Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-04-13
Free SOIL victory n a Slave sfnte.

= Free Soil Victory In Slave stnte'
The recent triumph of the EmanePationists IN
st. Louis. in the election Of their candidate ior
rnayor, BY nearly two thousand plurality over the
Democratic and American candidates, after hot
contest on the free-soil issue, was pure nee
soil victory in slave State, gained as 1t was IN
the face Of Old Bullion himself, who recreantly
threw the whole weight of his personal and polit-
zeal influence against the movement. To his
shsme be it said, Col. Benton, instead of advo-
eating the glorious movement, now infatuated, to
free Missouri from the incubus which weighs it
down, as he should have done. has done all in
his power to oppose Before the election, he
wrote letter to the RmaheipatiOnists, in which
he said - ta8tUg g
"I saw with amazement the late abolition
movement in the Legislature, and wrote immedi-
ately to Price, Rusk, and Others, at Jeffe' son
City, to denounee and Fepudiate it These per-
sons ought to have cut Themselves loose from me
before they began such an agitation. II they IN
tended to startsuch question, they should have
let it be known before the PresldentialI election,
and not have deceived me.
II Was told BY many that these persons would
turn out abolitonists after the election. but
could not believe it. That State agitation of
slavery should be added to the national agitation
et the time We were announcing tue uatlu4aA ayr
tatiOn, was an incredible thing, II -l5is.g 5-e
For persons calling themselves my friends, to
attack the police of my sch0le lifeto attack the
policy Of my whole life=-after making use Of my
name to carry an election, is the greatest outrage
have evenexperiencsd Not one OF them has
ever approached me on the subject or has offered
any explanation or Justification, for it IS some
thing which they can neither explain nor justify.
They know perfectly we'll that introduced the
clause against emancipation into the Constltui
ton of the State, with view to keep this slavery
agitation ont of politics, and that my whole lie
has been opposed to their present course"
svThis will effect the final cutting aloof of Old
Bullion from his former friends and supporters in
Missouri, those Democrats who were supposed to
be acting under the prestige Of his name and in.
fuence in opposing the sham Democracy, and
planting themselves on the platform of Jefferson.
Jan Democracy, by starting movement for the
gradual abolition Of slavery in that State What
ever advances, therefore, the Ernancipationists
hereafter make there, in the furtherance Of this
glorious cause may be considered based upon its
own merits alone, and prosecuted in the teeth of
Col Benten's opposition. The result Of the late
election in ST. Louis, after the reception and pro-
mulgationsof the letter above quoted from him,
emphatic and decided as was its tone, is one Of
the most splendid victories for freedom ever
achieved in any quarter, There are two congres
siOnal districts in old puritanical Connecticut,
which might learn great deal by initiating the
noble spirit and determination manifested by the
constituents of Hon. FRANCIS P. BLAIR, Jr. We
are mortified at the contrast GG
The following is "a specimen of the notices I'M
der which the meetings Of the victorious party
were called, previous to the election, as copied
rom the St. Louis Democrat - IoEaagIss
woRKINGMEN's DEMoNsTRATIoNif
Free Labor to make Missouri the Empire State Of the
Union, and st Louis the Empire City
Of the West!!
LET THE MASSES TURN Our AND BATTLE FOB
THEIR CAUSE.
aH9sQr Free Men for our City,