Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1861-08-08

it is necessary to trace very briefly the or
igin and progress of the evils that now af.
fiict the State.
1t is not necessary that any lengthy ref.
erence should be made to the action of those
States which have seeded from the Union.
We cannot remedy or recall that secession.
They have aete for themselves, and must
abide the consequences Of their own action.
So far as you have expressed your wishes,
you have declared your determination not
to leave the Union, and your wishes have
been expressed by this Convention.
Any action Of any officer of the State in
conflict with your will thus expressed, is an
action in plain opposition to the principle
of our Government which recognizes the
people as the source Of political power and
their will as the rule and conduct for all
their officers. 1t would have been but q
reasonable compliance with your will, that
after you had, through this Convention, ex-
pressed your determination to remain in
the Union. your Executive and Legislative
officers should not only have refrained from
any opposition to your will, but should have
exerted all their powers to carry your will
into effect. ,.. -.--
We have been enabled TO ascertain BY
some correspondence Of different public Of.
fcers accidentally made public. that several
Of these officers not only entertained and
opinions and wishes against the
Of Missouri in the Union. but
actually engaged in schsmes 10 wiihdrsw
her from the Union. contrary 10 your known
wishes. asl- r-.
After the adjournment Of your Conven-
tiun in March, which had expressed your
purpose to remain in the Union, Governor
Claiborne F. Jackson, IN a letter addressed
to David Walker, President of the Arkan.
sas Convention. dated April l9, 1851, says:
From the beginning my own conviction
has been that the interest, duty and honor
Of every slaveholding State demands their
separation from the Northern or non-slave.
holding States" Again he says: ~ have
been, from the beginning, IN favor of deci-
ded and prompt action on the part of the
Southern States, but the majority of the
people of Missouri, up to the present time,
have differed with me-" Here we have
the declaration Of his opinion and wishes,
and the open confession that a majority Of
the people did not agree with him. s..s
But be proceeds: "What their future &C.
tion, (meaning the future action Of the peo.
ple) may be, no man, with certsinty, can
predict or foretell; but my impression is,
judging from the indications hourly occur
ing, that Missouri will be ready for Seces-
sion in less than thirty days, and will se-
cede if Arkansas will only get out of the
way and give her free passage"
1t will presently be seen, by an extract
from another letter. what the Governor
means by being ready for secession; but it
is very remarkable that he should UNDER
take. not only TO say that she would be
ready TO secede in thirty days, but further
that she will secede, when in fact your
Convention at that time stood adjourned to
the 3D. Monday of December next. His
declaration that the State would secede is
made, doubtless, upon some plan of his own, (,
Independent of the Convention.
Nine days after this letter TO the Presi-
dent Of the Arkansas Convention, he wrote
another, addressed to j. W. Tucker, Esq .
The editor Of secession newspaper in 81.
Louis. This letter is dated April %, 1861.
The writer says:sI do not think Missouri
should seoeds to-day or to-fnorrow, but j
do cot think it good policy that should so
openly declare. want little time to arm
The State, and I am assuming every respon-
H t.
sibiii,y to do it with all possible dispatch"
Again he says: awe should keep our
own counss!s. Everybody in the State is
in favor Of arming the State, then let it be
lone. All are opposed, to furnishing Mr..
Lincoln with soldiers. Time will settle
he balance. Nothing shctild be said about
he time or the manner in which Missouri
hould go out. That she, ought to, 60 and
will 60 at the proper time, l have no doubt.
She ought 10 have gone ylastl winter whe q
he could have seized the public arms and
'ublic property and defended herself"
Here we have The, fixed mind and purr
'ose oil the Governor, that Missouri shah
cave the Union. He wants time-a little
ime to arm the State He thinks .ecrssy
honld be preserved BY The parties with.
shOm he acts. in keeping their eOubselss lie
uesests that nothing should be said abcat
he Atie or the manner in which Missouri I
bould go outj manilestis implying that The