Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1858-08-18
The Future Of Free sOil in missouri
Aug. 18th, 1856

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The St. Louis Democrat says that forty
thousand votes were cast 10 Missouri this
year distinctly in favor Of emancipation
1t declares that in no locality, and under
no pressure Of sdYersity has the Free Soil
sentiment rsceded one single vote in that
State. 1t goes on to say;
Those who think free soil by any means
prostrated under the late election, are wide
indeed of the mark and show little appre-
citation Of the elements which 60 to make
up great popular movements. The result
may act as a tonic, not as paralysis-the
force Of plurality triumphs can only teach
the opposition its divided weakness and
its united strength. Theirs is the future
To none other can it belong, for they are
progressively are politics hereafter.
Free soil, we assert, is stronger in ST.
Louis to-day than il was a week ago, BY
thousands of votes. Those who tainted by
the wayside, or fingered in rear of the bat
tie, will fight benceforth, upon compulsiou.
The doubters numbered near six thousand,
and of the doubters, four out Of five are
frls soil. And even as it stands, what
does plurality Of two or three hundred
signify, where fraud has stalksd at large
through the city, end the President of the
United States has anticipated the national
revenue to csrry bis favorites for Congressl
Is il funeral knell for free soil? Mol
Brave mer do not surrender thus--the
six thousand five hundred free soilers Of
St. Louis, are a victory in Themselves
Bul the seed is there, the tree is growing,
the fruit will ripen. There may no: be
member elect to the present General As.
sembly ready to move ip the matter of
slavery extinction, and yet there have been
near forty thousand vOtes cat this year
directly in its favor. 1t requires only u.
nifty, bravery, appreciation, to make those
forty thousand mount up in twelve months
time to eighty thousand. The voters are
intrinscaly of that cast Of thought, and
need only to have their sentiment eIimipa
ted. The vital Democracy, the essential
protest thought of our people, the radical
fundamental liberalism that must underlie
every social reformation, has made itself
manifest in a shape, with presliage, and
under circumstances that admit Of no re-
treat. As we'll talk of reaction against
the daylight, Or the spring time, or public
intelligence, or the increase of population
--as reaction against free soil in Missouri.
Nothing can react against it but slave i'm
portation, and that has neither where to
come from or wherefore TO come. The
column of migration that embraces the
movement of the white race from east
to west, is upon us, and it will blaze the
path of civilization with the church, the
school. the farm, the city, until slavery as
a system, shall be known no more in the
land. In speaking these things we know
what we say. Never was the heart Of the
free soil party firmer than it is in this con-
iuuctnre. Never did its prophetic men
see with surer vision The final triumph Of
the cause end its rapid recuperation from
the very elements Of discord that induced
defeat. Never we're those who have led
and those who have been oserborne more
calmly conscious of their strength more
beroically resolved to hold their position
against all comers. Before this day tOo
gears hence free soilers Win haze developed
in controlling force sUitkin the halls QfOGr
assembly, and OiR haze possessed them
selves of the entire State Government
Mark the prediction.