Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-09-10
The Moral of the Missouri Election
Whose is the Victory2

The St. Louis Democrat, after announcin g
the majority given by the official canvass,
through fraud, as it alleges, to Stewart, the
Democratic candidate, adds the following re-
marks:
The election is our victory. No matter who
may eventually get the salary, the moral tri.
umph belOngst to Maj Rollins. He has made a
name in history, and has wrought revolution
in politics that will go down to posterity as
bright examples of lofty patriotism, a heroic
canvass and a generous responsive support
from large masses of the people impelled by no
party discipline. We deem it, obscured as its
luster has been by frauds of the opposition, the
proudest achievement of the century A state
amongst the largest of our union in point of ter
ritory, central and almost rOtential with the fu-
ture in situation, rich in all physical resources
and thirsting for industrial development, has
been snatched from the rule ola party committed
to dlsunlon and slavery propagandlsm, and
boldly launched forth into its appropriate orbit
OF freedom and prosperity and progress. Those
who have contributed TO such an event have a
higher title to the esteem of mankind and the
applause of future ages than all the vassal min
ions who attach themselves TO the glittering
stagnation of social and political despotism.-
Putrid pools may be sparkling and bright but
it is the running water that is healthy and strong
that imparts nourishment and sustains yeget-
ation-and that ministers every where to the
support of vigorous and thrifty life Analogically
the same truth obtains in the advancement of
uman affairs. 1t is the current of events that
gives vitality to commonwealth.
The. victory, we say, is ours, and it is ours
practically as well as morally. The campaign
which has just ended has given us the State in
all coming time. The tide of immigration that
win set in to Missouri will more than compen-
safe for partial losses that may henceforth occur
from an incomplete organization in the present
Those who may take flight and go off from not
having fully apprehended the great issue involv-
ed, will be replaced three-fold by those attracted
here in consequence of that issue. The uncast
vote of the State-seueRteen h0RSand-is, nine
tenths OF it, our own held off in the late strug-
Gle by timIdity and prejudice, but which will
gather TO the standard now that success looms
up above the horizon. Two hundred thousand
men, the cream otthe industry ofthe older States
and of Europe, will take up their residence in
Missouri in less than two years from this time.
One hundred millions of dollars will be added
to the wealth Of our community by the influx Of
labor and capital, Safely, then, may we pro-
claim that the prestige OfmiSrale, of intolerance,
Of domineering serfdom is past, and that the
day for an enlightened policy has at length
happily arrived, and with it the power to per
feet and elaborate its requirements.
We do not think that the nuIli6ers can ever
again come within five thousand votes of the
number they have cast this year; but we know
that, in another struggle, with the full conscious
ness which the opposition has gifts own strength,
it can rally more than ten thousand additional
men to its standard, We repeat again, there
fore and with renewed emphasis, that from a
mere inspection OF the returns it is a selfevident
fact that the campaign which has just ended has
given us the State in all coming time. Nor IS
it in the power Of administrations or political
combinations. or personal influence to defeat
this consummaton. 1t results from the very
logic OF events, for the tide of migration will be
as uncRasng as the roll of the ocean-and that
tide is crested high with the thought of free
white labor