The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1857-09-03
rom the Philadelphia nencan nd Gazette.
SLAVERY IN MIssOl RI.

In whatever aspect ne rece 1t election in |
Missouri may be regart ID, or rDwever politi |
clans within or without ,%le Stat may attempt |
to explain or extenuste /, the Practical result |
is both extraordinary al ! bene6 !ent, consider
ing the peculiar circumt snces uder which it |
occurred, and the inhue ice of Ccitnc causes |
that operated from Kal sas. n } impartial or |
philosophical observer AN adj pit any other |
conclusion, than that it the b ginning of an |
end, which is ultimateh to idel tify thai grow
irg and prosperous Sta with the DESTINY of
the great West in the cl ,racter IF it's social in
situations, well as in he degf ee of its mate
rial progress. How SOC or in THAT particular
form that object may b, ATTAINED, will depend |
upon the discretion wit which it is pursued |
and not upon any exhit ition Of excessive zeal |
which a seeming trump may eilcourage This |
question of emancipation is one lat most direct
ly concerns the people f MISC uri, both as to |
policy, and, what IS OF CO sldersl lie Importance
the mode IN which it sslld lie carried out |
And though it cannot f, 4 to excite deep inter.
est and discussion elseW ,ere, we cannot but be-
lieve that the end will )e best promoted with.
out gratultous or lntrp i've Interference from
any quarter. The chang that has already been |
effected IN public opinio is mainly attributable
TO the calm presentatic of tie subject, in all |
moral, economical, anS political aJpects. and |
embarrassed as it has been wthia the last
NO years by controve sy Which has enlisted |
a)Iparts of the Union, nd bf bio. DIV conflict
on its own borders, the present Doe ure of the |
State is one which des, ived9 attra ts admira |
Jon and respect The advance already made |
furnishes abundant as arance, thar. with com |
mon prudence for ono on the pat of those
VINO clalm superior en .nence as the anointed (
apostles OF Liberty, \ issouri viii take her |
klsce side by side with illinois and Iowa. which
lorm her eastern and n rthern boun daries. |
But as we have air adv suggested. Slavery
. not 10 De abolishel or FASTENED towards |
EMANCIPATION, either the aivict or by the |
egency OF outside lnhu nee. For tiore than a
aird OF century, 1t 8 entered ito the do
nestc HE, habits, lat n, and puruuits, of the
people, and, though silly cofineA to a par
ocular section of the State, 1t still has been
recognised as an exist g relation, rhich could
not be suddenly n lely seseret Missouri
occupies the position low thkt rginia held
twenty-five years ago; md we are ct ignorant
IS to the causes whit produced reaction
here, that has not on changed t whole d.
ection of sentiment, at made he: the propa-
gandist of the most Jdicai opin ons on the
9ther side. 1t has bee, said that I g increased
demand for slave labol in the CO on-growing
States, and the enhano d price of ave proper
y, operated to produt the chan e now wit
iessed. While this is ,easurably / e, the fact
SSll not be disputed tn, agitation I'd ultraism,
IS)n both sides, was eve more pote.t as an act
+ ve cause for the reao ION. At al events, the
in Virgin, and in Cher States,
which has moved forw tds under e same phi
fIanthropic impulse, O ,ght to COZ vince those
Fwho have assumed a I lfapoointeS leadship in