Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-08-21
ST.. LOUIS, Aug. 10th, 1856.
To THOMAS l.. PRIcE, ESQ.

10 HUN ts hiCE, lJsQ.
Dear Sir:-I was disappointed in the re-
suit of your election, as the signs in the dis
trict as / went through it, encouraged me in
the belief that you would succeed. / was
also disappointed in my own, but do not re-
gret havingnnade the canvass; nor do | coll
slider as lost, the labor in travelling and
speaking which it cost me. The exercise,
though severe, has been good for me, and
even necessary after my long studous and
sedentary course of life. / feel greatly in
vigorated by it, The intercourse with the
people has been most gratifying. They
came to see me in masses, and with cordial
ty, along the whole line Of travel, and no
where more numerously or cordially than
in the border counties, where some people
had supposed / was to have had an unwel-
come reception. My only regret was that
1 could not have remained longer at each
place. Personally, the canvass has been
most agreeable to me, and politically, think
it has been good for The State in hel ping TO
revive the sentiment of nationality, and con-
tributing to alay the feeling of sectional an
tagonism now too strong for the safety Of
the Union, and which every patriotic con-
sideratIon requires to be Gained.
There is design here, on the part Of
some, TO put up an electoral ticket for Free
mont, about which no one speaks to me, as
| have character enough to keep at dis
tance all that class of persons who, dishon-
orable themselves, coula approach man
with dishonorable proposition. But my
sentiments are known, and that l should
consider such a step as injurious under ev-
cry spect-mortifying to Fremont himself
from the small vote which the ticket would
receive-and injurious TO the public, by
aggravating the sectional feeling which now
arrays zach half of the Union against the
other. Twas opposing the bringing out Of
Fremont, for nearly half year before those
who charge me with promoting it knew Of
any such design. There are cases in which
public duty rises above personal considera-
F ton, though there are great many people
who cannot conceive it possible. Thus
when supported Jackson, (with whom
, had been on i'll terms, thirty years ago, the
sordid motive of office was assigned for il
now, when support Buchanan, with whom
, am on i'll terms, and support him against
+ member of my own family, the same class
of persons can see nothing in it but false.
T hood and treachery. Incapable themselves
of anything disinterested and patriotic, they
, believe others to be equally so, and attack
with base motives, all the actions which are
above the comprehension Of their politica
morality.
The full result of the Governors election
! is not yet known here, but enough is known
, to determine the condition on which oul
, electoral ticket is to be withdrawn. Tn,
i other side would not agree TO OUR propcsi
: ton; but this refusal to do what was right
. makes no difference to us, and we shall hav'
the qualification CATER having forced Buc
i hanan upon them at Cincinnati to max
. them carry him over the pretending
> to be for him, while regretting that the.
. had not been able TO kill him in the conven
ton.
4 proceed to Washington Immediately t
J. gather up material for my "Abridsement o
y The Debates Of Congress-" and return il
e October, that being work which l can car
/, ry on here.
= Very truly and sincerely yours,
THOMAS II. BENTON.