Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-09-20
From Washington.

Correspondence of the Missouri Republican.
WAsHIYGToN, September g. 1865.
The administration doun on he Missouri
dns--FuSioa uM the .1bolit,oniSfs-Ba
Card for the Second 7trm-The Presi-
de,t's Reiurn-C Col. Forney opposed 10 he
Maine Liquor La,r.
The Democracy of Missouri will 10 doubt
be astonished to hear that the Federal Ad-
ministrntlon has formally declared war up
on them and their border" allies. Yet such
is the fact as developed in the columns of
the Washington Union OF yesterday morn
ing. After noticing the appearance Of the
first number Of the Kansas Register, ard
its leading editorial, by way Of an introduce
tion to the attack, the Union says:
There Is great sound sense in these sug-
gestions, and they may be proftably con-
trastcd with the extraordinary course which
is now being pursued by reckless and ertrara-
giant men in the Legislature and by portion
Of the press of the Territory equally reckless
and cXtravagant.
"With 10 desire 10 interfere in the local
politics Of Kansas, we cannot refrain from
calling attention to the assaults upon Gen.
Whitfield, the delegate in the last Congress,
who, Southern man born rs lie is, identified
in all his interests and feelings with the
South, is, nevertheless, bitterly assailed as
candidate !cr reelection because he calls
himself National Democrat" and "a
friend OF the Administration of Franklin
Pierce" The Platte Argus, Missouri
paper, published at Weston, on the border
Of Kansas, ana the Kansas Lcavenworlh
Herald, oppose Gen. Whitfield almost ex-
c,usively because in his letter of last year
he announced himself National Democrat
and friend OF the present Administration.
Fortuately for the true interests of the Ter
ritory, however, and the perpetuity Of the
rights of the States, so far as the latter are
involved in this struggle The Democratic
party is neither ertinct in Kansas nor po,per-
less in he Union"
Here is an undisguised attack. not only
on Mr.. Atchison and his paper-.-the Platte
Argus--upon Missouri and Missourians,
but an attack on all who sympathse with the
''border ruifians" s"--al Southern men, Wigs
! and Democrats. Are the Democrats Of Mis-
souri, content 70 be :hus assailed through the
national organ of the party? Do they re-
cognize in the Pro-Slavery party of Kansas
''the reckless and extravagant men" to " HON
the Union aludes? Do they recognize the
right or the propriety of the organ of the
Federal Administration TO threaten with the
power of the Executive? For the Union
says: "Fortunately, (Mr. Atchison, the
Democratic party president Pierce is ne-
ther extinct in Kansas nor pouerless in the
Union" Why is this threat cast at the
Pro-Slavery party in Kansas and Missouri?
Read the proceedings of the late Soft-Shell
Abolition Convention Of New York, and
there you will find the sentiments of the
Union as comp Pletely embodied as the same
hand which penned the Unions editorial had
prepared the resolutions of the Convention.
| The Abolitionists of New York then also
abuse the border rufiians $50 did the Alb
clifton Convention of Indiana. What. is the
present Federal Administration fusing with
the Abolition party of the North? Reader,
! examine the resolutions alluded 10 above and
answer for yourself. This is strange
move on the part of President Pierce, and
is surely a false play for second term
His only chance, if there be a chance at all,
is with the South-with the Pro-Slavery
party-and it is difficult to account for the
article in the Union.
1t must be recollecsd that the President
only returned to the city on the evening pre-
vious to the appearance Of the attack on the
Mfssourians, and it is fair to presume that
such an occasion could not pass without a
social glass with the presiding genius ofthe
organ, and as Col, Forney is not Maine
Ii, uor Law man, it may be that his instru-
lnent was thrown little out Of i,ne, and the
sober second thought will cause a retraGtion
Of this singular onslaught upon the "border
ruaims."