Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-09-20

interests of the Southern State at the mel
cy Of Abolition thieves, Of incendiaries and
and throat cutting insurgents, black and
white, and Of whatever foreign power
chooses TO invade the South with liberia
ting army!
We declare this 10 be rank treason, lack
ing only the overt act to make VIM. H.
Seward a fit subject for the eollows. 1t
is seditious, revolutionary, melting to SER
vile war by showing how 10 break down
the present safeguards Of property in the
South 1t has the will and purpose of in
surrection at its core, and is animated by
the relentless, cold-blooded spirit Of like
fanatics in all ages of the world, for Mr..
Seward declares that ''it is duty'' to oppose
the Army and Navy" through which Sla-
very has its protection!
We pass 10 the wilful falsehood and pre-
version Of fact INDUCED in by Mr.. Seward
to justify this fierce onslaught on South
ern institutions. Three-fourths of the
small American Army for years past has
been. and still is, engaged in protecting
Western pioneers from Indian hostilities
and preparing the way for the Free States
Of Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Califernia
and Oregon, that have already entered the
Union. and for the settlement Of the great
Territories of the Plains, and are still to
come into the Union as Free States. And
as TO the Navy, its chief service at home
for years has been 10 arres, Slavers on the
Coast Of Cuba, and TO harass and defeat the
expeditions Of the FiIlibusters of the Gulf,
who were supposed TO have designs looking
to the extension Of slavery.
Then again in regard to present excite
ment in Texas, Mr.. Seward alleges that
they are owing to the fact that Slavery has
become "a matter of debate with some Of
its citizens" This is universally known
10 be false. Texas was not aroused by q
simple, civil debate, but by the torch and
the frs-brand that illumined the whole
State at midnight and as If by concert, driv-
ing affrightsd families from their burning
homes and destroying millions Of dollars
worth of property, not only for them but
for hundreds Of merchants Of New York
who are disgraced by the representation Of
them in the U. s. Senate BY Vim. H. Sew
ard! These terrible cOnhagrations, and
the nurdsrous and deaply poison found in
the hands Of white and black assassins all
over ever the State-these are the start
ling facts that have produced most natu.
ural and reasonable excitement! And Mr.
Seward tells guilty lie. when he CLOSES
it over as mere panic over words spoken
by idle mischief makers.
Stewards departure from the truth 0i
history in his charges, only proves the over
running ,indictiyeness Of his heart, and
his determination to impel the Republican
party, with all its power, in the aggressive
war he has marked out for himself.
We are at loss to conceive how the sup
poriers of the Republican party can any
longer pretend tina, its leaders are not dan
gerous and revolu,ionary-and that its sue
cess on such principles as Seward svOws
will not inevitably disrupt the Union ans
inaugurate q civil war that must speedily
ruin the fairest and most prosperous lane
upon the earth.
ltis only few days since the Missouri
Democrat complimentsd Mr.. Seward high
ly for knowing how to say "ths right thine
in the right place." But we say this: tina
Seward has opened up the pathway Of
constitutional and lega., but yet blosdy
crusade against the South. His languag
is seditiOus, his purpose revolutionary ant
reasonable, and if the Republicans of Mis-
souri, endorse what he has said, they ar
willing co-adjutors in the civil war tha
must come, in which they will be guilt.
of the instructions, the arsons and fright
full slaughters that will come, but which il
the end will sweep the slaves and thei
joint consp'rators from the soil.