Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-08-27
THr FuruRr OF FRrR SoIL I'M Ms

10 Missouri this year distinctly in ia
vor of emancipation. 1t declares that
in no locality, and under no pressure
Of adversely has the free soil senti-
ment receded one single vote in that
State. 1t goes on to say:
Those who think free soil by any
means Frustrated under the late cleo
ton, are wide indeed of mark and
show little appreciation of the ele-
ments which go to make up tbs great
popular movements. The result may
act as a tonic, not as a paralysis-the
force of plurality triumphs a only
teach the OPP position its divided weak
ness and its united strength. Theirs
is the future. To none other can il
belong, for they are progress-they
are politics hereafter.
Free, soil, we assert, is stronger ia
St. Louis to-day than it was . week
ago, by thousands Of votes Those
who tainted by the waysids, or linCrr-
ed in the rea Of the battle will fight
heHcefOSsh, upon Comspalsioa. The
d0SsbteFs numbered about six thour
sand, and of the doubters, four out cf
FIVE are free soil. And even as in
stands, what does a plurality Of two
or three hundred signify, when fraud
has stalked al large through the city,
and the President OF the United States
has anticipated the national revenue
to carry his fayorites for CongEess?-
Is it a funeral knell for free soiIR MOI
Brave men do not surrender thaas-
the sin thousand FIVE hundred free.
~soihers of ST. Louis are q victim with
in themselves. But the seed is there,
the tree is growings the fruit will rip
en-. There may not be a member
elect to the present General Assembly
ready to move in the matterof Slav-
cry determination, and yet there have
been near foty thousand votes cant
this year directly in its favor. II re-
quires only unity, bravery, ~apprecia-
ton, to make those forty thousand
mount up in twelve months time to,
eighty thousand. The voters are in
trinsicaIly 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 fundamental liber-
alism that must underlie every social
reformation, has made itself manifest
in a shape, with a prestige, and under
circumstances that admit of no re-
treat. AS well talk Of reaction
against the daylight, or the spring
time, Or public intelligence, or the in
crease of population US reaction
againt the free soil OF Missouri
Nothing ran react against it but slave
importation, and that has neither
where to come from or wherefore 10,
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 civil
ization 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 firmeF
than it is in this conjecture. Never
did its prophetic men see with suEer
! visfcn the final triumph Of the ear1se
ana its rapid recuperation from the
very elements Of discord-that induc-
ed defeat. Never was those who haze
led, and those who have been over
borne more calmly conscious of their
strength or more herpicallX resolved
TO hold their Positions against all
corners Before this day fpo ye4gs
hence free soiicrs wiH hare deretope9
IN controlling force soithtn the halls Of
OEr assembly, and wiU haze po;Ssessc4
tAemselye$ Of the entire State Gorern-
meEZt- Mark the prediction.
A sFReAp EAGLE ToAsT-At Prem
tiss Centre, Mo, on, the 18th, the fol-
lowing was lhe second regular senti-
ment:
Our Mation.-Rsgotten AMIDST his
storms of the six teenlh' century, its
~infantile movements were dim and
indistinctly seen on board the Nav
Flower, on the rock Of plymouth. at
Jamestown, on the plains of Monon-
gahala, ard on the heights of Abra.
nam; the capricious squalls of its in
fancy were heard in the Jeopardy at
Boston, in Faneuil Hall, on the plains
of Concord, Lexington and BunkerEIili
In boyhood he ran b~arefooted sand
barehoaded i've the fields OF Sarato.
ga, Trenton, Princeton. Monmouth
and Yorktown, whipping his mother
and turning her out of doors; in his
youth he strobe over the prairies Of
the boundIess West, and called them
his own, paid tribute to the deSpois of
Barbary in powder and ball, spit in
his fathers face from behind the cot
ton bales at New Orleans. whipped
the mistress of the ocean, revelled in
the halls of Montezuma, straddled the
Rocky Mountains, and with one foot
upon gotlen sand, and the other upon
Goldfish and lumber, deied the world
in its manhood; clothed 10 purple and
fine linen, he rides over a continent
in CUSHIONED cars, rides over the ocean
in palace steamers, sends his Thoughts
on wings of lightning TO the world
around, lhunders at the door of the
Celestial Empire, and at the portals
of distant japan, slaps his poor old
decfeplt father in the face, and tells
him to be careful how he peckS into
any OF his picaroons, and threatens to
make q sheep pasture of oil the land
that Joins him. What he win do in
old age, God only knows. May he
live ten thousand years, land his
shadow never grow less" s--f
RIGnrs OF WrrNEssEs.-The Eng