Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-08-25
For the Times.

The following advice was given on the
Dist day of July, 1853, by father, to his
son, who had just arrived at the years of
maturity:
Billy, tomorrow it is your privilege and
duty, to cast your vote for Congressman to
represent us in the Congress of these Uni
ted State; ii is all important that your first
vote should be cast right; this, know, by
eXperionce-lor in the formation of the two
present political parties, which now, and
has for years divided us in this Government,
| cast my first vote for Gen. Jackson why,
or for whHt cause, cannot now tell unless
it was for his Military fame; since that time
the two parties have generally kept up their
organization, and are kown by the names of
Democrats and Wings; the principles upon
which the two parties divided were the
questions of Internal Improvement by the
general government; Tariff, so framed as
to afford protection TO American labor; and
a United States Bank. The party with
which acted and voted declaring and con-
tending that Congress, under the present
constitution, had no power to carry into eff
feet either of those three great measures:
in other words that all three were unconsti-
tutional. In this way we went on for some
years, our Presidents vetoing every thing of
the kind that passed, and whenever veto
Message was received there was great re-
joicing by the SO called Democracy, by illu-
limitations, carousing, SC. This first put
me to thinking, whether it was possible for
Democracy TO consist in thwarting the will
of the people, or in inconsistency; for gen.
orally both parties were sustained, by the
people: that is, those that voted for the
measure and those that sustained the vetos.
In this predicament Iappled to some of the
Democracy that | thought more knowing;
they would smile upon me and say that we
must stick together; that we could make a
living on our farms as well as other people;
that if | voted differently from what | had
been voting, they would stigmatize me as
turn coat, that the Wings were the Old
Federal party, &c.
Well Billy, in this way they kept me
hanging on, and for a few years, now, In
ternal Improvements by Rail Roads have
been the only theme, and by some means
few Wings havegot inio Congress from our
own State, and the first appropriations of
Lands have been made in this State for In
ternal improvements: yes, Billy, for Rail
Roads. The surveys have been made
through or near the neighborhoods of some
OF our leading democrats - some of the
works are commenced, our country is flour
ishing and blossoming as the rose; our
lands are fast rising in value, our laborers
are taken from the farms at high prices; the
farmer is well paid for his labor by invest
ing his surplus in stock; the constitution has
not been changed, but the mouths of many
OF our democrats have been hermetrically
sealed as to the unconstitutionality of In
ternal improvements by the general gov
eminent; and, Billy, our Claib now SAYS he
Is IN favor OF Internal Improvements and |
am told, and have ho doubt of the fact, that
IN his late speeches when, near the line of
a certain Rail Road, he was forced 10 saw.
that if elected to Congress he would not
only appropriate land for the object, but if
necessary he would appropriate money, TOO.
Now it has been but a few years since
the distribution act passed Congress, and
ti"'b. was then opposed to receiving either
the land or the money, on account Of the
unconstitwionality of the measure, and for
fear he would be bought up or bribcd. So
much for Internal improvements by Con-
gress.
The next question, Billy, which divided
the two great political parties was tariff,
so distributed as TO afford protection to
American labor; we opposing The measure, las
was SAID, on account of its demonstrations
atty, and because it was a tax on the poor,
or farming class, 10 keep up the rich mono
poles Of the east-and one of our Jim's used
10 state in his speeches that Tor every cent of
tariff laid on any article, the poor farmers
had TO pay that much the more for the arti-
Gle when he bought it, but this we only
pretended 10 believe, as we know that the
tariff was higher on some articles than they
cost us when we bought them; and we all
know now from experience of what we
have seen Of Internal improvements, that if
were encouraged and estab-
lished at Glasgow and Boonville, or other
places, and a thousand or two thousand
operatives taken into them from the farm
ing community that the farmer would be
that much advantaged by it, as they would
have to eat, for manufacturers, or me-
chanics eat as well as farmers, and by