Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-12-22
From the St toui, (,io) Democrat
THE FREE-sOIL REVOLUTION III KIs-
S0URI-REMARKABLE PREDICTION
OF A PRO-SLAVERY ORACLE
EMANCIPATION CERTAIN.

| NOONA hGM dnhAbLG EAED4ClIUH
OF A PR0SLAVERY ORACLE
EMANCIPATION CERTAIN.
Few believe in the perpetuity, or. rather. the
long-continued existence, of slavery in this State;
but fewer still have had the boldness to announce
that the work Of redemption and regeneration
can be accomplished in three or four years. We
find, however that the hopes Of the emancipation
lists of Missouri are more than justified by the an.
ticipations of the prO-slayery party. The follow
ing, from yesterdays Bulletin, will explain our
meaning:
Let us, then, main tain position Of strict and
perfect neutrality. That is the obvious policy OF
Missouri. Her position is an extremely fortunate
one. An abolition administration can do her no
harm, noI in1ict any disgrace upon her. II the
Union lasts, she can and will speedily cmaucpatc
her slaves, take her place among the dominant
non-slaVehOdiDg States, and march rapidly on
ward in the road to numbers wealth and power.
Tho transition from her present position as a
slaYeholding State to that Of a free State, would
be as easy as it is certain Tho abolitioniSts had,
at tbs late elections, II 900 voters in the State
"A footing in every county. That number has
increased TWO fold by the result of the election
and Charles Sumner could get 35 900 votes in the
State of Missouri tomorrow. If the South sub
miss, the number of ant-slavery men will be i'm
mensely increased by the accession Of timd anti
slavery 7sSusand Of those who arc unwilling for
Missouri to be one of the yassal States. II the
Union lasts through Lincolu's administration,
Missouri will vote for aboliionist in 1864 and
be leading anti-slavery State in the Union"
We need hardly remark that the Bulletin is the
leading Breckinridge organ in the State, enjoying
the full confidence of the party for which speaks
L. has at last become apparent to all men, that the
fall Of slavery here is not only certain but iGme
date. The sagacty Of the Bulletin in recognizing
the fact, and its candor in avowng it, cannot bo
too muck appauded. If ever the shining of the
daylight Of truth was demanded it is de.
uanded now. The charlatanism which SO long
dominated in the councils of the democratic party
has excited Universal disgust, and fallen into uni
versal contempt. Men will no longer tolerate i'm
postures and frauds in political life, which they
pronounce dishonest and disgraceGul when viewed
in other relations. Plain speaking is among the
wants of the times; and the Bulletin in stating
that Senator Sumner would receive 3j 900 votes
to-day in Missouri and tina. if the Union lasts,
slavery from her soil in the four years sets an
example. in this respect, to the rest of the pro-
slavery press of the State well worthy Of imia-
on
But suppose the Union should not last. would t
he same change take paco-would slavery cease |
0 exist in Missouri? We answer the event I
would be equally certain and much more sudden O
The disruption Of the Union on the line dividing 8
he Slave States from the Free States, would in q
olive the immediate abolition Of slavery, ct least
n Missouri. The attempt to dissolve the Union e
would produce civil war. Civil war would soon +
un into the most maligaan. types of social and d
gains city, district against district and neghbor- il
God against neig ighbJrhood The border Slave t
tates would be thetheatre Of the complicated con
let il the sectional line should be tue dividing line
nd, Whatever the issue might be, the destruction
{ slaves iu these States would lie inevitable
The dissolution Of the onion would be the most c
ummary process that could be invented for mar a
owing the area Of the slave soil. Let US force c
urselses to contemplate the picture which Mis-
ouri, for instance, would present in the event OF
iVl war. The fret mutterings Of the storm l
'ould alarm many of the heavy Shareholders, who II
ou!d soon gather up their household goods and S
migrate to Arkansas and Texas. Others Of the C
ime class, also taking time by the forelock would
recipita:e their slaves on u Southern market, a
here their money value would be merely noni. II
a. for there would be no disposition on the part 81
Southern capitalists to invest in tina, species Of h
roperly while the country was whlrling in the
,rtex Of revolution. as the drama progressed
@ should witness an exodus Of the slaves, in 81
ree separate columns, into the three adjoining y"
rec States. In short, the hurricane would sweep :,
10 State bare Of the African race. The regen- =
alton Of Missouri, then, is certain, whatever "'
ny be the fate Of the Union. We are not un- "
indful Of the consequence that would follow the y
stotatOn Of the slave trade with Afrca-the ="
aud panacea OF the Disunonists for all the ills
Q body polite is heir to-but the moral sense of
civilized nations has so incrdcted it, that its
s,oration is impossible. Besides, il is to be no.
'ed that, although the border slave States might id
reduced a second time to the condition 10 70
hch they now are through the instrumentality AT
that Accursed traffic assuming the practicable d.
Of restoraliOnl slavery, as it exists in these TT