Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-05-28

WaSll WIFI OteWhl! ne uau iUeen puN
forward by a caucus held at Jefferson city
last winter, by a few members of the Leg
islature, few delegates sent from small
number Of the counties Of the State, TO whom
were added all the outsiders and loafers,
oyster-eaters and brandy drinkers, swelling
the representation to about one third of the
State, and yet, they talk about Stewards
being the choice of party or of the people
Every man, who differed with the Anti
Benton Democracy, was now -a-days dub
bed by the immaculate Simon. Pures of that
party, an abolitonist, an emancipationlst or
a freesoiler, and already he had read, in the
"Cass county Gazette" he believed, the
startling announcement, that he { Mr.. R. }
was too freesoil for the people of Missouri.
This cry he knew would be re-echoed
through the length ard breadth of the State,
as his opponents relied upon evoking the
prediudice of the people, charging upon
him hostility TO the institution of slavery;
but they would find themselves sadly. Upon
this, as upon every other topic, he would
appeal to the record of his political life, and
though he felt ashamed, as union-loving
citizen, 10 allude to North or South in this
connection, he would, as they forced him
into the position, confidently challenge com
parison with the candidate Of the men, who
called him freesOiler. BY birth a Ken
tuckian, and for twenty seven years resi-
dent of this State he, (Mr. R. } was by in
terest and all the ties Of association, bound
up with the prosperity and institutions Of
Missouri. With slavery agitation he had
no sympathy, and TO all emancipation pro-
iects, one ail-suticient answer-that such
discussions would be disastrous to the well
fare of the State, and entirely subversive of
the harmony Of her citizens. Ii (emanci-
pation) would arm brother against brother
ana father against son; and besides it was
utterly impractcabe. A clause in the con-
stitution provides, that the General Assem-
bly, shall have no power to pass laws for the
emancipation Of slaves, without paying a
full equivalent to their owners; and the
slave property of Missouri being worth
some sixty millions of dollars, he would
wish 10 know where the equivalent was to
come from. To all agitation, or discussion
OF this question, he was infexibly opposed
whether it came from abolitionsts at The
North, or secession;sts and nullifers at the
South, because it would infallibly lead tc
the subversion Of this, the fairest fabric oil
human liberty, ever constructed upon earth
He might give as an additional reason for
his dissent from such projects, that he own
ed about twenty-five negroes, for whom he
would not take $4,000, and had the control
Of as many more, he did not own, and this
/ he considered substantial reason for his
opposition to emancipation schemes. Bu
when he contrasted his relation to sla
very and the' institutions of the Soul
with that of Col. STEWART, the Demo.
cratic candidate for Governor, shame
faced Democracy covered itself and ap
peared willing TO escape the wrath and con
demnation which they know will soon over
take them, when Missourians shall say, a
they will, let justice be done, and shall caus'
the SANDERS and blusphemies hurled at him
to recoil with redou bed force upon its owl
head. He respects Mr.. STEWART as mai
that he is a business man, and man o
some ability; but for a man who was borl
and raised in free State-who has live
here but thirteen years-the president of
Missouri Railroad, the owners of which re
side ina seaport town in the east-Bosto
and whose interest, affections and hopes, I
some extent, might be there too-who own
not slave in the world-to be call out for III
highest Office in the gilt ofthe people of tn
State, by rampant pro-slavery men, as ths,
pretend to be-the name OF "Demoeracy
written upon his brow and having re
eeiyed the brands, ear-marks, and blessing
of the guileless and immaculate-he come
forth rejoicing in his strength TO teach pro
slavery men Southern prineiples-andi I
teach him (R.) the true interests of III
South (?) How inconsistent, monstrou
and ridiculous, even the ideal b., .....
He (Maj. R. held the opinion, in com
mon with many of the first minds in tn
country, that Congress had the power t
4 legisate for Territories-an opinion whicI
James Buchanan, Stephen A, Douglass
and hundreds of the first men in the Demo
cratic party, had repeatedly avewed. Thi
opinion il, was permitted them to hold bu
in him it was considered rank heresy. -
That question had been finally settled b
the highest tribunal in theland, and by thO
decision he was content to abide. @
Major RoLLINs concluded his strong ap
peal, Of which the above is but the dr.