Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-10-01

them, in order to insure their fidelity, hay
been donored with praise and rewarded
with Office; yet, doubtless. many of them are
heartily tired Of their new service-a hard
service, in which they are constantly re-
CURED to praise, as wise and virtuous, the
known errors of their Democratic leaders,
and to labor for the promotion Of men and
measures such as they have always hereto
fore condemned and denounced - and would
sieze the first opportunity to return to their
old quarters, ready to march under the good
old Wing banner, as soon as it is ready (as
ere long it will be ready TO take the field.
These two classes of repentant and return
ing Wings will furnish an army of recruits,
perhaps all the more to be relied upon in fu-
ture, because deeply conscious of the grave
error they committed in abandoning for a
time the prudent and moderate party of the
Wings, in the wild hope of finding some-
thing better among the Know Nothings and
the Democrats.
These, of themselves, would make for
midable party; but besides these there are
thousands Of the best of Wings, scattered
all over the country, who have never united
themselves with any other party. They
have remained, for the most part, silent and
grieved spectators of the fiecre sectional con-
fict which has torn the country for the last
few years, because the whole field of public
action was occupied by the extreme parti-
zans, aggravating the violence of sectional
hatred and stimulatingthe ambition of fac
tious leaders, so that there was no place nor
Opportunity}srt consistently with their
principles dtassttled policy, to sspaer true
service to theFcountry. But the time is IT
hand when they msys sssnder efSrientsssr-
vice, by the re-Orstnizasion of the Wing
party. That party may not be able for a
good while to govern the country, hdt, from
the moment of its re-institution, twill be
able 10 hold in check, and prevent, ihe'ssed
degree, the government of the Demo-
Gratis or Republicans, which ever of those
dangerous parties may be in the seats of
power.
NfThe Mayor of paper city, somewhere
up in Minnesota, holds forth in the follow
ing strain in his inaugural:
The growth Of our city is astounding to
all human calculations. 1t 'staggers belief
and the thoughts mount up to glory and vo-
ciferate hallelujahs at the shrineifc panOra-
ma of the butterfly brilliancy of the future
hereafter Of the time to come by and bye in
a few years from hence. We must make
ample provisions for the time or BUST
Thus far, Mr.. Editor, have written be-
fore l saw your paper of the 18th of Sep
tember, which contains a call for Whig
meeting, and your commentaries upon that
call. think you are rather hard upon the
Lafayette County Wing, who signs the call,
in denying his right TO make it, because
YOU think he is, or has been, Know Moth
ing. Probably he has seen the error of his
way, and is anxious to get back into the good
company of the Wings; and if that be so, it
is surely not very charitable 20 deny him
the right to repent and to atone, and reform
as far as he can, for his past transgression,
For my part, though certainly neither a
Know Nothing nor Democrat, would re-
ceiye with kindness and good will. every
repentant Wing who, having been betrayed
into the one or the other of those parties,
comes back, sorrowing for the past, and
promising good service and good faith for
the future. But if the Lafayette man be
be really disqualified for initiation the good
work, by his Know Nothingism, past or
present, there need be no difficulty on that
score, for there are many Wings in Missou-
ri untainted with either Know Nothingism
or Democracy, willing to adopt the sugges-
tion and endorse the call. cannot find il
in my heart to denounce as deserters as you
do the Lafayette county man, } all the Wings
who went over 10 the Americans and the
Democrats. Many of them, no doubt, think
they had pretty good reasons for the evola-
ton; and some,I know,when they joined the
Democrats, did it under protest, and prem
ised to come back as soon as times are cas-
ier with the Wings.
| cannot concur with you in the idea that
the signer of the call had in his mind any no.
tion of joke; he had,he is very serious
joker. He proposes to start an important
enterprise, for which thousands are anx-
iously waiting, and which, as soon as it be-
gins 10 succeed, must exert powerful in
fuence upon the opinions of men, and upon
the government of the State and the nation.
Be assured, sir, that whatever motive nav
have promoted the call, there is no joke in
the fact Of the revival of The Wing party; and