Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-11-01
Gen. Houston.


The following extracts from the speech
Of that tried old patriot, Gen. Sam. Hous-
ton, will be read with interest, just now:
81 look around me and behold men Of all
parties. l appeal TO you, old line Wings,
who stood by him OF the lion heart. and
unbending crest, the gallant Henry Clay
| ask you, did you ever hear from his lips
a word disloyal 10 the Constitution and
Union? Did he ever counsel resistance
10 the laws? Calamity he led you on, in
spired you with devotion 10 his fortunes
and principles. When defeat overwhelmed
you and him, DID lie EVER SEEK TO PLUNGE
THE COUNTRY INTO A REVOLUTION? In all
that glorious career, did Henry Clay ever
utter a word of treason? No."
Further, in reference TO Henry Clay:
whenever we saw his helmet plumes
proudly waving, we knew that the battle
was going well. Old Wings, recollect
who were his foemen then! Behold them
now swelling the ranks OF dsupion! With
the memory oil your gallant leader before
you will you go with them? stood with
Clay against Yancey and his coadiuiors.-
The same ilIustrious Wigfal!, who now
denounces me as traitor upon my native
soil, then proclaimed Houston and Rusk as
traitors for their support of that measure.
But the people condemned them, Just as
they will condemn them now. The con-
servaiism Of the land ruse against them
just es il is rising now.
Democrats, you remember, Wings, YOU
remember, how Clay and Webster aided
Jackson 10 put down notification and Sc
cession? Will you stand back nov, when
both are openly avowed by sectionalists
North and South?
invoke the illustrious name of Jack
son, and bid you not Prove recreant to his
memory. To those who plot the ruin of
their country, North or South, that name
brings no pleasant remembrances; but to
the National men of long service, TO the
young men who have been reared 10 love
that name, appeal. The same issue is
upon you that was upon him. He stood
with the Constitution at his back and de.
fed disunion. Let the people say TO these
Abolition Hgitators Of the North, and 10 the
disunion agitators Of the South, you cannot
dissolve this Union. We will put YOU
both down; but we will not let the Union
gu!"
Now, mark me, do no. call all those
Democrats who are in the ranks of this
Southern Constitutional pariy-I do not
proclaim their candidates to be--Dsnnion.
isis. You have their reaords and present
declarations and can Judge for yourselves.
There are good and loyal men TO be found
in this party, and | would not charge them
wrongly. /
Now my fellow-cilizens, l do not say
that all these Southern Constitutional DEM
ocrats are dIsurionist, but do say that all
the DIsunionists are Southern Consti,u-
tional Democrats.
can speak but little longer; but let my
last words be remembered by you. When
look back and remember the names which
are canonized as the tntelar saints of liber-
ty, and the warning they have given you
against disunion, | cannot believe that YOU
will be led astray. cannot be long among
you. My sands of life are fast running
out. As the glass becomes exhausted, if
| can feel that | can leave my country pros
porous and unitel, shall die cotent. To
leave men with whom | have mingled in
troubious times, and whom | have learned
TO love as brothers-to leave the children
Of those whom | have seen pass away, after
lives OF devotion 10 the Unlon-lo leave
the people who have borne me up and ,us-
tanned me-to leave The country, and not
feel that the liberty and happiness
have enjoyed would still be theirs,
would be the worst pang Of death.
am to leave children among you to share
the fate of your children. Think you,
feel no interest in the future of their sakes.
we are passing away. They must must
encounter the evils that are 10 come. In
the lar distant future, the generations that
spring from our loins are TO venture in the
path o. glory and honor. If untrammelled
who can tell the mighty progress they will
make? If cast adrlft-if the calamitous
course Of disunion is inflicted upcn them,
who can picture their misiortunes and
shame?