Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-06-10
From the National Era.
Col. Benton.

| This sterling UemocraI mas Deen haiheu
by his friends in the ST. Louis district, as a
candidate for Congress He has accepted
the nomination. and indicates the platform
upon which he intends to stand. We make
few Short extracts, which we commend to
attention
LIST He despises the Compromise, and
the getters up of it. Proof:
/ Il do not believe in the Compromise
made by politicians, candidates for the
Presidency. have seen too much OF such
work. The Compromise Of 1850 is, in the
E4st place, deception, che Compromise
tift ANfaSsS@--ss cA--Iss ~-.a- d ennvlOmetatsA
measures passed seperatea5, % .ss.s.s,-r.-4sut
measures, and with very little help from
their present assumptuous guardians In
the second place, it was contrived upon the
avowed ground that it was to make its
champions Presidents, and is now stuck to
upon that principle; and il it fails to do the
ob it will take the track Of it's two defunct
predecessors, and soon be with them, I'm
THE TOMB OF THE CULPRITs.' This is my
experience of Congress Compromises, and
nobody need to set up these little clay gods
for me to worship, especially when those
who set them up do it for a purpose, and
knock them down when they don't answer
it,"
Cd. He declares the Union in no danger
from the agitation of the slave question,
and says its safety is to be Iound in doing
JUSTICE TO all the members Of it. Proof:
"The salvation Of this Union is not in
the conlrivances Of politicians, but in the
love and affection of the people; not in
force or cataplasms, but in JTsTICE-in do
ing Justice to all the members Of the Union.
Il do not believe in guardianship over
the people; do not believe in the missio i
of any man, or set of men, to save this I'm
ion. That creed belongs to the political
party who believe that the people cannot
take care of themselves.
we, THE PEOPLE, make the Constitution ;
so says the instrument itself, in its first line /;
'AND WE, THE People," can save it.
1T is libel TO say of the authors Of our
Constitution, that they did such bungling
work that it cannot bold together without
periodical patching; and it is another libel.
and upon the people, 10 say that they can
not take care OF the Constitution which
their fathers made for them"
Sd, He hated Slavery by education and
instinct Proof: -.
II am an evenly 20 the institution Os Va.
sry. 4 got my Anaciples on tho subject Of
Slavery ont 90 tlta Virginia scAoot Of 6Ely
hears ago, out of fuckers Notes 40 Black.
stones Commentaries, and have not apos.
tatzed and shall not, since see the new
political evils which, brings upon ouI
country, destroying the harmony Of the
States, poisoning The Legislation Of Con.
gress. and hnrting the cause of democratic
government Throughout the world"
4th. He is against the extension Of SIa
very. Proof:
ITO conclude this head Of Slavery, and
to sum up all In one word, / have to say
that the whole practical question in dis
pute-the only thing to differ about in &C
ton, all the rest being talk-was the ques
ton of the extension of Slavery to Terrific
ries in which it did not exist and on thai
point my position was inAexible, and agains
the extension"
9Th. He ridcules and taunts the prO-sla
very men Of the nation, among which are
the Hunkers, in regard 20 their property ii
slaves, in this WISE
"In the mean time, slave property is il
NO danger; and that is proved by a witness
which makes no mistakes-the marke
price! higher now than it ever was before
a circumstance which does not attach t.
properly in any danger from any caus'
whatever, either Of title, death, revolt, O.
even fugacity."
Thus does the hero of thirty years sieg'
in the Senate talk like himself and a man