Rhode Island American, Statesman And Providence Gazette

MUTIUS SCEVOLA

The citizens of St. Louis, Missouri, extended to the Hon. David Barton the compliment of public dinner on his arrival home. The sentiments proposed, especially those which alluded to Henry Clay were received with great enthusiasm. The people of Missouri ought to prize the services of this gentleman and re-elect him to the Senate of the United States. The Baltimore Patriot contains the following remarks and extract from his speech at the dinner.

The speech of Mr. Barton, delivered at St. Louis, Missouri, dwells particularly on the Veto Message of Gen. Jackson, which he dissects with his usual acumen and exposes its Southern veto-catching designs, and the wary policy of Mr. Van Buren, in the most lively and vivid colors. In one of his descriptions of the Message, Mr. Barton says—

" Imagine, if you please, such a prodigy in the physical world, as an infant, mosaic and tessolated in its various hues, with one patch of the European or Anglo-American white; one of the deep red of the aboriginal Sioux; another of the jet black African; with a touch of the Asiatic, and a dash of the Kalmuck Tartar or Laplander—such a calico child would not be a greater non-descript in physics, than this Veto-Message is in politics. Its various parts father themselves."