Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-10-18
Democratic Rally at Fayotte.
FAYrrrE. October Is, 1855

had evidently been drumming up of the
old leaders, but of the rank and file only
few were on hand and the result has salts
fled me that the democratic party of Old
Howard is as dead as Chelsea. The meet
ing was originally called for the first Mon
day in this month, but was adjourned by the
half dozen then present, for the accommo-
dation Of hundreds, who wished 10 attend
the State Fair. Well, they hav'nt got back
from the Fair yet! The meeting to-day
was organised by electing OWES RAwLIYs,
President; Robt. G. Hancock, Secretary; and
Gen. John B. Clark and S. l.. Graves were
the orators of the day all renegade Know
Nothings. Where were the old democrats
who have stood unwaveringy by the colors?
There were but few of them present at the
meeting, and truly the whole affair looked
like an attempt Of turn-coat democrats to
resurrect party which their own deser-
ton had helped to kill. Clark's speech, TOO,
was in perfect keeping with everything
else-a melancholy, lachrymose, incohereht,
penitentiI nummux. The horrible oaths
which he had taken in the council, we pre-
sumo, still trammcled him, for never did
poor devil work in shorter gear. lie COM
mcnced with the Alien and Scdition Laws,
as the first attempt in the United States TO
suppress freedom of speech, and by one of
those Kangaroo leaps in logic, for which he
is remarkable, bounced upon the Know
Nothing anti Catholic plank in the platform
as a cousin german or off shoot of the alien
and sedltion law. The foreign population,
too, shared largely inhis sympathics. Gen.
Shields wound in Mexico, was re-opened
and the listeners implored to gaze upon the
rudy current issuing thereirom. Lafay-
cite, Kosciusko, Sc, &C., were properly
eulogized by the speaker, and stranger
would have taken the General for foreign
or defending his countrymen, so deeply did
he seem 10 feel the wrongs which the Know
Nothings have net, but intend some of these
days, 10 inilict upon them. He wondered
how an honest man could continue Know
Nothing. Itc wonder how an honest man
could Join them and continue with them six
months, swearing 10 support their principles
time and again, and then withdraw and de-
nounce the order and the principles upon
which it is based. Perhaps he can tell how
that is, and when he explains that, some
honest Know Nothing shall answer his
query. But we have neither time nor in
cIination 10 follow the General in his ram
bling speech. Il was ''most lame and i'm
potent" The feelings excited by il in my
bosom were those of pity. Nay, what I'M
der other circumstances would have anger
ed, only served to mortily, me. We have a
a right TO hold him up, for his desertion, but
for my part have 10 disposition to speak
ill-naturedly Of one in so pitiable position.
| do most sincerely wish that for his own
sake, not for any advantage he was or could
have been TO the party, he had continued n
member.
When the General concluded Seaton L..
Graves was called to the stand, confessed
his sins TO the democracy, and asked their
forgiveness for having joined the Know
Nothings in Jefferson City-lelt that he had
been recreant to the party which elected
him, but averred that lie had been over
reached that somebody told him ilhe would
join the Know Nothings, and help the North
to crush out foreign and Roman Catholic i'll
llndnce, they, the people Of the north, would
help us to hold AbolitioniSm in check -
These were big promises, to-be-sure.--
Who nude them 10 Seaton? and why 10 Sea-
ton? He must have been some greenhorr
who supposed Seaton 10 be the Atlas upon
, whose shoulders the pro-Slayery world
, rested. How we apples SWIM! However
am too fast. BerorsSGraves was calist
up committee was appointed to draft reso
buttons. We counted five on the committee
who were short time since Know Moth,
iugs. "Now in the name Of all the God:
at once" what has become Of the old line
democracy of Howard? In what dark cor
ner concealed? Are they in Clark anC
Lowry's pockets, or following their exam
pie have they joined the horrible, never-to
Observation-Disclosures, abominable pro
scriptive Know Nothings? All me, it al
most makes me sweat blood to think tina
the immaculate democracy have fallen int
the pitfalls rnd shares dug and set by TIL
/ dark l-a-n-t.c-r-n party.
After Graves concluded his experience
the committee, through DR., Lowry, report
q ed preamble and resolutions, which W,
n suppose will be published in the next Ban
/ ner. They were adopted with great una
= nimity, and the meeting adjourned.
1t was then announced that the American