New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-13

believes that the Government should be saved
q" though Slavery and every man who upholds
Slavery should perish" He does not see why
Gen. Blair should be so strongly in favor OF
hanging every one who entertains this most
natural and logical opinion. When he counts
the lives, measures the blood calculates the
tears which the war has cost" he does not
see how any true Unionist can be conserva-
tivc"-for his own part, as man, pa
triot and a citizen, he demands to be ranked
as Radical for only the Radical desires to
see the Rebellion crushed, until every remain
ing member Of it is powcrless for future mis-
chief. The men who flew to arms to save
Mis- souri, from external invasion and from
domestic faction-the men who followed the
gallant Lyon to death, in defense of Consti-
tutional Freedom-thcse were the Radicals :
The Radical county of Franklin, out Of
population of not over 1900 souls, furnished
upward Of ! 500 recruits to the Union army,
and of these ] 900 have laid down their lives
in the battlefield and hospital The First,
Second and Third Wards Of st. Louis-the
Radical Wards of the City-furnshed nearly,
if not quite as many recruits which captured
Camp Jackson, as the entire seven Wards
Represented By Gen. Blair "And so it is
saws Mr.. Blow, sail over the State In exact
proportion to the degree of Radcallsm-party
Radlcalism-to he found, has Loyalty been
proven by its works
Mr.. Blow describes the Missouri Radical plat
form upon which he stands as the 'nncondi-
lionally Union-uncondtIonally Freedom Plat
form" Ii makes support Of the Government
the first and highest test Of good citizenship;
and /, indorses the President Proclamation of
Freedom lin it, body, and not a a tail piece.
"Emancipation, says MT. Blow, "is peculiarly
lis measure" Whatever has been done in the
state for the overthrow Of Slavery, By legal
measures, has been done by the Radicals. Mr..
Blow claims that the Freedom party, Of which
Gen. BAR was an ayowod leader, made little if
any actual progress toward the attainment of
It's object, and only gained a precarous success
in two counties III the State When the war
broke ont, Gen. Blair insisted upon attaching
the impossible condition of deportation 20 any
scheme Of liberation which might be adopted,
4" clearly cyincing his design 10 take no adj
vantage Of the golden opportunity Gov.
Gamble, 80 far from being DESTROYS of making
Missouri Free State, upon taking Office in l-G2
denounced every attempt to interfere with
slavery. and announced his intention of pro-
tecting the institution 30 the utmost extent Of
his Executive power. II was not until the
Conservative power, in the Conservative Con-
yen,ion, had voted down even the most gradual
scheme OF Eman'ipa'ion-52 to l9-that the
Radical party took the field. at rushed" says
Mr. Blow Ito the rescuc-grasped the fallen
standard Of Emancipation, raised 1t from the
dust. gave ~ folds once more 10 the breeze, and
called upon oil lovers OF Freedom u rally
about it," Notwithstanding the opposition
Of Gen. Blair, who had wheeled his coll
umn into line with his old enemies" the
new party won at the very first onset
substantial victory, converting Governor
Gamble into a quasi Emancipationist, who
begged The Radicals 10 cease from their labors
and be- would do their work for them. Then he
came with hi- precious scheme 10 The Lcgisla-
tu.e. proposing that all who were slaves should
remain go forever, but that the children of all
slave mothers thereafter ~ be- born should be
i!oe; prorided that Congress should pass an act
compcnsaing the owners OF the mothers for
their diminished value for bearing children.
The Radical party simply laughed AT this charm
Ia, Il
alarmed, called the Convention again together,
and II passed an ordinance Of Empancipation
which cmancipAtcs nobody, but promises ~
some future DAY 10 DO so: which declares that
In q certain time all slaves shall be free, proyi-
dcd that they shall thereafter remain slaves n
before :" Mr.. Blow says that from this trans
parent cheat of freedom, bascloss and unsub-
stantal the Missouri slaves are running rs they
never ran from slavery. II the Radical party
concludes Mr. Blow, were blotted out to-day,
there would be no real Emancipation party lcll
in Missouri. IT. an eloquent passage he points
out whit Conservatism has done for that State.
It. il convulsed rs il was never conyulscd be-
fore. Never were life and property so insecure
nor murders, robberies and burnings SO fire.
quent A malignant, mischieyous treason lurks
throughout It's borders.
Such Is brief abstract o. what Mr.. Blowhad
to say upon the question of Emancipation. 1t
appears TO us to be a clear, straight forward and
Intelligent statement, and TO prove that we
have nothing TO fear, at least from those who
are stigmatized by Gen. Blair as "Jacobins."
An entirely different division of the speech was