Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1861-06-27
TO THE PEOPLE OF MISSOURI.

uent Of all domestic difficulties. and, season Of
unprecedented quiet and prosperity. This was
made to depend solely on his election. The GEN.
S Ss who now fills the Office of Secretary Of
olate, ana who, IT was supposed, would be the
premier OF the new Northumberland this.
IKE his prophecy, turns out 10 be untrue--said
IN speech, at the ;Astor House, that in sixty
Gays all would be peace and the country be har.
monized. What new do we behold? Instead of
peace and prosperity, we behold Union broken
INTO fragments-the Constitution. .et aside and
.rampied IN the dust, by those who were sworn
10 support it-armies levied 10 the number Of
hundreds OF thousands by the simple will of the
executive deb of FIVE hundred millions at
least created without authority of law--the most
sacred wrIts known 10 the Constitution, disregar-
de d End vioated-men's houses searched by un-
authorized military forces, property seized and
conhscated, and freemen placed in arrest. with
out warrant or Judicial authority. Instead of
peace and prosperity, bankruptcy stares erery
State Government aud every citizen in the face,
and HUNDREDS OF thousands OF honest. Industrious
men, with Their families, are dTi ven to the ex-
temlty OF begging for bread, or 10 adopt the al
Tentative or going into the army. The observ-
ahce OF the law Is no longer regarded by persons
IN authority, bat mlsht has I ken precedence
over everything. Instead of Union of thirty
four States, eleven of them have been Blotted out,
BY their own act IT is true, from the galaxy, and
10 subdue them-to bumiliale them and bring
them back-armies are mastering III every quar-
Ter, and bitterness akin 10 hale is fast taking pos
session Of the Northern minc Turn il as we
may-condemn as we have always done the folly,
lhe ianatlclam, the iraliorous disposition OF the
politicians of the Cotton States, who were ready
and ANXIOUS TO destroy the Union 10 advance The. +
own ambitious purposes. feeling assured that the
bloody struggle would, from the very nature of
things, be transferred 10 the Border States, aid
that they would escape Notwithstanding as
we do and have done both parties 10 this unhal-
lowed war il !. the duty of every man 70 look
atlts effect upon our own State, and TO decide
what Is best 10 be done TO save her from anarchy
and desoaton. While we cherish q holy love
Tor the Union as If cnce existed, and opr for IFS
reconstruction IN some shape that will bring us
back So as 10 recognize each other as friends and
! brothers, we ioaihe the Administration and the
party which broughtit into power, and equally
1 abhor lis violations of the Constitution, and the
military despoiisn which il has established almost
everywhere. Equally repugnant and detestable
TO us are the acts of the Executive ind Leeisia-
tive departments of the government of the State
of Missouri, by which civil war has been inaugu-
rated within our borders. and bloodshed ard des-
] olatlun invoked on us, for no better reason than
/ that 1t pleased them to compel US TO adopt that
| position, With the acts OF the Executive and
The Legislature of this State we propose TO deal
/ with some freedom, and then to point out rene
! DIV for them all. b.. " .l... II
| We assume that there is not man in Missouri
who Will deny th,t Gov. JACKSON has deceived
and betrayed every man who has put trust in him.
! He was elected under spetious trusts and ALSO.
| lutte pledges to Ole party, and no sooner had he
been fairly seated than he suffered himseif-wii-
lingly, perhaps-to be inveigled into the meshes
of men who,asd bitterly opposed his elevation 10
Office, and henceiorth they had the real control
of HIN, malgTe all bis well-studied declarations
10 appease those whom he had betrayed. He
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took the cath of office Governor; consorted and
j affiliated with those who had determined 10 take
Missouri out Of The Union; encouraged the for
maiIoa of Lodges of 'knights of the Golden CIR
Gle y into watch, as IS charged, majority oil each
branch OF the Legislature soon found their waTi
and IN which, as everything was done IN secret,
il could be done more insIdiously and effectively
The very first political act of that body last WIN
ter was TO introduce and pass an act calling a
Convention OF Representatives Of the People OF
the Stale, with he design and intention TO harness
Missouri to the car of Secession, and TO attach her
TO the Southern Confederacy-a design, in its in
. cipiency, which was never intended to Jude a
a submission of the ordinance of that Convention
10 the People, but which the force OF public
oplnion, operating on weak intellecis land still
weaker nerves, compelled them to forego; and
. whirh Mortified them by presenting to them ma.
iority of al least eighty thousand votes against
Secession, when members of the Convention wert
elected. That Convention was heia. That Con.
venton, composed of the ablest and the mostcon'
r servat me in the State, resolved egsihst any.
thing that looked 10 dissolution of the conRec.
. ton # Missouri with the Union. The people ap
proved Of tie action Of that body, and SO thing
rested for time. The Secessiouists were check
| mated and defeated.
: Afterwards, when an extra session of the Leg
. islature was deemed 10 be essential by Governor
] JAcKsoH-and suspicious TO his views, perhaps
fall ah .1 mt We nf talr
Missouri INTO the lap Of the Southern Confedera
cy-he called the same body of unscrupulou,
men together, and this time following the example
of the Order Of which they were sworn members
they met in secret conclave-cut off their masters
the people, from all knowledge of what they saie
and were doing--snd legislsted for twelve hun
dred thousand people in the dark. Whatever
they may say 10 The contrary, they were afraid tc
let their constituents know the enormity of the
acts upon which they had resolved. The uncon.
siiiutoEal Military Biil-the bill squundering al
the means of the State for the purpose OF armiss
the Secessenists for nobody else wo uld think Of
taking the oath which that law prescribed-th,
appropriation of the Interest money, the Schoo
FUND, the InsanefuRd-tife additional tsx OF one
dollar and fifteen cents on the thousand-ths au'
thority 10 issue million OF State Bonds, in de.
nominations OF fifty dollars Ind upwards, all FOL
the same purpose-the passage of a bill autborz'
ing the Goe<Fnor TO remove the functIonaries oil
HE Govet nhent from one place to another, as hs
m Oh diI celebrating travelling governmental
III e things were the fruits OF midnight session
of The Senate. II the efforts of me Disunlonist.
had terminated with these iegisl tive enormites
it was still possible 70 have prevented much ms
chief, but Gov. JAcKsoK was determined On tdk-
ing Missouri ont Of the Ua,On, or t.king her 4
hi, and all his measures were adopted will
reference 10 this policy A letter from him is il
existence, dated IN April, 10 show tht, even be-
fore te meeting y,f the last IepslattIre he stated