that supported MIR. Folks election
with so much enthusiasm. Let all feuds vanish.
Let the party once more present an undivided
front to the universal whig party. Away with
the private griefs Of politicians Away with all
these feelings, hastily conceived, and improvdent


Iy INDUCED, which would separate any man from
the party 10 which ne should naturally belong.
We scorn all such feelings. Never was anything
said of US by The Charleston Mercury, which was
more unjust and untrue. than that we had perse-
culed distinguished man in the south because we
hated him. Washington Union.