The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1858-09-02

The st. Louis Democrat says that
forty thousand votes were cast in Mis-
souri, this year distinctly in favor of
emancipation. 1t declares that in no
locality, and under no pressure of ad-
versity has the Free Soil sentiment re-
ceded one single vote in that State. 1t
goes on to say: ss.i-g
Those who think free soil by any
means Frustrated under the late elec-
tions, are wide indeed 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 a paralysis-the force of
plurality trinmphs 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 here
after. ~
Free soil, we assert, is stronger in
st. Louis to-day than it was week
ago, by thousands of votes. Those
who tainted by the way side, or linger-
ed in rear of the battle, will fight hence
forth, upon conapulsiom. The doubters
numbered near six thousand, and of the
donbters, four out of FIVE are free soil.
And even as it stands, what does q
plurality of two or three hundred sig-
Nifty, where fraud has stalked at large
through the city, and the President of
the United States has anticipated the
national revenue to carry his favorite
for Congress Is it funeral knell for
free soil? No! Brave men do not
surrender thus-the six thousand FIVE
hundred free soilers of St. Louis, are a
victory in themselves. But the seed is
there, the tree is growing, the fruit will
ripen. There NAV not be a member
elected to the present GeReral Assem-
bly, ready to move in the matter of
slavery extension, and yet there have
been near forty thousand cotes cast
this year directly in its favor. 1t re-
quires only unity, bravery, appreciation
to make those forty thousand mount up
in twelve months time to eighty thou
sand The voters are intrinsically of
that cast of thought, and need only to
have their sentiment eliminated. The
vital Democracy, the essential protest
thought of our people, the radical, fund
ameutal liberalism that must upanrie
every social reformation, has made it.
self manifest in a silape, with pres
tige, and under circumstances that ad-
NIT of no retreat. As well 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 importa-
[tion, and that has neither where to
come from nor 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 system, shall be
known no more in the land. In speak
ing these things we know what we say.
Never was the heart of the free soil
party irmer than it is in this conjunc-
ture. Never did its prophetic men see
with surer vision the final triumph of
the cause and its rapid recuperation
from the very elements 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 hcroically re-
solved to hold their positions against
all comers. Before this day tsco gears
hence, free SOilers aciW hare decelOped
an controlling force soitAia the halls of
oar assembly, and soiH hove possessed
themselves Of the entire State .Govern-
ment. Mark the prediction.