Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-06-27
NEXT LEGISLATURE.


future welfare Of the country is deeply invol
we'd. will come before the next Legislature.
The amendments 10 the constitution have 10
have to be passed upon, and these involve
principles Of grave consideration, to be IN.
dertaken by men with no party objects in
view, and free from the influence OF party
dictslion. A United States Senator has 10 be
chosen, and upon the issue Of thst choice may
depend, in part, the fate Of the nation, sus.
pended as il were upon thread, as we'll as
what more Immediately concerns ourselves
in the fortunes OF Missouri.
The State has 10 be re>dis,rcled to suit
the new appointment made by Congress,
and whether, as heretofore. it is 10 be Ger
rymdndered in such way es to give
10 the locofocos every unfair advantage by
which wing votes could be neutralized in the
election OF State Senators and m embers OF
Congress, the wings must decide.
1t is well known how that inscriptions
party exercised their power in this particular,
wherever they had the sscendancy. The
Congressional districts have been made 10
assume every variety Of form except tina,
which is geome,rical.
They have been made long or short, large
or small. accord as the prevailing politics
Of the people in the various counties made
the lines including them, necessary for Sc.
curing locofoco majorties. A district is
sometimes made to extend nearly across the
State, narrow and tor!uous in its course, like
worm fence--such is The third distric, in
which we are situated, which extends, as is
well known. diagonally across the State,
from the borders OF Iowa, in the North East,
10 within one county Of Arkansas in the
South west. A district will branch out some
distance in one direction. and then be sud
denly diverted a, RICH. angles. in order to
include some whig county TO the end tina.
its force may be extiDguished, requires to be
joined to proponderng democratic one; its
boundaries will then conlrac, and form a
narrow ishmus, and again expand into a
broad peninsula.
Our Legislature too, have multiplied and
subdivided counties in the State so as TO de
s!roy all equality in representation both as
10 numbers and the fair appor,ionmens OF
taxation; while the effect has been to large
ly increase the expenditures Of the govern
men., the burdens Of which have most hsav.
lily weighed upon the older counties. The
wings now have il in their power 10 get the
ems Of government into their own hands, to
reclify the errors. and arrest the iniqui,ous
course OF bad legislation, and correc. all the
evils which have sprung from it, and which
have so long and grisvously oppressed US.
They have only to be true 10 themselves
end maintain in their purity their we'll tried
principles. Let them preserve their ancient
faith. and orfdingly rustic their won,ed
integrity.
Let them cherish. as they always have
done, rhe love Of RICH. and scorn Of wrong,
and they will have nothing to fear.
1t is unnecessary for them to give or pro,
mise laid or comfort 10 either faction O.
their opponents. Let them but unite, ant
act as true patriots should. with single eye
to their conntry's good, wlhou, yielding any
ground to The enemy, ard they may gain +
position which they long and proudly main
tain. If they will do this. they may be as
sured Of complete victory in the approach
ing contest. Ii but awaits their decision, il
a concerted and Underwriting movement. -
Boonuille Observer.