The Kanzas news., 1857-07-04
Tie Effect of the Emancipation Move
ment in Missouri.


The successful Inauguration of the eman-
cipation movement in Missouri by the cleo
ton of John NJ. Winner, as the Mayor of ST.
Louis, has already borne fruit IN the trennen-
dous rise of real estate, not only In st. Lou
is but throughout the entire State. 1t is well
known to all owners and purchasers of real
estate that tbs sales this Spring have been
three-foId as great and at greater increase of
price than ever before obtained In this city.
The same is true of the State. Never has
there been such demand for Missouri lands,
and never before have such prices been OBJ
tanned as during the present spring. Here
tofore the emigration from the free States
has directed itself upon Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Kanzas, but now much of
this great tide has turned itself upon Nilsson
ri, and the reason of this is undoubtedly to
be found in the fact that the movement for
free labor which has so recently triumphed
in ST. Louis, and which has shown vitality
that bids fair to become victorious In the State,
has drawn attention to the rich lands of Mis-
souri,, and holds out the promise that they
are net long to be cursed with the incubus
which has so long made them barren and
improbable.
There are, doubtless, other causes which
have contributed to this result. The hard
winters of the last two years have disguised
many with the climate of Minnesota, Wis
consin, and Iowa. The publicity given to
the vast mineral and agricultural resources
of the State has not been without its effect
The growing prospect for the completion of
our railroads has also contributed no little.
But more than any or all these put together,
has been for the permanent welfare of the
State, by the gallant and courageous con-
duct of those of our own citizens who have
given the pledge to the entire world that
here, In Missouri, the interest Of free a0hite
labor should be respected and protected
This has brought to our city, and to every
county In the State, hundreds and thous-
ands of honest and industrious free white
laboring men; and it has brought, and viii
continue to bring, millions of dollars for in
vestment in our lands.
We are not alone In thus thinking-many
persons who opposed the movement this
spring as premature, who thought it right
in itself, but considered it unwise to press
it at this time, having since admitted to US
and to others that they were mistaken, that
the authors of the movement were right, that
was claimed for it, that already it had added
thousands to our population and millions to
our wealth.
The people of this State have come to the
conclusion that there are other kinds of
property in the State besides negroes, that
In fact the other property of the State is worth
millions for every thousand dollars of slave
property, that it is silly in the extreme to
sacrifice the millions for the thousands
They have SO concluded, Notwithstanding
the protests of the Republican and Leader,
that white men are much better popula-
ton than the negroes; and that We would be
better off if the negroes were removed and
white men should come in to fill up the State.
Indeed, it would not surprise us if the pro-
cess of demonstration which has taken place
here this spring should continue. to see the
movement for emancipation consummated
by success in one half the time we thought
it would take when it first commenced
Missouri Democrat