Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
Decrease 4,442 Increase

From the foregoing additions, too, it will be
maniiest that there has not only been an actual
decrease Of the number of slaves in each OF the
counties named, but that the increased white pop
ulation has been correspondingly large, Thus,
while the decrease of slaves has been 4, 442, the
increase of whites has been 1877 or, if we take
the sum total of those counties in 1851 it will be
found that the ratio Of slaves to free whites was
one to ten, while in the year 1856 it seems to be
but one to thirteen. So much for the absolute
decrease of Slavery in Missouri Concurrent with
this fact, however, may be noted the attendant
circumstance that these counties are the same in
which white emIgrants to this State are known by
every gentleman here to have principally settled
Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, st. Charles,
Ste. Genevieve, Cole, Usage and Gasconade have
received within the last five years large influx of
German laboring population. Others have been
settled up by an industrious class of farmers
coming from the older States. St. Louis has
drawn its increase from all lands and tongues and
trades and spheres of life, and in each and all the
system of Slavery has receded before the advance
OF the white race. 1t is in these counties chiefly
that the laborng white man has come into contact
with the laboring slave and it IS there that in the
course of but five years. and amid all the excite
ment of wild Slavery furore which swept ovel
our State as a wind Of desolation, and at q time
when mems lives were held in imminent jeopardy
who refused to accord divinity to this institution
there and then, | say, the energies of the white
man, his demand for labor, his frUgality, economy
and industry, have compelled the usages and instj
tutions of Slavery to make room for him and 90
down in the conflict As another and strong
evidence of what | have stated, that n gradual
emancipation act is in force in Missouri | call the
attention of Representatives to what is transpiring
and is known to be transpring by many now
within the sound of my voice, in the counties Of
this State that border upon the State Of Iowa. The
results of the systems of Slave labor and Free
labor, and the effects upon the wealth and welfare
of communities, are there distinctly visible in the
rival Commonwea.hs. The Iowa line divides the
two as clearly and strikingly rs the lucid line of
water which distinguishes the turbid and muddy
torrents Of the Missouri from the blue and spark
ling currents of the Mississippi at the junction of
those mighty rivers, And prominent among the
facts vhis.. stand out from that contrast-perhaps
more prominent than any other--is the RELATIVE
price of land in the two States. In Iowa, land of
like soil and situation is fully twice as high as in
Missouri. This has led recently to quite large
emigration from Iowa to Missouri along the border
counties Farmers who have settled in Iowa are
selling out to corners, and making purchases
in the northern tier of counties in this State, and
the census discloses that the white ycomanry who
have taken up their abode there have practically
excluded Slavery from their midst, and reduced
it to an insignificant fraction Of population. Thus,
by n comparison taken from the censusses of 1851
and 1885, we find that the relative Slave and Free
population is given as follows in the ten counties
a1iapant n rho Sta IN of Iowa.