Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-02-21

sented by Col. Benton here will run into the COM
ing Presidential campaign:
To tie Democracy of 81 Louis County and City.
3 STEAMBOAT, ONO RIVER, Jan /, 1859.
Citizens | received, at the moment / was leav-
ing st. Louis, your invitation to join the great
Democratic meeting at the courth house on the 9th
instant Could | have remained until that d4y, Z
should have needed no special invitation to have
been present among you. Both the day and the
occasion would have made it my pleasure, as it
would have been my privilege, to attend, and that
upon the same general notice which would have
brought the rest of the Democracy together.
The day is a memorable in our annals, and
worthy to take its place among those which con-
stitute eras in a nations history. The hero Of
that day became President by the will of the peo-
pie, revived and Fe-established that great Democ-
racy of which Jefferson was the founder, and
which was fatally loosing its landmarks under
his later successors. Jackson re-establshed it,
and crowned his military with a civil renown--
A double fame salutes the day-tAe 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. Its your mission with your brethren thro'-
out the State) to redeem her and you commence
this day the work of redemption. Three Wings
sit in one branch of Congress, and Wing and
DisunoniSt in the other, from the Democratic
Union State of Missouri. This Misrepresentation
must be corrected. 's1he Goths mast be driven
from tie capitol' The Democratic star of Mis-
souri,, now eclipsed and obscured, must re-appear
IN the political armament and shine again with all
its pristine splendor.
Notification and high treason resolves pollute
your statute book pledging Missouri to cooperate
IN Southern secession. 1t is your duty to purify
the record, by expunging the stuff, which is as
false as it is infamous.
Bargain and sale, as well as treaehery, disgrace
Ell the proceedings of our last general assembly.
1t was the first instance of that infamy in
State, and all honorable men should unite to make
it the last.
Wings and nullifers have coaltsced to rule the
Democracy and the first retain the second as
spies and traitors in our camp. Expell them or
be betrayed and sold again-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 legislate upon slavery in territories,
and declaring the permanency of the Union to de-
pend upon that legislation in 1890 the second
deny that right, and make the dissolution of the
Union dependent upon its exercise in 1850. l
obeyed one, and appealed to you against the other.
What say you Both cannot be light. Both
are not right. One is true and polite, the other
false and traitorous. Let the true live-the 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 it to be anti Democratic
mere ''5ush1Cackers" to the Whigs--hired for
wages, ''patted on the back"z-and of no service
to their owners, damage to us, except when il.
our camp Expulsion IS the word for these ntes
| tine traitors. Rome was safe from the moment
that Cicero drove Cataline out of the city. Jack
son became stronger every time he drove off the
traitors. So will it be with US when have got
the Wings and nullifers into oren, as they now
are in secret coalition against US.
! Citizens, l shall soon be back to take my part
in the great work which you commence, and to-
assist in restoring Democratic Missouri to the
alted rank which she held in the days of jackson.
Your obliged fellow citizen,
THOMAS H. BENTON.