Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1859 — Who are the Agitators. [ARTICLE]

Who are the Agitators.

The New York Herald's Washington’cor--respondent thus fixes the responsibilitfor'delaying the organization of the House upon 1 the Administrotion Senators and Representatives. This is the complaint of one of their own friends: "Tn less than two hours after Congress assembled the nigger question was sprung in both Houses—in the Senate by Mr. Mason, and in the House' by Mr. Clark, of Missouri. The organization of the House and the public business must be delayed to advertise the notorious anti-slavery book called ‘The x.Tpending Crisis.’ The Republicans have been trying' to give circulation to this work for the last two years and have failed until now, when the Congress of the United States have entered upon the work of advertising it. “From present appearances the House will not be organized for a week, and the only subject to be discussed will be Helper and his ‘lmpending Crisis;’ afterward some I 'of the negro drivers will pitch into Weston’s ‘Progress of Slavery in the United States.’ During this time the appropriation bills and other public business must be sacrificed. Lovejoy, of Illinoir, and Ashley, of Ohio, are said to be ripe with answers in ridicule of Clark, of Missouri. The prevailing policy of the Republican members of the Houseseems to be to let the Administration party talk against organizing the House and take’ the re'sponsibilit.”