The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1858-11-18

| We have no fears for the result Truth and
right are indestructible. They may be crushed
| to the earth, and kept down for ages, but they
have Providence on then side, and must event
ually triumph everywhere. To doubt it, were
to doubt Christianity, God, and goodness. We
regard the trium phi of Slavery, even in the slave
Estates, las but temporary The spirit OF the
age, with all its moral political, economical, and
social forces, is against it. We see what these
have accom- lished in St. Louis, Newport, Wheel
ing, and Wilmington; and We cannot mistake
the signs which foreshadow the regeneration
of Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri,
and Virginia.
We have shown the moral antagOnism OF
Freedom and Slavery. Their political antago-
nism in a confederation of independent States is
| necessary result The slave States wish to
carry their institution into the Territories, and
form new slave States, in order to keep up the
price of slave property, and to strengthen them
selves in the confederation. The people of the
free States, from their love of Freedom, their
repugnance to Slavery, and their passion for
| corner lots and quarter sections in country
free from the blight and mildew of the peculiar
institution" are determined to colonize the Ter
ritories with free labor and they are not IN
mindful, at the same time, of the balance of
power in the Union. Here, again, is a neces-
sity for seepless conflict
The social and economical antagonisms ofthe
two systems operate more silently, and are con-
fined to the slave States themselves. Slavehold-
| arS in tho natura of thinos p,ust ha q ooppar.
atively small class. They are the rich and pros
porous.
The non Shareholders are everywhere the most
numerous by from three to ten, or twenty to
one, and, as general rule they are poor. The
majority of them labor, and are therefore de-
graded, because labor is the occupation of
slaves. The poor freeman, although of Cauca-
sian origin, who is hired to labor by the side of
slaves, is not respected, and therefore loses his
selfrespect He feels his degradation, and la
Dor feels it. He may be crushed, and may be
compelled to defend and applaud the system
which Expresses him, but he nevertheless feels
his degradation, and resents it. He feels that
the slaves labor is preferred to his own, that
but for Slavery he would have plenty of work
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he hates at once the STAKEHOLDER and the slave.
But he bides his time, or removes to the West.
In the extreme South, the poor whites are
crushed under the heel of the STAKEHOLDER, and
make no resistance at present In the Northern
tier of slave States where the non-slavehOlders
are more numerous, intelligent, and independ-
ent, their repugnance TO Slavery is beginning
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the day. They elect Free-Soil Mayors, mem
bers of the State Legislatures, Justices of Peace,
and in Missouri they have elected a member of
Congress. The friends of Slavery boast that
the Institution is stronger now than it was
twenty-five years ago in the confidence of the
people They deceive themselves, or rather
they attempt to deceive themselves and others
Nothing could be farther from the fact.
Twenty-Five years ago. Southern gentlemen
of the better sort adhered to the faith of Wash
ington, Jefferson, and Madison, and regarded
Slavery as wrong and impolitic. In 1882, in
view of the horrors of the Southampton insur
recton they ventured, in the Virginia Legisa
ture to discuss the expediency and PRACTICABLE
ity of abolition But they were greeted with
the indignant frowns and denunciations Of the
shareholders there was then no people to sus
tain them, and the amiable sentimentalists
were, to borrow an expression from Mr. Caleb
Cushing q crnshed ss.st y = pA-f, y i-yztyse So
! e@Ssion, rnougn aDfe ana brilliant, was merely
spasmodic 1t lasted but for few weeks, and
then subsidized into dead calm of despotism.
1t led to no results. No party was formed, and
it had no vitality. Now, contrast with this bar
rem ig-tree, the modern emancipation party of
Missouri, which has elected two Mayors of St
Louis, sent delegates to the Legislature and
member to Congress- in spite of the opposition
of the Shareholders, aroused to madness and
desperation in all parts of the land, combined
with the malign influence of corrupt and I'M
scrupuous Federal Administration.
The brilliant and beautiful Virginia agitation
was crushed by Pro-Slavery reaction. The
Missouri agitation for Freedom is itself a reac-
ton against the brutal and bloody excesses of
Slavery. The free spirit of the people has
defed and conquered the monster in the COM
mercial metropolis of the Mississippi Valley,
and it is destined, at no distant date, to drive
him from the State of Missouri; and the same
| spirit of Freedom, in spite of Federal prostitu
ton, ofoligarchal tyranny, and of conscrvative
monstrance, will keep up the conflict until
spot on the face of the whole Union shall be
| blighted with the tread of slave.
est. LOUIs-According to the late census
returns, the population of ST Louis is l35, 800.
| OF these ,484 are slaves, and 1872 free blacks
The nationality of the inhabitants is classed as
follows: Americans 1861, Germans 1854
Irish 22,Ol4, English BASIL French ,338."-
| Exchange.
| In 1850, the city, including the county, con-
| tanned 1860 inhabitants, of whom 1856 were
slaves and if the above statement which we
| find as an item of news in our exchanges, in
cludes also the county, the result shows a
marked declensiOn Of Slavery. Will the Dem
Ocrat explain
| MESsRs. FoRNEY AND HAsKIN COUNTED Or.
| The Richmond South of a recent date has the
c>IIo,v;p,, uncbor;ta bla d;ro III oJ;to. a.