Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1859-11-24
From the Richmond Virginia. Wing.
The Sopth in danger,


The FicksSurg Wig very pertinenily
remarks That the periodical danger 10 lie
South" is fast cunning about the Demo-
cratic Calendar. As aaother Presidential
canvass draws near, the South" must be-
gin to shake in It's shoes for lis safety, the
Democracy must get out the old spawned
hobby o! Slavery agitation, and enter the
lists Tor er.olher triumph. No matter that
The pc.r old animal has been rode 70 death
!cnc ago, lie must DO galvanized into life
! gain, and run quarter race for Tho spells.
! Tie South is in danger, viii be the cry oil
| the lusty, onice-fed Democracy. Support
the Democrat party 10 save il! Why, nc
eording 10 Democrat orators, the Union has
been kept together for the last twenty years
by the Democrat party, and 1t has only
doled out The precious boon left by cur
Fathers, by four years instruments. It is
given te us by piecemeal, and dissolution
and civil war are held IN t1rorun1 over the
heads OF all who DO net, with blind sub
mission, bow down 10 The grent jaeger
naut Locofocoism.
The South is IN danger, say they: vote
for us, or we will destroy The Union. We
must rule or we will ruin Ihe land. And
the peaceloving citizens, terrified at the
portentous threat, vote against their consci-
encss-s"ii their record, outrage their NOR
al sense, by voting 10 keep corrupt, ut
terly reckless, demornlized organization in
power, Just 10 save the South and the U.
! MON. And thus it sits, Ike tie cid man
Of the Sea, upon the bowed shoulders of
PROSTATE people. Save the Sonih by all
menns-save the Souih, vote for the Demo-
cratic candidates, or the Union will be dis
solved. We warm you, men Of the Oppo-
silion; remember, if you do not, the country
must be plunged into civil war
The Democrats keep the Slavery ques-
/ ton for every emergency, as the old Dea-
con kept the sheep for washing. The good
old man had Joined the Temperance Socie-
iy, but had stipulated with The parson, that
/ he should be allowed 10 take a drink OF
something warm when be washed sheep,
10 keep him from taking cold, the neighboTs
were edited, after that, by seeing the old
Deacon, some three or four times a day,
take an old sheep when he kept tied in the
front yard down 10 The river, and duck it,
Of course, after very abl ition, the good
old Deacon took his biuers, 10 ward of The
pernicious effects of the cold water.
| Thus the Democrats keep the Slavery
question always at hand, for political pur-
poses. Whenever there is an election
coming of, the slavery question is brought
out, and the Democracy are declared the on
| ~ true friends OF the South. Ali who op-
pose the immediate Democracy are unsound
on the Slavery question. No matter if the
man is q Suutherner by birlh-no matter if
/ he ewes an hundred slaves aud his interest
and fate are identified with Southern insti-
tutions-a loud-mouthed demagogue, fresh
| from Yankee land, who never owned a
slave or paid dollar OF taxes, can call him
an abalilionIsis, and the taunt will be ap-
proved and appiauded by Democratic hear
ers and readers. We heard this in '52, we
heard it in 90 and we will hear it again in
1860. And yet people go on supporting
that great humbug party, which is robbing
and imDoverishing the country; and bring
ing ruin upon us as a nation; and the etern-
al agitation of Slavery is the means by which
they keep themselves in power. Good peo-
and true patriots become intimidated by the
constant threat OF disunion, and give their
support 10 the agitatOrs for the sake Of a
voiding the dire calamiiies which they
pOrtend, if the Democratic party is defea-
ned. Buiwe have all heard the cry Of rolf
SO of ten that it don't brighten us any more,
and we,,trusi the shameless mendacity of the
eternal aSitatorsef the Slavery question
will befulIy appreciated and corresponding
ly despised in the coming CANVASS. Con-
sentative men, North and SOUTH, are awake
to the trick, and we trust viii fail the
polilicaliuggles this time.