Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-17
BEDFORD.
From the ". o. Delta, (Democratic,) Aug. IL.
Signs in the West and Elsewhere.

The recent defeat of Blair for Congress in
St. Louis is a staggering blow to Black
Republicanism. The combined vote against
Blair, including the vote for Barrett, Demo
GRAFT who is elected and the vote for Breckn-
ridge American, which was virtual protest
against Blair's emancipation doctrines, is
fully two to one. IL is overwhelming and
leaves scarcely room for the f;tintest hope of
bringing over the St. Louis District which
Mr.. BLAIR represent. d in the last Congress
much less the whole State of Missouri, TO
Black Republicanism under the guise of
emancipation.
This is another significant event in the
chain of manifestations which have been for
some time denoting healthy reaction in
public opinion and popular tendency on the
subject of slavery Missouri with her I0O,-
900 slaves, remains Slave State; and Mr..
Blair. roundly rebuked and soundly punished,
remains at home, to indulge at leisure in his
sickly notions and unwholesome cant about
"slave labor" and .'free labor" His scheme
of emancipation stupid contradiction
and silly impracticability in It's very terms.
1t went for making the negroes free, and then
went for getting rid of free negroes Accor-
ding TO Mr.. Blair, the existing free negroism
in the West is an evil, and the existing
slavery in Missouri, Kentucky, &c, is an evil.
To remedy both, he would combine the two,
by liberating the slaves. and thus create a
third evil OF still greater magnitude, and
admitting still less of abatement or mitiga-
ton.
This strange opposition of ideas in Blair's
scheme, no doubt, arose from desire TO
reconcile Il causeless jealousy OF slave labor,
on the part of the white laborng man, ON
which the Black Republicans have traded,
with the white mans invincihle rcpugnance
to negro equality. But the attempt proved
the fallacy of the whole Anti7SlaveTy theory.
The white mans intolerance of negro equality
his Inherent instinct of aversion 10 ac-
knowledge the negro as one fit to stand upon
the same social or political footing with him
self, shows clearly enough that, in contact
with white men, the inevitable relation of the
negro is that of inieriority and subordina-
ton; in other word, slavery. Government
has nothing TO do with this allotment: laws
have nothing to do with il; ii is the spoutane-
Gus development of society.
These are stubborn and imprcgnahle facts,
which the people of the Northwest are be-
ginning to properly understand The severe
blow which has just been dealt to the Blair
phase of Black Republieanism in Missouri, is
calculated to help the still further spread Of
correct views of slavery in the Northwest, as
well as the North at large, and To increase
the descent Of Black Republication, an
organized political power, towards the bot
tom of the declivity on which il is now totter
ing, weighed down by the fortunes OF Blair,
Greeley, Seward. and melancholy process
sion OF larger or lesser celebrities who have
staked their hopes on the niger question.
The deadly fight of the Black Republicans
is now being made in Illinois between Lin
cola aud Douglas Ii Lincoln fails. the
Northwest will disappear from the Black
Republican map. There is scarcely ques-
ton of his failure, IL faction do not destroy
the unity OF Democratic support tor Douglas
in the next Illinois State and Senatorial cleo
tons. Strange TO say, such suicidal facti-
business is instigafed by the Washington Union
and a few Democratic papers in the South.
Ii Is almost inconeeivabie that, under the
circumstances, they would prefer the cleo
ticn OF LincOla-the spes tfifsAaa. the lingering
hope Of Black RspuDicsnism in the North
west-to Douglas, who exposes the sophis-
tries and denounces the designs of the Black
Republicans. But il is so. nevertheless. ln-
deed. il would really seem that the proprie-
tors aud conductors ofthe Washington Union,
aud. here and there. protesting Democrats
out OF Washington, desire 10 save the Black
Republican party from fatal defeat-nay,
that they desire to have Black Republicans
House, and a large Black Republican vote In
the Senate. Black Republican congressman
have gained the reputation OF being men OF
practicable honesty, amiably corrupt and
delightfully."- parchasable. l. this the KEY to
tlse hostility 10 Douglas aud sympathy for
Liaeoin which are manifested thr6ugi The
Union and some other Democratic organs!
Who knows.