Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1861-05-09

that he stole their horse because mere was law
sending him to the Penitentiary for it. but if they
would abolish the law he would help them TO
watch their horse, would they believe him? Yet
such is the argument, they hold out to others.
One of the great objects for which this Unionwas
framed was the protection of our rights against for
eign nations. These rights most subject to vio-
lation on the high seas and in foreign markets
Their protection mainly depends upon the naval
force Of the country. The people of the South
are without ships and without seameD, nor are
they likely at any future time to become mara
time nation. Our produce must seek the markets
OF the world, our immense surplus is one OF the
principal sources Of our wealth. IL II is not pro-
tected, and if it becomes known that we have not
the power to protect it, if will be plundered. II
has been so in times past 1t will be so again. Our
national flag Is known every where, tbs respect
ed everywhere, because there is power to en-
force respect. This too we must abandon, ii we
abandon the Union.
There is another consideration to which wish
10 call your attention which more than all others
excites my alarm in the present movement. 1t is
the Danger Of resorting TO revolution for causes
that can be remedied in any other way. You
cannot assai your government without impairing
the respect for the laws You cannot limit the
remedy to the evil. Bad or thoughtless men viii
follow the example you have set in assailing the
institutions Of the country, but will not stop al the
limit you have fixed. You now see meetings
which denounce our government, often declaring
that officers not acceptable to them shall not dis
charge their duties. A respect for the laws is
essential to a government like ours. 1t gives
the laws their force. 1t is not the Sheriffs or
the Judges that makes our country country OF
laws: it is the respect for the law by the people
which :rstsins them. Without these our officers
would be helpless.
Laws must be enforced; if the people will not
do II, nothing but force can, and when force be-
comes necessary, government soon becomes q
despotism
Experience proves that when revolution is once
resorted to, the tendency to revolution increases
France has experienced three since the great
French Revolution, in period of less than forty
years, though in two Of them restrained by an
immense military power Mexico and the South
American Republics, exhibit constant success
sion of revolutions. Revolution is resort to
violence. Force controls them. The Govern
ments subject to them soon become the mere crea-
lures Of military power, and liberty is at an end.
Such will, fear, be the fate of the Southern
Confederacy. Present circumstances will pro-
duce harmony among them, and give their gov
eminent an appearance Of stability. When these
causes re removed, dissensions will spring up :
mongst them, and the resort to revolution will be
the ready solution. Oppressed by the evils which
will grow out of such a state of things, we may
hope to see them voluntarily returning to a gov
ernment, which has ever given them protection,
peace and prosperity.
Thus shall we by this policy Of Secession, con-
vert neighbors into enemies, our peaceful country
into battle field, bring anxiety and distress into
our quiet homes, reduce our prosperous people TO
poverty, drive from us many of our best citizens,
deter others from coming here, drive capital from
us, drive from us the trade which the railroads
extending West would otherwise bring TO us, by
preventing connection with our own, destroy
the institution of slavery in our State, de-
prive ourselves OF adequate protection from for
eign powers, and demoralize eur own people by
ImPairing their respect for the laws.
And what does Southern Confederacy hold
out TO US to compensate for these losses?
We are told that our principal trade is with
the South. and therefore should Join the South
ern Confederacy. Our trade will be the same
whether We JOIN the Southern Confederacy or not.
Trade is q matter of interest and not dependent
on government. Men trade with each other be-
cause they make by it. The Southern people buy
our provisions, mules and hemp, because they
need them, not because they love us. For the
same reason that they buy their shoes and manu-
features from the New Egland States, who they
hate.
II they could raise these commodities as advan-
tageously to themselves as they can buy of US,
we should long since have lost their trade.
TIE trade of the United States with foreign ma
lions is ST00 600 and not one cent Of it is due
10 favor. The largest trade we have is with
England, with whom there has always been III
vslry. We ave this security that the people of
the South Will not inure our trade, that they can
not inJure us without hurting themselves. We
have no favors 10 ask in the way Of trade; peo-
pie who raise as we do what others need and must
have, are always independent. Temporary en-
barrassmenis may grow out Of our present difficult
ties. Such troubles are now upon US cannot be
settled without some loss; but the mutual interests
of the parties, out of which our present trade has
grown, will most certainly restore if, whether
this division Is permanent or not.
We are told that fraternal feeling 10 essential 10
government, and as no such feeling exists be-
tween the North and South, these States cannot
exist under the same government. The ve:y re-
verse of this is true; fraiernal feeling is a very
good thing, but it is not what makes governments
Governments grow out of the neces-
ity ofrepressing bad feelings.
IL all men were good we should not need gov
ernments. Governments are made to keep bad
men in check, to protect the people from bad
men, and the greater the danger you are in from
injury by others, the greater the necessity of laws
TO res CHI them.
1t is not true that because you prefer 10 be IN
der the same government with your neighbors,
that you thereby show preference for them over
my oesSf peopfc' AtOhiy shc"S uat yOe Ueis'e
your neighbors have more power of injuring you,
than those who are remote from you, and that
you desire the protection Of the law against
those who would have the power Of seriously in
juring you, without such protection,
They tell rs our honor Is concerned in taking
sides with the South: that their cause and ours is
tine same.
say that the people of Missouri never thought
the cause assigned by the Southern people was
sufficient TO Justify the dissolution of this Union.
The Government had never violated their rights.
The Government was in their hands when the
Southern States seeded, and they had the power
to protect themselves from q violation of their
rights. The President, whatever his feelings
were, could not assail them without the aid Of
Congress and the Judiciary, and these were in
favor of the people Of the South and against the
views of the Administration.
When the Southern States seeded, thus with
drawing their members from Congress- and leay
ing the Republican party in the majority, that
and measures to which they were pledged, and
organized all the territories under the control of
Congress, without interfering with slavery, leay
ing the STAKEHOLDER the right to carry his slaves
into any territory Of the United States. They
did more, knowing the anxiety that exists in the
States now in the Union, lest slavery
in the States should be interfered with by Con-
gress, black republican Congress, made SO by
the desertion Of the Southern States, adopted by
a majority Of two-thirds, an amendment tr the
Consultation Of the United States, providing that
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