Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-10


soil IN sentiment, and the State is fast becom-
ing so. 1t is admitted by all parties even by
the st. Louis Republican, a pro. slavery paper
that in few years, there viii be no slaves in
Missouri. The doctrines of emancipation are
earnestly advocated in the Legislature, and
by one of the ablest papers in this city-the
Democrat, The free white population is in
creasing with wonderful rapidly, and the
slave population fast diminishing
The following resolutions were recently
passed by convention of the regular Demo-
cratic party of st. Louis.
''ReSotUsd, that the gradual emancipation of
slavery in the State of Missouri, in the opln-
ION Of this Convention is an open question,
and one of vital importance to the people of
this State; that we disapprove of the resolu-
tons on this subject introduced by Mr., Carr,
In the Legislature, during its last session, as
an attempt to gag the tree expression of opin
ION upon the freedom of speech and Of the
press.
ReSolued, That the Constitution of this
State provides that slaves may be emancipat,
ed by the consent of the owners, by making
compensation for the same and that gradual
emancipation, upon the terms provided in the
Constitution. is neither practicable, un-
wise, or unjust, if it shall appear to be Tor the
best interests of the people of this state; and
the only mode of asceraining this important
fact is by full and free discussion of the en-
tire system,
This will furnish new causes of complaint
to the fire eaters of South Carolina and Vir-
glnia. 1t will 60 to show them the difficulty,
and so far as any permanent effect is concern
ed, the folly OF forcing slavery in the direction
where the laws Of climate as well as the laws
OF, civilization forbid it. This is one consola-
ton Tor all this wrong, for the uncounted
lniquitles that have been perpetrated IN this
crusade for slavery. In the end they will
overthrow the power that inhicts them the
Democratic party will be rooted out of every
state in the North, if the policy of forcing
slavery upon the territories against the will of
the people. and against law aud right and
justice, is preservable. 1.-The SOUTH new
paper of extreme opinions, Just started at
Richmond, holds the following language up
on the position and prospects Of slavery:
"ln the hhal conflict between slavery and
abolitlonism, which this very decision will
precipitate rather than retard, the principles
OF the judgement in bred Scott case may be
of some avail to the South in giving an APP
pearance of justice and moderation to its pos
ition. Of these advantages the South is
secure; but let US not abandon ourselves to
the delirium of premature triumph. The
victory is not yet gained and it is a question
whether the deciaion may not add as much
to the material strength of the North as it
deducts from its moral power. Another such
success as was achieved in the Kanzas Ne
braska act, and the South would have been
undone-so hardly was the victory won, and
SO much of resentment and terocious energy
did it lntuse into the ranks of the adversary.
Ii seems as it the same consequence will fol-
low from our recent triumph in the Supreme
Court. The abolitionists are not at all abash-
ed or dismayed; on the contrary, they accept
this repulse as another blow in the work of
imparting compactness and strength to their
organization, and, from the fire that consumes
bred Scott, they appear to anticipate con-
fagerafion which will again SET the popular
sentiment of the North in a blaze of indigna-
ton. They know well enough that the Su-
preme Court is infafiable only in a technical
sence and that even its decision may be
reversed by the vote of a popular majority.
They remember that this same august tri-
bunal, after elaborate argument, pronounced
National Bank to be constitutional, and
that the people reversed the decision in the
triumphant reelection of Andrew jackson
and with this instructive example in their
eye, they betray resolution to contend for a
like victory in the end The Black Republi-
can party viii go into the canvass of 1860
strengthened rather than discrediled and
weakened by the adverse Judgment of the
Supreme Court; as we might as well prepare
for the struggle. AT least let not the South
cherish the delusion that its cause is triumph
ant and its right secure. "-Prooidence jour
nal.