Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-06-14
EXTRACT FRoMA SPEECH OF
GOV z RE0R AUSTIN KING,
Delivered at Richmond, Ray co., No.
TIE GOVERNOR ESLIGHTENs sENAToI
GREEN ABOUT DEMscRACY

~ seems tnat Senator Green, IN The y. D
Senate has thought proper 10 make allu.
sions to those delegates from Missouri TO
Charleston who supported the nomination
Of Judge Douglas. As the reflections have
come from ssgusrter entitled TO notice, |
desire TO ssy this, thai Senator Green has
been wholly misinformed and misled as 10
certain declarations made by the delegates.
As applicable to me or any assertion made
by me in the State Convention, as asserted
by Senator Green, that ''tney (the Doug
las delsgates) got up and pledged them
selves and said your resolution is instruc.
tion enough don't instruct for any person; we
will vote for nobody unless he endorses
this resolution it is untrue in detail and
in The lump. Not one word of it is true in
reference to myself; nor did hear any del.
egate who voted for Judge Douglas make
any such declaration. |, however, leave
these gentlemen TO speak for themselves as
they are fully competent 10 do.
The facts are these: We have nine cleo.
torial districts in this State; and in the
State Convention, the delegates from each
ELECTORAL district composed committee,
which committees each selected two DELE
gates to Charleston. My political position
IVES well understood before nv electoral
committee and before the whole Convention,
as 1t has been in northwest Missouri for
The last two years, that | was in favor of
Judge Douglas for the Presidency. And
on account of this fact, and not from any
personal prediction for me, / was chosen
s'a delegate. Efforts were made before
cir FL, c.orial Comm tee, and | understand.
before most Of the others, to instruct the
delegates 10 be elected TO vote for Dickin-
SOM but The effort failed by large major.
~.
After the action Of these ELECTORAL Com.
mlttees when it was found that Douglas had,
II not majority at least an equal number
oil delegates, then for the first time did the
Huttering begin among those friends Of
Dickinson, who TO my certain knowledge
had been working for him for the last twe, 0
months, and with such method that none
could fail TO see tie c,mnon origin Of the
movement. just at This lime demonstra-
tien had TO be made 10 head off The
douglas delegates 10 Charleston. A reso-
luton was first offered. instruciins the del
egatss to vote for Dickinson. This met
with no response. Then q substitute
was offered instructing the delegates TO vote
for no man who did not endorse the second
resolution Of State platform: THE one
read by ar. Green in the Senate. Upon
this substitute | distinctly said that would
make no such pledge; that it was a spe-
oies OF dictstion very much like the Ala
Dama resolutions; that if every State were
to persist in having their own peculiar dog.
mas or nothing, then we had better have no
National Convention. / further said that
the only pledge would make was, made
then, that would vote for no man who
would not stand en- the National Demo
cratic platform 10 be made at Charleston
denied the right of Stas Convention to
dictate platform for The party. Irecog-
nized its right 10 give its opinion, and /. {
that opinion 60 before the National Conven- !
lion for what it was worth land in this !
the United Missouri delegation, zby resoIu.
tions drawn up by Mr.. Craig, and presented
to the Convention by our spokesman, Gen
eral Clark, contained what we conceived
10 De The point and pilh of the Missouri
fesoluiion'.) But, TO return TO the seton
OF our State Convention, TIE SUBSTITUTE
THUS OFFERED WAS VOTED DOWN BY TEST
VOTE OF MORE THAN TEN TO ONE; and the |
words which greeted me everywhere were.
"Ge 10 Charleston and DO the best YOU can
Tor The great National Democratic pariy."
AND am now proud 10 know tia. nv
course at Charleston meets the cordial an.
proval Of four. ffths of the Democracy Of
this State,
1t " fact worthy of notice that Nilsson
n resolution failed TO assert the princ,pIe
OF Congressional Intervention and protec-
lion OF slave property in the Territories;
and have the authority of more than on.
member of the COMMITTEES who reported the
resolutions for saying that they desisnedly
omitted 10 assert this principle. The r.a-
son for such omission is obvious; il wopld
nave been IN eontravenlion of the compro-
mise measures of 1850 of the Democratic
piatior OF lS52-of the Kansas Nebraska
aet OF 1904; and Of The Cincinnati platform
Oh 1890. The only encomium l heard
passed upon the Missouri resolution at
Charleston by the seceders was that ..they |
,r:re .Oorss than Douglasism," as they had
failed to say word upon the only point of
in the whole matter, viz: the
right OF The South 70 have slave property
projected In the Territories by Congression-
al intervention. And here assert that he
who sustain the majority report made at
charleston, demanding slave code for the
Terri cries for such 1t must be or be Who'll.
~ worthless) does SO not only in the face
Of all those settled principles of the party
since 1850. but also without warrant 10 do
SO by the Missouri resolutions. Those
resolutions simple assert legal proposition
which may or may not be true, lust as The
Supreme Court may hereafter decide. And
when the Missouri delegation were dis.
Dus.ing the resolution prepared by Capt.
Craig, as instructions 10 our Committee.
man on platforms, Gen. Clark remarked
hat, asto The question Of Congressional
protection, he supposed none of us were in
svor Of that, for it was clear that If Con-
,ress had the power TO legislate for the
protection Of slave property in the Terri
DRY. it might also Iegislate against it.
lA1Y6 M al.