Show the tb hrabi heral ld 1 I 1 I 1 GENERAL BLAIR AND A N D MISSOURI in ordinary time times a speech from general blair would attract no more attention than one from any gny other of fair ability but the citizens of are dwelling amid scenes which never transpire but one oace in the ille lile lifetime time of a nation frank P B blair air jr bas bai been sto ato edegger ed egged hooted looted at and mobbed by be causs cadis he dared to speak in favor of tho the gradual emancipation of missouri urL uri from the tb chains chaing of the task mas maa er for years he be endeavored deavo red to present to this people such an array of facts and figures an a would indu e meu men to put their ah ulden to the wheel and i ait aie t roin thea ough of inactive inac tivi yand listlessness into which ve the 1 hid dritt drift drifted edit it lie Ile showed them that mis mia ouri lying bebless be pleas pless bound by cord of their the own manufacture he ear car natly bo mut Hut them to ever the tit ile which bound tb them to the plodding past and and join in the great army of free nationalities whose march la is the admiration of th the civil civilized idt d world though met with sneers and cuffs coffi he et eser cier er remained true to the prin ipie be he so ear eary y contended for lie he started a free tree I 1 state newspaper in ih st lou loii ay 9 the alls Alis democrat and expend expended td arge sums hums um of in ney 1 and becu ed extravagant contributions from orom his friends frien dg to keep it afloat against the tlde tide and current of public opinion when the south revolted revolt td general blair was forem iw in he field on the side of free dom his ills promptness promote prom tress fress tte a ai d forecast tori fori cast casi fid lid did much to av give nilas alias ourt from froia the which 0 o many of the states from froin the tb farsi he has been in active te ke service bervice ivice and has haa foght fo to ron roe foe the ireae this govern ment with the courage b e of of a hiro and ake tk determination of on ouy out e who knows krows no such buch word as a fall fau lie he is r just juit from fron the th ise lse of vicksburg ile he comes amona amons bid big n 4 friends announce announced a by the berald herald hirk hiek hick h into tt ebel ewel ca a copperhead 11 and a villainous illa inous tran traitor or II 11 ARA ATA ai u thosa urne epithets are heaped by this thi enral ingrate benaur genral G blair plair continues to favor a of grad gradual ifal 1 which hi hall work the leat least possible po sible I 1 ad 41 ato to loyal citizen and as he believe believes t he grea prea 9 reat tat st amount mount a of good to t 0 the state ile lir stilt to strike haals with mith rith nith revolution revolutionist isto whether they bold huld bih hib high bib ca carni ani yai rat in ulissis ippi or missouri ile he sti stil I 1 ae liedts liev the old constitution worth preg pres vin vir ahr thi lag law of our chantry worthy of enforcement and awl gur our r legal rulers rulen entitled to respect and obedience but bat he h returned ti 0 missouri mig MIt gouri to fd find tiia tila that men mea weal in the unito in of united states soldiers sol tol diera diena are imitate rig the h hellish deeda deeds of quantrel Qi antrel antrei by murdering inoffensive citizens citi zens zeni burning acted dwellings robbing and talin attall lalin anz y without any other li license cense or warrant than that possessed by the tb highwayman the power ard the ni ile he finds that union men are murdered IB some lome parts of the state by 1 and that non combatants ar at hot shot down and thir houses burned birned in open day in in sections not in fetta feted by bushwhackers bushwhack ers erb hy men claiming an excess of lo 10 loyalty alty ally lie hit finds finda that the state hak haq ha agreed to emancipate every lave slave in seven yeara years kith with no other compensation than thad a s remission of axe axes on slave siave property yi and a term of ile Us learna rn that the th men nien who odee orlee denounced him bim as a al fanatic and an abolition it at are fi fir gir ercey cely celt opposing op this ordinance ard in maass convention convan tion re to all bil hr by revolutionary vio loc lance what they may fait to lecura lecurg becu by ky lagal igal mean meads gentral general blair reu refuses to join with hese these men and ii Is decried from one end nd of the state to the other as a traitor tra tre itoi it seems incredible but it iti in nevertheless true for these thoss reasons rent reit sons what garal blair says gsry at thi this time of public almirs in Ali alnouri ouri possesses unusual interests we V maha maba no apology for presenting that speech to ov re ri dara adars we W ask fiek hm thema to phul a it tb abo the mi a ouri rac Pac gerat verat announced in headlines hadlin lines that it was wai ft speech a rowdy blackguard u I unified speech a deh ft a gentleman ad state i man ran nan read it ifor alfor for yours yourselves eires elres and anil to yme Y me judges i i i general adlair bays says we ought u b to be wilif willing x I 1 I 1 it if w are patri patriota pat riota oti to unite aith alth ith lah all other patriots plit in putting don down thi this rebellion ha he baythe bay say says the loyal amy a my byis is discouraged anu ant and ani dis dia heartened by the dis and distractions indich aich exist herg here erg era ile he declares himself willing and eager to stand anthe platform 7 iam laid down by tb the e unconditional uri url union uhlon ion lon men ct of tha the th empire stale state but such a bais baas of political action would be spurned by thebe these iatter latter day dai custodians of loyalty ha ile says general eving bas baa shown by bis his order of depopulation that with all the men under his hia command he either cannot calil catli caliopa pa or drive out Quan force of three abre e or eue euc dac due hundred or else he teira feira to under inake the task ile he is especially selve severe reon reba on lane and deckret cleres that he cannot blaina blama Gg general iveral schofield for not wishing tp ip haa hava lane line come into the state and dev devastate one of the hinest finest portions ot of missouri beca cser csor general eing eing could not kep k ep it clear cicar oc of he ile has no y wilk the tha halate balate late B R dacial dica emane pation Conven convention tion tiou held at Jeffe raon ragn city and bandies handles without 1 all rebo cling to the bereny that bur our state government can be b p pac eaby revola lionized or that the constitution caniba altered except in the tha mode pointed that ile he declares deci areg ares that there thereat aa men now making a great strite strife in missack blisseck i 1 who I 1 if they had bad the power would inflict swift ft punishment upon men who have as tair air fair a record as any in the land men who haye hava not only done nothing against the government but who have devoted themselves to ihl support and maintenance gince since the outbreak of the tbt war 9 liflet but he says thank god dob dot goh got the por power thank thann god they never dever will have the power lle lie ile he d denounces bounces chase and declares that he be is no now iv obstructing the free navigation of the most moat ai as much as jeff davis did before tha the north northwestern estern broo trompa dislodged him ile iia complains that the like mike banks of the mississippi with officers who are trading on tha the sly but thin think it very wack wicked ed for others ta tol trade at all he says saya it io i perfectly note notorious I 1 d down own the mississippi river that nobody cin tin trade krade without paying ibis this hotot holof kofl caits ertain certain bums sumi of ol money aur citizens citi cit izera aleshe are ha declares de carea unjustly discriminated again and he cals cala loudly rot fot a redress of grievances grit arit vancey he closes clog by saying the the platform in a tew few brief words dpn ch chi l think every patri otin this land ought to stand starle is thi this I 1 think ink we should discard all the political distinctions that have hereto tore fore existed and accept a man simply as ho he profet pros prot himself to be a friend of the gown ment in this ibis its hour of trial and it if po loibl ibi ibl we should stop fomenting tiete thea old political bores sores org ora amons among the inen trien a of the tb government Govert ment that I 1 thi k is ithe the best besl platform on which to stand until wa we have put down this rebel lion ilon lio llo nind ind then if ie we ditler hitler on ion minor rainor points we can settle them by submitting them tham to the if the great american people 12 sch is a brief synopsis of the plain outspoken boken eff aff had effort of G blair which has bag been denounced as a secession by those who really have no desire to gee see thi this government again peaceful anil and get gee MIS tills people again agrin united quite 1 d mj and happy 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