A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . l address tothe Legislature, South Carolinahad seceded (Dec. 21, 1860). Inthis address, he favored Missourijoining the South if the Union weredissolved and he recommended call-ing a State convention to considerthe relation of Missouri to theUnion. However, Governor Stew-art in his farewell address at thesame time urged Missouri to stand by the UnionMissouri do? The Legislature did not want to decide a problem so im-portant. Ii, accordingly, called a state-wide el
A history of Missouri and Missourians; a text book for "class A" elementary grade, freshman high school, and junior high school .. . l address tothe Legislature, South Carolinahad seceded (Dec. 21, 1860). Inthis address, he favored Missourijoining the South if the Union weredissolved and he recommended call-ing a State convention to considerthe relation of Missouri to theUnion. However, Governor Stew-art in his farewell address at thesame time urged Missouri to stand by the UnionMissouri do? The Legislature did not want to decide a problem so im-portant. Ii, accordingly, called a state-wide election of dele-gates to a State Convention to consider this question. Theprosouthern leaders hoped the people would elect prosoutherndelegates, the Union leaders wanted Union delegates. Bothsides were active. The Missouri leader of the new Republi-can party was Frank P. Blair of St. Louis. He had been aDemocrat and a follower of Benton. He did not opposeslavery but he did oppose slavery in the territories. Above allthings he was an unconditional Union man. He was bom inKentucky. On coming to St. Louis he practiced law but soon. F. JACKSON What would ISO History of Missouri and Missourians drifted into politics. He was a remarkable man, one of thegreatest Missouri has produced. His father had been an influ-ential politician in Washington, D. C, under President Jack-son, and his brother became a member of President Lincolnscabinet. Frank P. Blair now worked unceasingly to keep Mis-souri in the Union. The vast majority of Missourians wanted to see theUnion preserved. They hoped to see a compromise betweenthe North and the South. Part of them including all the Re-publicans and a number of the northern Democrats and someold Whigs, were unconditional Union men. They were de-termined that Missouri should remain in the Union at anycost. Blair was their leader. The larger part of the Unionmen, however, were conditional Union men. They wantedthe Union preserved but they would n
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