Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1853-11-17
Synopsis of Senator Atchison's Speech,
Delivered at Fdyetie, on Monday, November
IA, 1853.
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ing that topics of vital Importance had
arisen within the last few years. Among
them were Nebraska Territory and the Pa
cifc Railroad. These subjects, vast in
themselves, and of stupendous importance
in the relations they sustain 10 present con-
ditiOns, were now absorbing large portion
of public attention, and therefore deserved
his careful consideration.
What, he would ask, is Nebraska, and
where is il? The territory of Nebraska,
as important as it may now appear, has been
known but short time. Ten years ago
the name was unknown, and was first APP
piled by Douglas, a talented Democratic Sc
nator from Illinois, and now prominent
candidate for the Presidency, in his bill
for road 10 Oregon, and the organization
of the territory formerly known as the IN
dian or Northwest Territory. In this bill,
which was before the House for three or
four years, it was named Nebraska, and ex-
tends from SO south to 43 north latitude,
some 300 miles wide, and 600 long. Mr..
Hall consulted with him previous to pre-
senting his bill for the organization of this
territory. He opposed it then for the same
reasons that govern him now; but before dis
cussing this there was previous question
growing out of it.and first raised by Col.
Benton in his St. Joseph speech, as to the
right of white men TO settle in Nebraska.
to which he wished TO call attention. This
question which COL Benton, with his unen-
viable facility for riding hobbies. had mag
nified into undue Importance, he (Atchison)
thought of such small moment that in his
Platte City speech he did not not notice it.,
and would not have done SO in his Weston
speech, had not his attention been called to
it by q wing editor of that place, and when
he wrote cut his speech he forgot it, and
added his views in note. The question
he considered mere legal one, but as he
had been accused by Col Benton Of gross
ignorance in not knowing that three-f ourths
Of Nebraska was open to settlement, which
Benton asserts to be the case, and as all his
views and actions are public, he had no hes
itancy and felt it his duty TO give his senti-
ments to candid public; and he here as
serted as he had in other places, that Ben
ton was wrong-not one foot of Nebraska
,raS open TO, settlement to the uhites-none
could go there except for lawful trade. As
an instance of his egotism and effrontery,
in his Monroe county letter Colonel Benton
writes that Atchison dare contradict him.
But all this slang of Benton's would have
been unnoticed by him, had it not been for
the injustice Benton was doing the people
of Missouri by his fulsome falsehoods, to
say nothing OF his lies. Benton's argu-
ments upon this subject would disgrace any
pettilogger in the State;--false conclusions
drawn from stupid assumptions were char
acterstic of the man. In his monomania the
ignuS .tdtuuS self, obscures every shadow
OF seli-respect or regard for truth; nothing is
Too high or holy for his animadversions and
misrepresentation. In him the honors of
office and the grey hairs of age are alike
prostituted 10 the unholy purpose Of giving
credit to his filthy vituperations. Even
Congress by him is dragged from the high
position of rejecting the sentiments of an
intelligent and virtuous people to the lewd
embrace OF Il common courtesan. "From
the abundance Of the heart the mouth speak
eth, is an assertion Of holy writ that points
to the steep from which emanates all this
loathsome effluvia-Benton's heart-the
blackness Of whose conceptions would IN
duce Nero to pluck it from his polluted
bosom; and yet he would set as an umpire
upon the actions Of Congress which he de-
nounces for It's ignorance and Stupidity
Will any one wonder at his (Atchson'
unwillingness TO notice any thing personal
emanating from such source.
Here he showed Benton's map of Nebras-
ka, which he denounced as a fraud, gotten
up for fraudulent purposes. It's very title
was lie, and the crime was penitentiary
one, and he could convict him before any
jury OF twelve honest men. Immediately
upon the appearance of this map he (Atchi-
sony wrote to the Secretary of the Interior,
whose letter, together with Benton's he here
read. Mr.. A. believed that the map as far
as it related TO the metes and bounds of the
Indian reservations was correct; but all this
any school boy might have known before; it
gives the lie to Col. Benton's assertion, that
three-fourths of all Nebraska is open for
settlement, as it shows that the whole re-
gion Of the Kansas, together with every nth
er section OF any importance, is in pos ses-
sion of the Indians; the unoccuped portion
being entirely worthless except for an &C.
casional stock farm, there not being more
timber beyond the Council Bluffs than will
support farm every 20 or 80 miles, vet
Benton tells you this is paradise, and calls
upon all men TO hasten to its delightful
groves, and this too in contradiction 10 his
own map, and the well known stipulations
of existing treaties, which gives to the
Pawnees the right TO hunt upon the entire
country, until the President of the U. S.
should notify them to the contrary. Some
tribes located here in 1923 and 1898, by
President Jackson, were induced TO leave
the graves of their fathers and settle here
by the assurance that this was to be the