Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-02-05
Letter from VIM. Palm. ESQ.
ST.. LOUIS, January..25, 1857.
Hon. c. c. ZIEeLER, NcnaL0r in Tie General

Letter from VIM. Palm, Esq.
Sr. LOUIS, January..25, 1857.
Hon. C. c. ZIEoLER, Ncnator an The General
.Assen,Jiy ofhe Stale Of Missouri:
DEAR SIR: Please accept my sincere
thanks for the partially shown by you in
nominating me for the office of Director inthe
Bank of the State of Missouri. Although
| sought not the place, nor solicited any
members vote for it, directly or indirectly,
and although have not yet decided whether
to accept il or not, still the confidence re-
posed in me by the General Assembly, i'll
electing me, Is none the less valued by me.
thank YOU, sir, especially, for having
vindicated my political conduct when Know
Nothlngs aud Black Republicans united in
nani(e>ting suspicious anxiety that the
Democrats might not be imposed upon by
voting for me. You were right in denying
that ever sympathised with the Abolition
lists, Frecsolers, or BIact, Republicans; and
every body here in st. Louis knows that
they never sympathised with me. From Mr..
Benton down 10 the last party slave who
tolls for his master, they all regard me as
all Incorporating opponent. III the for
chile language OF one OF them, on the floor
Of the Legislature, ''they hate every bone in
my body" Ever since 1S44, when Mr..
Benton commenced opposing the Democrat
c party and its great measures of the can
vass then pending-the annexation Of Tex
as-on .RJolaion grounds, his followers here
: have never doubted my position, although l
am no politician, and but rarely participate
: in the public discussion of political issues.
am perfectly aware that my views on
question of public policy arc of very little
importance TO any body, except myself; but
a since they have been very freely, if not loos.
ly, commented on in the Legislature, by
5 members who opposed your motion, and
since design is manifested by the opposi-
l tion party, to make them the basis or occa-
sion for renewed agitation, think It is
! due TO you, as well as to myself and the par
: ty with whom have ever acted, TO secure
> those views agaist miscOnception and mis-
: representation. -..-
r have no copy of the translation of my
E letter, as published in the New York Jour
/ nal of Commerce, referred to by Mr.. Blow
D and others in that debate, but send you here
: with copy of translation, which was pub
,1, c. T - p,,,,bl;na,, IF nato
Der l9 and 20, 1856. From it you will OBJ
serve that il is wholly devoted to an appeal
10 the Germans, in behalf of the Democratic
] party and policy, and TO warn them again ST
= the false pretences and injurious tendencies
2 OF the Abolition and Black Republican par
, ties. 1t denies, in explicit language, the
- right Of The Federal Government or any
e body else, except the people of the States
and Territories, each for itself, 10 decide
upon the question of negro slavery. II also
denounces in unreserved terms, the hypo-
critical philosophy of the Abolitionists, and
declares slavery the proper condition, in this
country, for the negro, on account OF the IN
ieroritv of the race, but attended with dis
advantages and dangers to the whites, liv-
ing in the midst of it. You will look through
that letter in vain for anything to justify
the charge of sympathy with AbolitionIsm
in any Of its phases, unless my views Of do
mcsiic policy be violently misunderstood.
With regard to this State, with whose
pros perity my own interests have been, are
and will ever be identified, hold the opin-
ion that slavery, although blessing TO the
negro, is a disadvantage TO US; that we have
collectively lost more by it than we may
have individually gained by it, and that it is
therefore desirable to us to get rid of it, il
we can do so without injustice TO the slave
owner, and with the further condition that
we get rid of the negroes at the same time.
Without these conditions, am opposed TO
the abolition OF slavery in this State. live
are compelled to 1--we in the same commune
ty with negroes, | desire them 10 be slaves,
for the good of both races. These views,
il am not misiniormed, are entertained by
many distinguished men in the South, our
own State included, whose patriotism was
never doubted, and they are not inconsist-
ent with the policy of the Democratic party.
1t is true, our opponents a:e fond Of stig-
matizing us as the "pro-slavery party" but