Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1856-10-23

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spell bound with one Of TIE most searching
and thorough exposures Of Democratic mis-
rule and. wrong which il has been our good
Fortune to hear. He laid the accursed agi-
tston OF the Slavery question to the door Of
the Democratic party, (where it rightfully
belongs.) He began with the "test" em-
bodied in the Van Buren, "plailorm" of '36
Tthe first platform" ever known,) and the
pledge which the Democracy forced out Of
Van Buren, that he would veto any bib. il
passed by Congress, prohibiting the Slave
trade in the District OF Columbia, and the
Slave trade. There (suid the
speaker) began the Slavery agitation; and
in every Presidential campaign the Demo
cratic party has laid the foundation for its
continuance witnessed in its steady re-
sis,ance to the repeal of the "Twenty- first
Rule" prohibiting the right of petiiion--in
lis unjust and ubiquitous procedure Of the
annexation Of Texas--in its enmity Ga large
section of the party at leust) TO the Com
promises of lS50--and lastly, in the repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise, which the
very prince and leader Of the Repealers
told us was "canonized in the hearts Of the
American people," That, while the Demo-
cratic party had always, on the eve Of n
Presidential election managed 10 spring o
new agitation of the Slavery question, in
some shape or other, on the country, it had
always been lull Of injury, not only 10 the
North, but TO The South, whose especial and
peculiar friends this party, now supporting
Buchanan, had ever prolessed themselves,
since the time they presented 10 the people
a "Northern man with Southern principles"
since the election of 1874, when they beat
that glorious old statesman and patriot, Clay,
by a league with the Abolitionists-down
TO the present time, when they ask the
country 10 support man who endorses the
shameful and imbecile administration OF
Pierce, which, under the lead OF Douglas,
Davis, Gushing & Co., has brought upon us
all the troubles III der which we now labor.
The speaker concluded splendid historical
and logical argument against the Democracy
and the Fremonters, with glowing eulogy
upon Willard Fillmore, the "Mode Presi
dent"
Major ROLLINS, OF Boone, then address
ed the crowd. He was reJoiced and glad
dened TO witness this reunion of the Amer
leans and Old Wing parties under one COM
mon leader, Fila ore, and battling for one
common object, the Unoin. Buchanan rep
resented the sectonalism Of the South, and
Fremont the sectonalism Of the North; but
Fillmore represented the Union and its
united interests. Fillmore had been tried
as pilot, and had conducted the ship Of
State safely through one tempest, and he
believed he would be called on by the peo-
pie to conduct it through another. He be-
} ieved Missouri would vote for Fillmore and
: Donelson, for the whole body Of Old Wings
who voted for Polk for Governor. would, il
: November, vote for the American ticket
Buchanan was rusty, ugly old bachelor
: who, through seventy long winters, had r.
: manned insensibe 10 the softening influence.
Of the fair sex. He hau never seen a Buc
hanan woman--a proof that the Buchanan
party were wrong. Tor the ladies are always
right. He did not despair of the Union
! though it may he in danger at the presen
: time. The people would preserve it, n
, matter who might be elected President. Ii
conclusion, Major Rollins appealed to tn
Benton Democrats 10 support the American
ticket, since they could not, with the re
. spect due 10 themselves, support the part,
= which had turned them out OF the COnyen
a ton at Cincinnati.
n 10. GILLESPIE was next called on. III
h said that it was the too general belief tina
a all the people in Illinois were Abolitionists
n If the Fillmore party there were Abolition
s ISIS, then the speakers al this meeting ar
$ Abolitionists too. They have expressed m
views and uttered my sentiments, and, sal
s the speaker, they have, by what they hav
d said, taken the wind out Of my sails, an
d left me nothing to say. He had just re
v turned from Springfield and Jacksonville
II where he saw, at the first place, fiftee
It thousand, and in the latter, twenty Thousand
e enthusiastic Fillmore men in council. Doc
t; this look as though Americanism was deat
q The Fillmore men of Illinois believed in lie
e ting slavery rest just where the CunstitV
Is lion, the laws and the compromises place
it. He was personally an anti-slavery ma
a but he could not, and would not interle
i. with the rights of the South. He could n
n support Buchanan or Fremont, because BIO
Of are sectional. He appealed 10 the Fremon
4. ers in St. Lo lis TO support Fillmore, b
"a cause they could not en.ertsin hope of FIR
- mont's election. Nothing but mirac
N could elect him, and he doubted if even
miracle would do it. He defended the
i inerican party from the charge that it all
err to Cypress foreigners. 1t does not seek
g. do them injustice, nor TO deprive them
one single right they now enjoy. He h
;s no ill-wlll for foreigners. If he were t.
" and half years older, he would be an Iri:
Is: man himself. Mr.. Gillespie's remarks we
,rr very ocular, and elected frequent laugh
IA. and applause.
a.. After Mr.. Gillespie had concluded
II: speech, Col. Thompson, in brief and n
O.; little speech, presented the Fillmore a
n Donelson Club Of St. Louis, on behalf Of
n. Fillmore party of Terre Haute, the eleg
RS. specimen of ship, the "Constitutiol
n which we have noticed, and conjured
le donees, in the most impressive manner, NJ
IN err to forget the motto Of the noble hero "
I'd gave up his life 10 the cause of the Rept
Inn lie on her ensanguined decks,-urrier a
+, and all Circumstances, ".Neper giue up
o., Shin"