Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1852-08-12
For the Glasgow Times.
Gen. John B. Clark.

styled "Free Soil whigs," can not partici-
pate in the demonstrations of joy INDUCED
in by our party over the recent result in
this Congressional district, in consequence
Of the unhappy state into which l under
stand Mr.. Mllcr's election has thrown YOU;
on the contrary, think it better to visit the
house Of mourning than Of feasting. Under
this conviction, as circumstances prevent
my whispering consolation TO you bodily,
have undertaken TO do il in the next most
convenient and acceptable manner, to-wt:
by letter.
entreat You, my dear General, not to suf-
fer these matters TO weigh so heavily upon
you, do not be SO utterly cast down into the
slough of Despond. Remember your for
mer position; and if there is nothing in the
future to allure your mind from an over
whclming sense of present evils, let the past
at least exercise modifying influence upon
your CALLED and mortified sensibilities.-
Think how of yore you were the Agamem-
non, yea the Ajax Telcmon of Missouri
Whiggery. Think of the canvass of 1910,
in which you were not victorious you had
the satisfaction Of spending COCO dollars.
for the good of the cause. Remember that
affair Of honor, which covered you all over
with glory, and which has no parallel in
the record Of chivalry, save the great Win
gleberry duel immortaized by the pen of
Dickens. Shall such "reminiscences as
these not suffice to chase away your pcnsive
thoughts, methinks the present is not so
wholly destitute Of material for consolation
as some of your wing friends fear. Is it
not something that, though the wings have
"whst!ed you down the wind" there is
still leftto you your faithful Buncomb body
guard. And if you have been seduced, and
then deserted by the democratic party of
Howard, do you not yet command The SYM
/ pathy and strong .tslov feeling of that ''rcs-
pectob'e old gentleman who presides over
the fallen fortunes of the Fayette clique
But above all, though it is admitted YOU
have done nothing for either party. have you
not the consolation Of knowing that yen have
. at least come up to the ne Plus ultra of chris
> tan virtue, by attempting 10 do good TO
. those who have despitefully used you, and
y when they had smittcn you upon one cheek
l. turning the other also?
y But, my dear General there is duty in
separable from true friendship which | an
under obligation to PERFORM wish to give
you some advice; and as adversely is the
time for reformation, I hope YOU will derive
much benefit therelrom.
Some of the Free Soil wings" you re-
member, told you in 1850, that if you took
the stand you were about TO take, and did
take, in relation to the Congressional and
County canvass of that year, you would find
yourselfin the predicament ofthe individual
who not content with one seat at time
must have two stools on which 10 rest his
= neither man. They told you that if you
suffered your vanity to thrust You between
= the wings and the man of their choice in
this congressional district, you would be
> found in the vocatve with nothing but &
corporal's guard, which now futters in
-, your rear like the tail of kite--not lorg
:, enough to keep you from butting your brains
out. They told you that Fox Jackson was
the boy who had hold of the string, that al
he wanted was TO use you until he could Sc
cure his own and the triumph Of his party in
this county, when you would be thrown
=, aside as tool no longer scrviceable. That
y in the end You would be nothing but hi:
. whlpper-in and Jackall; bottlc-holder, one
of the "clappcrs and grinners."
49, Had you profted by This advice, dear
= General, you might now have had comfor
N table quarters--a bed to yourself, instead O
d pgging together with such lot of lodger.
n as now crowd the Ant-Benton stye of How
NJ ard county, all waiting TO be slaughtered ant
n sailed down when Benton's butchers raise
ii the war-whoop in the next legislatures
Ill Had you resisted the promptings of an over
s. Ween!ng vanity, had you followed less close!y
ne in the footsteps of your old master and bea,
e. ideal-John Tyler, you might perhaps hav
r come in for your share after better men ha,
in been served. And would not this hav
at been preierableto the position you now hold
cd A political brat-ncither beast nor bird
g. secuted by both parties as not belonging t
50 either, and owning no party save the Bun
,;s comb Immoras.
vs. II you had manifested sincerity in the ad
,e. vocacy of the mongrel piebald crudite
he you promulgated in 1850, when you fir,
We concluded to turn locoiuco, you might hay
m gotten of with only an imputaton upo
your head. But when you attempted {
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