. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. y and had practiced both inBoone and Ray county. He hadserved in the Legislature and onthe bench and later he served inCongress. During his administra-tion (1848-1852) some importantevents occurred. The State Govern-ment began giving financial aid torailroads, the fight against Bentonsucceeded, and the split in theDemocratic party widened so thatin 1851 Missouri elected a WhigUnited States Senator. During Austin a. king these four years the State established a sch
. A history of Missouri and Missourians : a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school. y and had practiced both inBoone and Ray county. He hadserved in the Legislature and onthe bench and later he served inCongress. During his administra-tion (1848-1852) some importantevents occurred. The State Govern-ment began giving financial aid torailroads, the fight against Bentonsucceeded, and the split in theDemocratic party widened so thatin 1851 Missouri elected a WhigUnited States Senator. During Austin a. king these four years the State established a school for the deaf atFulton (1851) and a school for the blind at St. Louis (1851).The story of the building of Missouri railroads will be told inA Century of Commerce and Transportation. The fight against Benton which had begun in 1844entered its second and last stage in 1849. The issue then wasmoney, the issue now was slavery extension in the Nation had gained much new territory as a result of the^lexican war. The South wanted slavery permitted in thisterritory, the North wanted slaveiy prohibited there. Benton. 134 History of Missouri and Missourians wanted California to be admitted as a free state and all therest of the new territory to be divided by the Missouri Com-promise line extending westward. The new prosouthern lead-ers in Missouri now saw an opportunity to defeat Benton andthey planned carefully and well. A set of resolutions, called the Jackson Resolutions,were introduced in the Mission Senate by Claiborne F. Jack-son. These resolutions stated that only the people in a terri-tory could prohibit slavery and that Congress did not have thispower. They further declared that if Congress did assumesuch power, then Missouri would stand by the southern, slave-holding states. Finally, they instructed Missouris UnitedStates Senators to vote accordingly. These resolutions wereadopted by the Legislature by a large vote and were sent toboth Benton and Atchison. Si
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