Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1855-11-01


than the mere prevention Of the natural ex.
pansion Of slavery. II was intended to
narrow its existing limits-to destroy all
equilibrium Of power between the North
and South, and leave the Shareholder at the
will of majority, ready to disregard con-
stitutionsl obligations, and carry out their
bitter end the mandates of ignorance, pre-
jucice and bigotry. Its success manifestly
involved a radical change in our Federal
Government, or its total overthrow. If
kansas could thus be abolitionized, every
additional part of the present public domain
hereafter opened to settlement, and every
future accession Of territory. would be the
subject of similar experiments, and an ex-
ploded Wilmot Proviso thus virtually en-
forced throughout an extended domain still
claimed as national, and still bearing on its
military ensigns the stars and stripes of the
Union. 1.-THE plan was constitutional and
legal, it must be conceded that il was skill
fully contrived and admiralty adapted TO its
ends. 1t was also emminently practicable,
fno resistance was encountered, since the
States adopting, it contained a surplus pop
ulation which could be bought up and ship
ped, while the South which had an inter-
est in resisting, had no such people among
her white population. The Kansas-Ne-
braska law, too, which was so extremely
hateful to the fanatics, and has constituted
the principal theme of their recent denun-
Citations, would be dead letter, both as it
regards the Territories for which it was
particularly framed, and as precedent TO
Congress for the opening of other districts
TO settlement. The old Missouri restric-
tion could have done 10 more, and the whole
purpose of the Onti-slaveyy agtators, both
in and out Of Congress, was quietly accom-
plished. But the scheme failed as it de-
served TO fail; and as the peace, prosperity
and union Of our country required it should
fail. 1t was scheme totally at variance
with the genius of our government, both
State and Federal, and with the social inst-
tutions which these governments were de-
signed TO protect, and its success would
have been as fatal 10 those who contrived il
as it could have been 10 those intended TO be
its victims.
The circumstance of novelty is entitled &c
its weight in politics rs well as law. The
abolition Eruption upon Kansas is without
precedent in our history. Seventy-nne
years Of our national life have rolled by
Territory after Territory has been annexed
or settled, and added to the galaxy of States
until from thirteen we have increased t
thirty-two; yet it never before entered int
the head OF any statesman, North or South
10 devise plan of acquiring exclusive oc
cupation of Territory bv State colonization
To Mas sacbusetts belonps the honor Of il,
Invention. and we trust She will survive IL
defeat But she is not the Massachusetts
we must do Justice to her past history t,
say that she was in the times of her Adams
her Hancocks, and her Warrens; nor vet i
, she where she stood in more recent times
when her Websters, and Choates, and Win
throps, led the van Of her statesmen. He
Iepisldtiye halls IRE filed with RUTHLESS ia
Mates. dead tothe past and reckless TO th,
future: her statutesbooks are polluted will
senactments purporting TO annul the laws o
Congress-, passed in pursuance and by rea
son of the special requirements Of the Con
stitution; and her senatorial chairs at Wash
ington are filled by rhetorican and bigot
one of whom studies 10 disguise in the drap
cry Of classic elocution, the most hideou
and reasonable forms Of ianaticism, willis
fhisncolleague is pleased TO harrangue q cit
rabble with open and unadulterated dsur,
Sonistn, associated with the oracles of aboh
tionism and infdellty-a melancholy specta
Gle TO the descendants Of the compatriots O
Benjamin Franklin.
No Southern or slaveholdinp State has ev
er attemnted TO colonize TERRITORY. On
nubl;c lands have been left 10 the occunon
CIV of such settlers as soil and climate inyi
ted. The South has sent no ormics TO fore
slave ,abor unon those who preferred fire.
labor Kentucky snruno from VIRGINIA =
did Tennessee from Nertb Carol;na an
Kansas vii, from Nisso,ri-f,nn, con,;o,r;
~ Of territory and simijaritv Of cjim2o,e f.,
Emigration has followed the no,o,laIs y
Iatitude, and will continue 70 do 60 un,os
diverted bv such ORGANIZATIONS rs Emigron
Ala Societies and Kansas 7 ,oooros
T, Los hoon sa;5 u,a, n,o a;,;aans oe,,..
o'bn.a,, Lnns o", ,m" 5 'e o''1ei, h, VI Nus
naC'use'Ls haNe al "huoupteu right 10 en-