Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-04-17

friday Nesuias. April ~.
EMANCIPATION n MBssOCas.
For the Last thirty years, the work Of
the emancipation Of negro slaves,
has been seriously retarded, nay, alto
gether prevented BY the hypocritical
intsrmsddling Of the Abolition fanat-
ics in the States where slavery does
not exist. Gradually and steadily did
the work Of emancipation proceed, un-
I'll now more than half Of the original
thirteen States, have become freely the
quiet and voluntary abolition Of sla-
very. The States thus becoming freed
from this institution, soon began to
manifest pharisaicsl signs Of self-right-
sousnesA and, from claiming more viz
tue, because ofthe abolition Of Slavery,
many Of the people Of these Free
States, commenced the bittcrest war
fare against the Slave holding States,
and employed language Of reproach
and condemnation, instead Of words Of
entrcsty and argument From words,
these Northern Pharisees commenced
the work Of stealing slaves, to be &C.
cretly conveyed to the free States and
TO Canada and filing the South with
tracts and pamphlets, urging the Slave
10 leave his master, and flee to the
North for self protection, the slsvchold-
ing States, reluctantly passed stringent
laws depriving the master Of the right
Of educating the slave, or learning him
TO read or write, 40 that his ignorance
Of letters would prevent the mischiefs,
otherwise arising from the perusal Of
Abolition documents. Then common
ced the degradation Of the Slave. As
the foreign abolitionists become more
interruptions in their efforts to incite
the Slaves to discomfort, so the slave
holding States increased the shackles
Of their bsndsmen, to defeat the designs
Of these negro stealers. Every year
witnessed fresh Abolition plottings,
and fresh laws to prevent the execu
ton Of such plots, until the poor
bOndmen were reduced to the most
abject scrvitude and degraded ignor-
ance, all through the unwise and I'M
constitutional interference OF prurient
fanatics Of the free States. The work
Of emancipation stopped. The slave
holding States began to defend instead
Of apologize for the peculiar institu-
tion," and soon, all those in the Slave
States, who had been actiye enamel
pationists, became, all OF sudden the
enemies Of Abolitionists, and the zeal
GUS supports If slavery laws. Thus,
those who pretended to be the friends
of the slaves, by their foolish policy of
negro stealing, and their ISLANDERS
against the South, were in fact the
Slaves deadlicst foes. And So il has
been to this day. While large class
Of persons in Delaware. Nirginia, Ken
tucky, and Missouri, and even Texas,
confessed, that the true interests OF
those States demanded the enactment
Of Emancipation laws, yet. 80 long rs
the Abolition war WAS raging against
them at the North, So long they would
oppose emancipation. But for ADO
litionists all Of the above named States
would now rejoice in as complete free
dom, rs any States Of the Union. The
defeat Of Fremont, and by it the dis
persion Of the Aboltionists, his con-
WINGED the South, that the States Of the
North, will countcnancc no acts, that
are unconstitutional and aggressive, and
that each State is to be left perfectly
"free to manage its domestic institu-
lions in its own way, subject only to
the Constitution of the United States"
and this has encouraged the real
friends Of Emancipation, in the Slave
holding States, to commence again the
work Of making provision for abolishing
slavery. Missouri has taken the lead
in this good work. In st. Louis, whore
Slavery is scarcely known to exist, it 10
sscertained that a majority Of voters
are Emancipationists, throughout the
State there is strong feeling in be
half Of this movement. The Slave
population is SO small, about $4,000
and slave labor so Improbable, that
the work Of emancipation can be easily
accomplished. BY enacting law that
oil children Of slave parents, born, Il
ter this year shall become free on At.
taing their majority, and that no more
slaves shall be brought into the State
the institution can be easily removed,
without loss to shareholders, and with.
out injury to slaves. The only anxiety
We teel upon the subject is, that the