. The lives and deeds of our self-made men . esty—TheAdmission of Tennessee—His Return to Missouri—Fierce Political Contest—Reconstruction and Reconciliation—He is triumphantly Elected Governor—The Liberal Party Movement—National Organization and Convention atCincinnati—Horace Greeley for President and B. Gratz Brown for Vice-President—The Democratic Endorsement at Baltimore—Personal Character-istics. The effect of Western life and manners upon thecharacter of men, who, trained under even more re-straining and refining influences, have migrated tothat rapidly growing portion of our country, ha

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. The lives and deeds of our self-made men . esty—TheAdmission of Tennessee—His Return to Missouri—Fierce Political Contest—Reconstruction and Reconciliation—He is triumphantly Elected Governor—The Liberal Party Movement—National Organization and Convention atCincinnati—Horace Greeley for President and B. Gratz Brown for Vice-President—The Democratic Endorsement at Baltimore—Personal Character-istics. The effect of Western life and manners upon thecharacter of men, who, trained under even more re-straining and refining influences, have migrated tothat rapidly growing portion of our country, has beenseen in many marked instances where men of modestNew England birth have developed the highest char-acteristics of statesmanship, or have won enviable po-sitions in the pulpit, at the bar, and in the culture of the west., its broad freedom and liberalideas, gives a grand stimulus to every well directedambition. Men who in the east would become dis-couraged by competitive struggles, seem to grasp for- (576).

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