A Slaveholder's Convention In Missouri

Wc eee by Bome ol our excñange papers, thot a Convention of 6kveholders foc the northern counties of Missouri, has been calíed, which was to assemble at Hannibal on the 2Oth inst. for the purpose of devising some means to keep the Ilünois aboliuonists from showing their slaves the road to Canada, when they escape to this State. Tbis is all we know about the Convention; and if 6uch an one was held, we expect, in time, to get the news. We have only now to inform our slaveholding friends in Missouri, that we know of no way whereby they can keep their slaves at home, except by giving them freedom on the soil. Experience with human na ture ought to satisfy them ihat merLwill do strange things, aud raake great sacrifices for liberty. If their slaveB will run away, u? canU stop them. It is a great pily that so many noble fcllows, and valuable laborera, should run away to people the dominions of the Briü8h government. We advise them in sinccrity aad kindness, to approve of our