. Voting in the field; a forgotten chapter of the civil war . on atits session on June 15, 1863, adopted an ordinancefor gradual emancipation, but this did not satisfythe emancipationists, and they sent a Committee toWashington to endeavor to induce Lincoln to includeMissouri in the emancipation proclamation, which hedeclined to do.^ At the November election, 1864, theemancipationists carried the State by a majority of30,000, although the vote was but little more thanhalf what it had been four years before. The Assembly provided for another Convention,and delegates were elected and met at St.
. Voting in the field; a forgotten chapter of the civil war . on atits session on June 15, 1863, adopted an ordinancefor gradual emancipation, but this did not satisfythe emancipationists, and they sent a Committee toWashington to endeavor to induce Lincoln to includeMissouri in the emancipation proclamation, which hedeclined to do.^ At the November election, 1864, theemancipationists carried the State by a majority of30,000, although the vote was but little more thanhalf what it had been four years before. The Assembly provided for another Convention,and delegates were elected and met at St. Louis,January 6,1865. January 11 an ordinance was passedabolishing slavery in Missouri by practically aunanimous vote, when the Governor made proclama-tion of it. It is said that there were about 114,000negroes in the State, worth for the purposes of taxa-tion $40,000,! This is obviously an error. Slavesat that time were of very little value. They had legs,and they could use them. ^ History of Missouri, Switzler, pp. 322 et sq. Missoiiri, Carr, p.
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