Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1858 — SLAVE AND FREE STATES. [ARTICLE]

SLAVE AND FREE STATES.

-. Modern Democracy requires but FORTY THOUSAND inhabitants to make a Slavje State, but it takes NINETY-THREE THOUSAND to make a Free State;.ergo, one Pro-slavery man is as good as two FreeState men and one-third! long as God allows the vital current to flow through my veins, I will never, never, NEVER, by word or thought, by mind or will, aid in admitting one rood of free territory ,to the everlasting curse of human bondage.—Henry Clay.

(giy’Colfax and Walker are to have a political discussion this afternoon at South Bend. Addison Parkison will please accept our thanks for a lot of good cooking apples; and Mr. Theodore Sedwick for a lot of water-mellons, musk-mellons and pumpkins. ■> T’ * • “ ~ ot7“Mehaffey, the editor of the Democratic Union, a mushroom Democratic campaigner published at Winnemac, Pulaski county, has run off, leaving numerous creditors to mourn his departure. (J/y”M r . Snyder complained, one day last week, that C„W. Henkle and T. A. Knox had gone out into the country electioneering against him. If this were true, it was very ungenerous in those gentlemen, for Mr. Snyder did all he could to elect them in the fall of 1855. of all sorts of lying handbills, circulars, &c.,which will see the light for the first time on the morning of the election. Pay no regard to anything sprung at this late day, no matter what quarter it may come from. They were at work at the Expositor office yesterday, (Sunday,) and on Sunday night their press was at work. This shameful operation was witnessed by our citizens from the street. Their "deeds are deeds of darkness, and they shun the light. j ■■ Democrats have printed the name • f Alex’.'McDonald on their ticket for Senator. He was elected by the Republicans of Lake to the lower House two years ago, and they repudiated him for violating his pledges in regard to the Calumet Dam in that county. He was before the Republican Senatorial Convention last July for nomination, but did not get one vote. He then applied to the Democratic Convention, held one week afterward, but J. N. Skinner received the nomination. McDonald succeeded in running Skinner off the track,and the Democrats take hitn up as their champion.