The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-02

The following letter appears in the ST. Louis
Union
To The DemOcracyof 81 Louis county and city.
STEAMBOAT, Ono RIVER, Jan. 1, 1852.
Citizens j received at the moment was
leaving ST. Louis, your invitation to join the
great Democratic meeting at the courthouse on
the 9th instant Could have remained until
that day, | should have needed no special invita-
ton to have been present among you. Both the
day and the occasion would have made it my
pleasure, as il would have been my privilege, to
attend, and that upon the same general notice
which would have brought the rest of the De-
mocracy together.
The day is d memorable one in our annals,
and worthy TO take its place among those which
constitute eras in nations history. The hero
of that day became President blythe will of the
people, revived and re-establsbed that great De-
mocracy of which Jefersorwas the founder,
and which was so fatally losing its landmarks
under his later successors. Jackson re-estab.
llshed it, and crowned his military with civil
renown. A double fame salutes the day--the
fame of Washington and Jefferson, united with
Jackson.
The occasion is worthy of the day. The. De-
mocracy of Missouri has been BETRAYED and sold
betrayed by traitors, and sold into Wing bond
age. IL is your mission with your brethren
throughout the State) to redeem her. and you
commence this day the work of redemption.
Three W higs sit in one branch of Congress- and
a Wing and Dsunionst in the other, from the
Democratic Union State of missouri. This mis-
representation must be corrected The Cloths
must be .driuen from the capital" The Demo
cratic star of Missouri, now eclpsed and OBJ
scured, must reappear in the political armament,
and shine again with all its pristine splendor.
| Modification and high treason resolves pollute
your statute book, pledging Missouri to co-ope-
| rate in Southern secession. IL is your duty to
purify the record, by expunging the staff, which
is as false AZ it is infamous.
| Bargain and sale, as we'll as treachery, di =
graced the proceedings Of our last general as
sembly 1t was the first instance of that infamy
In our State, and all honorable men should unit
to make it the last.
| Wings and nulliiers have coalesced to rule
the Democracy and the first retain the second
rs spies and traitors in our camp. Expell them
or be betrayed and sold agan-as you will be,
and deserve TO be if you suffer them to remain.
Two sets of senatorial instructions appear
upon your statute book--one set affirming The
right of Congress TO Iegisate upon slavery in
territories, and declaring the permanency of the
Union to depend upon that legislation in 1920
the second deny that right, and max the disso.
luton Of the Union dependent upon its exercise
in 1850. | obeyed one, and appealed to you
against the other. What say you! Both can
not be right. Both are not right. One is true
and polilc--the other false and traitorous. Let
| the true lve--ihe false die.
| There is party in Missouri which calls itself
anti Benton. The name announces the personal
malice which rankles in the hearts of its mem
bers; their acts prove il to be anti-Dcmocratc-
mere bush,oackers" to the Wings hired FIR
wages. "pa,ted on The back'-and of no service
to their owners. or damage TO u.s. except when
in orr camp Expulsion is the word for these
intestine traitors Rome was safe from the me-
ment that Cicero drove Catalina out Of the city.
Jackson became stronger every time he drove
off the traitors. So will it be with US v hen we
have got the Wings and nulfers into open, as
they now are in secret coalition against US.
Citizens, | shall soon be back to take my part
in the great work which you commence, and to
assist in restoring Democratic Missouri to the
exalted rank which she held in the days of Jack
son. Your obliged fellow citizen,
THOS. II. BENTON