. The Union cause in St. Louis in 1861 [electronic resource]: an historical sketch . icut, Miflinof Pennsylvania, Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, voted forexcluding Slavery from the Northwest Territory; also that in 1787Wm, Blount of North Carolina and Wm, Few of Georgia voted thesame way; that in 1789 the Congress of the United States excludedSlavery from that Northwest Territory by a unanimous vote; thatsixteen members of that Congress were among the original signersof the Constitution and that George Washington approved their de-cision and signed the act. In the same speech Lincoln also
. The Union cause in St. Louis in 1861 [electronic resource]: an historical sketch . icut, Miflinof Pennsylvania, Hugh Williamson of North Carolina, voted forexcluding Slavery from the Northwest Territory; also that in 1787Wm, Blount of North Carolina and Wm, Few of Georgia voted thesame way; that in 1789 the Congress of the United States excludedSlavery from that Northwest Territory by a unanimous vote; thatsixteen members of that Congress were among the original signersof the Constitution and that George Washington approved their de-cision and signed the act. In the same speech Lincoln also mentions that Washington wroteto Lafayette: that we shall at some time have a confederacy of FreeStates. He also called attention to the fact that Congress hadlegislated upon Slavery in the Territory of Mississippi, and did thesame in 1803 with regard to the Territory of Louisiana. Having given the general trend of events relative to the Slaveryquestion in the Union, the special motives influencing the loyalmovement of 1861 at St. Louis and in Missouri, may now be B. GRATZ BROWN. Colonel 4th Regiment Reserve Corps, Missouri Volunteers. CHAPTER PEOPLE OF ST LOUIS. ORIGIN; FIRST SETTLEMENT. To realize the part which St. Louis bore in the events of 1861, abrief sketch of its origin, situation and the character and motivesof its people, is necessary. Situated on the right bank of the Mississippi, St. Louis occupies aseries of gentle hills, whose highest elevation will reach near 200feet above the river. St. Louis County, with which the city willeventually be co-extensive, borders on the East for 34 miles on theMississippi; on the North for 46 miles on the Missouri; on theSouth 53 miles on the Meramec; takes in also twenty-five squaremiles south of that river and has westward a dry boundary of 11miles. From an elevation of 390 feet above the sea level, at theLevee of the City of St. Louis, the ground is rising in undulatingwaves northward 260 feet; southward
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