The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1859-10-01
Correspondence Of the Daily Gate City.1
A Letter irons rIIssourl.

Correspondence Of the Daily Gate city.l
A letter irons misssuri.
FAYErrE, Mo-, Sept. 81.
Msasas. EDIroas LII may not b without
interest to your readers to hear something
frona sojoalner in his Hand Of he s'pecu-
Iii rSnstitution.s' Missouri il emphAtically
in transition State. By which, mean to say
that in accordance with the inevitable laws
of enlightened progress, the system Of servile
labor 10 giving way to free white labor, ard
the hears Of the philanshropist 10 cheersd
with the prospect that henceforth, whatever
may be the influence of slavery 10 directing
and controlling the affairs Of State, The rap
i'd decrease Of the number Of slaves, and
consequently OF the influence Of their own
ers, 10 fixed fact. And rave a. they may, it
is beyond the power Of the friends of the
system to fix it permanently upon the soil Of
Missouri.
The high price Of alaves in the Southern
planting States, together with the pressure
Of the constantly increasing ansi-slavery sen
tirnent Of tho people, is producing ito legiti-
mate results, and is fast giving Missouri to
freedom. Whilst this is matter Of con-
graduation to the friends Of freedom, there
are certain features connected with it not
unmixed with pain and anguish Of mind
Such ID the internal character Of American
slavery that tire is no condition of It free
from ssrious evils, but for which, thank
Heaven, no one is responsible save those who
carry it into new sections and those who in
directly in political relation help to spread
it over new territory. In this connection
allade to the fact, that at this time thous-
anls of blacks are being sold from Missouri;
for the Southern market. Very little regard
is had in the sale Of negroes to the relation
of the human ehattel with his nativity, the
ase ociations Of his life or his relation by con-
sanguinity to those from whom he is severed.
II Is sufhcient that ssMassa" wants the mo-
ney and the slave driver wants the man. In
SAYING this, must not deny to hundreds Of
kind-hearted men and women 10 Missouri .
disposition TO do jussioe as Far as possible to
their slaves, but it is not always in their pow.
er to do this, as the slaves IRE generally put
up TO the highest bidder, and the man whose
purse il longest gets them, and it matters but
little whether they are separated here or else
whore, as they are sure to be, sooner or later
in the process of negro commerce.
kidicule a. you Black Republicans may
the declaration of the late Rufus Choase, that
the Declaration Of Independence was 'sonly q
string Of glittering generalities," you have
only to change your latitude two degrees to
be convinced that there Was Gas much truth
if not more than poetry" in the remark. At
one crossing ON the Missouri river / saw
moro than one hundred OF these human chat.
tells waiting in sadness and deep melancholy
for the steamer, just then in sight, that should
bear them bound in chains, us the men were,
to their dreaded home in the South. The
guilty reserve and watchfulness of the slave
driver, as he moved round with his revolvers
and shotgun, attested full we'll even his con-
seriousness that, however much upheld by the
cup idity, the tyranny and the avarice OF man,
be was engaged in a traffic stamped by the
moral sentiment Of the world as man steal
ing, and AS such, calling for the vengeance
OF Heaven.
TO you and me a scene of this kind 10 re-
pulsive enough, and, sside as we may, We feel
our whole nature rising up in opposition to
it. And though it is the mission Of the Dem
ocratic party and the bred Scott decision to
educate us to this standard, thus reversing
the whole teachings Of our earlier years in
regard to human rights, we cannot at pleas
ure, nor yet in obedience to the fat Of Su
prelne Court oligarchy, suppress those Heav-
en-. born principles, which, when young, our
fathers taught us lay at the foundation OF
American liberty: That man is not all a man
uh0 can.
We in the habit of taking it for grant
ed that slavery in Missouri is q different thing
from slavery farther South. And this 10
doubtless true. But in its mildest form il is
revolving to the reason Of men not educated
with paddock upon their conscisnces. And
yet this is the institution which the So called
Democratic party of the nation would con-
tinue in perpetuity. MoRE ANON.
Hit I'm ths BreAa Baskct.
We stated yesterday that Mr.. Price was
refused the privilege OF replying on the spot
to the Rev. Mr.. Deans gross and mex cusable
personal allusions to him il his speech here.
Dean proved himself il assisting 70 put Mr..
Price down, moral coward, and those Dem
ocrats Who sided him in preventing fellow