Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-01-01

the Union, &C., or to work a Senator
out of his seat that one of the conspi-
rators might get into it. This is the
difference between the old and the
new doctrine of instruction; and to
give these remarks a practical ap-
plicatioh let us recapitulate the exis-
ting case. In the year lS47 a set of
disunion slavery resolutions are
brought into the American Senate
strike them one lick and they fall
dead at my feet. There is no resur-
rection for them there. Then they
are sent ont to all the slaveholding
States, (my own State inclusive J
to be adopted in the State Legisla-
ture, and sent back a "inStrucEl0n8"
to those who had killed them in the
American Senate. They are adopted
in all the nullifcation and secession
States, and also in the Legislature of
Missouri, under the lead of the old
nullifierS of 1888 and 1874. They
are adopted upon conspiracy con-
fined to about dozen accomplices-
half inside, and half outside of the
Legislature, and innocently voted for
by the body Of the Democratic mem
bers.
Knowing that ! would not obey
reasonable resolutions which had
killed in the Senate, a plot was laid
to "head" me. Meetings were to be
held in all the counties, to get the
people to sanction them before l
came home; for they had been adop-
ted without the consent Of the peo-
pie, and after failing in the aue'rrt!
to obtain their consent in some coun-
ties---as in Howard. They were at
this work when I came home, and
with some success, but were brough
to dead stand by my Jefferson City
speech. Suspe citing that | would ap-
peal to the people against their reso-
lutions, they prepared before hand to
counteract me, though they them
selves were in the act of appe aling
to the people for their sanction. The
State was districted, and scamps ap-
pointed in every district to meet me
at the line and blackguard me
through it. "DrQm shopS, beer ce!-
lars, a0hishy groceries" were to vo-
nit forth their drunken tenants to
assail me. (Atchison's letter to
Birch.) Every notification press in
the State was secured and tutored.
All this was arranged before the res
olutions were passed, which shows
the depth of the conspiracy, and the
wickedness of its anthors. Thus
combined and organised, with a ram
ilicaton extending into every coun,
ty, the conspirators felt themselves
safe in their work, and wrote letters
of triumph and congratulation to one
another. awe have him now: he
cnnnot escape now: we thought we
had him in 1914, but he escaped: hc
cannot escape now: it is impossible
our combinations are so strong ant
SO extensive that he cannot escape
again."-[ Atchison at Liberty, il
Clay county.
Such was the plot, The preparation
and the confidence of the conspira
tors. came home-appeal aled to thu
people, and called for their judgmen
upon the tructions which had bee,
given in their name, and which hat
not yet been presented to Congress
for they were passed too late for tha
session, and there was full time +
consider them before the next. In
stantly the conspirators took a new
turn. Knowing the reasonable char
acter of their "instructions," am
that they could not stand discussion
they endeavored to "head off" tn
appeal, and to deny the right Of tn
people to hear it, though they them
selves had appealed to the people 70
an ca pnrte, one-sided conlirmatio
of it before | got home. They de
t MED the right of appeal! thereb
, contradicting themselves, confessln
> the criminality of their instruction
! which could not bear discussion, de
, nying the right of the people to hay
: any voice in instructions given
f their name, and claiming for the Lie
: gislature despotic right of instrne
S tion Independent of the popular viii
e and extending to :he greatest Grim
e even to high treason.
y This denial brought up the que'
Q ton of the right of instruction, bot
S the old and the new-that whic
! had existed from the foundation
: the government, and rested upon 1t
= sovereignty of the people, and th'
= which was born of notification an
: rested on the sovereignty Of the Stat
: Legislatures. Your county goes #
e the old doctrine, such as eXiste
o heretofore in this State, and in a
s the Democratic States, and esp'
= cially as it was administered ia thi