Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-06-26


The EFFECT OF THE EMANCIPATION Now
MENT IN MIssoURL-Thc successful inaugu-
ration movement in Missouri, by the election
of John NJ. Winner as the Mayor of st. Louis,
has already borne fruit in the tremendous
rise of real estate, not only in st. Louis but
throughout the entire State. 1t Is well known
to all owners and purchasers of real estate
that the sales this Spring have been three fold
as great, and at a greater increase of price,
than ever before obtained in this city The
same is true of the State. Never has there
been such demand for Missouri lands, and
never before have such prices been obtained
as during the present Spring. Heretofore the
emigration from the free States has directed
itself upon Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Kanzas, but now much of this great idea has
turned upon Missouri, and the reason OF this
is undoubtedly to be found in the fact that
the movement for free labor which has SO re-
Gently triumphed i'll st. Louis and which has
shown vitality that bids tair to become vic
torious in the State, has drawn attention
to the rich lands of Missouri, and holds
out the promise that they ere not long to
be cursed with the incubus which has so long
made them barren and Improbable
There are, doubtless, other causes which
have contributed to this result. The hard
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many with the climate OF Minnesota. Wiscon-
sin, and Iowa. The publicity given to the
vast mineral and agricultural resources of the
State has not been without its effect The
growing prospect for the completion of our
railroads has also contributed no little. But
more than any or all Of these put together,
has been effected for the permanent welfare Of
the State, by the gallant and courageous con-
duct Of those of our own citizens who have
given the pledge to the entire world that here,
in Missouri, the interest and welfare of free
white labor should be respected and proteet-
ed. This has brought to our city, and to every
county in the State, hundreds and thousands
OF honest, and industrious free white laboring
men and it has brought, and will continue
to bring, millions of dollars for Investment in
our lands.
We are not alone in thus thinking-many
persons who opposed the movement this
Spring as premature, who thought it right in
itself, but considered it unwise to press it at
this time, have since admitted to us and
to others that they were mistaken, that the
authors of the movement were right, that the
result had more than realized all that had
been claimed Tor it that already it had
added thousands to our population and mill
lions to our wealth. ,.
The people Of this State have come to
& the conclusion that there are other kinds
of property in the State besides negroes-that
in fact the other property Of the State is worth
millions for every thousand dollars of slave
property-that it is silly in the extreme to
sacrifice the millions for the thousands They
have also concluded, notwithstanding the
protests of the Republican and Leader, that
white men are much better population than
negroes, and that we would be better off if the
negroes were removed and white men should
come in to fill up the State. Indeed, it
would not surprise us if the demonstration
which has taken place this Spring, should
continue TO see the movement for emancipa-
ton consummated by success, in one nalf the
time we thought it would take when it first
commenced. -'&. Louis Democrat.