Colonel Benton has written the follow
ing letter, taking ground in favor of Major
Rollins, for Governor of Missouri, and a
gainst Mr. Stewart:
Washington City, May 21, 1847,
Col. H. B. Branch—Dear Sir: Tlie
pressure of my occupations prevent me
from remaining at St. Louis long enough
to receive your letter of the 11th: but
finding it here, I answered it to say to
you what I said to ail friends at St. Louis,
that between Rollins and Stewart I consid
er the public interest and the interest of
the union democracy to require the elec
tion of Rollins. He is a union man,against
nullification aud nullifiers-—against the
nullification resolutions passed by the Mis
souri legislature in 1849—against the co
operation therein promised to the south in
its secession scheme—against agitation
then and now on the slavery question—
and every way a better democrat than
Stewart
Thos. H. Benton.
