Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-06-09
ExtiDc,iop Of slavery in Missouri

itself upon society, and our poiItles are snap
inc themselves TO the new requirements OF the
people
The Demoerat proceeds to give the reasons
for the words of cheer It uttereth. They are,
in brief that free soil progression strides above
the level Of partisan strife-thst the imagined
dependence upon slave labor for large classes
of production has been of late exPloded-thst
machinery now does the drudgery of the farm,
the mine, and the fletOry-that the best hemp
raised in Missouri is cultivated and prepared by
the Germans-that the most successful mining
companies, in the interior districts, no longer
hire slaves, but rely entirely upon free labor
and that in the field of mechanical and capital
lied employment, the trades are held exclu-
sively by white wOrkmen who do not even per-
NIT negro competition
The Democrat declares that the prestige has
passed away from the slave system in Missouri,
both socially and politically and that the most
unihrifty cannot but see the accessions which
free labor movements are making to the wealth
and prosperity of the State. The evidences of
this progress and the results achieved, are thus
stated
Real estate in many districts has quadupled
within the year Colonies have realized more
than double the price Of their own homesteads
out of alternate reserved sections within their
/ purchase Villages have sprung up within 4
| twelvemonth, rivaling the neighbOring seats Of
/ Justice that have had twenty years the start
/ Farms that failed TO support their owners have
/ become fortunes by subdivision. All these
| things men connect with the evident cause
and they cease to TeyeIe old forms of servile and
unproductive labor. Again too, wherever the
matter has been mOoted, in the metropolis or in
the country, the cause of free soil progression
has triumphed. Fought upon principle, indus
trial argument brought 10 bear; voters made TO
/ feel and know and decide the issue; in no sin
gle instance has it failed to achieve a signal
victory. Its supremacy al 81, Louis, is known
as well in Holland as IN Maine, and We need not
alIude to it further Along the Missouri river,
where a short while since an embargo was at
tempted, of ten principal towns four have pro-
Hounced in favor of iIee labor three others are
/ intIinsically so at this moment, and tie rest
will follow al the first extended sale of lots.
The lines of railroads are characterized by
similar outgrOwth; every engine is a free soiler,
and every depot the nucleus of a free labor
eity Everywhere the ferment in local poll
tics, not less than the cautious delay and doubt
| ing hesiiansy Of paIlies, express how little
faith they haye-in prO-slaVeTy inTocation. No
rising man of the state ventures 10 risk his for
tunes upon the perPetuity Of the peculiar insti-
tuition. The conclusion is irresistible that it is
doomed 10 pass away
The DeIscsr4i further asserts that the process
Of slavery extinetiOnis is palpabIe that tits only
the blind who viii aoi SEE, and the weak who do
not comprehend; ami that whenever the free la
hor issue is submitted and eanyassed, interest
will determine It in favor Of the white race. 1t
eOnelusiyely adds:
There are in Missouri one hundred and thirty
thousand voters, Of whom perhaps one hundred
thousand are non-slavehoders, whilst thirty
Thousand have property in slaves. Draw the
line between these, as is done where the negro
is insisted upon as the paramount consideration,
OF eli 1T the antagOnism that must transpire
when the demands Of free labor to free soil are
resisted, and the division demonstrates where
and what the predominance viii be. Many avoid
this conclusion by asserting that the most vio-
lent prJ-slayery zealOts are often themselves
non-slavehOderE. This Is true; but make the
ISSUE let that issue hinge upon self interest; and
it will be true no longer Nor is that all The
tide of population, moving westward, has latter
y founded iR the northern territories, State
year. It's diversified migFat on Is fairly estima-
ted at fifly thousand month, ana u likely to he
increased by adyentitious circumstances for
some time to come. Inthe past, this has swept
by, and beyond Missouri, to colder latitudes or
remoter settlements, but late events have large
ly concentrated it upon our own territory. Il
comes seeking homes, building villages, eolOni
z;ng counties, prospecting with the Bible and
tno school house for the seats Of al enlarged
civilization Il is an army Of free labOrsrs, g
furnished white community, an irresistible pres
sure of people The enumeration in the pres
ent season will, so far as can be asceTtained,
show an addition of more than one hundred
thousand persons to the population Of The State.
And this Is but the beginning OF an annual food.
Cheap land, mild climate. rich soil, varied tim
Der, exhaustless minerals, private gam and
prospective freedom are gathering multitudes
froEl sgery State that has a surplus industry,
and Of tiioss maltitgdes all come penetrated
fully with the desire, and Eeir very presence ac-
eomplishes the work of slavery extinction II
IS idle for politicians TO think Of resisting such
forces BY windy resolutions or inhamed speech
es The masses II fres white laboring men,who
within the next five years, may Ee6O.1e citizens
Of Missouri, will give such impulsion to public
sentiment and the disappearance of slave labor
from all fields Of employment through inse-
curity and unProhtableness and FeI1oTal s9uth-
wards, viii be so great that virtually ours will
then be Z fIee State
The noble chsIhpiO Of free soil prOnOunees
the party Of free labor the Oniy psTtT in the
State that has a future, and in trumpet tones
bids the Fres Soilers Of Missouri to be of good
cheer for the day OF tLeiF dominion fast aP-
proaehes. The Democrat urges that tue inaas-
trial questions of the day and the social pro-
gress Of the State should be made to impress
eveIy local election of every county sEd town,
and truthfully says;
Indeed an August campaign, under its very
worst aspect, could have no more influence in
crushing this free labor movement here. than
did the first election of Kansas Territory in de-
stroying freedom there for the reason that
both depend upon other than political causes, |
and are upheld by pressure Of people whose |
column cannot be long vithstOOd. But every
success on the other hand multiplies its echoes |
in thousand directi0ns. and gives redOubled |
energy TO all in whose hearts the canse is |
shnned
The ST. Louis Democrat is tower OF strength |
in Missouri and several influential journals in
different sections of the State, are now working
shoulder to shoulder in the free labor cause
Among them IS the Anzeiger and the News Of
st. Louis the jefferson Inquirer, at the Capital
Ofthe State the Springfield Tribune, in one of
the central and most Populous counties The
Furnace, of Iron CO1nty; the Alexandra Delta;
the Courier, Of Gentry county and the Jeffer-
sOnian, of Platte county Wen,dOos the Dem
ocrat say. that the marty of free labor Il ths /