Excerpt from Early Opposition to Thomas Hart Benton The purpose of this study is to describe the opposition to Thomas H. Benton which attempted and almost succeeded in effecting his overthrow in 1844 on the occasion of his fifth and last election to the United States Senate. Banking and currency were the chief issues in this fight against Benton. Therefore, Benton's policy upon these questions, the local Missouri problems connected with them, and the legislation and public Opinion concerning them must be explained before a discussion of the actual fight is attempted. Banking and currency were national questions as well as state questions and as Benton's chief work was in the United States Senate he looked upon these questions from the national Viewpoint. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.