Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-06-12


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FROM EDWARD BATES.
ST. LOUIS, May %. 1856.
GrNTLGafN, FRIENDs: have this mo-
ment received your kind letter, dated yes
terday, inviting me TO meet the Wings Of
Marion in convention, at Palmyra, on Satur-
day, the 28th Of June. 1t did my heart good
to receive that letter. The very fact Of the
meeting of a Wing Convention is a sign Of
good for our country and for ourselves, and
hail it as an omen OF the revival and rapid .
restoration to health and vigor Of the true
and faithful Wing party, the only party in
the country that is at once sound an mode
rate in its principles, prudent and conserv-
alive in its counsels, and broad and national
in all its objects.
If / am not with You on the day appoint
ed, you may be sure that am prevented by
some oyerruling necessity, not now foreseen.
If free, as l hope to be, l will surely indulge
myself in the luxury of that meeting.
i lie HullOH CdIllOt NO NllilOuL tlIC hfHIp
party. Whether it constitutes majority
or a minority, it is still the balance-wheel
of the government; and without its steady
ing influences all the other parts Of the en-
gine will jar and jolt until they are broken
into fragments.
We have unwisely allowed ourselves to
be confounded and paralyzed by the sudden
growth of the American and Republican
parties. | am fully persuaded that they are
both destined to a short career Of prosperl-
ty, and that if the Wing party will only keep
itself organized and in battle array, it will
! be the dominent party in the country before
the end of the year 1857.
, Here, we are not wholly devoid of the
reviving spirit. Some of us will soon put
forth short address with our names TO it,
: and am glad that our friends in Marion
take the lead, by being first to call meet
ing and beginning the good work.
thank you, gentlemen, for your invita-
, tion. will certainly avail myself Of it, if
not otherwise urgently engaged.
Your friend and obedient servant,
EDWARD BATES.
To Messrs. VIM. Carson, VIM. b. Phillips,
Edward McCabe, J. II. Kibby, ]. Sosey, R.
II, Lane, R. J. Bradley and P. c. Lane.
FROM GEN. ROBERT WILSON.
ANDREW Co., Mo-, May 25, 1856.
Tohe Editor cfthe Missouri Republican,:
- The 'old line" Wings of this county held
a meeting at Savannah on the 9th inst. The
r meeting was well attended and the best feel
/ ing prevailed. After an interchange of O.
: pnions the meeting passed resolutions de-
, claring their determination 10 adhere to their
t party organizations; approving the princi-
n pies recently avowed by the Wings Of Ken
lucky; recommending 4 State convention Of
such old line Wings a5 have not united with
Il other parties, to be held at Boonvile, on the
4th day Of July, and appointing delegates TO
said convention. From information derived
from all parts Of the country, our party has
as yet suffered but little from efforts being
made by otl.cr parties. hope cur Wing
friends throughout the State viii now go to
: work in earnest, and by all means get up
the convention, as recommended by our
Il friends in this county. The vast and COM
. plica,ed interests of the people Of Missouri
' y will not Justify the Wings in standing aloof
u from a contest in which the the interests OF
the people are involved, without taking their
= share Of the responsibility.
With a system of railroad improvements
- projected and commenced, which will cost
= at least sixty millions Of dollars TO complete
aud the State already bound for more than
- twenty millions of dollars in aid of these i'm
. provements, it is manifest that every good
- citizen Of the State has deep and abiding
interest in the result OF the approaching e,
5 lection, and | am in favor Of the Wings tax
II ing their proper share of the responsibility,
e Three other parties III this State have helc
e their conventions, and nominated their tick
r cts. The Wings cannot feel under obliga
u tlons 10 support either Of the tickets thus
;, presented, as they had no voice in the Sc
lection, nor is there an old line Whig 10 be
o found in nomination by either Of the parties
Let the Wings OF the State attend the con
&c venton recommended by their friends il
ID Andrew, and then determine in convention
u what shall be the future action of the par
"a ty. If as is asserted 10y our opponents, th
&c party is dead, let it be officially SO declares
by those who may happen to survive.
1t is time for the Wings to shake OF tina
u inactivity which has hung around them 70
several months; TO reorganlze the party, an,
unfurl to the breeze that glorious old ban
OF ner SO long held up by Clay, Webster, Ev
N erett, and thousands of other eminent palri
rs OTIS of the American l'uou.