Meigs County Telegraph

Col. BENTON on Nebraska.

Old Bullion made a stringent speech in Congress last week on the Nebraska monstrosity. We have not room to publish it. The Cincinnati Gazette says of it: "It is fully up to our expectations. It bears from beginning to end, the impress of the cultivated mind and original genius of its distinguished author. He commences with a reference to the administration not very complimentary, and passes on to the Union, the organ of the administration in a way, decidedly the reverse of compliment. It then enters upon the question involved in the Nebraska bill, and there his great powers of argument, sarcasm and ridicule, appear in their full glory. The speech is spicy all through, and is replete with characteristic phraseology and points. There is no sniveling meanness about it, nothing to gain the approbation of sectional bigots, and cross-road politicians. It is bold, manly and outspoken. Col. Benton considers the bill a gross violation of plighted faith, and he says so. He believes the scheme was concocted for Presidential ends, and he discourses thereon accordingly; and he uses the good old Saxon tongue in its various moods and tenses, to express his contempt of those engaged in support of the vile thing. He ridicules out of sight the claim of "squatter sovereignty," and "non intervention," which he says are monstrosities born of timidity and ambition, hatched into existence in the hot incubation of a Presidential canvass, which when first spoken in the Senate in 1848, were regarded as nonsense. The bill itself is one of assumptions and contradictions; a see-saw bill played by politicians at the expense of the peace and harmony of the Constitution and the Union."

Col. Benton had not finished when his hour expired, but by a little finesse on the part of Wentworth of Illinois, who was entitled to the floor, 'Old Bullion' was permitted to conclude his speech. The galleries were crowded with spectators, and during the delivery of the speech the members crowded around the orator and listened to him with great interest.