Quasqueton guardian. (Quasqueton, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1856-1858, 1857-02-28
EMANCIPATION IN MISSOURI.

G.MAN(lfA1ION IN MISSOUR Xxi.
Ey-Notthe least among the many great
results accomplished by that spontaneous
expression Of the sense of the people of
the North in favor OF freedom-as was
evidenced In the formation and unparal-
lclcd growth of the Republican party
has been the courage infused into that
large class in the Southern States, whose
interests and sympathies are adverse to
Slave labor. In Delaware, MARYLAND,
Virginia and Kentucky, there were men
born to the soil, who dared advocate the
cause of freedom even when the mad pas
sions of a political campaign were raging
rampant. And had the Republican par
ty tIiumphcd, there is but little doubt
that thousands of ardent sympathizcrs in
the South, who now but silently wish the
cause Godspccd, would have been open
and Jealous advocates. The bigoted OPP
position, intolerance and rufianism dis
played by the mass of the people of Tie
South towards all wEo lave dared to Dis
cuss this great question on the side of
freedom, has tended to smother the out
ward manifestations of Il feeling which is
even now extensively current among the
slaveholding classes of the South
and fast increasing-that the abolition of
Slavery is necessary for their own self
protection. In Eastern Virginia, where
Slavery has heretofore been canonized,
journals have been found, who, despite
the menacing proclama.ions of Gov. WISE,
and tie bla,am denuncia.ions of the En-
quirer, have had the tcmerity, lately, to
assert that " the peculiar institution" has
been, and is now, curse to tie State, and
the country. And now Missouri, whose
good name has been compromised by the
ultr; and rutianly course of the few ad-
Noc:llcs of Slavery aud It's extension, who
exist within her boundaries, is making
IN effort to throw off the shackles which
have impeded her growth, thwarted her
ambition, rendered nugatory her adran-
tages. and made her name UNANIMOUSLY no.
torious.
The question Of emancipation has late
~ been opened in that State, not only
through the Press, but in her legislature.
The occasion, We learn from the Keokuk
lMiey Times, was as follows "TEe
election of Bank Directors came before
the Legislature. Mr.. PALM, German
Buchanan Democrat, was nominated as
one Of their candidates in a party caucus.
When his name was presented for cleo
ton, objection was made to him because
sometime last summer he Lad written
letter upon political subjects to the New
York Journal Of Commerce, in which he
announced himself in favor of Enamel
patton in Missouri. The result of the
ballot, however, was the election of Mr..
Palm, on the ground that lie was eau
Gus candidate, and entitled to the unani-
nous support Of his party, which he re-
ceived. But the position of Mr. Palm
was made clear. 1t WAS confessed that
he WAS an Emancipationist. Since his
election, he has written letter, of which
the following is an extract -
with regard to this State, with whose
prosperity my own interests have been,
are, and willcyer be identified, hold the
opinion that slavery, although a blessing
10 the negro, is a disadvantage to us; that
we Lave collectively lost more By it than
we have individually gained by it, and
that il is therefore desirable to us to get
rid of il. ii We can do SO without Unjust
ice the slave owner, and with the further
condition that We get rid of the negroes
at the same time.
without these conditions, l am OPP
posed 10 tie abolition of slavery in this
State. If We are compelled to live in tie
same community with negroes, desire
diem to be slaves for the good of both
Faces. Tcse views, if ! am not misin