Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-06-08
T II E EST W A &.
Hancock on Peabody.

Ihe following IS from the last Banner,
and explains itself. 1t is refreshing to wit
ness this passage e-at-arms, not merely for the
sake ofthe fight and fun, but because gr eat
principle is involved, one in which the
country is daily interested, and which the
historian Of our times will transfer, to the
pages of history. True Democracy is to be
defined and establshed-the principle is to
settled, that although white-man may have
"wool in his teeth" yet that is no evidence
he is "sound on The niger question:" But
we are OBTAINING the reader from the re-
marks of the Banner, which follow
"PEABoDY AND THE DOLLAR JOURNAL.
"The rawlings of the Dollar Journal are
only entitled to consideration from the fact
that it is a newspaper with a tolerable cir
culation, and but for its continued slang
would have received but little attention from
us.
"Our position on the power question will
never suffer from Peabody's assaults, and the
man who asserts that the Resolutions Of 9S'-
SO make the denial of Congress to Legislate
for the territories on the subject of slavery
test Of democracy, is entirely ignorant of
what they contain and from what kind of
body they emanated. The "Jotrnal' and
others who make this assertion think no
doubt, that some national or State Democrat
ic Convention first adopted them, while the
truth is they were Legislative resolves,
carried by votes of all parties, and it would
be just as easy to prove from them that the
wings have always made the denial of the
power test, as that it has always been the
democratic position.
"We have never before heard of Legis-
lature making a party platform. Such a
thing might occur in this progressive age,
but the men of '9S so had other fish to fry.
The democracy of this State did not make it
a test at the last general election for State
offices. Did not the Boone democracy vote
for the Richardson's and Gardenhire, who
conceded the power? How many of them
scratched the tickets. Compare Garden
hires vote in Boone with Morrison and Buff
fington's, and then let this Ohio Evergreen
answer again if the Boone Democracy made
il test.
Compare Gardenhire and BufiDgton's
vote in Howard; Gardenhire received 1913,
and Burlington S21. Just % democrats in
Howard made it a test at that election and
scratched the ticket. A similar comparison
ofthe vote in every county in the State, will
brand as falsehood and folly every word that
Peabody has uttered on the subject.
"We are not surprised that Peabody
makes it a test. Men in this latitude sus-
pected of being aboltionists, more especially
ifthere are good grounds for the suspicion,
are apt to be over plum on the n,gger ques-
lion; but the thief crying ''stop the thief" is
an old expedient and that cock won't fight
nowadays.
"Peabody bids adieu 10 democrats who
repudiate the test, and democrats who re-
pudiate the test being sound National Demo-
Gratis, are glad to part company with Ohio
abolitionists, and factionists of all kidneys
We advise him to abandon the gray goose
quill, retire to Oberlin and cling to home
opathy to the bitter end.
"There is not man of Peabody's ac-
quaintance who doubts for moment that if
he were now in the Ashtabula district in
Ohio, he would be the liveliest yelper of
Gidding's pack, and with homeopathy and
humanity make the welkin ring.
THE democracy of Howard know where
they stand, and if rumor be true, know too
where Peabody has s'ood, and If he can
clear his skirts of the African odor, it will
beto him far more profitable employment
than that of indoctrnating the democracy of
Howard"