Year: 1862

emancipation IN Missouri
The st. Louis Democrat the organ of the
straight-Out Emancipationists in Mis-
souri,, takes the following view Of the re-
cent election in that State:


Missouri has certainly slected TO the
next House of National Representatives,
out of her delegation of nine, five members
who are,openly and unmistakably pledg-
ed to the thorough enforcement of the
Presidents proclamation of freedom, and
are radical supporters Of the principles
upon which that policy is founded. Thev
are Knox, Blow, Boyd, McClung, and
Loan, and possibly one other, viz; Green.
She has in addition TO that, chosen an
Emancipation Legislature, which will
send two good and true men to the Uni
ted States Senate, and so shape the Leg
islature of the State as TO bring 10 in
harmony with the recommendation of
the President, and, by freeing her soil
from the presence of slavery, relieve il
also from the curse of rebellion.


Whatever may be the verdict of the
people of the North upon the policy the
President has seen fit 20 inaugurate bv
his noble message of liberty to four mill
lions of enslaved men, in the great work
of suppressing the rebellion, the result
we have stated is the answer of Mis-
souri,, slave State, and the first TO speak
in response. If any have INDUCED the
belief that the Presidents Proclamation
was calculated to ALLEVIATE the hearts of
the people of those slave States, which
han far tna A., al a
ment, they may now dismiss il, and dis
miss it forever.


We have, for ourselves, ever since the
first announcement of the proclamation,
freely signifed our belief that the loyaI
people of the slave States would be much
less surprised at its promulgation, and
were much more ready and better pre-
pared TO receive il, than the people of the
non-slayeholding States. The people of
the slave States have been farced TO reap
the bitter fruits of slavery, in the ebel-
lion. They have learned from expert
ence the cause of the war. They have
been taught the value of peace, even if IL
must be purchased at the expense of their
cherished institution of slavery. Their
| blighted fields and desolated homes call
aloud for vigorous policy, and the men
who have suffered are not the ones TO
spurn the prospect of deliverance, at the
bidding ofprejudice, however old or how
ever strong. When the proclamation ap-
peared, more honest souls in Missouri
shouted, "God bless Abraham Lincoln"
| in proportion to the number of her people,
than in any part of the nation; and when
they came to vote, their acts verified their
sincerity.


The President may now rest assured,
that whatever may be the extent of op-
position, his policy of Liberation may
receive from other parts of the nation,
however, many degenerate sons of the
free North may demean themselves in
the work of fighting the battles of slave
ry in the National Councils his hands,
in the good work of putting down this
rebellion, and with it the cause which
gave il birth, will be upheld by a ma
jority Of the delegation from Missouri
a slave State now, but striving earnest
ly TO be free.


And st. Louis, the Queen City of the
Great West, let the President know,
has declared in favor of the policy of
| MS pTOcldhiatloni III NOlCe WnlCn none
can fail TO understand. When a great
politician in our midst, the present Rep
resentative Of this city in the National
Congress- man of shrewdness and
popularity, and who had endeared his
name to the friends Of freedom through
out the whole country, by his early la
bors and sacrifices in behalf Of their
cause, faltered in this hour Of trial,
turned his back upon his old co-labOr-
ers in that cause, and refused to pledge
himself TO the firm support of the policy
Of that proclamation, the people Of this
city arose in their might, and with un-
expected as well as unwonted unanimity,
utterly repudiated him and his party.