The Kanzas news., 1857-08-22

ally TO be credited now. This is no fiction
OF The brain; truth Is stranger than fiction;
and. IN this instance 1t is the conviction of
all |ho think of it, arising naturally from
the vast resources at our command.
It may be thoughta large emigration from
the free States would be injurious to slave
holders In Missouri. This Is great error.
1t would benefit them. and in two ways
hrst, by enhancing tee value of their landed
estates, and second, by enhancing the value
of their negroes. The first ought alone to
be sufficient to influence the action of every
landed shareholder, for it is well known that
wild lands IN the free sell for as much as i'm
proved lands IN the slave States. This is a
common remark upon the Missouri and Iowa
border. But as slavery gradually disap-
pears, by deaths in the course of nature, re-
movals South, and transportations there for
sale, the family servants left viii adhere to
their patriarchal homes, enhanced IN value
from their very scarcity, as corn Is enhanc-
ed by drought This remark is fully sus-
tanned by the present price of slaves in Mis-
souri,. Notwithstanding the st. Louis elee-
ton, the increasing emigration from the
free States, and the swelling doubt as to the
ultimate fate of slavery here, sweeping over
the public mind like continuous sea-breeze,
the tendency in prices IS upwards.
1t is idle TO think Missouri will continue g
slave State. 1t is impossible Destiny
the irresistible tread of opposing influences
III unmistakeable lettering has already de-
elared otherwise. Kanzas Is virtually free
now. Three-fourths of our borders are al
ready pressed by the flooding emigration
from the free States. If some of it has pass
ed our boundary into Kansas and Nebraska
checked by the inferiority of soil, timber,
climate governments, it is turning back upon
US, ike a suddenly impeded flood. Under
these girdling influences, slavery in Missouri
must perish. It is destiny, and above, far
above, partisan control. In this way, it vii
gradually disappear, without any violent dis
ruption of the relation of master and slave
and in this way it ought to be allowed tC
disappear, without In the least impeding the
gradual and steady influences now blight
ing the institution, and driving it over the
border.
Though born and bred in slave State
and STAKEHOLDER myself, do not regret the
gradual process of emancipation going on
around me. 1t is for my interest, and the
common interest of the State. 1t viii break
down the opposition in the Northern States,
to the great central railroad to the Pacific,
through Missouri 1t viii no longer be
considered as running through slave State,
and win be taken out of the boiling cauldron
of 81 very politics. 1t will no longer be
presented as sectional, but as a central.
national railroad. The Northern States are
the majority, and if we treat them right, the
road is ours, for it will also be the nation
road over the continent Sectionalism alone
can kill it; the people of Missouri can kill
sectionalism, at least, among themselves
Let us do it; and let Missouri take not the
position assigned her by politicians-the out
post-the battle ground of slavery, but the
proud position God has designed-the heart
of the nation, fed by the great waters of the
valley of the Mississippi, and continental
railroad