Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1859 — Remedy for the Slavery Agitation. [ARTICLE]

Remedy for the Slavery Agitation.

A large slave owner and cotton planter at the South writes to the New York Courier and Enquirer, that tiie spirit of disunion is found solely among those who are kept in ignorance by their leaders, whose political existence depends upon slavery agitation. The remedy be proposes for slavery agitation sounds odd ly in contrast with the outcries coming from the politicians ol the same section, but it is based on sound sense and correct philosophy, and if the Republicans t ike the administration of the Governmenit in 1860, we expect to see it verified. “I am more than ever convinced of the truth ol what I told you last summer, viz: that a very large majority, I think four-fifths, o the Southern people, never desired the repeal of the Missouri compromise; and quite as large a portion of them do not wish to seethe institution of slavery extended into free Territory. What they do desire is to see this slavery excitement brought to an end. It has its origin in the Missouri Compromise; and I agree with you, that it will never cease until the Republican party gets possession ot the Government, and proves by its acts that it is conservative, and will abide by the Constitution, and respect alike every section of tie Union. Do this, and you will kill slavery excitement, and with it the present party leaders of the South, who live by slavery agitation.” Brownlovv of the Knoxville Whig writes from New York that he has been to hear Henry Ward Beecher preach, and says. “ I came to the conclusion that he was not a bad hearted man; and, crazy as he is on the subject of slavery, those of our friends in the South who are fortunate enough to get to Heaven, need not be astonished to find Henry Ward Beecher there.'*