Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-06-14

iiirIy, oy putting himself al the head
OF all Inc movements which promised
Advancement in the public favor. In
1916 protection of domestic industry
was popular: he pu, himself at the head
OF the protective policy and went for
the minimum provision--the cotton
minimum which was the father of oil
the rest, and the only real injury to the
cotton growers by suppressing for
thlrty years that class of cotton goods
winch was Of most universal use, and
OF the largest cotton consumption--the
corduroys and velvels, so universally
worn before lSIG--so totally suppress.
ed under the Calhoun minimum of that
year--and just beginning to appear
again under The tariff Of 1916. AT the
same time oslo national bank--the
state banks having failed, and brought
odlum on the State institutions-wa
much called for: Mr. Calhoun put him
self at the head of the call. and carried
thrc ugh tn bank charter. About tho
same time internal improvement bv the
federal government, became popular; he
selzed upon the subject; and. in 1923.
as Secretary at War, made an elaborate
report in favor of a general system of
roads and canals, pervadng all parts of
the Union. ln lSl9-20 the Missouri
controversy ragged, and the whole north
stood up as one man for curtaiIipg the
area of slave soil: he took the free soil
current-and expunged slave soil from
al! the territories of the United States
by joining in the abolition of slavery in
Upper Louisiana, giving Texas to the
hing of Spain, and giving the rest of
Louisiana 10 the Indians. At the same
time Jackson became the favorite Of
the people for President: he withheld.
and postponed, his own pre,ensions TO
tie Presidency, became The advocate of
Jackson, went upon his ticket and was
elected Vice President with him. But
this was the end of his popular move
men's TO gain the Presidency. He ex-
pected 10 succeed Jackson, and that he
would onIy have TO wait and serve eight
years. That was only one wear longer
! than Jacob had 10 wait, and serve La.
ban for Rachael. But OH the disap-
poinments in love and politics! Lik 10
Jacob, wien he woke up, he found it
was Leah. little magician of the north
had got into the bed, and was TO be
Jackson's sucCessor!--Unlike Jacob, he
could not wait and serve another long
eight years, and determined 10 clutch
the prize al once. Then came nuIif.
cation No. l, (pretexed by the tariff of
which he himself was the main autborO
and that schemes for dissolving the
Union which Jackson's proclamation
put down. The tariff failed TO bear
him through: more intlammable SUBJ
ject was wanted-and was found in the
sensitive question OF slavery. Then
came that long succession of abolition
plots for blowing up slavery in the Uni
ted States, compared 10 which all the
popish plots in England for blowing up
the protestant religion--the gun-pow-
der, rye house, meal-tub, and other plots
SO formidable in their day-were tame
and important inventions. First, there
was the London abolition plot of Ash
bel Smith, John Andrews, and Lord
Aberdeen, for lighting the train of abo.
lltion in Texas, and thence running il
into the United States, where il was to
explode and blow all up! and to prevent
which 1t became a case of self defence
admitting of no delay, to jerk Texas in
slan,er, by treaty, out of their hands
before the plot was ripe, something like
Jerking the fuse out of the loaded bomb
before it would explode. The treaty.
d d not stand the jerk, and was broke;
and the plot evaporated without harm.
Duff Green had been paid a thousand
dollars, by the Tyler administration.
out of the United States treasury. for
bringing that plot from London; butt
was money lost, Then came the worlds
Convention plot as located in London,
for the abolition of slavery throughout
the world, the United States inclusively
but it came up feebly, and had no run.
Then came the incendiary Transport
tation mail matter plot: and that, for a
while threatened 10 break up the trans
porlation of the males, and to leave the
wo halves of the Union in a state of
non.inlercourse. 1t ripened into bill
for searching the mails; and then expi-
red. Then came the incendiary petit
tons plot: that occupied the time of
Congress for several years, and con.
siderably alarmed the country, until
every body saw that it was game per.
formed by two sets Of players, PLAYING
into each others hands, for their own
benefit at home, and getting up an agi-
Iation of which the public peace, and
the public business was the victim. IL
then died out. Thus all the abolition
plots--pretexts for second notification
failed. They were, what the New
York law reform statute sbolishing law
latin, interprets the writ of no Great TO
be--no gol