The Democratic representatives from the slave States were consolidated in its favor, with the exception of John Millson, an able member from Virginia, and the venerable Thomas H.Benton of Missouri.
REPEAL OF THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE.
After Colonel Benton's thirty years' service in the Senate had terminated, the city of St.Louis sent him to the House in the autumn of 1852.

He had entered the Senate when Missouri came into the Union as the result of the Compromise of 1820.

He had remained there until after the Compromise of 1850 was adopted.

He denounced the proceeding of Douglas with unsparing severity, and gave his best efforts, but in vain, to defeat the bill.

He pointed out the fact that the original Compromise had been forced upon the North by the South, and that the present proposition to repeal it had been initiated "without a memorial, without a petition, without a request from any human being.