Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-03-13
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you sometimes CaIl your heiSnpoI VI the
Banner, seems 10 be in great distress of
mind. He has evidently been laboring
under the delusion that about fifteen
soft democrats of the class denomina'
ted by Benton, the "rottens," and be-
tween two or three soft wings whom
nobody, but themselves, consider ofany
great importance, had actually elected
an Independent States Right man TO
the Senate in the person Of Mr.. Geyer.
But now il turns out, that they are al.
together mistaken, and that Mr. Geyer
is nothing more, or less than a straight
ou, old fashioned whig--neither nuIlifi.
err, nor secessionist, nor that othe:
strange animal, that so bothered one of
the Banners correspondents, not many
months since, "an Independent States
Right Whig." 1t istrue Mr. Geyer ex.
presses the opinion, that Congress has
no power over slavery in the Federal
Territories, but at the same time, he
admits that the majority of both the
great political parties in this State,
(whig and democraticD think otherwise
and concede the power, and of course
he never thought Of turning the majori-
ty out of the whig party, because they
differed from him. That conceit was
left to the Anti. Benton men, and the
few fishy wings that joined them. They
and they alone in this State, made the
test, and very modeslly proposed to
turn the majority out of both the great
political parties, for daring to differ
from them.
But the point of the Banners accu.
sation, (and it is that to which, wish
to call the attention of your readers,)
is, that the whig party, and their Sena.
tor Mr.. Geyer, have deceived the SIN
dependent Sofls," and permitted them
10 believe, that both he and his party
considered this question Of constitution
al power, a very grave matter, and
worthy to be made into political test
This Of course, if il were not SO rdi
culously untrue, would be serious &C
cusation, and one that the whig party
would be called upon,ot answer
J As it is, however,, one ought umos
TO be ashamed to treat it serious
Iy. In this Congressional District
Miller, the whig candidate for Congress
declared his opinion to be, that Con
gress had the power, and tho grounc
taken by him, by your paper-and b.
: every other whig paper in the District
, and by every true whig in il, was, .ha
. il was an immaterial matter, a mer'
goats wool controversy, about whicI
wings might differ, and yet act togeth
: er politically. The same thing occur
red in the third District-there Portel
: the whig candidate expressed the sam
opinion, that Miller did here, and wa
} triumphan,ly elected. In the joint ses
: scion of The General Assembly, Will
d the balIoting for Senator was yet &C
? ing on-and before single democra
: had voted for Geyer, Mr.. BroadheaC
t on the floor of the House utterly repu
. dated this test doctrine as any part c
i. the whig faith-and every one in th
y country knows that Clark was turne
g out Of the whig party, not because h
: avowed his opinion on this question o
J. Federal power but because he attemP
,; ed 10 make that opinion a test again'
!. others--,his the wings of Howard il
dignantly rejected, and cast their vote
for Miller regardless Of his opinion G
this subject--und against the propose
test. So much for the whig party
As for Mr.. Geyer, he tells us in one
his recent letters, that before the Al
"a gust elections, he took some pains TO i
Of il be known that he made no test. ar
~ ~ after The summer elections, he publis
ed a communication in the St. Lou
In,elligencer, taking the same groun
that is taken in his recent letters, and q
of though his name was not signed 10 tn
R. communication, it was generally know
at the time, that he was the author
I. it. The truth is, if those gentlem'
h. who now complain of having been d
Or ceived had been at all anxious 10 ha'
It. had Mr.. Geyer's written opinion on Il
It, subject, all they had 10 do, was TO
ne DIV to him for that purpose--that no