When the Missouri controversy was raging, Kcrrs Kixo, one of the ablest and purest men ever sent to the National Councils by any Northern State—himself the author of the resolutions—scornfully rejected all imputa tions of superior humanity, and boldly de clared that the struggle was for power and for i nothing else. Thad. Stkvexs, without, proba- j bly, designing to be very honest, made a simi- :