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


in the Legislature of Missouri on the subject Of
emancipation in that State, has appeared at l,ngh
in the st. Louis papers, and fully answers the high
expectations we were led TO form Of it. This
speech, 1t will be remembered, was in opposition to
q resolution declaring emancipation in Missouri to
be not only imprac'cable, but any movement
having that object in view to DO "ineIpedeut, i'm
polite, unwise and unjust" aud Is such to be
di.counte nanced by the people Of that State. y"
Brought forward as a peace offering to the
shareholders on the part Of the Sham Democratic
leaders in the Legislature, for having presumed 10
elect an avOwed Enancipationist as one Of the
Directors Of the STATE Bark Of Missouri, the
design was to have forced it through by sort of
surpri,e and without aoy debate Bat though only
ole days notice Of its introduction was given, this
project did not succeed The reso utiOn was ably
opposed in both Houses, and We doubt if shy length
of time for preparation could have produced q
more effective speech against it than tina. delivered
BY Dir. Brown.
He begins nth abiding to the origin of the reso-
luton, charging upon the leaders of the PrO-Slavery
party the responsibility Of commencing the agta-
which at the present moment of calm, after three
years' slavery agitation, he would not have been
the frat to ntroduce-but which, having been in
trOduced, be is not to he frightened aid deferred
from full and free discussion Of. He di,avOws
that "woTship Of whispers with which so many
are wont 10 approach this idol OF the South,
which worship, set up as a test ami carried into
everything great and small, high and low, political,
theological social cid moral, has silenced so many
voices. While intending to say nothing to provoke
anger he yet means fully to speak out his honest
convictions. The abolition of Slavery, az Illus
rated by the history of the States Of the Union in
which it has taken place, has been, according to
his idea of it, not 60 much triumph Of humanity
a. triumph Of free labor, while the legislative acts
on The subject have, instead Of initiating the move
ment, only confirmed what was al,eady done.
Slavery in those States was practically abolished
before it was prohibited BY law. The same pro-
GEES, in his view, has already begun in Missouri.
1t is rather late in the day for the Legislature to
declare that any movement for the emancipation Of
the slaves ought TO be " discountensnced, when
there is already in force and in full operation an &C.
Of gradual emancipation more posen. than any
which aDy Legislature could pass.
That the fact, startog ss it msy seem, is really
90, Mr.. Brown proceeds to argue fro n an analysis
Of he recsn Mt censas>Uf the Stste, compared with
that Of Ic5l. The ratio of slaves to freenen by
the Gel sUs Of 1851 was a. 81 623 to 574 lls or as
one 10 six aud three quarters. BY the census of
l-56, whie the slaves have increased II, 1872, the
FREE have LcIeaHd 2O5 703. Thus the proportiobate
increase Of slaves to that Of free persons has baen
only as one to sixteen, showing great prepoi de-
ronce Of increase On the part of the free.
As to the Increase Of u, 492 in The slave popul.
ton Of the Sta;e, no LEES than 1920 Of that
Increase has taken place in twelve counties, lying
ely In the central ard ferti bet Of territory
bordering the Missouri River, aud containing
nearly bali TIE eLtire slaye population, though less
than ask part Ct tie free population Of the Sa,:.
The.e twelve counties, which in 1851 had - Ala
saves to 1Oe,559 iree have, by ,hs new census,
~ GA slaves 10 l27, 1853 free. The slaves have in
cressed TO- 800 aud the free only 81, 4O4. In these
counties the slave population is gaining the free,
strong proof, 10 addition to others TO be hereafter
citsd, If tie ncompalibiiiy between free and slave
lobcr. In taO If these counties, which by strange
6iscIel abcy-nct noted, hoaever, by Mr. Brown
beer he names Of Howard and Lafay cite, the in
ersase Of slaves eoIsideraby exceeds tie Increase