Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-03-19

how we have been deceived, duped, and
swindled, If this be true. We will al least
be allowed 10 speak for ourselves, and we
unhesitstingly say that oil our efforts in be.
half Of Kansas were made solely upon the
ground that slavery or anti-slavery was the
issue. Upon that ground men who could
not reconcile it with their consciences to go
10 Kansas, or who for any cause, declined
to participate in the all absorbing question of
the day, OF who refused to contribute mon
ey to the cause, were denounced as Free
sellers and spotted for sup
posed unsoundness on the goose, And
now, after the people Of this county have
expended from one TO two hundred thousand
| dollars in the cause. the very men among
whom this money was disbursed, coolly tell
us that '"no question Of whether Kansas
should be free State or slave State, has
been before the people!" To what end,
we ask, was the peoples money, SO freely
given, expended, if not 10 make Kansas o
Slave State2 The committee may deceive
others, but they can no longer deceive the
people of Missouri. Experience has been
their teacher, and they have paid--paid
largely their knowledge. So far as
we are concerned, we have nothing to re-
tract for the past. What we said and did,
we would say and do again under like cir
ctlmstances. We labored honestly and
zealously to make Kansas Slave State,
and we acted upon the information then be-
fore us. We could do no less. But the
mask is torn off and all is lost-worse than
lost, for honest and sincere men in our mids!
have worked 10 establish in power set Of
men who now repudiate the designation Of
"pro- slavery" 10 call themselves "Demo-
crats"-who repudiate the very issue upon
which they received our support, and de-
clare that the question OF slavery has never
been and is not now, an issue in Kansas
} Territory--and who wind up the lorg and
+ bitter contest by ignoring their name Of
"Pro-slavery and Law and Order party
and assume that of the "Nalional Democra.
. cy of Kansas" Speaking Of this change Of
position, the address says:
. "In doing so, as party, zoe forget staue.
ry and anti-slarery, in the high purpose o.
serving our country; and whether we have
heretofore been Wing or Democrat, pro-
; SLAVERY or anti slarery, We now unite TO-
: gether under the Democratic banner to ait
t our friends all over the Union and the right.
= of the people of the States and the Terrific
, ry."
f This paragraph needs no comment. 1
Q explains itself, and is nothing short Of oil
lowable Freesolism.
| The address is signed by the following
S gentlemen, amajority of whom will be read
lily recognized as Kansas leaders: JOIN
n Calhoun, Geo. w. Clark, John w. Free
e man, J. Kuykendall, J. H. Stringfellow, A
B. Hazard, John R. Boyd, L. Ransom, L
: A. Maclean, H. b. Harris, A. Coffey, Johl
r Donaldson, B. G. Newsome, J. G. Here
}, ford, d. R. Atchson, Jeff. Buford, w. H
: Tebbs. s. G, Jones, Hugh M. Moore, G
e w. Purkins, A. G. Isaacs, and G. c. An
: derson.
r Next week we shall publish the address
t entire, and thus enable our readers to judg
for themselves. In our judgement it
either libel on history so far as the issu
: of slavery is concerned, or the people @
S Missouri have been wretchedly duped an
Il swndlcd. Nothing could be better under
stood than that the great issue was slavery
and except for that question, not dolla
could have been raised in Lafayette Count
for Kansas settlement and Kansas wars