The Kanzas news., 1858-08-14
Fron the St. LOuis Nsws.
The Comine Man.

From the st. Louis News.
The Coming Man.
The truth is, and there is no Disgusting
it, that F. P Blair, Jr., the Representative
for this Congressional District, has fol
j years been the most adroit, successful and
rising politician in the West. His career
1 in Missouri may in one sense Be called re-
markable. He was Que Of the very first
men in the State to break loose from the
fetter that the Southern Nulli6ers COM
4 meuced imposing upon the Democratic
party of the ration. He turned Barn
| burner means "Freesoiler" now
-as early as 1848, and he has been con-
sistent in his freesollism, as well as persist
ent and bitter in his denuneiations of the
| fire-eatiRg, or. as he sometimes styles them.
| the ''nigger driving" Democracy. ever since.
| While such men as John Van Buren have
crept back and licked the hand and tried TO
nestle i'd the bosot1 of that perterse party
that ostracised his illustiious father, the
President, Frank Blair, though under much
grea;er temptation to abjure his Evan Bu-
rem and Adams" detection of 1848, has
maintained his integrity with q frmness
and defiance of popular sentiment around
him, that was uncommon enough 10 be he
roic.
And what is most remarkable about
Frank Blair, Notwithstanding he has been
walled around by bitter prejudices against
him and his principles, zealously kindied
by the antiBenton party, in league with
former power in the State. the Missouri Re
pu6lican. in its days of Whig-Anti- Benton
lively overcome every obstacle opposed to
l.. Ioa oSo,
by step, as he chose; and whether in Office
or out, has given his own party more
shrewdness in policy and ''back bone in
battle, and given his adversaries more con-
fusion by perplexing their counsels, than
any other ten politicians in the State.
A hundred times year, the Republican
and its anti-Benton cOterie of small politi
clans, would congratulate themselves that
Frank Blair and his principles were utterly
odious in Missouri; aud that no danger was
ever to be apprehended from him. But
though confessediy in minority in the
State, our Representative has never failed
to fool and defeat those parties that have so
persistently opposed and DETAINED him-he
has never failed to shape the politics of
the city and the State, to serve his own po-
litical ends.
There is neither good sense nor policy
in denying obvious merit, aud the National
Democrats of Missouri, who have for years,
endeavored in vain to arrest the career of
Frank Blair, and who have come out of ev
cry encounter with him mortified and beat
en-, should be ashamed longer to slight his
abilities. his sagacity and his determined
purpose.
To: go no deeper for the secret of his
success, it is enough to say. that Frank
Blair's thorough political knowledge is suf-
ficient to account for his complete and in
evitable mastery of all political bodies that
he has yet associated with. Except Col.
Benton, there is no man in the country who
is moIe thoroughly informed in the politi
cal history of the United States, than our
Representative. And we question wheth-
er he has not more ready command of the
minuter facts in the history of men and par
ties, that can be turned against his aiver-
saries, than even "Old Bullion" himself
There is not an anti-Benton politician in
Missouri that is more than ten year old
boy by the side of Frank Blair, in adjust
ing the details of political campaign and
preparing the strategies of attack and defence.
There are those who know that Frank
Blair. in taking his political position. nine
years ago, against the nullifying National
Democracy, saw the ''end from the begin
ning''. His faith has been unwayering, and
set forth ordinarily in the following Ian
guage, that the time would come when the
people of the United States would learn
{! at there were other interests in the Un
ion besides "niggers' the day would
arrive when "white laboers'' would assert
rights equal to those of the ''colored" ma
chimes of few Southern aristocrats-and
that Presidents of this great Republic would
sometime or other get into the presidential
chair without clolting their hands with
wool pulled from the heads of the Africans,
and put over the peoples eyes.
Frank Blair has been living for that day.
And if his amiable enemies in Missouri
have fiattered themselves that they have
him obscured for the few past Tfars, by
unpopulafity created for him In Missouri.
he and his friends can point TO 3 national
reputation that has. been growing up around
his name. His light is no longer hid an
der a bushel in Missouri, If il was ever
! hid here. which his enemies can hard
II claim. And bis nomination for the
Speakership of the House by the Missouri
democrat has long since been forestslied
and reduced to rather . tame atfsir BY a
nomination in distant journal for Prssi-
dent of tie United States. Thus 1t will be
seen our Representative is not poor for
honors, even abroad.
There is no telling who win be President
next. Certainly no member of the Buchan-
an psrty. If it is to be Free Soil Demo
crat. then we advise the Missouri "Nation-
ais" TO keep an eye on Frank Blair.
A fellow in North Carolina had been i'm
prisoned for having thirteen wives; and
breaking jail, gentleman recognized him