New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-11

and embrhc1x, Wuotocr - heSsi eA'o"'" VI PSPe-
lstion. bu. q small portion Of the sase can
slavery be considered ~ having firm foeshoid.
In twenty-five counties there has been An actual
decree Of slaves since 1851 to the extent OF are
than fifth of the whole number. In ISL these
twenty FIVE counties, containing 29,693 freemon.
had q. 526 slaves. In 1856 they had but l7,Os4
slaves, decrease of 4li2 while. 8! the sane time.
their white population had risen to 293 400, al in
crease Of 75,7Tthe ratio Of slaves to fIeemen hsy-
ing decrsas IN these Eve years from one in ten to
ore in thirteen. And what gives more signifc moe
TO the fact is that these counties ate the very same
into which the current Of white non slaveho ldinx
imm; grafton has been chiefly directed. These are
far from being the most fertile COUNTIES Of the State.
Those were pre- coupled BY the s'svthoders. While
the exuberant bottom lands Of the Missouri are cul
tivattd by slaves, free immigrants from Germany
have established themselves on the broken chds OF
the Gasconsde, and the sterile hills OF the Maramcc
Where shareholders have rarely found it desirable
10 settle aud ofen difficult to subsist, there COO
MES of industrious free lab orrs have built up dour-
ishins villages and EXTENDED long lines OF settle
ment II 10 in these counties chiefly that the labor
ing white man has in contact with the aborins
slave, and amid the excitement Of Wild Slavery
furcr which, within the past 1--WE years, has swept
over the State. putting all who dared to deny the
divinity of the institution Of Slavery in jeopardy Of
their lives, IFS usages and inst buttons have yet
been compelled 10 give way before the access Of
free lsborers.
An analogous state Of things 10 to be observed 10
Al. -. In thA. k.n
counties there has been indeed, in the FIVE ye,rs
from 1851 to 1856, slight increase in the number
of slavee but the total number is 80 small CON-
pared with the white population, m to render this
increase Of no account. TIE census Of 1851 gave
for these ten counties 633 slaves to %, 5A free
TIE census of 1856 gives 81 slaves to 81 255 free
The slaves have increased 23S, the free 1891;
thus raising the proportion Of free to slaves ~ nine
ty.three freemen to one slave. Nor are these the
Only counties in this position. Twenty-Five coca-
ties, with an aggregate free population Of 9i,6Sj,
have within their limits only l,Ol7 slaves. 1t is
ab,urd in Mr.. Browns view, to speak OF the sys-
tenn of Slavery as obtaining in these counties.
Slavery, as system, has been excluded from them
by settlement and immigration. 1t myers only a.
an exception, and the few who remain slaves are
held rather as articles of family pride relics Of
family inheritance than for any value put upon their
services
The twelve counties above referred 10 may be set
down as an exception; but in the other ninety 6ye
counties the gradual abolition Of Slavery must be
considered as already in successful operation.
Hemp is the Only Mi.soari staple that yields re-
turns adequate to justify an investment in slave
labor, snd many Of the shareholders are alresdy Oh
the move for Texas, thus contributing to the tri-
umph Of free labor.
Mr. Brown then proceeds 10 point out the bene-
fits which would accrue from emancipation to the
industrial interests Of the State. While wishing no
i'll to the thirty thousand slaveholding land owners
his sympathies, he confesses, are with the seven
hundred and seventy thousand non shareholders, Of
whom many slss are londhoders. From COM
parison between the increase Of internal Improve
ments and population 10 the Free and in tho Save
States, he concludes tta. the abolition Of Slavery
would lead at once to an appreciation in the valua
of the lands of Missouri greater in amount than the
entire value Of the ex sting slave property. The
in pulse ii would give to commerce would DO still
greater. The position at present occupied BY Mis-
souri, is such that the Nor.h and the South alike
give her the cold shoulder The Pro Slavery senti-
ment existing in the State and the danger TO prop
erty and free transport thence arising, so strk ngy
evnced in the late Kansas outrsges, drive Northern
commerce snd emjgra ion to seek moro northera
routes, while the very Southern interests which
claim to hold Missouri 10 their grasp interposs 10
divert TO more southern route the railroad across
the continent, 10 the starting of which from her
borders Missouri has % deep an interest. In c,a.
neciOn with this subject, be refers to the late Kan
sos Outrages in the following pointed terms.
80 lori Is Slavery obtains a system 10 our con.
unity, lorg, II would seem If We 10 judge from
ps,t experience Slavery agisofs will continue to die
tuib all The relations Of society and to does over
cause greater shock than TO those exchanges thatmay
well be styled the nerves Of commerce. We have seen
someibrg Of this ourselves during the pact year We
have witnessed Kania' foray originating In political
agitation of the Slavery question, shaping ifself into an
AIMED Inclusion into neighborog T. rritsry, aud
eveLtuaDg in the blockade of that great nsyigsble
stream which rrns through the heart Of our Stats Ia
the stoppsge of travel and transportation, and IN
the dive of trade that Of right belongs 70 u.s. into
Northern AMI Southern routes. Ii may be otimsted
that set aone Of violence upon the Mssou River
jured 10 the OmOuIt OF more than $50 OO 10 the
shape Of the discOurag cement tf 'rans by fnra emit
grants through our State. 1t certainly diverted mora
than ten thousand people nom the accustomed
routes upon yonder waters and forced them 70
seek other and devious ways to reach ihslr
osstinaton. That is but tpge item OF the isj1y In
fict.d, but 1t is telling ITEM, and one that speaks
volumes upon this subject Of sgit,ion. We nave
seen also, The 6emorsiz alton which BIS, bsen fie-
quebily produced by it upon society at large. and
which aer sundering all business relations, has sub
ituied plunder for purcbase. Who does not recall,
during the late KsDses war, the utter Suspension
OF busness Ielatous which prevailed In counties COO
tgucts TIE line. Tfere me ties which bouGd mor-