New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-19
EEPUBLICANISM IN THE WEST.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION EVER HELD IN MISSOURI.

From The ~. LOUIS DemoTdt.
Coniormably to the public notice issued by Is Graft
Brown, esq, Chairman Of the Republican State Gen.
trial Committee State Convention OF the Republicans
Of Missouri was held last Saturday, the 10th inst,
at the Mercantile Library Hall in this city, the purpose
being TO select delegates 10 the National Republican
Convention called at Chicago to nominate candidates
for President and Vice President Of the United States.
Atl2m, The hour of converting, the hall was well
filed every Congressional District in the State being
represented by It's respective delegates The Couven-
ton waa called to order by the Hon. b. Graz Brown,
Chairman Of the State Republican Committee, who adj
dressed the Convention as follows:
GENTLEMEN: Itdevolves upon me 10 cali to order this
morning. the first Republican Convention assemb ed in
any Slave State. In doing 20, permit me TO cay that
party hich has inscribed upon its banner Freedom
Divine Ereedon-thus taking to itself organization, Ii
vndiceted III advance; for wide must be the departure
from tie accredited mifsion of our Federal Govern
ment, and great the peril to those liberties which
illuminate citizenship, when millions OF men all over
the lard deem it necessary 10 make the reasseTtion OF
that freedom the initial point of combination, and the
engrOssng theme OF thought Let us then, III all
honor and with pure patriotism, approach the work
that e set before rs.
You who come together from remote sections of this
commOnwe ath have at least attribute tina, must
make noticeable your action here, which is, that you
dwell in the very pItsence OF the ills you deprecate,
and have il at heart to work out practical not merely
81 1bsOIetlcdl reform. l1uludllODh upon
ueraton labor that assume national importance when
ale cling only remote territories with yoH, cripple the
industries that constitute support Questions -pestl-
lent qufstioBsLhat have been vaiDly banished from
the halls Of Congress- nestle at your resdes. In edu-
cation in social hfe in religious worship, in the toll Of
the field and the shop you have experience OF that dis
limitation against the yeonan aud IN fGyOr oil the
serf which is widely endeavored 10 establish as
the dominating policy in these United States You
know that the conflict between free labor and slave la
Dor is an "iITepIessible conflict that citizen who
has 10 compete with the "chattel at the plow, the
LOOM OF the anvil but feels its truth and tnat they
ony dery il and gloss he lie who Of or belong to
the slave system have faith, therefore, that when
you TO deliberate upon matters OF national con-
cerHmeDt and TO take your place 10 an integral por.
of that great party which has assumed the task Of
wthdra y iug the General Government from ia com.
mtalp ,Dd active agency in behalf of the spread and
Ierpetuhtlon Of Slavery, you VIII be animated by
sympathy wide as the common country, and yet con-
trolled by forbearance due TO the rghtu separation
of State and Federal soveregnties.
In these times, which have perpeZed good men
with so many threats leveled at the Union OF the
States it viii be WELL furthermore to reflect that 1t s
the same sinister and unnatural policy in behalf Of our
geographical limitation of free men, and al indefinite
eX panlion OF slave coil, which breeds the spirit Of
revolt And yet il 10 in interest only and that
aggressive interest that Disunon finds favor. IL is
with party only, and that the party in power, that
sBch ideas have been encouraged for party purposes
PIedeated upon devotion 10 the Slave system both for
States and Territories such a policy az secession
attaches TO itso chiefly those who in that interest
or pertuasoD and while the large body of the people
of The United States hostile 10 all such projects, yet
il Will devolve Immediately upon the free labor
ing Of the Slave States 10 encounter the heresy at
home TO strip it by opposition Of the Importance that
would attach to il as an unchauebged State indorse
ment, and 10 unmask in every o.nthip treason that
owes ts federation 10 cunning dupcity to It's own
ends, combined with exaggerated ialsehoods AS TO the
purposes of oilers. Primarily, therefore. il is the
work Of the Republicans of the Slave States TO save
this Union, if it shall need saving, by evidencng the
fslsehood of those caumnes used TO excite sec
tonal oscord, aud by indicating their own citizen
privileges, the essential beais of any democratic
government. There sentiments know 10 be 1t 'ongiy
prevalent with you in this the inception Of state and
National CANVAS, aud trust Your political fellowship
may compass their fall realization.
Again. they who affirm shat the party which you to-
day organize in Missouri, has its vitality solely from
the so-called negro question:" little know, else
bndly ignore the more perous aspects OF the suppress
zion Of free principles going on in this Republc
We have all much OF Legislation affecting the
slave race, borne with indifference by the nation, that
il may be well doubted whether any direct action In
that behalf, even 10 the renewal of the slave trade
would produce crisis in history and politics. But
when The conflict between different systems becomes
palpable, IN tho struggle for possessing new fields
of labor then il touched that pulse which warns 10
redress Still more, when the attendant issues pro-
yoked by militant esve propaganda, involve the
rights of free intercourse with onehalf Of the States
then does peril arise involving the integrity Of the