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

nothing of the constitutional guarantees,
Federal and State.
The colonization scheme of Massachusetts |
as we have said, excited alarm in Missouri. |
Its obvious design was TO operate further
than the mere prevention Of the natural ex.
pansion Of slavery. 1t 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-
stitutional 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. IfI
~kansas could thus be aboltionized, 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,
If no 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 q 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 no more, and the whole
purpose Of the anti-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 a scheme totally at variance
with the genius Of our government both
State and Federal and with the social insti-
buttons tich these governments were de-
signed TO protect, and its success would
have been as fatal TO those who contrived it
as it could have been TO those intended to be
its victims.
The circumstance of novelty is entitled 10
its weight in politics as well as law. The
abolition irruption upon Kansas is without
precedent in our history. Seventy nine
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 tc
thirty-two; yet it never before entered into
the head OF any statesman, North or South
10 devise a plan Of acquiring exclusive &c.
cupation of Territory by State colonization
\ To Mas sachusetts belongs the honor of its
Invention, and we trust she will survive its
defeat. But she is not the 'Massachusett:
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 yet il
y she where she stood in more recent times
when her Websters, and Choates, and Win
throps. led the van of her statesmen. Hel
legislative halls are filled with ruthless ia
natics, dead tothe past and reckless 10 thu
future; her statute'book are polluted witt
enactments purporting to annul the laws o
Congress-, passed in pursuance and by rea
son of the special requirements ofthe Con
stitution; and her senatorial chairs at Wash
ington are filled by Il rhetorcan and bigot
one of whom studies TO disguise in the drap
cry of classic elocuton, the most hideou
and reasonable forms Of fanaticism, willis
fhisscolleague is pleased 10 harrangue city
rabble with open and unadulterated disun
ionistn, associated with the oracles of aboli
tonism and infdelIty-a melancholy specta
Gle 10 the descendants Of the compatriots O
Benjamin Franklin.
No Southern or slaveholding State has ev
er attempted to colonize Territory. Gu
public lands have been left to the occupan
cy Of such settlers as soil and climate invi
ted. The South has sent no armies to fore
slave iabor upon those who preferred FREE
labor. Kentucky sprung from Virginia, a
did Tennessee from North Carolina IS
Kansas will from Missouri-irom CT them
ty of territory and similarity of they :
Emigration has followed the para -,
latitude, and will continue 10 do so, ~
diverted Is, with an empty wal which h
Capitalized prussc acid, and still clasped
her hand. Rather than marry a man $
could not love, in obedience to parental a
thority, she had adopted the DIES per ate alt,
native Of self7destructon. -