Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-07-30
Rollins and Stewart in Jackson County
at Lone Jack and Independence.

at LOu6 JdCh duu
Great Days for the Opposition Glorious
Days for Rollins.
Correspondence of the st. Louis Intelli gencer.
INDErENDENcE, Mo, July Is, 1857
Stewart opened the discussion at indie
pendence in a lengthy speech made up of
stale, stereotyped ISLANDERS of Maj. Rollins
and his supporters-a speech Of which his
friends We're ashamed-iu.t such speech
as none but his bitterest enemies could have
desired him TO make. | heard three Anti
Benton Democrats. one Of them a man Of
prominence in his party. declare that Stew
art made a disgraceiul speech, and one OF
them avowed his determination TO support
Rollins.
Rollins followed in ore OF those ligniied
eloquent, whitening speeches which no man
in Missouri but he can make. II was
most admirable effort, interrupted through
out with rounds Of applause, which shook
our magnificent court house from foundation
to raiters. Every one who heard it was
delighted with the man, the orator and his
eifort-except Stewart, Peabody, and the
"Wandering Jew" BY the way, was ever
mortal man beset, in Slave State, by live
Yankees as Rollins has been?
Stewart throughout the canvass has been
accompanied by two or three abandoned
prohlgues who earn their livelihood by de-
| lamatlon; Free Solers and AOulitiOn,sts
where they were born, and in the regular
pay of the Anti, Benton party to bard at the
/ heels Of a a-maIi born and reared in slave
State and in every conceivable way person.
ally interested to maintain Southern rights,
and defend Southern institutions.
! Rollins, however, an overmatch for a
regiment OF such men as Bob Stewart and
his Munchauser reporters, and the Boston
owners OF the Hannibal & ST. Joseph Rail-
road to-boot.
Yesterday they met at Lone Jack, and a
large crowd was out TO hear them. Stew
art, as is usual with men who feel whipped,
became personal. In the course OF his very
small talk, he pronounced Rollins Know.
Nothing and Black Republican. At in
slant, Rollins who was in the crowd, abont
twenty feet from The speaker, at the top oil
his trumpet voice remarked, with thrilling
and to Stewart trighyuI emphasis, that II
Col. Stewart or any other man called him q
Black Republican, he was an infamous liar
and in moment, at one bound, placed him
sell by the side OF the apparently belger'
ent Yankee, whose feathers fell, as he ex
plained that he only meant that Rollins
was on the Black Republican platform.
Alter he concluded Rollins took the stand
, and took the very shirt off of the Antl-Ben
ton candidate for gubernatorial honors; q
gain repeating that if Stewart said he was
Black Republican he was an Infamous LA
and scoundrel. Stewart remarked first
"there, YOU had better be CAREFUL" Th
Major replied in that cool, sell li.possesse,
manner which distinguishes him, AMI in
timida,es such Lraggars as his competitor
: Il am responsible for what say, and hol
myself ready to give satisfaction to any VIII
may feel aggrievad at what | do say
Thus ended an affair which all suppose
2 would end in blood except those who kne,
! Robert NJ. Stewart.
D Rollins demoishes him on the stump, an
when, which is always, Stewart attempts
: play the bully, brings him to the right abou
The prospects for Rollins here are brigh
His friends are in good spirits, and his mag
t nifcent speeches have smitien his foes
: Rollins is a host! What "A contrast betwee
;, him and Stewart! Rollins is gifted ori
j tor and a statesman. Stewart is mer
pothouse politician, with no political intol
5 nation except such as is reiailei lceskiy al
= fpe dollars a-year by such scamps as Hun
C ingtcn and Peabody; und,this is The impre'
: sion they take wherever they go.
5 Let shout 60 up from the camp of Il
opposition Anti, Bentonisn is in its ag
ny; and the sun OF the Tuesday after Il
first Monday IN August, will shine upc
is nothing of that one epoweriul party but
10 tattered and trampled eolors. ~S'