The Kansas herald of freedom., 1857-08-22
the downfall of their cherished ins.itu-

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current of popular opinion, which i
strongly setting in favor of human libert.
and elevation throughout the world. The!
foresee an end to the ignorance and ab
jectness which characterizes the poore
classes of whites at the South, and th'
downfall oftheir despotic dominion.
Below will be found an extract from
Major Rollins speech, showing precisel,
the position occupied by the liberal o.
emancipation party of Missouri, and the
platform upon which he is probably elect.
ed. If so, is it not conclusive evidenc,
that majority of the people of Missour
repudiate the action of party leader.
in the raid upon Kansas, and that the
star of National Democracy wanes in thai
State, as we'll as wherever its true intent
and purposes are known, and where Free
Labor, Free Soil, and Free Men are
deemed objects worthy of every and any
effort to secure them?
Let this be, then, the rallying cry,
now and hereafter, and succeeding gen.
erations will be forced to seek some other
political issue upon which to base the
claims of new political aspirants. A few
more years of earnest effort at the ballot
box, and the slavery agitation will be for
ever at rest.
The following is from the speech OF
Major Rollins in 81. Louis on the 1st inst.
The liberal sentiments therein promul-
gated have no doubt received full en-
dorSement by the people of Missouri, who
have repudiated the lead of ultra slavery
propagandists, and given in their adher-
ence to the manifest destiny of FREE
LABOR
"ln regard to my opinion upon the
subject of emancipation hear it said
occasionally that Missouri is destined to
be free State. Very well; am in favor
of leaving that question to higher than
human laws, and l am in favor of sub
lnitting that question to the laws Of ci-
mate, of emigration, of dbOr and of pro
ctuetion, which, first or last, affects the des-
TIMES of man and of commonwealths, and
to the clear guidance of Him who does
all things well.
"Now, am in favor of encouraging
labor in our State; protecting the labor of
this great city, and of the entire COM
monwealth in which we live. l am in
favor of inviting and encouraging emigra-
ton to the State of Missouri from every
part.
81 say, let us throw wide open our
doors, and invite here men of the North,
to the S outh, and men of every tongue
and kindred upon the habitable globe
Invite them here to cultivate our prairies,
to till our land, to aid in developing our
mineral resources, to aid us in filling up
our great cities and in making Missouri
the proudest and noblest commonwealth
in this sisterhood of States; and if, nv
friends, this cordial system of emigration
/ from North and South-if, l say, this
emigration in the course of years brings
about such a disproportion between the
white and the black races, that it is no
longer the interest of the people of the
State of Missouri to continue it a slave
State, l say, then let it go.'
"These are my opinions, my friends.
hide them from no one. | do not wish
to war with man, however, because he
is an emancipationist. That is the better
and wiSest policy.
Let Ills not bring about civil discorti
and strife; let us look upon the North
and the South as our brethren, as bone
of our bone and flesh of our flesh, as men
living under the same great government,
and as men whose interests and destinies
are inseparable, and must be enc and the
same throughout all time to come. This
is peculiarly the position which Missouri
ought TO occupy. Look at our position
as State in the Union-we are by the
Father of Waters, neither North nor
South, constituting as it were, the bright
golden link which holds the two sections
of the country together. Itshould be our
province as MisSourianS, as Americans, as
men of the same common family, to oc-
cupy not an extreme, but conservative
and union position upon this vexed qucs-
ton. Let us join neither the North nor
the South, but cling to the Union as the
ark of our rest, as men who are emanci-
pationists, Americans, wings, patriots; let
us swear by the Union, and when the
storm of sectional strife, when such a
storm shall sweep over our political sea,
lett be the proud province of Missouri,
to stretch forward the great arm, taking
the North in one hand and the South in
the other, reminding each of their COM
mon origin, and distinctly of the common
triumphs and dangers which our fore
fathers have shared together; reminding
them as patriots, not only of the duties
which they owe to this State, but their
duties to the Union itself, and the cause
of christian liberty throughout the entire
habitable globe"