Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1850-02-07
From the ST. Louis Intellioencer

wilderness, who has dragged his weary
way through the long and tedious hours
ofa starless night, halls, with unspeaka.
BILE Joy, the eastern dawn that promises
to lead him out of his dreary wander.
ings. The unhappy victims ofocean
rapine, who by special favor of their
cruel captors are thrust into oarless
boats and turned loose 10 the mercy of
the wind and wave, are filed with un-
utterable gladness when they find them
selves drifting into quiet havens circed
with green and pleasant shores. The
fettered sons of oppression, who after
years ofhoPeIcss confinement in gloomy
dungeons, are suddenly restored 10 lib.
erty, friends and home, have no words
to express the deep delight that fills
them. .
Wha, The ligh, of day is 10 the be-
wildercd night-wanderer-what the
| quiet heaven and green shores are 10
the drifting seamen-what sweet free
dom is 10 the long fettered prisoner
such is the bright promise, the sure
hope, The uuspicious sign of speedy and
final disenthrament from the power of
their oppressors, now breaking upon
the Wing party in Missouri. |
For about twenty long years have
the Wings Of Missouri been in hopeless
bondage to relentless dominant party.
All honors have been denied them. All
consideration, so far as strict party
rule could accomplish it, has been with
held from them. They have been COM
PEELED TO serve whilst others have feas.
ted. They have been required to stand
whilst others reclined al ease. They
have been the outside riders Of coach
the "deckers' of our ship of State
Though numbering in their ranks some
Of the brightest minds of the country
and many of the purest men of the age
and though standing around the polls,
tens Of thousands; their gallant leaders
have been crushed under the weight OF
leaden numbers, and the whole party
deprived of its just representation and
consequence in the government.
And TO what end has the honorable
ambition Of patriotic and blameless
Wings been stifled! To elevate their
supcriors in character, requirements
and genius TO the councils of the State
and oflhe nation! Let the long roll of
legislative and judicial inanilies tina,
have dimly tried to shine in the State
House, in Congress and on the Bench;
let the darkened labyrinth of statute
laws at home, their short.sigh,edness,
illiberality and selfish bcuring;--let our
sluggish State, our sleeping resources
our rich and fertile, inaccessible lands;
| let our pliable weakness and want oi
enterprise as State. our small consid.
Grafton abroad, and our neglect by the
general government, answer the ques
lion and say to what purpose Missouri
has sacrificed the many able, eloquent
and learned Wings in her borders.
But there is just relribulion evel
hanging over the wrong. A righteous
recompense will always and surely
. over,ake o wrongful ind oppressive
course Of conduct. There is a com
pensalion, as certainly and as ncel,
balanced in the moral, as in the physi
cal world. ,.-..... ...
> Having sowed the wind, the Democ
: racy of Missouri is now reaping th
4 whirlwind. The relentless tyrann
1t which their leaders encouraged ther
. 10 exercise towards the Wing party, ha
y now been turned against ,hemselve
:, and they are madly torn by intestin
p- rage. .,....t-. -,......l .,,--.....
Ii is tabled that Cadmus slew a dr.;
in in COON, and sowed his teeth in plain
From these sprung up armed men. +
: threw stone amongst them, and the
:, instantly turned their arms one again
gp the other, till all persisted except fve.-
50 This fable needs no lengthy applica,io
CT. i, would no, be hard to designate Il
to leader who sowed the dragons tee'
sS' and who has now cast stone among
ms his armed cohorts, provoking Them
:. - mortal feud. The fury has been rous
er- the deadly combat RACES. II or
boots us TO stand aloof, and save no
- .aaax,s SanA from deSl rucl ion