Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1862-05-08
lmInntAChronhle.
Inanoipetion Question in Missouri.
frfom he Missocri Dcmocretl

Iron The Missocri Democrat
The celebrated Charles James Fox was
always IN debt, and always postponing I'm.
portuuate creditors to some more convenient
season. On one occasion a parry OF duns'
who bHdr0t wuaried out with the constant,
" recurring answer some other day,
agreed 70 insist on a definite Pay Gay, ano
accordingly made their reas0Daoie reques' "
tho epondfhrif statesman that he should
ene .knr, % all and got thar
name some ume TOT e"e"h u
mon's"; ,.mau sid The d;latorv
Inh4s. at nsms ,be dsv "a ~.J,,dyment."
oeDtOf,. 4 hSu'e TUG uay Viv~
But that may be . busy day for all OF US
said ehe, SPOKESMAN: .-~
wen, tnen5, ree)olneu ro&' s"ppoSe VIC
say ehe ddy loaotoHg. -
III Giscuss'ng the ques.'o" y. snn. not =
ting Missouri rom slavery, we ,n na. .,sIav'
lew VINO are qu,te reaay 70 say saa of
cry = an impeachment 10 ine pLg' IL an ;U'
the osate tnat us remoVs NV m ;ns,;,u,;on in
~caicuisbie ocnent tnat tne lns. SUI az hnt
Missouri must ultimately De got ria OF, p9'
1t wlilnot DO 70 agltate .n9 su3Yo - ano,an,
There Is the same nervous erear ~ ihsean'
pain, the same desire 10 Rut non III
row, which Q patient suHs[lng VIII oan.en
feels to It's xtirpauon. Ie Jul ta'ne, ny
enrolment piasters OF resvrt W quacN gu" =.
dics-anything, rather than 70 consent 10
an operation noDs thougl ne khows i.ns \,
evitspie ~ some iu.ule uay ep,css ~ Iouu
one from the continuance vi M ma,ay
Wore tnan sky Years n.y. T ~
ferson wrote 70 MS irienu OF. ueoryo lu9A
or, on the SUBJECT OF slavery iii 'Hsinia'
thus:
The .oone, we put SOM PLAY under way, Tue gren,sr
S SSpe 70 'p h. uI / /" eject. But L something is no, do1e
ana soon don,: we .hnll be the murlerrrs Of our own
ss snSssn. ,vs h..n u siIam saq ! iena,,hsr opem,iom 10
eiesr ourselves, but every days delay lsssensihs time we
may take for emancipation" -,
Happy would it have been for Virginia II
abe had listened to the counsels ofthe States.
man Of Monticello. For though the precise
fear which he felt at that tim were no
realized, the continuance OF slavery IN thu
Old Dominion is now drenching her exhaust
ed soil with the blood OF her sons. ln
manner other than That which he antlcipa
ted, those who made Virginia the grea
slave breeding State for the fields OF NOR
Southern sections became truly the mur
derefsof their children" u...
Nothing is more certain than that Mi Hs 1
those who discuss the subject with any. pre-
tension to intelligence, there is not onein al
hundred, but asserts or assents to that pro
position. Slave laboris intrinsicaily unproht
able In Missouri, to those who use it,
Our staples now are not those in the pro
duction Of which that species OF labor can b
employed to advantage on any scale. In
fsvorite ''isothermal' theory Of some advo
Gates Of the system excludes our State from
the semi-tropical paradise, where they sup
pose slavery could flourish, or would cOntrl
butte to productive wealth. Still more, tn
peculiar natural resources OF Missouri ar
such as TO invite skill, enterprise and FIRE
labor, and therefore to render undesirable
system which tends to shut those out.
The present is, in fact, q most auspiciou
time TO ~inaugurate q policy OF emanci patio
in Missouri. None moro favorable is eve
likely TO occur. Mems minds arc now en-
gagged with the subject. They have befor
their eyes some Of the fruits OF the full dc
veloped system. But for the informatio
which strove, with partial success, to ider
tify Missouri with the fifteen States OF tn
South" as one Of them, her fields woul
not have been ravaged, and her thousant
Of happy dwelling. places made dssolate b
civil war, as they are at this hour.
Let the remark OF one OF our own inh'
entail shareholders, himself the advocate :, i;
an emancipation policy. be pondered well
NOs uooshs 9.h ~ WV"
Of the States which are exempt from th
blight" But the battles OF South Carolin
and Georgia and Alabama and Mississippi
have been fought upon the soil OF the BIO
der Slater, and almost wholly OF a distan'
from their own doors. The slave empil
which Davis, Stephens, Toombs, BenjamI
and Yancey projected, and OF which cote
was to DO king, embraced Missouri, a.
therefore they arrayed their forces upon b,
fields.
Mon cannot discuss tho present war,
any one Of its aspects, apart from its caus
Tho rebellion 10 the act Of the corporate sla
cry interest Of the planting States. III
question Of slavery will be uppermost IN AZ
attempt which may hereafter be made +
adjustment and paciication.
All good men desire to see peace restore
to Missouri, and that she should enter upt
tho career Of prosperity for which natu
has bestowed the elemental means. n
single step could. contribute 80 greatly
those results as the Inauguration OF such
capital and enterprise Of tho free States
From ''the fifteen States" We can expe'
neither Of these, nor is thcro any reast
whv tho destinies OF Missouri should BIO