True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-02-04
From the st. Louis Democrat.
Triumph of the National"

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The conflict which commenced in Mis-
souri in 1914, between The institution Of
slavery acting on the aggressive in lis
efforts 10 become the abs olnte power in
The State, and the industrial interests and
hereditary rights Of the people acting
upon the defensive. may be said 10 have
terminated in the triumph Of the former.
If all history be drama, one act M the
great drama, Of which Missouri is The
scene, may be said to have closed in
gloom, with the election Of Green and
Polk. The party, the peculiar character.
islc Of which is seryility to. slavery--a
servility more abjeCt than that Of the
Chinese to their celestial Emperor, or
than that Of the Mahommedans TO the
successor Of the prophet--is victorious in
every department of the State. The
Legislature is its servant the Governor
and The Lieut.. Governor, the auxiliary,
State officers, the United States Senators
are it's creatures and instruments. What.
ever of power, patronage, emolument and
distinction appertains to the Legislative
and executive lunclionaries whatever of
the national spois has fallen TO the lot of
Missouri since the accession Of President
Pierce, have been gathered exclusively
by the pro-slavery crusaders. Midway
between the people and the President and
the recipients Of favorS from both, they
remind one of those half breeds Of fable
the demi- -gods-whose nostrils were
regaled by the SAVIOR of hecalombs from
the ground while the gods showered
gifts on them from above. We do not
understate the achievements or conquests
of our victorious enemies we deduct not
doit from their plunder, not leaf from
their laurels.
IL the drama of which we hSse spoken
the drama Of history-were always a
tragedy if it were not certain that ii con-
sisls OF AN indefinite number of acts,
which follow in succession as the curtain
of the future is uplifted. until at last the
triumph OF right over wrong is evolved,
we might depIore our defeat as finally
and as a catastrophe in another sense
than the dramatic one. Our contest with
the institution of slavery, seeking to be.
come sovereign ard despolic, is similar
to the contest of the Ieople cf England
with the Sluarts. There the king tried
to establish despo.sm on the ruins of
liberty /; here The institution Of slavery
seeks to establish tyranny by subjuga-
ting white labor, and SUI pr ssing free
dom Of speech. The kings design was
to make the crown not only supreme, but
unlimited the pro-slavery politicians
he,e attempted, and with success, to make
allegiance to their idol the lest Of poll
lies, its preservation, The end Of legislation
and It's extension the dream Of sta esman-
ship. We do not assail slavery, we
merely resist it. We recognize it in our
political systems, alwa S concede its con-
s'nulional and prOscriptive claims ac-
knowledge it as all elemen, of our indus
try; but we deny that it has any divine
or human right to supremacy and assert
that there are rights more sacred than any
species of property, Call this Black Re-
publicanism il you will, Republican at
least it is, for it means that interests as
well as men should be equal before the
law. and that no one interest or class Of
interests should have peculiar privileges
derived from. written state law. or The III.
written law Of opinion, any more Than
one class Of men. Aye, this is Republi'
can, aad Democratic too whether it be
ironically qualified or not. and Black Re.
pubIicanism is not greater stigma than
Black Arislocracy. We recognize slavery
as we said IN all its conditions and as
poets. except in its condition and dicIa,
torial aspects, but we regret that it is in-
terwoven with the organization Of the
Stale, and should favor the wise and lof-
ty craftsmanship that could solve the
grave and complicated problem of substi-
luting free white labor, for servile black
labor, without any infringement Of vested
rights.
We do not feel depressed by defeat.--.
De Tocquenile in his las, work-The
Old Legime--says; lin the darkness
Of the future three truths may be plainly
dscerned. The frs. is, that all men of
our day are driven, sometimes slowly.
sometimes violently, by al unknown
force. which may possibly be regulated
Or moderated, but cannot be overcome,
toward the destruction Of aristocracies,"
Arislocracies are doomed, bnt the only
destruction which we desire should over
take them. is their trsnsmigration into
democracies. Our cause may seem to
be retrogressive, bul it is in reality, adj
vancing. We represent the rights Of
white labor and Of free speech. /" His
tory" says Hege, sis. the conflict Of
ideas, and the victory Of The deeper thO't
and who doubts thai the principles on
which we act. are more profoundly true
than those Of the slavery propagandisis,
and that victory will crown them in due
season. The darkest hom is the hour
before the dawn and now, in what seems
the darkest hour, we. see glimmerings
of the dawn, end hear voices sumInoning
us to renewal Of the struggle. A good
cause is always the 6nul victor.
\ EE Its rumroed that Mr.. Dallas has
negotiated treaties with the British Cow
ernment which permanently settle all the
questions in dispute between this county
and Great Britain. iiia st,s.i
.
SsT A Belle living 10 81 Joseph,
Missouri, no. long since married one lover
at 3 A. M. and ran away with another
: atop. M.