Arkansas true Democrat., 1857-10-06
The Election of Governer in Missouri

The Election of Governer ill Missouri.
 The fact that Rollins, who we have hereto fore considered strictly an emancipation candi- date, received vote almost large enough to elect him Governor of Missouri was and is still regarded as an omen of evil to the institution of slavery in that State It was, therefore, with peculiar pleasure that we read communication in late number of the St. Louis Republican containing reflections calculated to remove or at least, to modify favoraby any such impres. sion. We annex it and invite the attention oI our readers to 1t:
 From the Missouri Republican,
 Blairs Map Tested by the Late Election
 The "Net,o Party" IHushatea.
 MIR. EDIToR:-It is known to you, as well as to most of your readers, that our black republi can representative in Congress some time since caused map to be published in New York, illustrating the strength of slavery as existing in the several counties in Missouri, thereby in- tending, no doubt, to foreshadow the probabli- ty of the gradual victory of the republican, vu1go emancipation party in State. The map made its due noise in the world for which it was intended, and like similar productions ema- hating from the same source, it was seized upon with that avidity characteristic of northern null lifers and fanatics, to keep up the unhoy agi- tation of the slavery question in our midst. To us at home-however reasonable the designs of the enemies of our public peace and prosperi- ty-it matters little what may, from time to time be bechcd forth by the black republican organs and their tools; but the fair fame and credit of our people abroad seem absolutely to require more than the mere silence of contempt in refutatiOn of the islander thus basely imputed. Apart from the fact that the so-called eman- cipatlon question in Missouri constitutes but a mere trick, pertidiously thrust forward in the garb of a political question, to sustain trea- sonabe faction in and about St. Louis county apart from the contemptibe, ave- gnomn-
 ous means employed to bolster themselves up
 in defence of their attitude upon that question by the black republicans among us-apart from the notorious fact that the question thus raised has been folsted upon our people in direct op- position to their will, and to the detrment of every true interest of our citizens: our inter- ests abroad require that 1t should be shown, ac- cording to truth, that the movement is as con temptible in strength as it is corrupt in it's mo- ral conception. So far as the returns of the late election can adduce facts, let those speak and illustrate to what extent our people are welded to abolitonism and its inseparable con- comitant vices; and when the united republi can press of the north and west proclaim our beloved State and our democratic people as on the eve ot drvellng into black republcanism let not the to us, apparent absurdty and huge Impotence of the islander prevent us from giv- Ing It the he emphatlcalv. Nav those rever- end political professors-Beecher, Cheever haliock, Prof. Silliman, Elihu Burrtt and Ger ritt Smith, a m oDtne genus, believe that the MiosOurans are about to enroll themselves t0 serve as tlunkeys in the emancipation arb, to do the dirty work for dantier abolition lords in some future Hartford Convention May Abby Fulsom and her whole emancipated crew and every runaway negro in Canada, Boston and Chicago believe it; but let the islander be refuted, lest good and sensible people, lest our trends at the east and the south--to whom the political affairs of our State are only m ,de known through the prcss-Are also gradually led to do us injustice in believing such thing even possible.
 } The assertion, boldly put forward by the black republican organs in St. Louis. that the vote received by Mai. Rollins at at the late election Is test of the freesoil vote of Missou II, the assertion that Major Rollins candidacy l was the candidacy of the emancipation ? par ty among Us, embraces a lie, equal in degree of reckIessneSs, to that of charging Mr. Massie our Secretary oi State, with fraud in tamperng With the election returns. If Major Rnllus alter becoming the serviceable tool to Blair Brown, Boernstein & Co.,, for riding irto office at all hazards, had not lost the last spark of seIf-respect and manly pride, he would himself come forward publicly and define his position II, as l stated, Major Rollins had not sunk SC low III hls self estimation as not to care for his f position before the great public any longer, he would declare the truth to be:
 l. That he is shareholder, closely welded to the slavery interests, and so declared him. self in his public speeches d4 He s1qve counties , 2. That he is opposed to the gradual or , prompt emancipation of slavery in Missouri
 and so declared himself in his public speeches in Me slaue countless
 3. That he is in favor of Kansas coming into the Union as slave State and heartily endor- ses the Kansas Nebraska bill and the repeal o !, the Missouri Com promise, and so declared him self publicly in all sutab1e localities.
 4. That in the same suitable localities, he even broadly intimated, if not openly asserted tAat Col. Stewart, his opponent, was non
 slave holder, Gas happened to be the fact,) and
 was in league with certain Massachusetts abo ltion interests, inmcal to the interests of NJ S souri slave State.
 As 1t is not my intention to direct this com. ] , votes which he received at the late election f ont of 95,6l6 votes boiled, being loudly 9 claimed by northern aboljtonsts, as the free soil strength of the State, 1 shall abstain iron commenting upon that genteman's po'tla
 principles in other localities such as in St. Louis
 where he left the destiny of the negro slave tt
 ' the mercy of the Almighty" and the question 7 of Know Nottingham to 'sthe decision of Con r. gress' But this much would still ask of hin : or his friends, in defence of the democracy o our State:
 Did Major Rollins, in any one public dis
 course, or by letter or otherwise, during the lat t campaign, declare himself openly, or even by f lntImation, in favor of emancipation, or oppose, q to the institution of slavery? No not even he f in black republican St. Louis. as it is called
 dared thus to belle his antecedents and often
 repeated, pubIicly-expressed sentiments as tc e utter or even breathe such an assertion. Is i not notorious, that for the purpose of dodgin. , the Know othing question before the Dutcl : and lrlsh" m St. Louis, and for not ofendin. e his pro-sIavery "American'' friends in Boone } Marion, Lafayette, Cooper and Galloway h. submitted to the German merchant--a republi . can Tn sentlment-who, on the Saturday previ
 ous to the election, in Washington Square, pro . pounded the questions to Major Rollins in wri ting during his speech.
 t "What are your vsews upon the Emancpa l tion queston?'
 n "What are your views upon the Naturaiza Q tion question?'
 e And to whom he gave, in substance the re : ply above indicated? And yet, in the face o
 the position thus of his own accord assumed b. : Major Rellins even here in St. Louis, where, a was thought he might have gone great ways in respect to free soilism and emancipation me- | in leaVluu the naturalizati 1uaStion to (o, : gress," and the negro question to God,' con t tenting himself with soft -soaping the former b. l showing up his admiration for Benton, and tn i latter by abusing the Democratic anti -Ameri , can rule," under which he charged the State t l suffer- Is 1t necessary that should mention ] the name of that party in miist, who pro : claim Rollins the emancinaIion candidate an1