, 1861-02-21
st Louis Never Found Wnntfn9-fsIo.
rlous triumph Of the Unconditional
Union Ticket. . e.. :..
From the Missouri DemoGat.]

From the Missouri DemocTat.l
The event 30 anxiouEly looked fo1na1d to
By every patriotic citizsu Of st. Louis is at
last decided. The n1omentous crisls, upon
which hung so many interests SO many hopes
is over; and the predictions which, in onr
strong faith In the answering fidelity of the
vast majority Of our fel1ow-citizens TO- the
Union cause, We renturcd to offer, have been
amply and satisfactorily realized. The uncon-
ditional Union ticket is elected by an average
1nojority of 5000. st. Louis has thus declazed
enphaticAl1y 1lgr. devotion to the U1ion-to
the Union without my OF those tricky condi-
tons WhereWitll designing knaTes and heart
less anarchists sought to clog hef declaration.
The star Of our glorious Republic has not yet
set, howmucl,soever its rays may be ooscared
hy the murky clouds that for tile time over;
caet the Southern quarter Of the political fir
luament -,
"A voice has gone forth from the Queen City
ri the Vest, which will cheer many q despond-
Jug heart, aud decide many wavering mind
throughout the length and breadth Of the land
Wherever in this broad empire one pnlse
throbs for the eacred cause Of human freedom,
ior the integrity Of our National Confederacy,
aud the honor Of the American nag, the yer.
dict which st. Louis has just rendered vii!
hiring confidence aud g1aaness. It speaks of
:,rinaosit;es subdued. Of antagonisms harmon
inn restored. To the advocates Of seces-
zion, it Ia the keenest rebuke they could
well receive; while lfor every. loyal cit
izen, it creates fresh incentive to- pursue the
(.lain, straightforward path of duty, nor suffer
himself to be led away by the fim5y sophfstries
III disunionist partisans, who for the haaest and
lneauest motives Of fsclf-interest labor to bring
to ruin the fairest structure Of liberty with
which Gods earth has ever yet been blest
For our own part, we had throughout no
fears as to the result; but we are not ;fhe less
gratided On that s:Gcount--becausc This Stale
T,F np2 1ha
Louis, is, to use military phrase, the very key
vi the Southern position. The result OF this
election is significant and opportune reproof
to the temerity and ambition Of the Gulf States.
It must needs be accepted IS the mature, un-
biased decision OF The whole case between the
Nor.l, and the South By community placid
on the frontier boundary, whose instincts and
prtjudices, the results of casual circumstances,
I.anld perhaps incline it to favor one section
in preference 10 the other, did not the prompt
in.;s Of a will regulated public conscience, the
4,yer1uliug sense Of interest and safety, ant,
above oil, 4 high toned patriotism and spirit
conservative OF long tested, beneficent lnstitu-
| lions, weigh in the other scale and enforce An
unqualified vote for the preservation Of the
Union,
with respect to the roting in other portions
Of the State we have yct but partial returns,
but judging from those received, we have every
/. reason 10 believe that the supporters OF thu
Union have prevailed By an overwhelming
majority.
Sas even IN the interior the verdict to be
! rendered In this city was the super-eminent
| consideration; and that verdict has now gone
| forth. Whatever betide, st. Louis will be for
| the Union and in the Union. She has solemn
| ly, and once again, plighted her faith to the
| Constitution, and neither fraud nor force shall
avail to make her violate that doub1y ratified
enyag mcnt.
. Let us therefore congratulate our friends
The friends Of liberty, Of right, of law, in
word, Of this magnificent American common
wealth, flor that single phrase rightly under.
stood embodies all these ideas in their best
senserupon the result which VIC chronicle
| today; Let it be known from the rtherD
lakes to the 5outhern seaooard, from Virginia
to Cnlifornia, that Missouri nobiy stems the
mad torrent Of secession folly. and declares
for the permaneney Of the Union. Such an
example must determine the counsels OF othe1
| border States, and terminate the idle hopes oi
those who have been for years practicing their
vile Vaccinations for the overthrow Of popular
government on this continent, and making
Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri apfanngea ol
the Cotton C0niedeTacy.