Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-06-12
Democracy & AhOIitiODisln

tOpoIitdu b6illOCIdlIC OISun is wei
persuaded that it is all right with the
Democracy as far as the slavery ques
ton is concerned. Every thing is as
sound as a nut. All the difficulty is
with those pestIent wings of the North.
who will not fall into the support OF
the Fugitive SIaye Law. The Demo.
Gratis are all national, and always have
been national, and never will be any
thing else. SO the Union rings the
changes on Mr.. Wade, Mr.. Seward,
and Mr.. Sumner, and cyults that the
Democracy is this side up 10 Ohio, New
York and Massachusetts.
Now, with regard to Mr. Wade, the
evidence seems TO be that he is oppos.
ed to the Fugitive Slave law; though it
is said that he is not ultra. fanaticaI on
the subject-that he is moi a political
Abolitionist. Well, suppose that the
Wings have made Senator of man
who is opposed TO the Fugitive Slave
law in Ohio, will the Union be so kind
as to inform us whether or not one of
The first Aboirionisls who ever appear
ed in the Senate of the United States
was no, oao Mr.. Tappan, Democratic
Abolition Senator from this same State
Of Ohio? Mr.. Wade can he by no
possibility SO objectionable a man as
Mr.. Tappan, unless he is willing TO see
the Union dissolved in the effort TO pro.
cure the abolition of slavery. This
Mr.. Tappan, as we remember him, was
one of The most thUroughbl ed and
Ihoroughgolng Abolitionlsts; a man
like your Garrisons and BiIncys. and
the first specimen of such man that
ever appeared in the Senate. If Mr.
Senator Wade is one ehat as bad as
Mr.. Tappan, we shall never object to
any censure that the Union may level
at him; but we shall always consider
that his case is offset by that of Mr..
Tappan.
Then comes Mr.. Seward The
Union never can forgive The Wings OF
New York, because in past years they
have acted with Mr.. Seward, and Mr..
Seward has now taken ultra ground on
the subject of slavery. il is true that
Mr.. Seward has become so ultra on
this point as to call down the severesl
analhemas from his particular person
al friends Of the Courier aud Enquirer
of New York. His opinions must have
become indeed extreme, before they
could have induced a journal professlng
such strong personal friendship, to EN-.
$ ploy terms of so severe condemnation
e as the Courier and Enqnirer has used
s in regard TO Senator Seward. FoI
our own part. we are not disposed &c
canvass these opinions, because it j:
: many years since we have been on
| such footing with the honorable Sen,
: alor as to enable US 10 speak our mind
in regard TO him without the possible
suggestion of an adverse personal bias.
j Under these circumstances, we are
z compelled 10 fall back on the structures
P of the Courier and Enquirer, a friend
e y journal, and, if these are we'll. found
0 ed, then we have no reason to believe
that the Union is much out Of the way
: in attri1uting very improper purposes
TO Mr.. Seward. But does the Union
g forget that Mr.. Seward, whatever may
r have been his backslidlngs or his &c,
centric deviations from the Wing plat
n form, never went the length of The
Unions own party and political friends
o in the State of New York! Is the
u Union really ignorant when it talks o
Mr.. Seward, that Mr.. Seward is mere
~ ly Free-soil. circumstance, " hen com
pared with Martin Van Buren,, Johr
d Van Buren,, Benjamin +. Butler, job,
e A. Dix, Preston King, the Evening
n Post, and the members oflhe old Demo
: cratic party in the State of New York
h Has the Union forgotten when Bena
min +. Butler and Joshua r. Gliding
e struck hands and embraced each Other
and swore eternal mutual fidelity Of
the Buffalo platforml Why, the Uniol
IL has the shorles, possible of memorie,
a. or it imagines that people are TO b.
very easily misled, if it suPposes tha
-e Mr.. Seward is 10 be put forward as tn
l' head of the Free soil movement in Ne,
'e York. TO the disParagement of lhos
r. who have an infinitely better claim I
~ the position.
VI But then there is Mr.. Sumner.
A' is Mr.. Wade, Mr.. Seward and N
g, Sumner. We think that the cases
~ ~ The first named gentlemen have bee
% fairly Offset. But the alusion TO NJ
70 Sumner, in connexlon with the alleg
70 70 tioR of Whig responsibility in the prem
20 ises, is the most impudent charge of e.
Mr.. Sumner was the regularly nom
mated candidate of the Democrat
r. caucus, was yoted for by The Demo
IN Gratis in Q body, and was meyer, at an
re time or under any CIRCUMSTANCES, nom
h. mated as a Wing candidate for an
or office, or voted for by Whig consli
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