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 The following is an extract from a speech lately delivered by Mr. Benton. at Jefferson City. We commend i; to the perasal of the Wings. especially to our neighbor of the Gazette, who of late has somewhat assetsi the speeches of the great Sena. tor.

 Col. B. said the time was suspicious for . speech of thanks. It was lime of deyicacy -ihe country was prosperous--lhe armies yictorious-erops abnndant--prices good produce and labor in demand-ihe currency solid-exchanges even-banks paying specie --shinplastrs gone--gold plenty, and all without regulator. without king bank or . king man, 10 keep commerce, currency and industry alive. Is was pleasant spectacle 10 behold, an inspiring influence to feel, and subject of study to the reflective, contem- plasive mind. Ten years ago H was not so; and 1t has not come so under the operation of wise laws. dating their origin from the administration of President Jackson, and though, by many. at the time of their adop- ton, to be lraught with evil. The e1;inetion of king bank, lording it over all other banks and persons, and eontending for po- litieal supremacy with the federal govern ment, and the resurrection of the gold cur rency, the gift ol God to man for standard measure of value, were the principal of these acts, and the ones without which all others would have been unayailing.

 In the thirteen years that have elapsed since the passage of the gold bill, nearly one hundred millions of gold have been imported, and that without disPlacing silver. On every bank counter, and on every brokers, gold is seen lying by the side of silver: you lake your choice, except when gold Is wanted in quantity as remittance iu place of bill of exchange. Then small premium, but not more than the current exchange Is paid The banks have gold, the brokers have It {; the people have it. What was oace promis- ed, and laughed al as ridiculous, is now seen every day, as . reality: gold flows up the Mississippi, add glitiers through ihe in- tssstices of the siiken purse.

 Thus it is with the people, the banks, and the brokers; and how Is ii with the federal government, and especially in the stale of war in which we find oarselvess We have . war now and no national bank we are as we were ln the war of 1872, ia lhaf respect War tries sysiems of finance. and this war with Mexico is more severe trial than tliai of 1872, because the expenses are greater, and the war carried oa in foreign country, where no paper, bank or governmental, mo, even the notes of the king bank, if il siiIi suivived-would answer any one purpose Gold alone will do foi ihs the Mexican war: without it, the war could not go on Silver would be too cumbrons; paper-trssh. How stands the question of currency, leans, and eredi, with the federal government You have seen how this question stood with this government in 1872, you see how il stands with them now. On the 10th day of April last, the govsrnmeni got . loAnr--eighteen millions Of dollan-alI gold, and at . pre- miufa More than shar Oafss to lend the same. to the asaosat of 6fy-ssvea mil lions of dollars, were made ai the same time; and the disappointed ofsress, grisved es their faslure, attacked the administration in the newspapers for iasoriiism, and not giv- ing them fair chance This is rsshsr diff ferent from what t was n tic war of 1912. And, ss tt is with Ioans, @ il is with stocks and treasury noses--all above par, and all exchangesble for gnld--ihe govsrnmeat pay ing every body ih gold, and ihe only iwo real distrssssd men that he had seen in Mis- souri were . ceaple ef gcssrmsns agenss--a sue-ueassser and psymssieF.--both nearly buried in heaps of gold, and crying out for wagons to come 10 relieve them, Who says knH,bae now Bu, he was good sstufcd