Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-08-14
The Future OF Free Soil in Missouri

The Future OF Free sell In Missouri
The ST. Louis Democrat says tina. forty thou
sand votes were cast in Missouri this year dis
tinctly in favor of emancipation. It declares
that in no locality, and under no pressure Of
adversely has the Free Soil sentiment receded
one single vote in that State 1t goes on to say:
Those who think free soil by any means
prostrated under The late elections, are wide in
deed of the mark and show little appreciation
of the elements which go to make up great
popular movements The result may act as
tonic. not as paralysis-the force Of plurality
triumphs can only teach the opposition its d.
yided weakness and its united strength. Theirs
Is the future To none other can II belong, for
they are progressively are politics hereafter
Free soil, We assert, is stronger in St Louis
to-day than It was 4 week ago, by thousands Of
votes. Those who tainted By the wayside, or
fingered in rear of the battle, Will fight hence
forth, upon sOmpulsiOn. The dOubters numbered
near SIX thousand, and of the doubters, four out
of five are free soil. And even as it stands,
what does a plurality of two or three hundred
signify, where fraud has stalked at large through
the city, and the President of the United States
has anticipated the national revenue TO carry
his iavorites for COngressl Is It a funeral knell
for free soil No Brave men do not surren-
der thus-the six thousand FIVE hundred free
soilers of st. Louis, are victory IN themselves.
But the seed is there, the tree is growing, the
fruit viii ripen. There may not be member
elect to the present General Assembly ready to
move in the matter Of slavery extinction, and
yet there have been near forty thousand poiss
cast this year directly in its favor. 1t requires
only unity, bravery, appreciation, 70 make those
forty thousand mount up in twelve months time
to eighty thousand. The voters are intrinsicaily
of that east of thought, and need only to have
their sentiment eliminated. The vital Democ-
racy, the essential protest thought of our people,
the radical fundamental liberalism that must
underlie every social reformation, has made it.
self manifest in shape, with prestige, and
under circumstances that admit of retreat.
As well talk of reaction against the daylight, or
the spring time, OF public intelligence, OF the
increase of pOpulation-as reaction against free
soil in Missouri. Nothing can Tesct against it
but slave importation, 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 wess
is upon US, and it viii blaze the path of civilza-
ton with the church, the school, the farm, the
city, until slavery as 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
conjunelure. Never did its prophetic men see
with surer vision the final triumph Of the cause
and its rapid recuperation from the very ele-
ments of discord that induced defeat. Never
were those who have led and those who have
been Overborne more calmly conscious of their
strength or more heroically resolved to hold
their positions against all eomers. Before this
day tisO years hence free sOilsrs iriH hare deUsl
oped IA controlling force loithia the halls Of our
Assembly, and l1IH hare possessed hsmsel5es Of
the entire State GOcsrHmsHt. Mark the predie-
ton.