New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-12-02
msssOURi-GRATZ BROWN.

Missouri having cast her vote Tor Abraham
Lincoln By about Twenty Thousand majority
giving him the largest relative gain IN her aggrc-
gate poll of am State in the Union-and elect
ed full Emancipation ticket for Governor and
minor State officers. with Legislature TO match,
is about to hold Constitutional Convention 20
hanisi the last ves,gc of slavery "fonee from her
soil. She held, some two years since. Con-
sc.va,iye' Convention which provided for gradual
EmaAc,pauon but her loyal people have since
had new light cast upon this subjcct-in part,
from their OWN burning houses-whch has fully
convinced them that they cannot afford gradu-
ally TO abolish Slavery unless they arc resigned
10 gradual abolition also Of the wholesale
robbery, arson and murder wherewith they have
for years been afflicted. Ienee they have de-
cidcd To make mort work of their deadly foe,
tie parent and prompter soi all their calam-
lite.
Their able and fearless L. S. Senator. Is.
GRAFT Brown-who was at least one OF her first
public advocates of thorough Immediate Eman-
cipathn--has written u letter to TIE Cosmos,
wherein he says
Wilton, doubt assuming IN, abolition OF Slavery
MS ttie the concom.tant question Of JrdHcAise Will
claim nlthc faith and all the rmness OF the friends
If radio freedom or It's right settlement That ,lo-
icrt piedces will have 20 be encountered and o the
wa ruHd II two faccdness aud demagosuery and
.uuiFT.ue, confronted is rendered certain by tie atti.
tuac' If &c coaict al the past three years In Missouri
HUI that my people forming new constitution Of their
liberties ,iier such experiences souis. should Willingly
leave To- becd other conflicts unjust determinations
agant lrgc portions OF their population IN the shape
Il q refusal Of any participation in government, Is
soarccly Il be credited. To those who IRE emincl'
Iaf,a acfss 10 the franchise be- opened up 9th
~ q" tie boosted freedom conceded 10 them j. cheat
and tleI safE5 Tor tho future becomes Of abjcct
cI. active hostility Temporary and tgausiiory
fia.c Of 'aicai on may b" prescribed II need'ul-
trr, ia u armies already qualifying thousands for
tn tles II citizenship. but the primary condition OF
Igit 4 cycutnni suffrage must bo Incorporated into
then estate fthc honor and the safety and the pros
PETTY o. the commonwealth for all time Is ~ be con
suited. N. logic that obtains IN the absorption
OF any other large element Of population into the body
volt!c nsO controls with respect 20 those manumied
as class. The argument Of Slavery Ia inferory OF
race Shall We abolish the name but retain the argu.
rcntf The Hes, patent cyi,of Slavery flow from caste
distinctions pscting upon society. Shall We make
merit of destroy ing tho institution yet insist per
peiuang the distinctions that breed social disease
ami deatht There surely consideration, Of state
that should weigh decisvey with community Just
emerging from the fierce ires OF unparalleled strife
cngcndcrei by Ike proudices and errors and should
canse n cling to the path OF safety. But bciorc oil
snch. and higher than any question OF pfohl or peace Ia
tbs knowledge that IL Is night and conforms 10 Gods
appointment whereby all men are created Tree and
equal. 4
the rcse, the franchise ia the past and prevented
tho attainment Of that perfect reflection ~ popular viii
which IL the ideal II democratic government, have
arisen from two or three sources such ms frauds impair
ing the purity Of the baoboI exercise OF suffrage as
denifedwth Slavery rather than freedom thus involy
ing moral contradictions fatal to any truth OF public
ulcrance and the attempts TO impose restrictions and
limitations upon the privilege OF voting that were not