The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-04-10
Hopef.l sisns. In Ae,sesuri


Hopeful Signs In Missouri. sss.
We are much cheersd BY ths rawlings Of the
ST. Louis Daily Demecrat, (Apffl ~ Black
Republican sheet, over the results of the late
election in st. Louis, hitherto the stronghold
OF the Republicans iii Missouri, but now tri.
umphantly carried by the friends OF the South.
ern Union. The Democrat says that the day
of the late election 4s~
Was day of humiliation and indeli.
BILE shame for st. Louis. The Disunion
faction has al length worked its will and
crushed out for the time being the proud
spirit OF the foremost city in the West
As the news is read this morning near and
far, every one Will feel that another link
Is snapped In the chain that holds the
Border States in the Union, and while
that news will create sadness in the
minds OF all loyal men, 1t will as certain.
~ cause every traitor in the land to rejoice.
We care not to enumerate, on this occasion,
the cause of the calamity, but IL is impossible
70 take the slightest backward glance without
being filed with wonder, and feelings other
than those Of wonder, at the conduct Of the
men who stood all last year on the platform
Of the Constitut ton, the Union, and the en-
forcement of the laws and who voted for the
unconditional Union ticket last month. We
frankly say that we have more, Infinitely
more respect for the ayoWed secesslonlsts
than for those men. Let this suffice Tor the
present-to speak Of their conduct as II de-
serves, We're TO use language with which ears
polite are not very familiar"
The Democrat pr oceeds to assert that though
fraud and terrorism" have been employed
largely on the Southern side,
at would be disngenuous to deny that
the evidence seems TO he conclusive OF j
deep, widespread disaffection from the
Union cause. Let us hope that TINS as
| atfec tion will be temporary that the MANI
mon worship that here, as well as in Bos-
| ton, has made so many merchants crlnge
and fown for the Southern trade, is bat an
| ephemeral idolatry. Let us hope that reason
and pa triotism will return to the shrines they
| have deserted, when it is found that thrift
has not followed the crnging and faWnlng.-
The men who have tempered with their 10y
| atty for the sake of the Southern trade, will
| find they have made a bad bargain OF II every
| way. They will have to atone for the ensuing
| two years for the act OF yesterday-they can
repent at leisure. As for the working men
| and foreign born citizens who voted for TAY-
| LoR we will believe they knew not what they
did. Their conduct on any other HYPOTHESIS
is inexplicable. Though very reluctant TO
make the declaration, We would yet consider
ourselves false to our position as pubic
| monitor, if we neglecte to state that the re-
suit of the election yesterday conveys very
| gloomy lesson. To us, it seems that those tcho
| Utshed to stay in 81. Louis and in the Union
| at the same time, 1ii haze no alternative out
! an appeal to arms, in defence Of their position.
| We are heartily sincere in wishing IT may De
| otherwise but such, nevertheless, is our IN
| depreciation of TAYLoR's election
The above is significant in every way 1t
acknowledges an overwhelming defeat In the
Republican stronghold in Missouri, and 1T
| threatens resistance to the majority with the
sword. Nothing more nor less can be made
| from those words in italics. A pretty state
| of things, truly. The slavehoiding State of
| Missouri invaded by horde of specializing
| Puritan Adventures, who squat down in her
principal commercial city and go deliberately
to work to abolitiOniZe the State, and when
| their own imported free soil vote is legally
and constitutionally beaten at the polls,
threatens to draw the sword, and compel Mis-
souri, to remain in the Union at the point OF
the bayonet. The next step will be to send
for LINCOLN to support the Union party with
two or three of ScoTr's mercenary regiments.
The Democrat proclaims that " there is no
alternative to those who wish to stay in ST.
Louis and the Union at the same time, but an
appeal to arms Would it not be better for
these New England squatters, who are de-
terrnined to make the most they can out Of
| the new commercial advantages of St. Louis
| and at the same time to abolitioniZe the State
| of Missouri. to give up this latter project and
to return to their native land, instead of seek
| ing, viper like, to sting the bosom that has
| warmed them into life? The great majority
| of Northern men in the South are true to her
| institution, and ready to fight and die in her
! defence. But there are exceptions, Back Re-
| publican allies and spies, some of whom may
| be found in every Southern community, and
who congregate largely in St. Louis, men
| who are eternally disparaging all that be-
longs to the South, and are bitter as gall
| against South Carolina, and when they are
| fairly defeated at the polls, threaten, the
| Democrat does, to draw the sword. 1t is 4
forbearing and long suffering people, indeed,
who permit such vipers to fasten upon their
| hands and who do not shake them off into
| the fire.
| But we can forgive the blind rage of the
| Democrat, on account of the value of the con-
cessons to the strength and happiness of the
| good cause in Missouri. The Queen City of
| the West is no longer in the hands of our enc
| mics. The very grounds which the Democrat
assigns for its defeat ought to suggest some
| valuable reflections to practical minds. If
the merchants in st. Louis and Boston are ca
| ger, as it asserts. to throw themselves at the
feet of the South, that thrift may follow
| fawning,' it is clear that the South is not the
| poor, destitute, impotent country which her
| enemies so often represent, nor is slavery the
| exhausting and impoverishing system they
declare it. Boston merchants are not in the
habit of going out of their way to propitiate
| the inmates Of aims houses, as WENDELL
PHILLIPS characterizes the Sou thern people.
/ The truth is, the Southern Confederacy
is the richest section of the Republic,
| the most productive, the most capable of
prospecting in peace, and, as we shall present
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