New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-03-25

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The following is an extract from a letter, says the
New York Commercial Advertiser, from a distin
gushed citizen Of st. Louis to getleninan of that
city, written under date Of the sth inst.
Our State is fast filling up with hardy race of
farmers and mechanics from the free States, whom
the agitation OF the emancipation question here and
the excitement about Kansas slavery have attracted
westward. II would seem that the only good that
possibly arise from the course of James Buchan
nan and his Cabinet IN Kansas matters is to send
food of immigrants into our State and Kansas. The
result Is that those farmers who came here from Viz
ginia, Kentucky and Tennessee with their slaves,
alter wearing out the soil of their firms ia those
States, find that their property is the most unsafe
well as Improbable, they can have So they send
away hundreds of slaves, every little while, South,
selling them for gold Thus they are enabled to pay
their store debts ia gold which accounts for much
OF this commodity being in circulation in our State
Thus, you perceive, the good cause of emancipa-
ton Is steadily progressing. As each farmer gets rid
OF his slaves, be directly becomes earnest convert
to the emancipation canse and forgets all the afgu-
ments he used before of wrong to the slave-owner;
having got rid of his slaves he wants his neghbors
TO do the same. firmly believe that majority will
be returned to the next Legislature in favor of an
amendment Of onrseonstitntion, so that laws can be
passed for the gradual emancipation of slavery in
State.
We have frequently expressed the opinion in times
past, that Missouri gradually, but surely, ap-
preaching aeondton that would secure triumph Of
the emancipation cause in that State and an easy
triumph at that. The period which has elapsed since
has confirmed those opinions and we now enter
tain little doubt that emancipation will succeed in its
work before the expiration of decade. Hemmed in
on the North, East and West by reesoil territory
with slave property becoming daily more insecure
and less valuable for that reason--and with the ex-
taordinary Inducements to sell which the high prices
negroes further South readily command, furnish, it
would be wonderful rather than otherwise if the slave
holders then did not dispose of their property and
pocket the proceeds, without any regard care for
its effects upon the existence Of the patrarchal ns
tuition at home. Such is human nature everywhere.
Missouri is partially freesozed now, and has been
for some time, the St. Louis District being repre-
sented in Congress by an open and avowed Free
soiler--F. 2. Blair, Jr.--and there is no question
whatever in the minds of intelligent men that the
anti-slayery sentiment is increasing in all portions
of the Commonwealth. About the time Missouri goes
Kentucky and Maryland viii follow suit, and thus
the South will be shorn Of three great States-de-
prved of three great frontier bulwarks. And the
beauty of the thing consists in this We viii have
paid the money to deprive ourselves of allies and to
weaken our own section The profound ,0isdom of
such policy is SO apparent that he who runneth
may read.
But, let any one propose to prevent the impending
catastrophe by the introduction of additional labor
from abroad, or by the adoption of precautionary
measures of any description and he is at once cried
down as an enemy to the Union, even IL harder and
more reprehensible terms are not used by gentlemen
who illustrate in their action the proverb of straining
at the gnat aud swallowing the camel.