Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-06-12

ieal and capitalized employment, it is known to
all that the trades are held exclusively by white
workmen who do not even permit negro com
petition. Nccond: the prestige has passed away
from the slave system here, both socially and
politically. An inhux Of capital and population
contributes. more than all else, to the growth of
a state, and even the most unthrfty cannot but
see the acccssions which free labor movements
are making to the wealth and prosperity of Mis-
souri. Real estate in many districts has quad
rupled within the wear. Colonies have realized
more than double the price of their own home
stcadS out of alternate reserved sections within
their purchase. Villages have sprung up with
in a twelvemonth, riyalling the ncighboring
seats of justice that have had twenty years the
start. Farms that failed to support their own
ers have become fortunes by subdivision. All
these things men connect with the evident cause
and they cease to revere old forms of scrNile and
unproductivc labor. Again too. wherever the
matter has been mootcd in the metropolis or in
the country, the cause Of free soil progression
has triumphed. Fought upon principle, indus
trial argument brought TO bear; voters made to
feel and know and decide the issue in no sin
gle instance has it failed to achieve signal vic
tory. Its supremacy at st. Louis, is known as
well in Holland as in Maine. and we need not
allude to it further Along the Missouri river
where short while since an embargo was at
tempted of ten principal towns four have pro-
nounced i'll favor Of free labor, three others are
intrinsically SO at this moment, and the rest will
follow at the first extended sale Of lots. The
lines of railroads are characterized by similar
outgrowth; every engine is free soilcr, and
every depot the nucleus of free labor city,
Everywhere the fermcnt in local politics. not
less than the cautious delay and doubling hesi-
fancy of parties, express how little faith they
have in pro-slavcry invocation. No rising man
of the state ventures to risk his fortunes upon
the perpctuity of the peculiar Institution. The
conclusion is irresistible that il is doomed TO
pass away. THid: the process of slavery ex-
tinction is so palpabc, that it is onl, the blind
who will not see, and the weak who do not COM
prehend. Substantially the making the free
labor issue is its sure victory. Whenever that
becomes the question, fully submitted and can
vassed, all must realize that interest will deter
mine it in favor Of the white race. There are
in Missouri one hundred and thirty thousand
voters, of whom perhaps one hundred thousand
are non-slaveholders. whilst thirty thousand
have property in slaves. Draw the line between
these, as is done where the negro is insisted up
on rs the paramount consideration. or elicit the
antagonlSm that must transpire when the de
mands of free labor to free soil are resisted and
the division demonstrates where and what the
predominancc will he. Many avoid this conclu-
sion by asserting that the most violent pro-sla-
very zealots are often themselves nom -say ehold-
crs. This is true; but make the issue; let that
issue hinge upon self interest and it will be
true no longer. Nor is this all. The tide of
population. moving westward. has latterlv foun-
ded in the northern territories, a state a year.
lis diversified immigration is fairly estimated at
fifty thousand a month. and is likely to be in
creased by advcnttious circumstances for some
time to come In the past. thi, has swept by.
and beyond Missouri. TO colder atitudes or re-
moter settlements, but late events have largely
concentrated it upon our own territory. 1t
comes seeking homes, building villages. coloni-
zing counties, prospecting with the Bible and
the school house for the seats of an enlarged
c'.iisahii1,n It is an army of free laborcrs. a
furnished white community. an irresistible press
ure OF people. The enumeration in the present
season will, so far as can be ascertaned, 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 flood
Cheap land, mild climate, rich soil varied tim
her, eXhaustleSS minerals, private gain and pro-
spective freedom are gathering multudcs from
every State that has a surplus industry, and of
those multitudeS all come penetrated fully with
the desire, as their very presence accompliSheS
the work, of slavery extinction. 1t is idle for
politicians TO think Of resisting such forces bv
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masses of free white laboring men who. within
the next five years, may become citizens of Mis-
souri, will give such impusion to public scnti-
ment, and the disappearance of slave labor from
all fields of employment through insecurity and
unprohtablencss and removal southwark, will
be so great that virtually ours will then be a
free State. To carry this forward requires chief
ly jealous cooperation by those who favor such
indust<aal progress. There must be bravery of
expression, close adhesion to fixed ideas of the
free labor policy, and the solidifying popular
organization TO take charge of government
The party of free labor is the only party in Mis-
souri, that has future. All growth will attach
to IT, all losses will come from its opponents,
and such ascendancy must soon become irresis-
tiblc. To public opinion at home then acting
upon public opinion abroad and both sustain
ed by such methods, we may look for an oblit-
Grating impression to be made upon the system
of slavery. When that shall be done and the
consequent displacement of seryile classes by
the white working men shall have taken place,
it will require little legislation or expenditure,
to clear away the remains of the institution
But few slaves will will remain, and those who
own them will be the persons demanding paw
for their freedom. In strictness of language we
declare there are none who urge forthwith an
act of emancipation for slavery extinction is be-
ing effected by far surer agencies; and when
the former shall be urged as legal termination
of the system, it will come first from slavehold-
ers who see in the government their best mar
ket.
FreeSoilers of Missouri be of good cheer for
the day of your dominion fast approaches
Never take step backward, or yield foot of
conquest, or dream of compromise; for the tr-
umph of your cause is as inevitable as fate it
self BE fearless, sleepless and tireless, propa-