Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1858-02-08

Immediately after the August cleo
ton in Missouri, the whole Abolition
press INDUCED 10 the most confident
prophecies that in less than three years
Missouri would be q Free State. W.
were told that Major Rollins, the Know
Nothing candidate avowed himself in
favor of Emancipation, and that the
large vote he received was owing to
the strength Of the Abolition feeling in
that State. Well informed men were
aware that such was not the fact.
Although we have never been disputed
in our statement that the contest be-
tween Gov. Stewart, the present Dem
ocratic Governor and his Know Moth
ing opponent did not in the least in
volve the question Of slavery, we are
happy to be supported by n who has
long borne a conspicuous part in the
politics Of Missouri. We call particu-
lar attention to the following extract
from an able speech lately made in
Congress by Col. Anderson of Mo-:
And now, sir, while upon this subiact, !
desire TO correct q false impression hat has
been made in the North by the public press
in referance to the feelings and sentiment
Of the people Of Missouri on the subject Of
slavery during and since the gubernatorial
election in that State. which took place in
August last. You were told in substance
that the citizens there were upon the
verge Of emancipatlng their slaves. That
public sentiment was rapidly tending in
that direction that the candidate who ran
in opposition to the nominee Of the demo-
cratic party was a Freesoiler, and the close
ness Of the contest between him and the
Hon. Robert N. Stewart, the Democratic
candidate, was evidence Of the disposition
Of the people Of Missouri to I'd themselves
Of slavery. A more unfounded statement
was never published TO the American peo-
Pile. Maj. Rollins, the candidate Of the op-
position, received a majority of the votes in
many Of the largest slaveholding counties Of
the State. He was regarded by the American
party as a proslavery man. He proclaimed
in his public speeches that he was the own
sr of % slaves; and bat four days before
the election he announced a public speech
in my own city that he believed the wisest
and best relation that could subsist between
the white and African races was that Of mas
ter and servant, and that he was violently
opposed to the emancipation of slavery in
Missouri. In the very county in which !
have the honor to reside, in Northeast Mo-,
one Of the strongest proslavery counties in
the State, he received q kmajority of 49O
votes. In my opinion. the great body of
the people of Missouri have never at any
time since the organization Of the State been
better satisfied with the institution Of slave
ry, or more determined to resist all assaults
upon it. The people Of the North need not
delude themselves with the idea that Mis-
soul will yield up this institution. 1t is
with the people Of Missouri, as l apprehend
it al with the other slave States of the
Un,on-the more bitter and violent the as
saults of the common enemy Of the South.
the more closely will they cling to it, and
the more determined their purpose to de-
termined their purposes to defend it against
every foe from within and without.