Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1854-08-03
From the Albany IN. W Evening Register.
Where are we Drifting?

We were presented with call, the other
day, for convention of delegates from the
different assembly districts of the State, to
meet at Saratoga, for the purpose of giving
expression Of the popular sentiment against
the Nebraska and Kansas measure recent
ly passed by Congress. Supposing the OBJ
ject to be simply TO speak in concentrated
language the universal opposition of the
Northern people to that measure, and seeing
the names of good and true men TO the call
we signed it. But we have reason to be-
! lieve that The movement, or rather the orig
inators Of it have something more than we
supposed in view, and that their object is
nothing more nor less than to break up pres
ent political organizations, abandon all other
i<sues-overlook all the great principles that
nnderlay parties as they now exist, and
build up great Northern party based up.
on the 's!avery sentiment alone, and re-
! lying upon the superior numerical force of
! The free over the slave States. strike for a
supremacy in the Union through the pow
er sectional preiudices. We yield to none
in our opposition 10 the Nebraska measure;
we have denounced it from the beginning in
language strong rs we could could command.
We have regarded il as the wickedest vio-
aion Of faith, The vilest piece of demagogue-
ism that ever diShonored the political histo-
ry of the country. This sentiment we be-
iieve is universal among the people Of the
North, perv' ding all classes, and all organ
izatlons, political or social. 1t is organic in
the Northern mind. But the very fact of
its universally shows the folly of an at
tempt TO organize party, based upon that
sentiment alone. Being common to all par
ties, no such organization can lie needed
nor can any such be sustained.
Believing as we do IN the wisdom and pa
triotism of the Wing creed, the soundness Of
the Wing principles, and The vale Of the
Wing party, we are entirely opposed to
seeing il di>hanhrd. 1t holds the rens of
. power in The State; it has the Legislature
| and State officers, and will continue to
have them with !he Evccu,ive Drp,rt-
ment for years to come. unless it casts them
T nway hy its own m1lneSs and folly. The
| wings, ifthey will but remain trne to Them
selves. will carry the Union in 1856. The
weakness OF the present administration, lis
usurpations, lis misrue, the hopeless dis.
cord prevailing in It's ranks, the contempt
. IN which it has fallen, has palSied the pow.
er of the Democratic organization, and open.
ed the way TO the restoration Of right prin.
ciples and a permanent triumph for the Whg
party. What stupendous folly is it then Il
abandon its organization and throw away it,
, principles and its strength;
, But there is great wickedness IN this sec,
I tionnl organization; for when 1t shall be ac
complished, when the North and the Souti
shall stand in distinct bodies ever agans
t each other, divided by geographical lines
the Union will be practically dissolved.--
, This sectional division, embodying sec,lona
, preiudices, and rousing sectional aRiIno3itler
: is, what the great Washington saw as tn
chief danger to the future OF this country
and with prophetic earnes,ness and solem
nifty he warned his countrymen AGAINST it,
, That there has been much to rouse the spir
it of the free North we admit. There ha.
been folly and great wrong perpctrated +,
the South through the instrumentalIty O
= Northern demagogues, traitors alike TO thci
; constituents and the honor of their country
But for this, the whole South is not 10 blame
There are in the slave States thousands anc
hundreds of thousands of good Wings, ant
good Democrats TOO, who gave no Sanction
to the iniquity which gives rise to the excl
ted state of the popular feeling OF the North
y II il were not so, what good can possibl
y arise from an abandonment by tie Wings G
: their party organization, and rushing madl
into an abolition crusade against the South
What car by possibility be gined by it?-
wiz il change one feature ol the wrong c
which the North has much abundant reaSo
10 Complain? viii an abandonment by tn
= Wing party Of its principles and its organi
i zation, add one vote III Congress from III
= State OF New York, against the extension {
;. human slavery? Can one man be electe
:. to Congress from this State, now or hereai
i ter, by any party, whose opinions are doubt
: iul oil that question? We suppose not
- If the rallying cry Of the new organizatio
is to be repeal, what, by any possibility ca
it accomplish? Before such measure ca
= be perfected, the territories will have settle
y the question themselves by coming into II
: Union as States. .....
le The Whig party is stronger to day th5
N it has been for years. The dissensions her
,acara axisti,,, bo,a ,osea1 - -. ,....