The Charleston Mercury

Thi rabid slave organ is out ag.iinst Col. Benton, and says he " de votes the time, talent?, and strn'.egy, which a weak and ignorant Congress woüld not employ to conquer Mexico, in a campaign at home, where, with an army of speeches and a navy of letters, he intends to conquer, if not a peace, nt least to subdue all the spirit of the slave States, and to deliver them, tied hand and foot, over to Wilmot Proviso Abolitionists." The Mercury don't care whether the candidato for the Presidency be from the " North, or West, or South," provided he is not an enemy of the claims nnd institutions of slavery. What magnanimity ! And the Norlh is equally liberal respecting the residence of the candi! datP, provided he be not a friend to the extensión of slavery, and its claims and institutions, bevond the present limits of the United States. Tlie South resolves to be satisfied with nothing short of a slave state power suflïcient to shape the policy. I and control the dcstiny of the Unior',.- The North, as we trustj will never consent to the further augmentation of that power. Speaking of Mr. Benton's coiirse ín relatl'on to slavery, the Mercury asks " In what act, or measure of bis lift; has hc shown his devotion to our instituiions ? When we weve struggling for that great barrier and support of tliese interests, Texas, he gave nt the first no help ; then went for Van Buren, wbo was agninst t, and finallv eame out himself, hotter and fiercer as the consummation Was approJiitnateii. He haséver since its acquisition, laborcd tó narrow down its limits nnd oü.-tnü its territories - the limiis and territorics of a slave slate ! And now, in ibis last nnd most desperate of áll ?onspiracies ever yet cfintíocted for a fatal I blow at thoirt, ha defends the nssnilttnU ef the slnve interest, and heads them in a war of decuh, against lhe ablcst.the jiurest, and best of its defender." Such is the light in Whith the