Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1851-02-06
THE TIMES
REMARKS OF
MIR. j. %. BROADHEAD,
OF PIKE,

III Tue JOtNb DeSStOH, On "t LtcCttOH
of U. S. Senator-Janua,y 18th,
1851.
Mr.. Broadhead said that he was will.
ing to continue the balloting for U. S.
Senator during the present week, if
gentlemen desired it, but no longer
Though the election of United States
Senator was question of great public
interest-one in which the people of
the State were deeply in,erested-yet,
we had other duties to discharge, and
when a faithful effort had been made
and we found there was no possibility of
an election, he thought 1t time, and the
people would require, that we should
put stop to this vain and frutless
struggle. The Senator from Buclian-
an, had announced to Us, that when he
saw there was no prospect of electing
the man of his choice, he would vote
for right.minded Whig. He knew
that gentleman well-he knew him to be
man of integrity and frmness, and that
he would do what he had promised TO
do. That gentleman must have been
convinced ere this time, that there was
no prospect of the election Of Mr.. Green
and il does seem to me, sir, without
intending to reflec, upon his motives,
that he was triflipg with the interests
of the public, in failing to do what he
has promised US he will do. In desiring
to bring this matter to close, the gen.
tleman from Washington charges that
we are endeavorng TO deprive him of
the rights of freeman. If that gen.
tleman had bill before the House ard
il was voted down, Isuppose he would
charge the majority with endeavoring
to deprive him of the rights of free.
man, because they would not permit
him TO sit all the session and vote for
his bill to the exclusion of all other
business. After the session was over
and the business for which we were
sent here, transacted, we will give him
perfect liberty TO exercise the privileges
of freeman all the balance of the year,
in voting for whom he pleased for U.
States Senator.
Mr.. President, | wish 10 be distinctly
understood in this matter. As deep an
interest as | feel in the election of U
s. Senalor-as important as know
this election TO be in the eyes of the
people of this State, and of the whole
Union-yet, l take this position, tha,
Missouri had better be unrepresented
than misrepresented. Now, sir, so far al
Senator Benton is concerned, he is ou
of the question. The two parties op
posed 10 him on this floor are strong
enough to defeat his election. But The
gentleman from Howard tells US that i
he finds he cannot succeed in eleclin!
Mr.. Geyer he will vote for Mr.. Green
| wish no one to be deceived in my po
si.ion on this question, and l tell tha
r gentleman that | would as soon Sc
Benton elected as Green. | can vot
: for neither of those gentlemen. o
q many Of the great questions of publ
f policy, Col. Benton differs from me
r and from those with whom ! act-an
; he is especially obnoxious on accour
l of his having failed to vote for the fug
;. tive slave law of the last session of Cor
st gress. The passage of this law VIZ
s. not only demanded as an act of lustlc
10 the South, but was necessary to II
fulfllment of a constitutional duty; an
every Senator, not only those who re-
Mt resented slaveholding States, but
e. from every State of the Confederac
ne were under obligations to secure
'n passage.
nd In this Senator Benton has failed
ct discharge his dutyi if he considered Il
law "injudicious or ineflicacious,"
Il, should have attempted to make il mo
g. g, iudicious and efficacious, and if he ia
for ed in this, he should have voted for I
icy best law he could get on the subject.
Mr.. Green is equally obnoxious. /
&c cause he has allied himself to Sou
- ern faction; because he has aided in
establishment of Southern press
o. o' the seat of Government. whose obI'
pi. is TO ligh, up the fires of sectional h
'.& llity. speak for myself alone,