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NJ lay before our readers 10 day the nasterly


.h of MIR. Benton. delivered in the Senate in
s!Ppdication sPi Of the President, and explanatory of
Ss own action and motives, inselalion to the pro-
HI.od hlo anpointment of a Lieutenant General 5s
~ The Raleigh Register still persists in the abb
.,td assertion that the Speech of MIR. Badger
seIiIIed" the Lieutenant General bill; and the
.aason he gives is that Mr.. Badger spoke last,
iSot nobody answered him, and that when the vote
ma rva. taken majority was found on the side Of
u'1s Mr. Benton walks over MIR. Badger like an ele.
,bont among pigmies. Delcately, yet with a
sword that cuts at the point and with two edges,
he fays alive the fertile Imagination" Sena-
tor: and then, as if for the purpose of relieving
his victim from the agony of refined and exqui-
ate torture, he doubles him up in the mighty arms
If his genius, and filings him beneath his feet van
on;shed in argument, and with no consolation left
him in his exposure to the public gaze, but the
.r,,,1nufactured pufs ofthe New York Express and
,besillv compliments of the Raleigh Register. Mr..
poJoer can make handsome and forcible argu-
n,cnf before the Supreme Court or peopIish and
Elective harangue in the midst of an exciting
campaign, or he can threaten revolution and
denounce the President as the descendant of To.
~ in Addresses and Circulars famous for their
GIiuerng words and rounded periods; but when
he comes to meet Mr.. Benton in debate, or to " in
Auence" an American Senate, it takes something
more than his learning lawyer and his sophis.
tries as politician to sustain him in his efforts
These stubborn facts, we doubt not, will elevate
the Register almost to the swearing point, and
that decent print will talk largely about what il
might say TO u.s. but for its &" selfrespcct" and all
that, and charge US with being disposed TO under
late Senator from our own State but we beg
that print TO remember that Mr.. Bemton is also
son of North Carolina, and to consider whether i
I,,s,, Dill o,oI
Benton (both natives of the Slate) in their effort:
to advance the public good, than to endeavor tc
bolster up Mr.. Badger in bad cause by empty
and unmeaning compliments