New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-24

State there is reason to hope that in some future
time they my protect against Slavery altogether.
This hope is still further confirmed by letter
We have received from our correspondent at st.
Louis, which We think worthy of being laid be-
fore the public as conspicuouily as possible:
"Ipromised in my last to give you some descrip-
ton of Slavery it exists in this State, State
which ought to have been free. To DO this prop
erly Is delicate and difficult task. A stranger
making a short visit TO S. Louis would see but
little of the institution and its workings. He
would find white waters at his hotel. white drsy-
men on the levee, and free negroes making money
in the BARRIERS shops. He would see no slave
pens (unless he examined too curiously); be
would hear no lash furowing the back of an un-
ruly man; and he might say to himself with coz
siderable plsusibility, This talk abou! the hor-
'rors of Slaveryis all humbug-Slaveryi mild
land negative nstitution-Dr. Adaus's South
aside View of Slavery is truthful and very
useful book Thus thought and wrote that
eminent absurdty, the Rev. Samuel Hanson Cox,
D. D.. during bis recent sojourn here. But let
DR.. Cox, or any other northern stranger, remsin
here for year,-let him stand, on Happy
New Years day, and see men and women, black,
yellow and white, sold to the highest bidder
from the steps of the st. Louis Courthouse
let him 20 to the Jail and find free born negroes,
who have come here as steamboat hands, per-
haps, and have been arrested BY our vigilsnt Dog
berries, coOped up without hearing, ald kept
only to be sold to pay charges-let him visit our
best society, and notice how the blood of the
masters hiss been illegtimately mingled with the
blood of the slaves till the shades of color run to-
ce,her like the hues of watsred silk-then let
him travel through the State and mark the utter
shiftlessness of the farms cultivated by slave
labor. the mental and moral s:sgna.ion of the
whites. and the utter ignorance and hopeless
vice Of the blacks, together with the ludlcrous
fear and hatred Of Abolitonists manifested by
the former-and, in my opinion the peculiar in
s,tution of Slavery will appear to him neither
divine, patriarcbal, nor profitable.
"Slavery is uncongenial in Missouri. Neither
the climate nor the soil of our State will justify
il as a necessary evil. II is upheld by missr-
able minority, consisting for the NEST part, Of
large owners of slaves, demsgogue politicians,
and dough-face priests.
"The first class are, naturally enough interested
in the integrity Of the institution; large portion
Of their property is invested in desirable
flesh and blood together with other stock, neces-
sary for its profitable employment.) While
Slavery exists here, then, they are enabled to
lead quiet, vegetable life, being nourished add
cultivated by the unrecompensed toll Of other
men. They have no desire to live and move hon
esty and earnestly by true endeavor; they wish
only to subsist. Take away their negroes and
they would starve-genteely, of cOurse. Tothese
legslized spOnges, these parasite fungi, We are
partly indebted for the continuance Of the curse
of Missouri. 1t would be very disagreeable for
them to have an independent existence.
The glory of prolongng Slavery in our State
must, however, be mainly given to our dema-
gogue politicians, and more particularly to those
of the Atchison and Atchlson- Whig stripe. They
expend q vast amount of elOquence, enforced BY
bad logic, and enriched with bad grammar, in
support of the institutions Of the South Some
of them were nurtured amid the sristocratic des-
olation of Virginia, and understand States Rights;
others were trained ia the small, but fierce, LO-
cO-Foco army Of Kentucky, and are very pug
nacous; others were grown in the primitive
re gions of Missouri, and are very ignorant; and
all unite to elory and defend Slavery and Slavery
extension. Claiming to be very brave, they are
very cowardly the least rustic startles them.
For example: few days ago bill was intro
duced in the Legislature TO incorporate Semin-
airy at Cape Giradeau, to be under the charge Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church of the United
States This they deemed to be danger in the
dark. The Methodist Church North wished to
establish school for the benefit OF Missouri, to
illumine it's dark places; and, moreover, one Of
the corporators was suspected Abolitionist.
most reasonable plan, this, to educate the chill
dren of Cape Grardeau, and thus make Anti
Slavery men and women of them. Such danger
Gus enlightenment must be guarded against;
and so these demagogues rise and spout for
hours. They declare their loyalty to the
South with an emphasis that casts suspi-
cion on their honesty. They denounce as
Abolitionsts all who are in favor of the bill.
They overflow with zeal for Education, and some
of them profess the piety of the Methodist Church
South, yet they are unwilling to admit either Ed
ucation or Piety unless it be orthodox PrO-Slav-
cry. In fact, they proved thas true enlighten-
ment and religion are hostile to the beloved In
stitutiOns of the South. The bill to incorporate
the Seminary was finally rejected.
"On apar with this we may place the remark Of
our Governor Price, in his late Message, to the
effect that the State University is in Hourishing
condition, (your correspondent thinks that it is a
thrd-rste grammar SCHOOL, and that the young
men If Missouri NAV no " Obtnin A liberal ednca.