Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-04-18
WHOLE NO. 6OI..


FIVE counties of Missouri the actual number Of
slaves in each county has decreased rapidly dur
ing the last five years-all these facts Sir, too,
important and convincing to be be ignored by even,
the bndest prejudice that runs wild in the Juror
Of Slavery propagandism." Is aught else needed to
the argument that Missouri must ere long, from
the operation Of natural causes rid herself Of the
institution Of Slavery? lf it be point you to.
her outisying position amid free Territories. On,
the east, we have Illinois, n free State; on the
West Kanras, which 10 one here now doubts will
necessarily become a free State. The example Of
their industrial white communities and the infu-
ence they cannot but exert upon our own citizens,
will be sufficient alone to make the system of Sla-
very longer desirable or pro6ta Die institutions
among us. Already the effect Of tn at proximity
has been tet and large Shareholders in the rich
Upland Counties of the West beginning to
send their slaves to Southern market. The cot.
ton fields and the sugar plantation of Mississippk
and Louisiana yield larger returns to such slave
labor than the rural districts of Missouri Hemp
is the only staple here left that will pay for invesl
ment in negroes and !his is the secret of half the
expectation of slaves that we see taking place.
Sir, il but few days since, that standing up,
on the steps of this Capitol l. you and many 9th.
ers saw gangs Of slaves driven along on their,
route to Texas, there to find new fields of labor.
That sight was to me proof strong as Holy Writ
that the doom was fixed upon Slavery as a system
in future history of Missouri.
Throughout the remarks which have had the
incidentally to refer to immig ration more that
once. That in fact, is so intimately blended with
every aspect IN which emar cipatiOn be viewed
rs to render it difficult separate the two. But
desire now to invite attention more particularly to
it, with reference to the bearings OF this question
upon the immigrant himself. That both foreign and
American immigration is coming into Missouri,
making large yearly additions to our population,
and planting its colonies here has already beor,
shown, and needs no further proof. Even the civ.
/ str nm l,ordn ind tha
of the interior have not availed to deter it, howev-
er mach the two combined, may have lessened it.
But it must be confessed at the same time, that 10
has come as it were grudgedly and with hesitation
and that the influx has borne proportion to
that which pours into less favored regions that
have more congenal institutions. The conse-
quence is that instead of that dispersion of "set-
tiers" throughout the State which would conduce
most to the welfare of the old resident, as well 90
the new immigrant, we find that those who come
among confne themselves to narrow limits
and particular sections. Kindre tongues and
community Of feeling attach them often to tho
ruggedest spots. Thus we find large bodies of
Germans congregated in the Counties Of Franklin,
Washington Usage and Cole. While the slave is
tilng the exuberant soils of Lafayette and Howard
the free white immigrant with the memory of his
native land warm in his heart, is clothing the bro
ken cliffs of Gasconade with viney yards, and making
beautiful the Marauiec With indnst trial cultivation
Where Shareholders have rarely found it desirable
to locate and often difficult to subsist, there the
sturdy enterprise and unconquerabe toll of the
Teutonic race has built up fouIishing villages and
extended long lines of settlement. The banks of
The Missouri and the Mississippi, not less than the
routes of our various railroads. furnish abundant
evidence Of this fact. But contend that such re-
strctions upon white population, such repression
within the poorest parts OF Missouri. is neither
Just wise, nor liberal q policy, in regard to
and that those who would crush out
the emancipation movement that offers the only
speedy relief to such q state Of things thereby
make q discrimination against the white man and
in favor of the slave. l I'm satisfied from my own
observation in connection with this subject that
this tendency to segregate into isolated communi-
ties has been in great part caused by those very
Pro Slavery crusades which have been la.terly the
staple of politics in Missouri, and hence it is that
| arraign the men who have figured in such con-
cered agtatlons and the party that has lent itself
to such work, as the foe to migration into ouS
State. Furthermore l here make presentment
before the people as guilty of a high crime in this
behalf of that political organization styling itself
National Democratic though in truth mere Pro-
Slavery Disunion organization, which has this day
brought forward the resolutions against whieh 4
have addressed my arguments. Sir, there is no,
middle ground whereon men may stand and en-
courage immigration, while at the same time they,
make upon emanci patton The two are so
bound up together that they may not be separated.
That party which undertakes, by entries upon the
public journals here, to avow itself at one and the
same time as the friend of immigration and the
peculiar champion of the adopted citizen, and the
foe to the gradual extinction of Slavery and the.
sssailant of the rights of white laboring men, 10
simply self covicted of mposture Immigration
is extinguishing Slavery wherever it obtains, aud
the called National Democrats" may set il
down in their books that when they adopt the
gro, they disconnect, themselves from the conf
dence aud support Of the lnborng white man no.
matter what may be his or cline or tongue
In approaching the close Of this inquiry into facts
connected with the matter Of Slavery labor
Il ...ll A.
of wealth and industry that may be affected by its
gradual emancipation, cannot torbear adverting:
to topic which is often put forth argu-
ment BY those who contend for the perpetuat;3ng
of the institution. 1t is that any change in
present domestic relations would be fraught with
the incalculable evil of separating us from the
South and attaching us to the North. 1t is urged
that Missouri belongs to the South, aud should
therefore adhere to the South. as much through,
pride through policy. Sir. confess that caa-,
not regard this subject in that light. Missouri
has nothing in common with the South, either in
national or home concerns. Nor does she owe any
debt Of gratitude to the South. 1t is on the CON-
trary, to the of Southern States that
she ia idebted for almost all the hostility that has
been shown to her most cherished interests in ths
halls of Congress. The many defeats of her Long
projected highway across the continent, the rejeo-
ton of appropriation bills for her river and bar
Dor improvements the refusal to permit any re-
form in the oppressive system that prevails in,
the ownership by the United States Government OF:
the land within her boundares-GH these have re-
suited to her from the persistent hostility of South
ern statesmen. Nor IS she identified with the
South either by position OF natural associA-
ton, Three fourths Of her trade finds market
in Northern seapoEts. while twothirds Of her i'm
ports come from the same points. Her station is,
geographically defined as central State, at pres
ent the advance leader Of the Western States
Her place in political Affairs is no less significant
ly marked out. 1t tis to hold the balance even be-
tween North and South. until the Great West
shall have risen to third power in the Confeder-.
aey repress factions, que agtatious. put forth.
moderate councils, and crush out with everlasting
scorn the impious seetionalsm ,hat would dare 70.
imper the present Union. Neither is her oiviliIs-
ton either Of the North or the South. II 10 neS
after the type Of the vass labor organizatiops~shs
incpisnt communism of the former, nor agsis isiA,