The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1911-06-02

submitted to tho people on June 8,
but before that date arrived the
state was oyerrun by the confeder-
dteS, and the vote was farce. Be-
lore the secession act was passed by
The legislature, commissioners were
appointed to go to Montgomery and
arrange an offensive and defensive
! alliance with the confederacy, and
this was ratified by secret vote or
tho legislature on May 7. Accept
ing this invitation, the confederates
entered the state a month before
the ordinance was to be voted upon
by the people, and the result of the
vote, despite the rigid loyalty Of
eastern Tennessee, was determined
beforehand. In honorable contrast
TO Bells course, Emerson Etheridge,
Howard Maynard, VIM. G Brown
low, Andrew Johnson and few
other leaders remained loyal to the
national government.
Missouri, the farthest west and the
newest Of all the border states, was
| likewise an object of great interest
to the Lincoln administration. Mis-
souri, gave 1900 votes to Lincoln
in 1860, or twice as many as did
all the other slave states in combina-
ton. But it was carried by Doug
las with vote of 58,801, as COM
pared with a poll of 58,372 for Bell,
and Of 81 900 for Breckenridge, the
candidate of the southern section of
tho Democracy. Claibourne F..
Jackson, elected governor in 1860,
was nOminally a Douglas Democrat,
but he Immediately went over to the
extreme southern side when the part
in the ways was reached in 1861. A
large majority of the people of the
state, however, were union in senti-
ment. On the issue of secession
there were three elements in the
state,-the Unconditional Unionists
(all the Republicans and many of
the Douglas and Bell mem the
Conditional Unionists, (some of the
Bell and Douglas followers and a
few of the Breckenridge men), and
the Secessionists (most of the
Breckenridge supporters and a few
of the Douglas men). The Uncon-
ditional union men demanded the
preservation of the union, even if
this involved coercion, while the
Conditional union men hesitated at
coercion and favored the impossible
role of neutrality in case war should
come. Many of these, when the
crisis arrived, were won or forced
over to the stalwart union side.
While Gov. Jackson, Lieut.-Gov.
Thos. Reynolds, United States Sen
ators Green and Polk, and a MAORI
ty of the legislature favored seces-
sion, an election held on February
IS, 1861, to choose delegates to a
convention to determine the attitude
of the state in that crisis, decided
in favor of the union by majority
of $4,000. Not a single avoWed Sc
cessionist was elected, but some of
the members, like EX-Gov. Sterling
Price, who was chosen president of
the convention, went over to the
confederacy when the final division
came after Lyon and Blair captured
Camp Jackson. Tho convention
met at Jefferson City on Feb. 2S,
but soon afterward it adjourned
to the more congenial atmosphere
OF St Louis, where the New Eng
land and German elements Of the
population were radiating centers
OF stalwart unionism. At st. Louis
the convention promptly declared
for tho union.
Union Elements.
Tho union elements were organ.
lied and directed by committee OF
safety. consisting of Mayor Oliver
d Filley, Francis =. Blair, Jr,, Jas,
O Broadhead. Samuel 4, Glover,
John Howe and Capt John ]. VIII
zig, of which Blair was tho most ac-
two spirit Blair, who had served
In Doniphan's regiment of Missouri.
ians In tho Mexican war, began or
ganizlng and drilling tho Home
Guards In January. These were
chiefly Wide Awakes, or the Repub.
lican marching clubs of 1860, most
of whom we're Germans. He did
that secretly, however, while the
secession sympathizers, with the ia,
vor OF Gov. Jackson, started to or
ganlza their minute men openly. In
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