New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-01-16

foreign aggression viii have been resisted in vain for
| we shall become the victims Of domestic usurpaton
and msrule.
Ihaye addressed myself thus far, my Democratic
friends IN the consideration OF Federal politics There
are however matters here at home IN Missouri and
=, -c;a, IN st. Louis that likewise demand the
Earii.Ss ,...cn,Ui =. .ne resV.-.ions wD.e.
have been already adopted by you with much
unnnimity-adopted with only dissenting voice in
this vast assemlage-you have renewed your fealty
and testified your devotion TO the cause OF tree labor
You have affirmed that it embodes the truths that lie
al the foundation of Republican Government that the
movement which promises TO secure Missouri fully
.he industry and occupancy OF whne yeomanry viii
end in Won its staunchest adherents that the rights of
the working man to the encouragement and pro.
lection of his labor, without degrading and SER
vile competition should he first in the eye
of the law and have pledged yourselves TO
Jealous cooperation for infusing such policy in
our State Government In al this you have displayed
at once the sagacity to appreciate true elements OF
social strength and courage TO maintain the rights and
interests of the Of the people, The welfare OF
every community must repose upon the labor OF that
community. Labor itself Is the democracy Of life,
and free labor and free democracy are synonymous
terms. II is only social drones, gilded aristocrats
who make sport of its toll and mock at Its selt-eeva
ton II can with justice therefore, claim 10 be frs; in
the eye OF the law, and tn be relieved from degrading
seryile competition. Freedom Is lis native ar. Strip
il of s title respect brand with the brand Of deg
radatOn let il once be classed or associated with
Slavery, and the fine spirit that gives buoyancy to
its effort is gone. Free labor and slave labor
incompatible institutions one or the other must
dominate and Danish its rival. You have TO chsose
which you will prefer-upon which you will res;
the liberties of yourselves and those who are to
come after you. But why need | speak such palpa
bic truths in such presence. Around Inc everywhere
are reared the monuments which attest the enterprise
and record the iumphs of the free labor of the work.
ing men who have built up this great city, 1t is in
their behalf that claim immunity for them from con-
tact with bondsmen. How quickly do we realize tn
injury that results to such when the product OF com
PEELED prison labor meets in the market the fruits OF
their toll. The State Penitentiary of Missouri has
engaged lattery in various branches of manufacture
and latterly is felt the disastrous effect upon many
trades in this city. The cooperage business and other
employments that ] could name have been almost
destroyed by the prison competition And the illus.
traton found in this only makes more manifest the
evils that flow from still more extended and diver
sfied conflict with the products of negro slavery.
II was mature reflection of this character and firm
conviction of the evils that resulted to our State not
less than to cur city, that first mpeled the people of
ST. Louis to enter their solemn protest against the per-
petuty of Slavery in Missouri. With boldness that
won the applause of the whole country in the face of
abuse and calumny and misrepresentation IN defiance
of the surs OF journalism and the nldties of parties
they proclaimed their devotion to the cause of free
labor and they Endorsed their proclamation with
victory the very announcement OF which thrilled
with delight as it leaped from city to city. 1t was
voiced abroad with an emphasis that had never at
tached to any preceding municipal contest here, and
the echo came back to us reverberatng with thou
sand fold sncreased volume. 1t gave your people
place in many hearts that before had looked upon them
false to the living principles of free government,
and like bread cast upon the waters, returned again,
giving renewed growth, vitality and advancement
TO your metropolis. Who shall tell the infinite bene
fits which that fearless enuncation has already con-
ferredl Go throughout every central State Of this
Union, go to the far villages of the NORTH among its
workshops and manufactures, 60 even to the South
among the laborng men, who are prospecting for
homes and when it is known that you are from st.
Louis the question most frequently asked you will
IL Srnal oh in
Will it succeed and how long first! What are
YOU doing toward its progress Such, ana similar
interogatOries will meet you everywhere. And
the inquiry that has been thus aroused has already
added thousands to the population OF the State
within the year-the very cream of the industrial ex-
cess, and swannng msSaR9p OF the olaer sIaies.
At the first signal from yourselves that their labor
would be both protected and respected here they nave
hurried TO take up their ABODE in land so full OF
the promise Of future development as this. Pass
into the interior and witness your highways traed
bS emigron wagons laden with implements OF agri-
culture and household furniture and sturdy children,
going TO build up hOmesteads that will all be tributary
TO the wealth OF this city, Witness along the Iowa
line new counties doubling in population from January
TO January again. and along the Arkansas line large
colonies locating in every available section. Consult
the land offices and see where hundreds OF thousands
of acres lately open for preemption now scarce
tract "Reminiscences that had been in the market so
long that they reduced under the graduation law
to the minimum price of twelve-and.a-haf cents, and
that swept away from the register ny thu IN
flux of single year. Estimate the travel on our
rivers resulting from safe and unlmpeded transit 10
neghbrng territories along the border and set down
the additions made to commerce, not less than the
direct profit to vessels Examine the ledgers OF your
merchants for the balances paid for supplies, and
note that likewise in the account. DO all this
and you will have some faint idea OF the advantages
which have accrued to the city and the State. Millions
of dollars would not the amount, and time Will
add to rather than dssipate the impressions. i3n
have made, citizens only beginning it is true, in the
great work but it has been that has had no paral-
lei elsewhere The expression you have already given
to the earnest thought which lies deep in the soul OF
every true who values his social elevation, has
gone forth conquerng and TO conquer. With us in this
city has become far the dominant sentiment that
none dare meet il openly in encounter or array them
selves for its overthrow Those who from selfish mo-
yes oppose this behest of the working masses of the
people do candestnely and under cover OF other pur-
poses The public press that reyed at the outset has
been driven TO silence, and though harborng enmtyn
secret only ventures to strike at your municipal con-
troll by repeating its old vulture call of " citizen
tickets" thus TO gather its harpies under the wing
1t would gladly find, which trust it never viii lind
some traitor to free soil and free labor, under the
shadow of whose name it might deal q stab, and
whose fame il would leaye 70 ROT when tue tow deed
and double treachery should be accomplished. Openly
and outwaIdly however the prominence here OF the
policy of slavery extinction none can question
Throughout the State too, numbers its adherents 10
every hamlet and village by scores and hundreds In
all the along your railroads. in the reading rural
districts in the popuoNs settlements that fringe your
rivers wherever, in short intelligence penetraes with
CELEBRITY its progress has been rapid and emphatic In
tweptv counties Of the ntsr5T il is at the present time
largely IN &c ascendant, and needs only the issue 10
be made to give it an Endorsement at the polls. IN Tue
three counties contiguous to this, two-thlrds OF the
voting population are identified with the principle
and will sustain it to the last. Much has already been
done by toward redeeming public sentiment and dis
couIagng hostile border nroads upon the neghborng
territory and some of the former strongholds OF ser
vile anaticsm are gradually yielding to the spirit oil
its conquest. The capital Of our State itself contains
lnrre md influential number of inhabtants who are