Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-10-01
From the Missouri Republican.

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From the Missouri Republican.
The Election of Gov. stewart-Its causes
and Public Consequences Pro-
Slavery and Anti Slavery Parties in
Missouri--Neeessity of a Third Party
to Restore Peace Re Organization of
the Whig Party.
Well, Mr.. Stewart is elected Governor,
and the Democracy of Missouri has gained
victory which differs very little from a
defeat, and foreshows an actual defeat in
the near future.
Considering what little power the Gov
ernor Of Missouri can lawfully exercise, it
is not very important who is Governor, as
far as concerns the regular duties of the
office. But in view of the questions in
volved, and the present array of parties,
the late contest betweei, Stewart and Roll
Inns is full of interest and will be long re-
membered as an epeeh in the party contests
in Missouri.
dkwould be great mistake to suppose
the present array Of parties in Missouri is
the result of any new idea peculiar to our
State, or Of any new application of an old
principle to our internal politics. There
is nothing new about it. II is the natural
result of the Presidential contest of last
year. In that election there were, in fact
but two great parties contending for the
prize, and they confined their contest TO a
single question Slavery. The Republi-
cans were simply anti-Slavery men, and
the Democrats, sinking for the time all 9TH
er attributes, were merely Pro Slavery
men.
Both of those parties were obstinately
bent upon risking every thing upon the
slavery question, and were deaf and blind
to every effort made by the few remaining
conservative politicians to convince them
that there were some other things more i'm
portant to the true interests of the nation
than angry wrangling about tine negro ques-
tion. They would have it as 1t is, forget
ting, in their fierce anger and wild ambi-
tion, that "they who sow the wind must
reap the whirlwind.
So angry were those two parties with
each other that they were trans sported be-
yond all bounds of reason and goo1 sense,
= and to the very verge of treason. The
Pro-Slavery Democrats declared every
where, and especially here in Missouri, that
if Fremont should be elected, the Union
would be dissoved-that is, that they, the
Wo-slavery men, would not submit to the
constitutional choice of their ant-slavery
adversary, but, in case Of his election,
would by force dissolve the Union, and thus
destroy our nationality. And we do all
know that hundreds of Wings and Ameri-
cans, frightened by that wicked threat,
went over in fear, not love, TO the support
of Buchanan. And when success had
crowned their daring policy, those pro-
slavery Democrats loudly boasted that they
had saved the nation--that is, that they
had secured the election of Buchanan, and
would support the Union as long as the
Government was left in the hands of pro-
slavery men.
That was The open and undisguised poll.
cy of the pro-slavery Democrats in the
Presidential election. And, now, when
some Of the a, ti-slavery Democrats, car
ried away by extreme opinions on the other
. side, threaten to nullily on smaller scale,
by resisting with force, the election Of Gov.
Stewart, the pro-slavery men have their
eyes opened, and can see plainly enough
how enormous is the crime Of their adver-
saries, in following their bad example; and
they denounce it as freely as if they them
selves were innocent, while all the world
can see that they are in the same category
of guilt.
The leaders of the pro-slavery party hav-
ing triumphed last year, in the election of
both tile Governor and the President, found
the negro question too profitable to be will
ingly abandoned, and therefore they re-
solved TO push it in pursuit of further VIC
tories, even at the risk of killing the goose
that laid them golden eggs. They forgot
that it Is possible to break down even a
good hobby; by riding it too fast and too
long. In order TO give new phase to the
question, and sharper edge to the contro-
versy here at home, they got up the idea
that there was, in course of preparation, an
emancipation movement in Blair's district;