The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1854-07-08


people Of the North opposed to slavery ex-
tension can hardly appreciate how much is
due to Col. Benton for the stand he has
taken in behalfof freedom, without visiting
the theatre of his contests on the stump. and
trumphs at the ballot box 1t is admitted
by his opponents that he will be reelected
to Congress from the st. Louis district, his
friends think by large majority; and they
claim that could the question of Senatorship
be decided by direct vote of the people,
the Senator for thirty years would again b.
triumphantly returned As it is, the Wings
and Anu-Benton democrats expect to be able
to prevent his election by the Legislature.
The Benton Democratic journals of ST.
Louis and The State, and the Wing press of
Missouri generally, the ST. Louis Republicans
excepted. have opposed mantully the Ne
braska bill Of Douglas and such is the
present state of feeling that the term " Abo-
litionist,' applied to Benton and his sup
porers, has lost its former mad-dog potency.
A thorough going old Wing friend, who has
resided III st. Louis some fifteen years. in
formed US that he never . brdled his tongue
ON the subject Of slavery and its evils any
more than when in Ohio, and declared his
readiness to shoulder his musket, if need be,
and march to Nebraska to aid in keeping out
the peculiar institution. He thinks slave
ry can never triumph in Kansas or Nebraska,
but on this subject MiSsourians differ. A
very observing, intelligent gentleman, who
spent two years in traversing Kansas and
Nebraska, and is now a Benton candidate
for the State legislature of Missouri. speak,
of the soil and climate of the territory
thrown open to slavery as very fine equal to
any part Of the adjoining slave States. Some
three hundred miles square OF the territory he
pronouaceS, from personal examination, the
most inviting in the Union for agricultural
purposes, and the Shareholders along the bon
der know the choice spots and have already
formed combinations TO enter upon them
and establish the "Squatter Sovereignty."-
They have held public meetings, regularly
organized companies, chosen their register OF
claims, and pledged themselves to stand by
each other at all hazards. No claims are to
be recognized unless far enough apart to make
the usual slave plantations: and Abolition
lists, as all non-slaveholding settlers are
termed, are to be hunted out and driven
off! To the inquiry" VIII the Govern.
ment tolerate such proceedings ?''--the reply
was, That not an instance could be found
on record for many years in which the
squatters have been restrained by the Gov
ernment no matter how lawless and defiant
had been their proceedings The history of
the Platte country is in point and may b.
taken as an index of the future in Kansas
and Nebraska. Unless slavery is allowed
to have its own way there, bloody conflicts
are certain to take place, sooner or later
The resolutions adopted BY the meetings of
Shareholders at Westporte and other places
in Western Missouri, 80 to confirm the
opinions expressed by the Benton Democrat.
and should furnish additional incentives to
the friends of free territory everywhere to let
all old party by-gones be by-gones, and 10
rally as one man for the repeal of the Kan
s-Nebraska law repeating the Missouri
Compromise. This is living issue-an
issue forced by Slavery upon Freedom
Who will prove recreant? ? Who be dough
face, or higge about dead issues, when slave
ry dares to pollute free soil long consecrated
by sacred compact?
The Blue Hens Chicken" of Whining
ton, Delaware, lays the following before its
readers;
There is living, in Tatnall street, colored
man aged 68, who is the father of 81 chill
dren, 30 Of whom are now living. He had
three wives, the first of whom was the moth
er of l5 children, two of whom were twins.
The second was the mother Of Is, having