Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1859 — A New Slave State Scheme. [ARTICLE]

A New Slave State Scheme.

The slavery propagandists, ever busy in their work of Southern aggrandizement, are plotting in California for the extension of their “divine institution.” For some time they have exhibited great anxiety to dividejdle State, setting otrthe southern portion as a new slave State. This project, it appears, is in a fair way of proving successful, as far as California is concerned. A bill has passed the lower house of the Legislature, sanctioning the proposed division, and it is thought probable lhe Senate will concur. The consent of Congress, however, will be necessary before the scheme can be consummated, and with the present prospects of the opponents of Democratic Slaveryextension, having a majority in the lower house of Congress, we anticipate that the propagandists will be effectually foiled in their attempt in this matter.