Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-08-26
Speech of Ex-senator Benton

CITIZENS: Honest cXultation is natural in
our circumstances; insolent triumph is for
eign to our natures. We have right to
rejoice: we have no disposition to INSULT
Moderation, always respectable, is the
crowning ornament Of victory, and the balm
which cures all wounds. We have gained
a victory-a great one; mantully and nobly
gained 1.-THE open field our theatre-hard
knocks our process. No Ulysses work
with us; but the Ajax's-Big and Little
Ajax--hard knocks; and no tricks; hard,
but fair.
The city and county of st. Louis, the
Gibraltar of our political foes, has been car
ricd. Two Senators and ten Representa-
tivcs in the General Assembly--alI the
county officers, twenty in number--the Con-
grcss tickct--the State ticket-all carried!
and without the loss of man. A ticket of
thirty carried at 4 dash-at one lick, and
that where no fragment OF ticket had been
carried for years bciore-where nothing but
successive defeats had set on our banners
for years. An average majority of a thou-
sand, when two years ago the majority (and
good one), was against us; and this against
foe in possession of all the appliances Of
power--entrenched in power, presses, Off
ces, the State Bank, the city government
and its revenue, the whole system of jobs
and contracts, and the train bands of vet
eran city police.
On our side, no advantages of power or
position and some great disadvantages: en-
irenched foes in front, pirates in the rear, a
Simon in the camp. We had nothing. Ma
ked hands, empty pockets, no arsenals or
military chest: one press in foreign Ian
guage, one little one born at the eleventh
hour; one other old enough, and big enough,
to have done service; but, like the lame cap
tain, commencing its flight before the fight
began. We were empty, all empty. except
the heart. and that was full. full 10 the brim.
brimful of courage and patriotism. The
| DEMOS of ST. Louis--l love that Greek word
the demos krateo of St. Louis, in this month
of August, first Monday, and second day,
in the year of Grace, 1852, have done q
deed which shall long resound through the
| land; which constitutes an era in the history
of Missouri, and sets an example for the
whole State TO follow. Victory complete
sits upon the banner. No dead, no wounded,
not a prisoner left upon the field. We have
met the foe, and they are ours; and now,
like generous conquerors, we will bind up
their wounds, and wipe away their tears,
and give them the best we have except the
offices. Such is the result in the county
election, in the noblest county and city, in
the noblest State in the Union.
The Congress election, in a district Of
twenty counties, was part Of the combat in
St. Louis; and nobly did the other nineteen
emulate the conduct of the queen county OF
the State. Benton was in the field, face To
face with the pcople-no traitors between
them-and the question, whether they
would stand by the man who for six Roman
lustrums had stood by them? They die
stand! over field of three hundred miles
from the Missouri river TO the Arkansa.
line, from the Merrimac TO the st. Francis
and to the Big and Little Black, Elevet
Point, and the Currents; to White river ant
Black river, Crooked Creek, Apple Creek
and the Castor-down TO the Big SWAMP
and out to the hills-from Crere Caeur t
Pemiscot, (twice as far as from Dan t.
Beersheba Everywhere, the demos stoo(
by the man who has stood by them. Itwa.
long race; and they had put weight upol
your leaders, back-not very heavy; and h'
carried it without feeling it, about in tn
r style that the renowned captain John Gil
: pin, (of London train band memory,) caF
e ried the neck and handle of that broken ju|
which hung dangling at his back in that ia
. nous ride from London town TO Islington.
|, And he did not degrade himself or tn
people. No low arts OF electioneering-n
) begging votes-no appeal to old service
no bowling and scraping-no whining an
bubbering-no conlessing and begging par
don, and promising not TO do so again; n
cringing to foes. But, right ahead, hittin
right aad lc!t-&nocking over compromises
platforms, caucuses, conventions, regula
+ nominations, fugitive slave law and all: az
despising everything that jugglers contriv
for the terror of timid politicians: arme
20 with truth and courage alone; self supported
and relying upon the people: answering n
questions and telling no lies: that is the wa
it was done. And TO whose honor? Hi
d own? No! But to the honor of the masses
to the honor of the people who rccogniz
truth and courage-who despise the shutiin
politician, and love the man Of head an
nerve--the man always frank and hones
whether always right or not.
CITIZENS! week before the election,