. The Union cause in St. Louis in 1861 [electronic resource]: an historical sketch . on, and as the Democratic party was more lib-eral on immigration laws, had less religions prejudice, claimed tosympathize with Jeffersons radicalism and aversion to aristocracyit is quite natural that this immigration gravitated towards that-party The action of Captain Ingraham, who cleared the deck toliberate Martin Kos/.ta from an Austrian war vessel in the port ofSmyrna; Secretary Marcys manly stand in this affair; the twenty-one years proposed for the period of naturalization by Whigs andKnow-Nothings, str
. The Union cause in St. Louis in 1861 [electronic resource]: an historical sketch . on, and as the Democratic party was more lib-eral on immigration laws, had less religions prejudice, claimed tosympathize with Jeffersons radicalism and aversion to aristocracyit is quite natural that this immigration gravitated towards that-party The action of Captain Ingraham, who cleared the deck toliberate Martin Kos/.ta from an Austrian war vessel in the port ofSmyrna; Secretary Marcys manly stand in this affair; the twenty-one years proposed for the period of naturalization by Whigs andKnow-Nothings, strengthened the adherence to the Democraticparty It happened in 1853 that some zealots of the Know-Nothingparty under the lead of one nicknamed Ned Bnntlein, raided thefirst ward of St. Louis, burned down one house near Park avenue andSeventh street, but were beaten back by the German residents. Suchincidents served to unify the foreign element, but when later theSlavery question came to the foreground, the immigrants droppedeverv other consideration and rose in arms for the HENRY T FLAD. Private 3d U. S. Reserve Corps, Missouri Volunteers. CHAPTER POLITICS. THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1860. The canvas and election of 1856 created in the Proslavery menof Missouri also the gravest apprehensions and a bitterness of feelingwhich led to disturbances at political meetings. The mantle of Ben-ton s leadership fell upon the shoulders of Frank P Blair, who,although slaveholder, became an able, bold and eloquent leader ofthe Republican cause. Pie was born in Washington, D. O, in 1821,graduated at Princeton College in 1841 and commenced the practiceof law in St. Louis. Blair went through the Mexican war as a Private,and returning in 1848 to St. Louis, supported the Free Soil move-ment, was elected to the Legislature of Missouri in 1852 and re-electedin 1854. He was sent to Congress in 1856. defeated for the sameplace in 1S58 by Richard Barrett, but seated for the same ter
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