Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1858 — SLAVE AND FREE STATES. [ARTICLE]

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slave State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State; ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeState men a id two thirds!

TrpThe ptopritorn of the Commercial Telegram , at Indianapolis, are authorized to procure advertisements for the Gazette in that city. Lakins and his two sons are to have their examination next Monday. the "Shanghai” advertisement of Thompson & Son, in another column. has at last been admitted into the Union as a State, with two members of the House of Represenatives. oO”The Free-State Constitution of Kansas, recently framed at Leavenworth, was submitted to the popular vote yesterday. adjourned session of the Court of Common Pleas did not come off this week, Judge Boyer believing it would be illegal. have received the June number of“ Graham’s Magazine.” It fully sustains its. well-earned reputation. Now is a good time to subscribe, as the July number will commence a new volume. - 4 OCyWe have received the first number of the‘‘Bank Note Register,” a new Counterfeit Detector just started in New York. Judging trom the number before us, it is an excellent iWffi See prospectus in another column. of our farmers begin to fear that the continued wet weather will prevent them putting, in their seed corn. We think, should they be able to get their corn planted by the first of June, and the weather be favorable afjter that, they need not be greatly alarmed.