Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1860-08-16
Speech Of Hon. Jno. C. Richardson.

make q few extracts, giving his views on
The subject Of Parties, the slavery sgi-
tation, the territories etc. After showing
that the politicians had abandoned every
Thing but Slavery Agitation that Congress
talked Of nothing eiss-the Judge proceed
ded:
I'VE have seen the bitter fruits OF agi-
taiion in the alarmed state of the public
mind, in the alienation of one section OF
the country from the other, in the unnatu.
raj enlargement Of men, in the unkind sus-
picion with which the motives ard conduct
are Judged, and worse than all, IN the Ia
miliariIy with which We have been brought
10 lock, without shuddsriDg, into the abyss
Of disunion.
Let us briefly inquire whsIher there is
nny real cause Tor this strange condition Of
affairs.
The republicans depy That they intend to
interfere with slavery in the States, or that
they seek the repeal Of the Fugitive Slave
Law; but say that the only ieadirg and
cardinal doctrine Of their organization is
the exclusion of slavery from the Terrific.
rIes OF the United States. They cannot
appropriate the Tariff as their thunder, and
others besides them advocate Homestead
Law Now in what territory do they sup.
pose i, is necessary 10 apply their doctrine
ot Congressional interference and prohibit
lion. This organized Territories are Kan
sas, Nebraska Utah, New Mexico and
Washington, and the unOrganized Terrific.
ries ere Dacolah. lying west Of Minneso-
"a, the region about Pixies Peak, and the
arid plans of Arizona. Every bndy con-
ccdes that the question is settled in Kansas
though it is the result of bloody strug.
gle under the operation Of squatter sover-
eighty. No Southern man expects it will
become slave State and no Northern man
fears that it will bscGme Slave Stale,
but the question iscOnsidered by all
parties as forever seule,. Nebraska,
Utah. Dacotsh, Washington and Art
zons are hardly deblable grounds, Tor
no man ahom | have ever seen believes
that either Of them will become slave
State. The laws OF climate sell and pro
duction, established blythe Almighty, pre-
vail over The laws Of men; and the deelara-
lion of Congress, in the form Of al sw, that
slavery shall not exist in these Territories,
would be mere BRUTEM FuLMEN. There
are not enough slaves in the United States
10 cultivate the cotton and sugar lands, and
it is very improbable that the Institution
will be forced 10 go where II will be I'M
profitable. There is an act OF the Terrific
rial Legislature Of New Mexico, authoriz-
ing slavery there; but it will amour, 10
nothing except 10 permit few army Off
GERS and other Government agents TO carry
with them as domestics old family servants.
10 serve them as cooks and nurses. For
no man will take slaves there 10 labor in
the small field, found in the narrow valleys
Of that poor country, or 10 herd the flccks
that feed on the short graz, o. Il, sandy
plains and mountain sides, when Mexicans
can be hired 10 do The work better for FIVE
dollars month. -s..
There is then no Territory adapted TO
slave labor where a law prohibiting slavery
can produce any practical result; and why
then do the Republicans insist upon a law
which can assert nothing but q mere 40
straclion, which oan 60 them no good, but
will irritaie and infame the South.
If there was any probability that either
Of the Territories would become a slave
State, there would be something TO debae,
but as the question is presented IN its prac-
teal hearings, it seems 10 nae, with great
respect TO many friends whom IvaIue, that
they are pursuing naked idea, and are ex.
ercised about an abstraction. As Col. Ben.
fen said when speaking of the Wilmot Pro.
piss. II is a controversy about goats WOOL
The democrats of the Southern wing do not
agree among themselves as 10 what they want
Some OF them do not ask now for law protect
ing slave property IN the Territories, but only de-
Inand that the right shall he conceded for such
law II 1t becomes necessary. Others again insist +,
That IT is the duly of Congress now to pass such
law. 1t is useless for them 10 ask for what thew
cannot get; for no matter how Just a law might
be, il is very unlikely that fine North which has
the majority in Congress, win vote TO establish
slave code, as tits called for the Territories
ANY Northern man who would vote for il would J
be oahisned from pubic life, and in these times,
few politicians are found who are willing 10 be-
come martyrs To principle. But better rea.
son why suclf law ought not 10 he passed is that
1t is unnece ssary and useless, for WHY make law
offensive to The North, 10 project an institution
that has no existence.
thaTe alseady said that in nv opinion slavery
vii never 20 INTO The present Territories of the
United States, and il you concur with me in that
opinion, you must agree that ter itor1al slaYe
code is worse than useless. Men VIII own slaves.
where they are protected by the local law and
public sentiment, are not willing to 90 INTO ter.
r1tory and fight for their property, and run the
risk in the bargain Of losing il merely for the doubt
tul chance of making slave State And though
Southern men may desire 10 Increase the NUM-
Der ofsIave States, slave owners are not willing
TO risk their property in a doubtful experiment.
Kansas is already in the possession Of free
Statemen. They ccupy OF own nearly all Of
thesgocd lands in the Territory. They have
formed their system of law upon the theory that
it will become free State, and no man snppos-
81 it can become slave State by any action of
the Federal Government And who believes that
either Nebraska, lying north Of Kansas in high
or latitude, or Dacotah. or Utah, or Washington
between Oregon and the British possessions, will
become slave State. 1t is quite as D, pbable
that they can produce sugar or cotton, or tina.
oranges can grow in Minnesota; and if the policy
Of the government was shaped by Southern states
men alone, and platoon Of soldiers was quar-
tered on every quarter section of land in those
territories to protect slave pronerty do not he