New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-01-17

fifty fold In half century. Yet so fertile Ii her
soil, SO genial her climate, co ample and various
her mineral wealth, so abundant and excellent
her timber. so admirable her profusiOn Of rivers
and streams, that she is better fitted to sustain
in comfort population Of Ten Millions than
one of less number. OF her Forty-three Nil.
lions of acres, little over Six Millions have
ever yet been imprOved; leaving at least Thirty
Millions of choice lands awaiting the first quick
ening impulse Of tho plow.
Missouri was cursed with Slavery by her
early French and Spanish colonists. and hence
came to us o slaveholding territory. which in
due time organized itself into slaveholding
State, being admitted es such in lS2O-I, after
protracted and desperate struggle. Elijah z.
Loyejoy was driven from her chief city in 1895,
to meet his death ss o martyr TO the cause OF
Human Liberty at Alton Illinois. soon after.
ward. Missouri continued apparently devoted
TO the Slave Power and its schemes. and on her
soil were organized and thence launched the
Border Rufan" raids into Kansas, to control
her elections and harass her Frcc-State settlers.
whereby her infancy was 80 sOrely distracted.
Many of the 'Rufians were, indeed, vOlun.
tecrs from Georgia, South Carolina and other
Slave Sta,es but they oil made Missouri their
base OF operations, and it was thence that steam
boats conveying peaceful, unarmed Free-State
immigrants to Kansas were compelled to turn
back and land their passengers at st. Louis
again.
| Only handful OF votes were ever cast in the
State for diStinctively Gnti-Slavcry candidate
down to 1860, when Mr. Lincoln, in view of the
moral certainty Of his election, received 17,02s
to I4S, 400 for other candidates, or little more
than tenth Of the aggregate poll. Frank
Blair had in 1856 been chosen to Congress from
ST. Louis as en- independent Democrat Of Free
Soil procvities; and though beaten il 80, he
was reelected in August of that year BY H. 53
votes to 8, 1857 for Barrett, pro-Savery. Noother
Member of Congress openly hostile to the Slave
Power had ever been chosen from this State
down to the outbreak Of the Slaveholders' Re-
bellion.
Into that Rebellion, it Was early resolved
that Missouri should be plunged, in defiance OF
the known will of her people. The great BODY
of these had always been Democrats, and the
offices were nearly Gil filled by ,ba, party. The
new Governor, Claiborne +. Jackson, though
ne had supported Douglas for President, was a
thorough traitor; so was his Lieutenant, Rcy-
nods, and nearly every other State officer; so
were her L. s. Senators, Trusten Polk and
Waldo L. johnson; so were three IF no, more
of her seven Representatives elect. And the
location Of the grca. bulk Of her shareholders in
tho very heart Of the State i'll the fertile bot
toms which skirt the great river, and tho gem
eral hsbit Of Difference 70 their views and dociliy
To their lead, gave them immense advantages In
the initiatory struggle. Though the Rebels
were never half the white people Of the State
nor anything ike half, they would have over
powered and held it by the throat if they had
only been LEI alone from without.
For they habitually play the game ofrevoluton
in subordna,ion to the maxim Of IIoylo; I'm
cases of doubt. pocket the stakes" Having the
Governor and Legislature, they easily called
Convention to take the State out Of the Union,
but were rather Disconnected on learning tnnt
no, one avowed secessionist had been chosen
TO Il. Several Of their confcderaios had crept
In BE- protesting Unionism-tho late Cen.
Sterling Price among them, who was made
President; but the were ut best poworless
minority. No ma'-er-.Jackson had early com
menced the organization Of traitorous State
Cnard' a. n caup near St Louis which was
promptly broken up and dispersed by a stronger
force &C Uuionsts mustered by Capt. Lyon and
Frank Blair. But for this bold stroke, st.
Louis, with her tccning Arsenal and immense
stores. would have soon fallen into the hands
and been converted 10 the uses Of the traitors.
jackson died westward IRON Jefferson City TO
bonneville, before nc mad completed his organ
nat.on OF ~ ablc-bodicd males Of the State into
d militia who were 10 fght for Disunion under
pretense Of defending Tic State and repel!.ng
INVASION! Bloody bat indecisiye battles ensued
near Carthage and SpringEcld; Lyon being
killed in the latter, when thc Union force9 aban-
doncd tho South-Wcrt 70 tho enemy; who
advanced, como weeks later, to the Missouri,
cagturing Co. Mullgan and 1900 men az Le1-
ingtor. Whom Fremont moved against them,
they rctreated 10 the southwest corner OF the
State. and would have soon been driven out OF
il had he not been superseded. They were
beaten, at the close of that year (le6l), just
over tho Arkansas line. Jackson died fugi-
tive; We believe Reynolds il also dead; Price is
a,cerfaiped IN haya died recently i'm Southern