New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-12-31
render tho CITY ~st Of soicoos and le'rnins ne

render tho city sest Of soicoce and loarnins no
leas than Of arts.
This generous scheme designed nN' les for the
public benefit thsn for the Pecunsry Advantage Of
those engaged in it. has had the misfor,'ne it ap
,ears to fall under the ban of the ultra Pro Slavery
fsnstics who aspire TO control the de.tihes Of
Missouri. not less than thcse OF every other s'ye
State. They commenced their attack upon n By
,rocur;np a Mr.. Green Of the State Senate 10 d.
Ever an address (which he maintained that slavery
i, q moral social. political and religious blessing,
and that the aetation sgsnst it was wicked con-
spirsey of very recent origin. Mr.. Green did not
sllude particularly to the Jefferson City Land CON-
many but ~ their scheme looked mainly to filling
ND the city with free-lsbor population hisspeeeh
.ss well understood So q covert attack upon that
association.
Shortly sfter, at m educutions Convention held
\, Jefferson City, Mr. Gardenhire, the president oil
the Company, submitted plan for establishing
there snd endowing State Normal School. This
plan was acknowledgement by Mr.. Morrison. late
Speaker of the Missouri House Of Representatives.
who went out Of his way to make vehement At
tack on the Company's University, toward the es'
tablisbment of which some progress had been MAGE
on the ground that il was an emsncipationst iusti'
tuition. As this attack was received with some In
dications Of applause from part oil 1e audience
indicating certain degree of hostility toward the
COMPANY Mr. Gardenhire invited hls felow'citi'
gems to meet him in order to give him an oPportu'
nifty to define h;s position. In the speech wnich ne
delivered on that occasion, and from which, IN an
other column, we give some striking extracts, Mr.
Gardenhire, though, We take it, himself SrSehold'
or. and at all events addressing an audience largely
composed of shareholders, made no attempt to pass
himself of az PrO-Savery man-at least,
not according TO the confession Of faith upon
that subject set forth by Mr.. Senator Green.
Though the object of the Land Company was, PR.
msrily pecunisry profit to its members, he did not
affect to deny that it was very well understood that
the population they invited would come chiefly
from the Free States, and that one OF the
Effects of their coming would be to loosen the
grip of Slavery on Missouri. To the denuneatons
of Mr.. Senator Green leveled at the enemies OF
Negro Slavery" he calmly replied BY showing WHO
those enemies were and with whom the agitation
against Negro Slavery began. He quotes for this
purpose tho Provincial Congress of Georgia, assem-
bIcd "a ,nvunnuh the 18th OF january. 171o' the
cotemporaneous instructions of the Virginia dele
CATION in Congress, prepared by Nj. Jefferson;
resolutions of the Provincial Congress of North
Carolina. WA; resolutions drawn by George Ma
son and adopted at meeting, presided over by
George Washington, of the freehOlding inhabitants
of Fairfax County, Virginia, July Is, IVA; reso-
utions of the inhabitants of Culpepper County, Va,
July T. l774, in which they complain of the i'm
portat0n Of slaves into the colony, 1t 0bstructs
" the population of it with free men and Useful
rnautiratrurvp, ugrrrmrut VI tine CONTINENTAL
Congress to suppress the slave-trade; the testl-
monies against Slavery of Franklin, Washington
and jefferson, including Jefersons plan of emanci-
pating and coonizng the negroes, and importing
free white lsbOrers to supply their places; the
ordinance of 1885, the laws of Congress against the
slave trade; and, finally, the Constitution Of Mis-
sour itself, aud the laws framed under that Constr
tuition, which, in forbdding the introduction OF
slaves a, articles Of merchandise hardly seem to
view Slavery in the Light Of blessing.
After mus SHOWING WIN """"' ' o
against Slavery originated, Mr.. Gardenhire pro-
eeeds sith no less frankness and holiness to show
how much this agitation has of late been promoted
by the new positions taken at the South as to the
character of Slavery. 1t is hese that our extracts
begin. They embrace not only Mr.. Gasdenhire's
opinions upon that subject, but his views also OF
the natural death-not violent and sudden one,
but by quiet and imperceptble decline-to which
Slavery is destined in Missouri, unless indeed, the
catastrophe should be hastened and the patient
should perish in commissions, brought on by the ILL
advised interference of ignorant, self-wiiled ia
pstics bent upon forcing Missouri into the position
of barrier to the slavehoding States OF the South
These extracts we commend to the specql at.en-
ton of our readers.
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