Freeman's champion., 1858-07-08

exploded. Machinery has pHderta-
ken, successfully, to do the drglgery
Of the farm, the mine, and the facto-
ry. Even strength in ,mqnual labor
is Of exceptional demanp activity
and energy have become the chief re-
quisites. Home facts forlibly illus
trate this view. The best hemp now
raised in Missouri, is cultivated and
prepared by the Germans of Lafay-
cite county. The most successful
mining companies, in dle interior
districts no longer hire tqyes. but
rely crtlrely upoDfrea lGcf In. the
field Of mechanical and capital zed
employment, it is known to all that
the trades are held exclusively by
white workmen who do not even per-
nit negro competition. Secondt the
prestige has passed away from the
slave system here, both socially and
politically AN influx Of capital and
population contributes, more than all
else, to the growth Of State, and
even the most 'unthrifty cannot but see
the accessions which free labor move
ments are making to the wealth and
prosperity of Missouri. Real estate
in many districts has quadrupled
within the year. Colonies have re.
allied more than double the price Of
their own homeSteads out OF alternate
reserved sections within their pur-
chase. Villages have sprung up
within a twelvemonth, rivalling the
neighboriig seats Of justice that have
had twenty years tRe starA Farms
that failed to support theiA owners,
have become fortunes by sdb-divis-
ion. All these things men connect
with the evident cause, an{ they cease
to revere old forms of sen lie labor.
Again, too, wherever the Matter has
been mooted, in the metropolis or in
the country, the cause offree soilpro-
gression has triumphed Fought
upon principle, industrial argument
brought to bear; voters made to feel
and know, and decide the issue in
mo single instance has it failed to
achieve q signal victory. Its suprem-
acy at st. Louis, is known as we'll in
Holland as Maine, and we need not
allude to it further. Along the Mis-
souri, river, where a short while since
an embargo was attempted, of ten
principal towns, four have pronounced
in favor Of free LABOR, three others
are intrinsically so at this moment,
and the rest will follow at the first
extended sale of lots. Th lines Of
railroads are characterized ty similar
outgrowth; every engine is free soil-
er, and every depot the n lcleus of a
free labor city. Everywh,D, the fer
meut in local politics, moi less than
the cautious delay and dot Sting hes
itancy of parties, expressl Sow little
faith they have in Pro-Sld Try invo-
cation. No rising man o. )he State
ventures to risk his fortEhes upon
the perpctuity Of the peculiar inStitu-.
tion. The conclusion is irresistible
that it is doomed to pass away
Third heprocess of slavery extinct
ion is so palpable, that it i, only the
blind who will not see; dnd, the weak
who do not comprehend. Substan-
lively the making the free labor issue
is its sure victory. Whenever that
becomes the question, fully submit
ted and canvasSed, all must realize
that interest will determine it in ia
vor Of the white race. There are in
Missouri, one hundred and thirty
thousand voters, of whom perhaps
one hundred thousand are nonlslave-
holders, whilst thirty thousand have
property in slaves. Draw the line
between these, as is done where the
negro is insisted upon as the para
mount consideration, or elicit the an
tagonism that must transpire when
the demands Of free labor to free soil
are resisted, and the division demon
strates where and what the predomi-
nance will be. Many avoid the con-
clusion by asserting that the most
violent Pro-Slavery zealots are often
themselves non-slaveholdors. This
is true but make the issue let that
issue hang upon self interest and it
will be true no longer. Nor is this
all. The tide of population, moving
westward, has latterly founded in the
northern Territories, q State q year.
Its diversified migration islfairly es-
timaledSat fifty thousard o month,
and is likely to be incrcasR " by adj
ventitious circumstances iorsomo time
to come. In the past, this has swept
by, and beyond Missouri, 70 colder
latitudes or remoter settlements, but
late events have largely c3occntratod