Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1858-08-12
From the Missouri Republican, July %.
The Election - Our Senators - What
they ought TO have done and what
they left undone-The English Bill
Senator Green's Reuort Considered.

they left undone-The English Bill
Senator Green's Report Considered.
The election in the District, composed
Of the city and county Of St. Louis, has at
tractsd public attention TO degree not due
TO its intrinsic importance, and attributable
entirely TO the present unhappy state of
parties now factiously organized upon the
negro question. The pro-savery and anti
slavery parties have succeeded in their
common effort TO exclude every other con-
sideratiOn. And even that local and tran
sient question has been sifted and frittered
down, until its merits, if it have any; are
lost sight Of, and little else remains TO be
discussed in the canvass but the popularity
and influence Of President Buchanan, and
The great question, (great now TO him and
his party, for it shakes them in their seats
Of power,) whether he shall be supported
or opposed in gratuitous attempt TO force
upon the people Of Kansas the LecomptOn
Constitution.
Such is the Fictitious importance Of our
pending election, that even our Senators
could not resist the temptation TO descend
from their high position and take part in
the controversy, vieing with the fercest Of
the local candidates in denunciation and
bitterness, not giving an ineligible account
of their stewardship in the Senate, but dis
cussing Tie same hackneyed party topics
which have resornded from every stump in
the county, ever since the opening of the
campaign. Better things might have been
hoped from our Senators.
| Representing, as our Senators do, ris-
ing State at the center Of the great interior
already rich in agricultural and mineral
wealth, and prospectively great in manu-
faciures, commerce and navigation, it would
seem 10 be their part of wisdom, in mere
self love, as well as patriotism, TO adopt
plan of legislation calculated 10 foster th'
present interests Of the State, and 10 realize
lis hopes Of greatness in the future. They
are both still young men, and likely 10 liv'
through many vicissitudes Of parties anc
policies; and when Tie heat Of the presen
violent contest about slavery in the Terri
tories shall have died away, doubtless the,
would rejoice TO find their names identified
with The permanent interests Of the State
as having been the active and efficient pro
, moters rather than be pilloried into fame a
, even successful partizans in the transien
and fsctious war about negro slavery
Surely orr Senators aspire TO better FAM
than than that; and ifthey allow themselve
+ now 10 be wholly engrossed by the parlizal
topics Of the day, they may live to repen
the folly, in unavailing sorrow, when lhOs,
topics are remembered only with DISCUS
and shame. .. .-...., ,.. ,..
There are subjects, however, worthy o
the patriot and the statesman 10 which th'
enduring interests ofihe State invoke thei
htttutIOn anu ucIlilu tIelI ucst cAoi'
Agriculture, manufactures and commerce
all of which require for their success, quick
cheap and safe transportation Of persons ah'
property.
In the course Of every year, there il
three times as much American, life ant
property ahoat and in danger, upon ,h'
Mississippi and its branches, as upon th
Atlantic ocean, and yet, the government i
crimiHaIly negligen. Of this great highwa.
of the whole nations trade and travel
The navigation of these mighty waters
reaching TO twenty thousand miles, is aban
doned by government calling itself Demo
cratic, and protesting 10 be, in a peculiar
sense, the friend and protector Of popular
rights and interests.
! The National Treasury is empty, q shal
not stop TO show now, by what blunder'
J and oversights Of our rulers, it was emp,ied
and the Government is living, from hand Il
mouth, upon credit, and yet, no attempt ii
made by those who have the power, TO ar
range anew the Tariff on importations, 81
as TO supply an adequate revenue TO the ex
hausted Treasury, and, BY the same neces.
sary operation, protect, incidentally, Oul
home manufactures. . III
Under the false pretenses Of "Sqattel
sovereignty and non-interventiOn," oul
Territories are first excited into spiri
of characterization, and then left (ungov-
erned, or governed only by the President
as pmmander.in-chief Of the army, and moi
as Civil Magistrate) TO run riot in rebel.
lion and bloodshed, while our ambitious
rulers ara eagerly stretching forth ihelr
hands TO grasp more foreign provinces, 10
be annexed, but not governed, and TO run
through the same round Of disorder and
: violence. -
al Q,,r national yaniiv was pratifed by the