Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1857-02-11
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WEDNESDAY. FEBRU'Y IL, 1857.
EmnnolpnlIon in MIssouri.

Emancipation in Missouri.
Having already published portions of the de-
hate in the Missouri Legislature this subject,
and Of the able and courageous article which ap
Deared in the Missouri Democrat, we suejoin ex-
tracts from two other papers published in St.
Louis, one of which, the Aazieger, is perhaps the
most influential German journal in America
= The extract from the Leader is necessary to an
understanding Of that which follows, and its ad-
missions are of especial consequence, as coming
from virulent pro slavery organ;
1t+ lFrom the St Louis Leader.
We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that
g the efnancipatouists can poll many thousand
voters in Missouri; that they have complete
possession of this city and county, their oilces
and their revenues, and that they are repre-
scented ii the Legislature of the State by at
least thirteen members Other counties in
the State are also pretty thoroughly emanci-
pationized, and some Of them are even now
represented by men whose opinions ON this
question need investigation. They have now,
for the fret time in the history. OF our state,
dared to avow their wicked designs IN the
Capitol ITSELF and in presence of the Senators
and Representatives of the entire State. Like
Kanzas Missouri has been invaded by hordes
Of Free Sellers, who, animated by misera-
BE fana:icism, seek TO destroy the Institution
under which our beloved State has prospered
for nearly century; and who, not content
with excluding Shareholders from all the ter
ritories in the Union, must needs seek to drive
them from a State founded by shareholders,
which under the government Of shareholders,
asq1 has established character of patriotism, in
telligence and refinement, second to that OF
no State in the Union. And like kanzas,
Missouri will, unless these wicked agitators
be summarily put down, become the scene OF
the widest excitement and most terrible sui
al ferings.
From the st. Louis Anzsigerl
The North and the South win both learn
with astonishment, that here, in Missouri.
State particularly distinguished during a few
years past for its efforts in behalf OF the ex-
tension of slavery, a increment in favor Of me
abolition of slavery has been suddenly MADE, IN
such wise as to plainly brighten its opponents,
and that it has already, in its very beginning,
gained many unexpected friends and support
ers. If the Leader will read the VolksbtGtt, 1t
will learn that we right when we said
that the emancipation party would gain very
many recruits from the ranks of the national
democracy. The position assumed by the
Democrat shows plainly that the Benton DEM
2 p ocracy have not, in consequence OF their late
defeat, determined to beat retreat, but that
they are resolved to renew the contest on
more decided platform, if not indeed on the
emancipation platform ITSELF 1t is certain
that st, Louis, and probably few other coun-
ties, are rife for its agitation, and that any
movement on the pert of the borderers in
Western Missouri to interfere again in the
affairs of Kanzas, will certainly be the sig
nal for the agitation of the question in Mis-
souri,.
When thorough. bred pro.sl avery journals,
like the St. Louis Leader, make the important
admissions contained in the first extract above
quoted, and when old Democratic organs, like the
Democrat andthe ARzieger, take the bold posi-
tons which they have assumed in slaveholding
State it is truly encouraging indication of the
progress of the cause of freedom, in spite of the
efforts which the slaveocracy of the South
and the doughfaces Of the North making, with
their utmost strength to block the wheels Of ag
itation and reform.
The St. Louis Republican and the Boston Post,
the Charleston Mercury and the Washington
Union, 1.-THE Richmond Enquirer and the Worces-
ter Bay State, all staunch Buchanan Democratic
organs, may chime in ever SO beautifully in uni
sem Of sentiment, in favor of border rufhanism
and extending and eternzing the monstrous in
EQUITY Of human slavery, and in opposition to all
agitation" for its abotion-it is their trade;
but it is truly refreshing to and then
paper, printed in saveholding community,
ready, like the St. Louis Democrat and the An
xiege, to avow themselves on the side of freedom,
in accordance with the progressive ideas of the
age.