Year: 1862

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Missouri has certainly elected to the
next House of National Representatives,
out Of her delegation of nine, fire naers-
bers, who are openly and Enthusiastically
pledged to the thorough enforcement of
the Presidents proclamation of freedom,
and are radical supporters of the. prinei-
pies upon which that policy is founded.
They are Knox. Blow, Boyd, McClurg
and Loan, and possibly one other, viz:
Green. She has, in addition to that,
chosen an Emancipation legislature.
which win send two good and true men
to the United States Senate, and SO shape
the Legislation Of the State as to bring
il in harmony with the recommendation
of the President, and by freeing her soil
from the presence of slavery, relieve it
also from the curse of rebellion. ia


Whatever may, be the verdict Of the
people of the North upon the policy the
President has seen fit to inaugurate BY
his noble message Of liberty to four mil
lion of enslaved men; in the great work
of snppressing the rebellion, the result
we have stated is the answer Of Missouri,
slave State, aud the first TO speak in
responce. IF any have INDUCED the be-
lief that the Presidents proclamation
was calculated to ALLEVIATE the hearts of
the people Of those slave States, which
have so far remained true to the Govern
ment, they may now dismiss it, and dis
miss it forever s- ae.a. 45. i.- aL


We have, for ourselves, ever since the
first announcement of the proclamation,
freely signifed our belief that the loyal
people of the slave States would be much
less surprised at its promulgation, and
were much more ready and better pre-
pared to receive it, than the people of
the non-slaveholding States. The peo-
| pie of the slave States have been forced
to reap the bitter fruits of slavery, in the
| rebellion. They have learned from ex-
perience the cause of the war. They
have been taught the value ofpeace, even
if it 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 deliv-
erance, at the bidding of prejudice, how
ever old or however strong. When the
proclamation appeared, more honest
souls in Missouri shouted "God bless
Abraham Lincoln " in proportion 70 the
number of her people, than in any other
| 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 OPP
position his policy of liberation may re-
ceive from other parts of the nation, how
ever many degenerate sons of the free
North may demean themselves in the
work of fighting the battles of slavery in
the National Councils, his hands, in the
good work of putting down this rebel
lion, and with it the cause which gave it
birth, will be upheld by a majority of the
delegation from Missouri slave State
now, but striving earnestly 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 his
proclamation, in a voice which none can
fail to understand. When great poll
tician in our midst, the present repre-
sentative of this city in the National Con-
gress-a man of shrewdness and popu-
larity, and who had endeared his name
to the friends of freedom throughout the
whole country, by his early labors and
sacrifices in behalf of their cause, falter-
ed in this hour Of trial, turned his back
upon his old co-laborers in that cause,
and refused to pledge himself to the firm
support of the policy of that proclama-
ton, the people of this city arose in their
might, and with unexpected as well as
unwonted unanimityI utterly repudiated
him and his marty