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146 The Union Cause in St. Louis in 1861.
Jas. R. Collins, W. A. Hall, J. S. Phelps,, Robert Stewart, Sterling
Price, N. Paschall, editor of the St. Louis Republic, and states that
their influence was chiefly with men who sympathized with the
South, but saw that the business and geographical relations made it
the interest of the State to remain with the Northern States in the
Union; many men of this faction had still a latent hope for a com-
promise. They recruited from the Douglas and Bell men and
jointly cast about 71 per cent in the last election. The unconditional
Union men were immigrants from Europe, chiefly Germany, with
comparatively few Americans from the Middle and Eastern States
and mountaineers from the border States; they were mostly inhabi-
tants of cities and cast only 10 per cent of the votes at the last
presidential election. However, that was not their real strength;
for in the interior of the State, great many did not vote for pruden-
tial reasons, others voted for Douglas believing in squatter sover-
eignty, and again others for Bell on general principle of conserva-
tism, indecision and doubt.
It will be remembered that Virginia had asked all States to send
Commissioners to Washington for a Convention on February 4 to
consider and if practicable to agree upon some suitable adjustment
between the North and the South. Although Congress treated the
proposition with indifference, most Northern and all border States,
Tennessee and North Carolina, sent delegates. There was a hope
that this Peace Convention would result in a compromise, for abso-
lute yielding either at the North or at the South was entirely
out of the question. This hope was used to great advantage by the
conditional Union men during the campaign for the election of
Convention members. The brilliant eloquence of James S. Rollins,
himself a large slaveholder, a Union man, though opposed to
coercion; the convincing logic of W. A. Hall, who pointed out the
hopeless strategical position of Missouri as a Secession State, wedged
in between the three energetic and blooming Free States of Illinois,
Iowa and Kansas; the uselessness in case of isolation of her splendid
communicational means of the greatest navigable river net of the
world; the certainty of the loss of all slaves in case of Secession and
the danger to the families and possessions of the seceders in the
State; all these were so weighty that they largely overcame the more
sentimental influence of derivation, habit and past association.
The members of the Missouri State Convention were elected on
February 18, upon the presumption that they had the right to
Object Description
| Title | The Union cause in St. Louis in 1861, an historical sketch |
| Author | Rombauer, Robert J. (Robert Julius), 1830-1925 |
| Subject.LCSH |
Missouri -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 Saint Louis (Mo.) -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Regimental histories Missouri -- Militia |
| Coverage | United State -- Missouri |
| Source |
475 p. : front., illus. (maps, plans) pl., ports. ; 24 cm. St. Louis, Mo. : Press of Nixon-Jones prtg. co., 1909 |
| Language | English |
| Date.Original | 1909 |
| Date.Digital | 2004? |
| Type |
Books and pamphlets |
| Format | JPEG |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact contributing institution for information. |
| Contributing Institution |
University of Missouri--Columbia. Libraries |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library Special Collection, University of Missouri - Columbia at (573) 882-0076 or email: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
Description
| Title | civm000005p0146 |
| Description | 146 The Union Cause in St. Louis in 1861. Jas. R. Collins, W. A. Hall, J. S. Phelps,, Robert Stewart, Sterling Price, N. Paschall, editor of the St. Louis Republic, and states that their influence was chiefly with men who sympathized with the South, but saw that the business and geographical relations made it the interest of the State to remain with the Northern States in the Union; many men of this faction had still a latent hope for a com- promise. They recruited from the Douglas and Bell men and jointly cast about 71 per cent in the last election. The unconditional Union men were immigrants from Europe, chiefly Germany, with comparatively few Americans from the Middle and Eastern States and mountaineers from the border States; they were mostly inhabi- tants of cities and cast only 10 per cent of the votes at the last presidential election. However, that was not their real strength; for in the interior of the State, great many did not vote for pruden- tial reasons, others voted for Douglas believing in squatter sover- eignty, and again others for Bell on general principle of conserva- tism, indecision and doubt. It will be remembered that Virginia had asked all States to send Commissioners to Washington for a Convention on February 4 to consider and if practicable to agree upon some suitable adjustment between the North and the South. Although Congress treated the proposition with indifference, most Northern and all border States, Tennessee and North Carolina, sent delegates. There was a hope that this Peace Convention would result in a compromise, for abso- lute yielding either at the North or at the South was entirely out of the question. This hope was used to great advantage by the conditional Union men during the campaign for the election of Convention members. The brilliant eloquence of James S. Rollins, himself a large slaveholder, a Union man, though opposed to coercion; the convincing logic of W. A. Hall, who pointed out the hopeless strategical position of Missouri as a Secession State, wedged in between the three energetic and blooming Free States of Illinois, Iowa and Kansas; the uselessness in case of isolation of her splendid communicational means of the greatest navigable river net of the world; the certainty of the loss of all slaves in case of Secession and the danger to the families and possessions of the seceders in the State; all these were so weighty that they largely overcame the more sentimental influence of derivation, habit and past association. The members of the Missouri State Convention were elected on February 18, upon the presumption that they had the right to |
| Source | The Union Cause in St. Louis in 1861 |
| Type | Books and monographs |
| Format | JPEG |
| Identifier | civm000005p0146.jpg |
| Collection Name | Civil War in Missouri - Monographs |
| Editorial Note | All blank pages have been eliminated |
| Publisher.Digital | University of Missouri Digital Library Production Services |
| Rights | These pages may be freely searched and displayed. Permission must be received for subsequent distribution in print or electronically. Please contact koppk@umsystem.edu for more information. |
| Copy Request | Contact Ellis Library special collection at: SpecialCollections@missouri.edu |
