Southern shield., 1858-08-28
From the N. 0. Delta (Democratcl Aug. F. Signs in the Wesg and EEse-
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 The recent defeat of Blair for Congress in St. Louis, is staggering blow to Black Republicanism. The combined vote against Blair, including the vote for Barrett, Dem ocrat, who Is elected, and the vote for Breck- inridge, American, which was a virtual pro- test against Blair's emancipation doctrines, is fully two to one. It is overwhelming, and leaves scarcely room for the faintest hope of bringing over the St. Louis Dis Urict, which Mir. Blair represented in the last Congress. much less the whole State of Missouri, to Black Republicanism under the guise of emancipation.
 This is another significant event in the chain of manifestations which have been for some time denoting healthy reaction in public opinion and popular tendency on the subject of slavery. Missouri, with her lO0,- 900 slaves, remains a Slave State; and Mir. Blair, roundly rebuked and soundly punish ed, remains at home, to indulge at leisure in his sickly notions and unwholesome cant about " slave labor" and '' free labor. ''- His scheme of emancipation was a stupid contradiction and silly impracticability in its very terms. It went for making the ne- groes free, and then went for getting rid of free negroes. According to Mir. Blair, the existing free negroism in the West is an evil, and the existing slavery in Missouri, Kentucky, &c.,, is an evil. To remedy both, he would combine the two, by liberating the slaves, and thus create a third evil of still greater magnitude, and admitting still less of abatement or mitigation.
 This strange opposition of ideas in Blair's coboD,n lO,,h+ arOcn from 1pstTn n reconcile a causeess jealousy of slave labor, on the part of the white laboring man. on which the Black Republicans have traded, with the white mans invincible repugnance to negro equality. But the attempt proved the fallacy of the whole Anti Slavery theo- ". The white mans intolerance of negro equality his inherent instinct of aversion to acknowledge the negro as one fit to stand upon the same social or political footing with himself, shows clearly enough that, in contact with white men, the inevitable rela- ton of the negro is that of infcriority and subordination in other words, slavery Government has nothing to do with this d. lotment; laws have nothing to do with 1t 1t is the spontaneous development of society. These are stubborn and impregnable facts. which the people of the Northwest are be- ginning to properly understand. The severe blow which has just been dealt to the Blair phase of Black Republicanism in Missouri, is calculated to help the still further spread of correct views of slavery in the North west, as well as the North at large, and to increase the descent of Black Republican, ism, as an organized political power, to- words the bottom of the declivity on which it is now totteriug, weighed down by the fortunes of Blair, Greeley, Seward, and a melancholy procession of larger or lesser celebrities who have staked their hopes on the ''nigger" question.
 The deadly fight of the Black Republicans is now being made in Illinois between Lin coin and Douglas. If Lincoln fails, the Northwest will disappear from the Black Republican map. There is scarcely a ques- ton of his failure, if faction do not destroy the unity of Democratic support for Dou- glas in the next Illinois State and Senatorial elections. Strange to say, such a suicidal factiousness is instigated by the Washing ton Union and a few Democratic papersinth the South. It is almost inconceivable that, un- der the circumstances, they would prefer the election of Lincoln-the SpeS ultima. the lingering hope Of BIack Repu0llcamsm in the North west-to Douglas, who exposes the sophiStries and denounces the designs of the Black Republicans. But it is so, never theless. Indeed, it would really seem that the proprietors of the Washington Union. and, here and there protesting Democrats out of Washington, desire to save the Black Republican party from a fatal defeat--nay, that the desire to have Black Republican House and large Black Republican vote in the Senate. Black Republican Congress- men have gained the reputation of being men of practicable honesty, amiable corrupt and delightfully."- purchasable. Is this the key to the hostility to Douglas and sympa- thy for Lincoln which are manifested through the Union and some other Demo- cratic organs? Who knows?