. The street railway review . sts in Mis-souri, and most of them were unwise in the course they pursued toadvance their cause. One, a rich man in St. Louis, invited a num-ber of his neighbors slaves to dine with him. A sumptuous ban-quet was served, and the ladies of his family received the negroesas honored guests. This radical action was considered an insult toSt. Louis society, and the press throughout Missouri figurativelymobbed this hospitable abolitionist. Some papers publishedlengthy editorials denouncing the outrage; others caricatured thehost and his family, and the scandal spread lik
. The street railway review . sts in Mis-souri, and most of them were unwise in the course they pursued toadvance their cause. One, a rich man in St. Louis, invited a num-ber of his neighbors slaves to dine with him. A sumptuous ban-quet was served, and the ladies of his family received the negroesas honored guests. This radical action was considered an insult toSt. Louis society, and the press throughout Missouri figurativelymobbed this hospitable abolitionist. Some papers publishedlengthy editorials denouncing the outrage; others caricatured thehost and his family, and the scandal spread like wildfire over thewhole of America. That dinner was perhaps the most expensiveentertainment ever given in Missouri. Such incidents became of daily occurrence. Reasonable argu-ments were unheard, and it was safer for a man to smoke his pipein a gunpowder mill than to speak against slavery in who preached against it were tarred and feathered. Asystem of running slaves over the borders into free territory re-. TROOST PARK. West, and occupied by Federal troops under General Lyon. Thepossession of Missouri was bitterly contested. An army of seces-sionists believing they were fighting for the cause of justice joinedthe Confederate forces at Memphis. The official report of John B. Gray, adjutant general of the Mis-souri State Militia, to Hamilton R. Gamble, governor, rendered atSt. Louis, Dec. 31, 1863, contains the following: The shock of the contest which was precipitated upon our state,and which was so nobly met by the loyalists of Missouri, has passedaway, and the triumphant arms of the defenders of the Republichave forced the enemies of liberty from our borders, and they arenow seeking battlefields far remote from that state which the trait-ors desired should experience all of its horrors and devastations. The accomplishment of this glorious result is due probably moreto the efforts put forth by the loyal people of Missouri than to anyother cause; for, without
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