Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-07-17
The Speaking on Monday.

Monday. II is now just about ten years
since we first saw and heard Mr.. Green
He was then opposing Hon. Jno. G. Miller,
and was a fine looking, out.,poken, bold
defender Of democracy. He asked no quar-
ter, but dealt the wings severe blows, and
many Of them, and his talented opponent was
compelled 10 bring into requisilion his well
known cratory and able reasoning, TO COM
bat Mr.. Green's vigorous attacks on The
wings. He succeeded, however, and de-
feated Mr. Green, not only once, but t,oice.
Mr.. Green had friends OF Court, and to heal
his wotinds and depleted purse, he was sent
abroad. The first thing that struck us on
Monday, was his altered appearance. The
once pleasant, open, disingenious coun,e-
nance, was gone, and in its stead were the
cadaverous features Of the roue; the merry
twinkle Of the eye has given place 10 the
leaden h,ie and ustreless appearance Of the
optics Of dead mackrel viewed by moon
light. These alterations Of appearance may
be the result Of over-work in the present
warm weather, or may have been produced
by long advocacy Of bad cause, long asso-
citation with the ''conspirators" after Col.
Benton's political death and his old place in
the Senate, or the too free use Of bad whis-
ky, or all combined with the attitude he now
occupies in the canvass, of abasing himself
before The Wings and Benton democrats he
SO Justify abused in times past, and that he
so cordially hates yet, but smothers that
hate, and sycophantionlly supplicates them
for their votes. .,...g . a.-.. -s4e
Mr.. Green spoke over three hours. The
first two hours he occupied the stand, all
parties gave him respectful heuring-but
his apparently inexhaustabe supply of stale
anecdotes, and the absence of anything stir
ring, or new, wa. too much FOR longer sit
ting and many retired TO an adjoining shade,
where DR.. Mcdowell proposed to speak, as
soon as Mr.. Green concluded. Another
half hour and half who had not left at the
end Of two hours, also took their departure,
leaving the faithful alone to cheer Mr.
Green, in the desperate effort of speaking
out the day, which he very nearly succeeded
in doing, and then betook himself off in hot
haste, well knowing that Cr. Mcdowell
would skin him aliv,, which he did.
Mr.. Green's fulsome praise of ''constitu-
tional wings" had very happy effect, and
all the votes he will get from such, might
be put in ones eye, and not hurt the sight;
therefore we dismiss that portion of his
speech with the remark, that old line wings
in this latitude will vote for Mr.. Green TO
STAY at home, or 20 to Utah, where DR.. Nc
Dowell proposes to send him, to help Brig
ham Young maintain Squatter Sovereignty in
that happy land Of polygamy, free trade and
sailors rights. .s....
The American party he abused without
stint, lauding al the same time foreigner.
and Catholics. He read from the ritual
with running commentary, which amused
Americans, but hurt the faces Of renegadss,
desperately, and convinced more than one
that renegade was less 10 be trusted, than
one who sto,d up honestly and boldly 10 his
faith and obligations. He said Washington
was not fool enough to endorse American
doctrines, and read from his farewell ad-
dress, wherein he conjures lis countrymen
TO beware of the insidious wilss of foreign
influence; this, he said, had reference % for
eign governments and foreign courts. and
was designed to warn the country against
the plots Of the Frenchman, Janet. Wash.
ington, during the revolutionary war, was
fool enough to issue orders to his officers
TO "put none but Americans on guard" and
to make it standing order" during the
war; Washington was fool enough, in his
letter to Gov. Morris to say, II most devout.
" wish that we had not foreigner among
us. except the Marquis de Lafayette, who
acts upon very different principles from
those which govern the rest" And he was
fool enough to counsel his countrymen, on
all occasions. 10 self reliance, because a
country must look to It's natives for cotin sci
in peace and protection in war-and Mr..
Green made great fool Of himself, when he
undertook to quote Washington against the
country and government his valor and wis
DOM under God, built up, which stands,
and is destined TO stand, at the head Of earth
ly and human governments, despite dema4
gogusry; despite open foes without and Sc
cret enemies within; despite the combined
attacks Of crowned and inferred heads, and
their je,uitical plots to undermine it. '
Mr.. Green took the ground that the States
had the right TO admit aliens TO vote, before
they were citizens of the United States, and
hence that an extension Of the period of nat
,rslization BY Congress, would have no eli.