Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1857-02-02
from the Missouri Dsmocratl
EMANCIPATION OF SLAVES IN

tt0nnl DeInOcratc party OF MtSSouTlI VOIcu toF
an emancipatiOnist, knowing him to be an eman-
cipatiomiSt The gentleman who put him in
nomination, said that many anti.Benton men
were enancipationiSts. The Leader, the TecOg
Missed organ of its party, through its editor, who
was at the time in personal Intercourse with his
chiefs, declared that n man may be an etnanci-
patiOnist and National Democrat; and Senator
Price, of illustriOus prestige. has endorsed the
Judgment of tic Leader. There is, therefore,
no room for doubt, with reference to the Ma
tiOnal Democracy. In its collective capacity,
and through it's various organs it has declared
that emancipation is an open question; and has
sealed that declaration by asserting to the Tati-
6cation pronounced, in joint session, by Senator
Price-One of its lofty dignitaties.
The applause which followed Mr.. ClOvcr's
speech aud the VIGOROUS stand taken by Mr..
Brown and we might add, Gf our mOdesty per-
United ms to say SOL the position of this journal
IA position which is applauded by its readers
warrant us in declaring that EMANCIPATION Is an
open question in our party aso; and not only
an open one, but popular and progressive one.
Scarcely more gratifying than the declarations
of Brown and Glover was that of Senator Blow,
on Monday, in which he also cordially and trust
fully committed himself TO the same nvigOla-
ting principle Mr.. Blow is a new school Anne
rican, who is gradually slOughing off the legacy
of nativiSIn bequeathed to him by the late Wing
party and the Missouri Republican, of which he
has been u constant reader, and from which he
may have acquired, compensation, the germ
of his lately enuncia:ed views; and now we have
strong hope of his speedy and complete disen-
thralmcnt, for no one can doubt the moral cOu-
rage of the man who avOws emancipation views
in the Legislature of Missouri. In view Of Mr..
Blows declaration, are we not justified in aSsu-
ming that Emancipation is an open question in
each of the three parties into which the State is
divided?
Viewing the question as subject of State
policy, we will venture to say that it is the
grandest ever rropOunded to the people. lfit
were affirmed in constitutional convention,
and thoroughly carried out without any viOia-
ton ofveSted rights, Missouri, in few years sub
Sequentt to its contamination, would be the fore
most Ttate on the American continent POpu.
Iation would flow in from all sides were the
barrier of negro slavery once removed, and in
place of $4,000 slaves, we should have 100000
white men, which, in addition to the population
we would have ut that Time would give us at
once an aggregate of two millions,
Is Missouri ambitious of political power?-a
power which is slipping away from the South.
The mode of acquiring it is found. Wcarc not
rash enough to attempt a description of our con-
ditiOn if the element of free labor were intro
duced. The earth would give up its hidden
treasures mt its bidding as the sen will give up
its dead; AMI the soil would bloom more luxuri-
autIy than if it drank the dews OfHebron night
ly ten thousand kecls would veX our rivers,
towns along their banks would grow into cities,
and St Louis would unite in itself the attributes
If the greatest commercial, manufacturing and
literary metropolis in the world Let it be re-
membered that we have every inanimate element
of wealth aud power within our limits, and that
we require only la5nr-frec labor-fUr we need
not say Servile labor is inadequate
1t is remarkable that ariStocracy in every age
and country, has planted itself upon tn. idea of
property as established by law When the
met with enuncation Of the rights of pro-
pcrty; when the IrShman asks for tenant right,
that the profits of his own labor may be secured
to hin, the grinding landlord shelters himself
behind his rights of property, and stcrnly refn
<eS the deuland 1t is SO everywhere-We
grant the rights of property, and should not ia.
vUrany movement for emancipation which would
moi secure full compensation to the STAKEHOLDER,
but the safety of the State is the supreme law,
and enough has recently tranSpircd to show TO
the discerning that our future safety would be
best maintained by putting in operation a gra-
dual system of emancipation.
There need be no perniclOuS 0gitatiOn; and
even if there should, it is the penalty which we
cannot avOitl paying at some time; and it is en-
sier to pay it now, than in the future. Who
that watches passing events and Indications, is
not sensible of the fact that great internal con-
vulSiUns await the slave States? Better to Crap
pie with the danger in time, If danger therebr
and avert it, than wait until it becomes iOrnli-
dablc One thing is certain, or history is 10
guide: that is, that slavery cannot DO ucrpctua-
. .Su any wse .s an "gltntloh now Mou'u We
t , eil"It VI 'ne sOcH' system 10 tnTo" Oh
disease MhlT1 hau not toucheu Us 'sisi mere
after II WGulu oe Ilo struggle ioF ne WIN
9Ita s"AleSS. hu! we 40 not al'Prsmei'Iany
agla't S Iore ''.aII ms "ee"
Agitatirg the slavery question, las been their
constant Ct, business, ana hntg worse mas result
ca from u tnan '''elr eleva''o very
tI'tii.'s e.n' ~ t''e ""y-"nu ''e temporary
Sa;Ia o' i M"l,S"S. II a.. g.. CT.
neSiues' we kno" t'lat all inc Fee states
that dangerous agitation arose in any in