Chapter 19: events in the Mississippi Valley.--the Indians.
- Ohio prepares for War, 454. -- Indiana makes ready for the conflict, 455. -- Illinois vigilant and active, 456. -- last public services of Senator Douglas, 457. -- Michigan ready -- position of the Kentuckians, 458. -- Buckner and the State Guard -- his treason, 459. -- effects of Conditional Unionism, 460. -- Missouri State Convention, 461. -- the Convention and the Legislature, 463. -- treason of military and civil officers, 464. -- Union organizations in St. Louis, 466. -- an insurgent Camp at St. Louis, 467. -- capture of Camp Jackson, 468. -- General Harney, 469. -- an armistice agreed upon -- Generals Lyon and Price, 470. -- the militia of Missouri called out, 471. -- Cairo fortified and garrisoned -- its importance, 472. -- Secession Convention in Arkansas, 473. -- fraud and violence, 474. -- rebel emissaries among the Indians, 475. -- John Ross -- Indian loyalists overpowered, 476. -- Ross and the secessionists, 477.
While thousands of the loyal people of New England and of the other Free-labor States eastward of the Alleghanies were hurrying to the field, and pouring out their wealth like water in support of the Government, those of the region westward of these lofty hills and northward of the Ohio River were equally patriotic and demonstrative. They had watched with the deepest interest the development of the conspiracy for the overthrow of the, Republic, and when the President's call for the militia of the country to arrest the treasonable movements reached them, they responded to it with alacrity by thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands.
The Legislature of Ohio, as we have observed, had spoken out early,1 and pledged the. resources of the State to the maintenance of the authority of the National Government. This pledge was reiterated, in substance, on the 14th of March, when that body, by vote, declared its high approval of President Lincoln's Inaugural Address. On the day when Fort Sumter was attacked,
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