Democratic banner., 1848-09-11
BENTON ON THE BOILERS.

We commend to the attention Of our
readers the folio wing extract from Colonel
Benton's speech in reply to Mr.. Webster
ION the celebrated FoOte Resolution. 1t will
show in what loathing and contempt he
holds those fanatics who are attempting to
stir up jesIousies and divisions, and to array
one section Of the Union against another.
by the agitation of tn. questions Of slave
Try.
.sThe State Of Missouri was kept out Of
1.-THE Union one whole year for the clause
which prohibited the future entry aud set
Element Of free people Of color. And what
have we seen since? The actual expulsion
of q great body Of free col"red people from
lOhin, and not one word Of obje ction,
not one note Of grief from those who did
all in their power to tear up the constitu-
Ition and break the Union in pieces, be-
cause al some future day II might happen
that some free blacks would wish to emf
CRATE to Missouri and could not do it for this
clause in her constitution! The papers state
the neutrality-suspicious.. from Cinclnns-
ltiat 1000 souls, the whole number that may
be compelled to expatriate from the State
Of Ohio at ten thousand! This is q re-
markable event. sir, psralleled only by the
expulsion of the Moors from Spain and OF
the Hugosots fl om france. Let me not be
misunderstood: / am not complaining of
Ohio Iddmither right to do Thdf she dtd.
We understand that this severe measure
was the, consequence of enforcing and old
Law made for the benefit of the slayehold-
ing States and now found to be as necessary
to Ohio as to them, and by which she has
relieved herself, in thirty days. complain
rot Of this. My present business is with
those who kept me out of my seat, kept
my State out of the Union, and did all in
their gouer to break up this eonfederdcy,
because. free people Of color were prevent
ed from coming TO live in Missouri.
The Senator from Massachusetts, tMr.
Webster1 so copious and ecomiastlc ON the
subject of Ohio, so full and effecting on the
topic of freedom, aud the rights Of freedom
in that State, was incomprehensibly silent
and fastidinusly mute upon this questions
lof expatriation which sent a generation Of
free people from q republican State to a
monarchical Province, 60 seek in a strange
land, aud beyond the, icy lakes, the hosPi'
ltality and protection of a foreign King
For them he had nothing TO say. Their
candidate attracted no part of his regards.
They ere gone, unwept and unsune they
have gone to experience the fate, and to
renew the history, of the abducted slaves
of the Revolution, who were taken from
their homes and their masters, collected In
Ito a settlement Of the British Province of
Nova Scotia brcsme a Il e%stilence there and
were exiled to Sierra Leone. to perish un-
der the climate and saYsges. For these
people and the pitiable fate that awaits them
the eloquent declaimer on the blessing OF
Liberty In Ohio, has nothing to say. -
STA as tits, and as it exists among us'
iwouid hsxe fewer advocates, il those who
have nothing 10 do With it would JET j 2;
lone. But they will not LET i alone.-A
geographical party, and chiefly political
easf, are ihcessahtly at work upon this sub
lject.. . Their operations p~ervsdaiths States
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