Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-07-31

friends, The probabilities in favor oil
either of US give way before the
greater certainty that we will either
all be outvoted by the respectable sin
gle ticket of our adversaries, or that
they will evince an infinitely less in
telligent regard for their principles, or
the means of SO essentially sustaining
and promoting them than they have
heretofore done, or than they seem to
be SO quietly and judicicusly doing al
present need but add, therefore,,
that however the miscalculatiDg conf.
dence of too sanguine temperament
may have misled me in the most ardent
periods of the past, it has been at least
so modified by the lessons of disap
poin,ment and experience, as not to
obscure from my perception the line
of common duty in such conjsnc.
ture asthe present one.
In recording my declension accor.
dinghy, and thus leading the way (as il
is trusted) 10 such a reduction of the
number of similar aspirams as shall
place the party with whom we act
upon grounds of equal and fair contest
with the other party, trust it need
scarcely be protested how wholly in
capable it is for my nature TO have de-
signed anything here written or init
mated, as wound to the Just sensibili.
ties of those with whom | disagree in
the construction of our political consti-
tutions, and consequently in the expo.
siiion and administration of many of
our political laws. Recognizing
amongst them citizens as intelligent,
patriotic and noble as can be pointed
to in any age or party-many of them
my supporters in past elections, when
having no candidate of their own-oth.
ers friendly TO my success in the ap-
preaching one, and amongst the mass
of whom again return for indiscrimi
J nate association and professional sup
! port-it is but natural that l should
, have restrained, rather given license to
the pen, which records dissent from
J their party creed of interpreting the
paramount law Of the land, as reason
&. why even the kind and voluntary sup.
port of such friends, coupled as it ne
. cessarily would be with the too obviou:
: hazard of at least, the judicial or polt.
| ical preponGerance alluded to, should
, be, as it is. respectfully foregone.-
3 They desire to have court, q majority
D of whose members will from lime tc
!. time concur in such judicial exposiiion'
] of the constitution of the United State.
r and our own State, as will sustain ano
? advance their own political or party
q creed, and it is because | deem tina
o such an occurrence would be fraugh
n with more real and permanent detri
: ment to the opposite policy than The
. loss of any other department involving
| the reliances to which my judgmen
} more than ever and almost wholly
cings for the preservation of the gov
G ernments themselves-that in the vol
untary self denial which wiihdraws mt
t from so i'll contrived and unequal can
I vass, Ibut defferentially absolve my
r self from even the negative response
: biliry of contributing TO SO unpropitiou
result.
; | but add, in dissolving thus tn,
, judicial relations which have for some
: time so agrecably and advantageously
i connected me with distant members o
T. the profession, al the political and com
; mercial metropolis of the State, that i
J, in return for the almost invariable dig
u nifty of department and propriely o
practice, which so gratefully disem
= barrassed the comparative inexperienc
y under which assumed those relation!
;. ] have upon any occasion seemed IN
. mindful how much of the relativ
e pleasantness Of my station was owing
= throughout, to the courtesy and consid
- Grafton thus adverted to, pray tn
!. magnanimity and forgiveness of thos
. who may have witnessed so great, ye
y unintentional wrong. Whether sue
i services in the station as have resulte
y from my hes, reflections have in an
'o sense contributed TO the symetry o
the strength of the judicial ediice, mus
le of course undergo that ordeal of tn
f. professional judgment from which notl
ie ing tina! is written can be wholly ex
Is empt, and to which, therefore, in III
Of future as in the past, of course sub
g nit myself.
H. With the single additional remarI
&c that desiring to be understood by il
re telligent and fair minded men Of q
Is parties in the manner that understan
$, myself, | throw myself upon the cou
"a tesy of the political press to give pul
y LEFTY TO this communication.
as | remain, &c,
10 JAS. II. BIRCH.
VI PRAIRIE PARK, July LIST, 1851.
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