Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1858-08-13

wish you to come in as soon as convenient, as
| deem it very material that right leads should
be taken at the beginning of the session.
Providence, and folly, and Bickedness, have
fixed things to the hands of the friends of har-
mony aud the Union, and 1t is for them to avail
themselves of the advantages.
"Respectfully,
THos II. BENTON.
"F P. BLAIR, Esq"
Upon this letter, Mr.. Blair remarks;
1.-THE 'leads' given me b5 him to be submit
ted through MessFs. King and Hamln to the
caucus of the members of Congress represent
ing the Republican party, were embodied in
two sets of resolutions heretofoFe published
one organizing resistance to the whole system
of Administration measures founded on the
decision of the Supreme Court, to spread Slave
ry over all the Territories of The Union; in
virtue of the Constitution of the United States
and another preamble, with series of resolu-
tions designed TO give effect to the priacples Of
the Ordinance of 1887, in all Lewly acquired
territories, beginning with Arizona, and pro-
hibitiug the existence of Slavery therein.
''These leads were recognised as the fixed
policy of the Republican party, and were urg-
ed in debate IN Congress to prepare public opn-
ion for their effectuation. Col. Benton found
in the Republican party, to whom he appealed
as 'the friends of harmony and union, a ready
adoption of all his views, and his conviction
that Providence had permitted this foolish and
wicked Administration so 'to fix things that
the lovers of our country and lis Institutions
may avail themselves of its advantages, is now
a prevailing belief throughout the country"
OF Col BIS published examination Of the
Dred Scott decision, which Mr.. Blair properly
styles Col. b. s Siqst fesfqment" upon public
affairs, Mr.. Blair says:
esIIe put codici to his last testament, be-
queathing to his countrymen his legacy of po-
| ltica principles, which proves that he believed
the President and the Senate's oligarchy are
wanting in honesty to their official trusts. This
is the last warning that ever fell from his pen
/ n political discussions. Ii is added rs a note
| to his examination of the Dred Scott decision,
with the omnious prefix marked in capitals:
! ':tA LAST worn.
attack which kept me, for two weeks, face to
/ face With death, when | was writing this ex-
animation, and had to break off abruptly,
leaving two heads untouched, and not even
alluded to. Besides these two entire heads.
now postponed, there was another, which
wished to bring before the American people, to
wit The conduct of an Administration and a
Senate, lcal!ed Demoeratic,) which has done,
and IS doing, what no former Administration
and Senate whether Wing, Federal, Deno-
cratic or Republican, ever did - that is to say,
suppressing and concealing the evidence Of a
foreign negotiation, after the negotiation is all
over and done with which negotiation is sur
rounded by circumstances which connect it
WIN scheme to bring on a separation of the
slave from the free States. speak Of the
Gadsden negotiation, and of fifty millions he
was authorized to give for broadside of Mexi-
co, With port OF the Gulf of California, and
railway to it, TO suit the United States
South, after the separation to which point
/ all the schemes for Southern Pacific railroad
| tend, while the credulous public are made TO
believe they are hunting the best wav to Cali
tornIa, where they mean it shall never 90, be-
cause California rejects Slavery. Every Union
/ loving State Legislature should post its Senators
under instructions to bring these hidden nego-
tlatl9ns to the public view, thrugh with bnt
little prospect Of getting the whole truth after
so many years. suppression-the same reasons
which have induced suppression thus far be-
ing equally strong to make it perpetual so
that much may be gone past recovery
"'Vashingtoa City, Sept, 1857
''Iiere the charge is made by Benton in the
most solemn act of his life, that the so-called
Democratic Administration and Senate ehas
done and IS doing what amounts to the basest
betrayal ever pcrpetrated by the Government,
in suppressing and concealing the evidence of
scheme to bring on separation cf the slave
g., IL, r.. Ga IEY-.
IT is seen there is a corruption fund attached.
Every negotiation looking to acquisitions in
the South to give preponderence to Slavery, is
attended by millions from the Treasury, which
owes It's riches TO free labor, and they are
iayished to bri5e the officials, foreign and do
mestic, who make and ratify what may we'll be
called slaTe-trade treates-treaties to extend
the area OF Slavery and lead to new mporta-
tions. The pregnant note quoted points the
public eye to the hidden mine which threatens
the integrity of the Union Uupidit7 and
ambition work with fearful advantage in the
secret sessions of a Senate, which has now be-
come'a mart of speculation in the public lands,
public contracts, and public offices, from the
highest to the lowest, and, as consequence,
speculation in the power of the Government,
at home and abroad
"When the vast powers of this mighty count
ry can be welded in secret concla7e--its
money, power, and physical forces, given
direction invisibly, from which they cannot be
diverted more than the waters of Niagara when
the leap is taken Benton's dying denunciaticn
of the A ministration fer 'suppressing and
concealing the evidence of foreign negotia-
tion,' tending to destroy the Union, should
make durable impressions especially when
that Administration is absolutely under the
control of a Southern faction VIGOROUSLY
hostile to the Union''