Southern Telegraph

The following precious excerpts from the productions of Col. Thomas H. Benton, the great Jackson pillar in the Senate, form a beautiful illustration of the fact that circumstances alter cases:

"Gen. Jackson has done more for the HUMAN RACE than any other mortal who has ever lived in the tide of time."—Col. Benton's Speech on the Expunge Resolution.

The following is an extract from a letter from this same Col. Benton in regard to this same Gen. Jackson:

"I am literally in hell here—(that is, in the vicinity of Gen. Jackson)—the meanest wretches under heaven to contend with; liars, affidavit-makers and shameless cowards. All the puppies of Jackson are at work at me; but they will be astonished at what will happen, for it is not them, but their master, whom I shall hold accountable. The scalping-knife of Tecumseh is mercy compared with the affidavits of these villains. I am in the middle of hell, and see no alternative but to kill or be killed; for I will not crouch to Jackson, and the fact that I and my brother defeated him and his tribe, and broke his small-sword on the public square, will forever rankle in his bosom, and make him thirst after vengeance. My life is in danger; nothing but a decisive duel can save me, or even give me a chance for my own existence: for it is a settled plan to turn out puppy after puppy to bully me, and when I have got into a scrape, to have me killed somehow in the scuffle; afterwards the affidavit-makers will prove it was honorably done. I shall never be forgiven having given my opinion in favor of Wilkinson's authority last winter; and this is the root of the hell that is now turned loose against me."