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Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2 : (search)
Chapter 2:
The legislature Meets
Governor Stewart's farewell message
Governor Jackson's inaugural
bills to call a State convention and to organize the State militia
the convention bill passed
Vest's resolution
election of delegates to the State convention
fate of the bill to arm the State.
The general assembly of Missouri met at Jefferson City on the 2d of January, 1861, and the Southern element organized both houses with scarcely a show of opposition.
There was but one R decisive action.
The people of the State expected such action would be taken and were prepared to uphold the legislature in taking it.
The message of the retiring governor, Robert M. Stew.
art, was sent to the two houses on January 3d. Governor Stewart was a Northern man—a native of New York—and a fair type of a Northern Democrat.
He sympathized with the South but held to the Union.
No one, therefore, was surprised that, while he admitted the wrongs the South had suffered at the hands of
Col. John C. Moore, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.2, Missouri (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 15 : (search)