. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . f Drs. Gran-ger, Stein-es-tel, 174 History of JMissonri. Tem-ple, Fish-er, and Corn-stock. Some of thesehave since gone to their long rest, but the Schoollives on and has grown vast in fame through thegood work of those who, by their keen skill, savelife and bring health to man-kind with Ho-moe-o-path-ic treat-ment in Mis-sou-ri. CHAPTER XXI. POOR SAMBO IS MADE A FREE MAN. In 1864 Thom-as C. Fletch-er, the first real Black Re-pub-li-can —that means one who thinksa ne-gro has the same right to vote, and live, and doas the white man does—was made
. History of Missouri in words of one syllable . f Drs. Gran-ger, Stein-es-tel, 174 History of JMissonri. Tem-ple, Fish-er, and Corn-stock. Some of thesehave since gone to their long rest, but the Schoollives on and has grown vast in fame through thegood work of those who, by their keen skill, savelife and bring health to man-kind with Ho-moe-o-path-ic treat-ment in Mis-sou-ri. CHAPTER XXI. POOR SAMBO IS MADE A FREE MAN. In 1864 Thom-as C. Fletch-er, the first real Black Re-pub-li-can —that means one who thinksa ne-gro has the same right to vote, and live, and doas the white man does—was made Gov-ern-or of theState. He was the first Re-pub-li-can to hold thathigh of-fice in any slave State. George Smith wasmade Lieu-ten-ant-Gov-ern-or. Those who were inheart with the South had now no voice in the State,so of course could not vote. Gov-ern-or Fletch-er was a man of work. Hetook up arms for the Fed-er-al cause when the warfirst broke out; and, as far as he could do so, he tookup arms, as it were, to put out of of-fice all such men. ^<-^- V-N^ FIRST RE-PUB-LI-CAN GOV-ERN-OR OF ANY SLAVE STATE. 175 176 History of ]\Iissou7i. as held warm dem-o-crat-ic views. To him at thistime there could be no two sides to the Un-ion soon as he took the chair of State theslave theme was brought to the front. A con-ven-tion was held in St. Lou-is on the 6th of Jan-u-a-ry,1865, and on the i ith of the same month a Proc-la-ma-tion of Free-dom was born. I will put itdown here in the words of the Gov-ern-or, as theyare part of the States His-to-ry. Proc-la-ma-tion of Free-dom. Ex-EC-U-TIVE OF Jef-fer-son, Mo., Jan-u-a-ry ii, 1864. It hav-ing pleased Di-vine Prov-i-dence to in-spire to right-eous ac-tion, the sov-er-eign peo-ple ofMis-sou-ri, who, through their del-e-gates in con-ven-tion as-sem-bled, with prop-er le-gal au-thor-i-tyand so-lem-ni-ty, have this day or-dained : That here-af-ter, in this State, there shall benei-ther sla-ver-y nor in-vol-un-ta
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