New-York tribune., 1909-01-02
ST. LOUIS IN VAR THE.
4 Clergy4nan's Memories Of life IN
4 Border City.

C-T1L Var B Gs--s5a andersen 5 7 D.
Il y frustrated -2--o. - vi, 3s5- Boston
: c.=-g--z1 shares rhe life u his community
II : peculiar sense ~ a tine u crisis, above
all - o1= =,z= comes - Intimately into cor-a--
18th ,-= r-6e-ly-rE personal forces at pay D.
s-5@-zo1 7zs pastor y : Baptist church il =
-s-..z during the Civil VA ana Re threw him
So z-5e-- into the r-i5s- q -he exciting prob
.=--z ras- confronted MS cry sn6 state. rs
narrative Is remarkable rot 50 much 70 is
tz~-s --.ch -ave mostly been recorded A7s=-
-r-r= - <-- t-s -t-td. sympathetic setting
to--n = tow people f=lt- what they thought how
rr=- b=-zve5. through t1os= soul --vtng DAYS.
s. LOUIS zt-- Is population ot over $4,000 a11
is strategic POSITION or t-e Mississippi T-7s
from beginning u and z bone of contention ta-
tween S7uch z-5 North. Ike the rest II Ms
sour i z-as rtd6.e1 with Se-ession:srn- Only
"a most r,--.-i-E vigilance and courage saved
= -!--e z-d again from being handed over.
Th= cc----=-c.zl interests # the city Te-e most
- for the Union. b--- many Il tLe leading fam
.ies IS veI - large element y the prol=-
tz-tet u=-e rot,y Southern. ard taers vas
host q IActt-ears, not ourspokerlr for either
side TIE question q slavery complicated the
situation Many T1iouists had Slaves II their
o7-- an bitterly opposed emancipation The
conservation II the Crica and the abolition -
slavery we're II thei- eyes totally distinct issues
Thus between Minute Men and WideAEekee.
-C-zybargz and Charcoals. St- Louis vas torn n
pieces ~ such time and n such . place tHs
cure y souls vas no light responsibility
D. Anderson was stfIl IN his tTen-ss when
re var began HIS congregation vas q con-
posi,e. He himself was strongly Union and
AboLt.orlst- For Z long time he struggled 70
evade the political Issue n his poIP!t- But
dav carls when he could hold back no longer,
and Re preached from the text Let every soul
Re subject unto the higher powers" This wss
- April 1851. For many months previous the
national anthem had not been sung IN St Louis
Fractional dissens!on. though rife and widespread.
had 50 far been kept under cover Neither
Union nor Secession banners had bean publicly
displayed But the tension was reaching the
breaking point when began 70 SPEAK" saws
the author such E. hush fell upon the congre-
gation thai at the peUsss between tEe sentences
I could hear the flicker Of the gas He reached
the end of his sermon and announced Ny
Court-y 'Tis Of Thee" BY 60 doing he deter
mined once and for al the lines OF cleavage in
his own church. The Southerners stood silent
and defiant, with unopened hyTnn50oks, and et
the close marched out never 70 return But
pasging company Of Methodists heard the sing
IN as only Methodists can" A band Of home
ward bound Unitarians gathered under the
church windows and added their voices. In
stantiy the news of what had taken place spread
over ths city. Threats. actual Violence even.
were offered 10 the audacious clergyman. But
the majority stood by him, and the capture
few days later Of Camp Jackson. where the Gov
ernor. under profession OF loyalty, had been
gathering troops and ammunition for the Con
federacy. gave final proof. If such were still
reeded that there was no longer anything 70 BE-
gained from crying Peace peace"
BY q tirne-y diplomatic rranoeuvre Missouri
had been norninally saved for the Union cause:
but her Governor was secretly a Secessionist
and. though forced TO fee from St Louis and
the state capital Jefferson City. after the dis
cOvery of his disIoyaIt.I he continued 70 issue
orders and rnanifestoes from various stations
near the southern boundary; and finally, without
even waiting for the authority OF his ragtag
legislature, declared the state 70 be Confederate.
on the same day that z provisional Governor
was inaugurated at Jefferson City came an
extraordinary proclamation from the Secession
Governors 'rBrigadier General commanding"
JEFF. Thompson the rhetorical exuberance Of
which is worth samplinS.
Come now, strike while the iron is hot Our enc
mics have been w4ipped in Virginia The have
re-rez r. cer-rE Jze~e-sI I5TIov On -ba -fgr-
ana General McCuloch on the left, with t1enty
thousand brave Southern hearts 70 aid So
leave your po7gs in the furrov. and your oxen in
the yoke, and rush Ike tornado upon our
vaders and foes. 70 sweep them from the face Of
earth. force them from the soil Of state
viii strike foes Ike d Southern
-h,;nce~bolt and soon our camp-ares viii illuminate
the Meranac and Missouri Come, turn out.
The condition Of Missouri was pitiable enough
az this time. Guerilla warfare was laying waste
the country districts and driving homeless multi
tudes into the cities. During the nearly
forty thousand refugees sought shelter in ST.
Louis Many, TO be sure. were from neighbor-
ing states but the conditions that them
were the same. This special burden would have
taxed the cityAs resources: but II constituted
only a fraction Of the total war burden. Had it
not been for the Western Sanitary Commission.
which made its headquarters at st. Louis. the
CITY would have been overwhelmed After the
capture Of Fort Douelson 14.0O0 prisoners were
sent thither. After Shiloh almost eight thou
sand wounded we're brought to her hospitals In
the Soldiers Home, established in 1852 seventy
thousand convalescents found a comfortable
asylum. The devotion. open-heartedness and
courage displayed by the loyal citizens of the
city most impressively forth in Dr. An
derson's narrative. Homes were turned into
hospitals and shelters; rich and poor alike dedi-
Gated themselves TO the care of the suffering
With inexhaustible ingenuity means were
constantly devised for raising funds For the
Mississippi Valley Sanitary Fair. held in 1864
consIgnrnents Of goods OF every conceivable sort
were lavishly contributed by ali sections Of the