Bisbee daily review., 1915-12-12

Lincoln pledged himself 10 accept
any provisions which may be adopted
by a state government in relation TO
the freed people of such state which
shall recognize and declare their per
manent freedom, provide for their ed
ucation, and which may yet be con.
sistent as temporary arrangement
with their present condition as labor
ing, landless and homeless class %
The address of Mr.. Stevens tonight
began with the conference between
Lincoln and Francis p Blair Of St
Louis at Springfield. M. in April, 1857
and closed with the message Lincoln
sent through Blair 10 General Joseph
c. shelby and the Missouri Confeder.
ates. a few weeks before the surren-
der of Lee In the letter to General
Shelby said Mr. Stevens. Lincoln of.
fered the aid of the Federal Govern.
ment to the Confederates west Of the
Mississippi river to march to Mexico
and join Juarez. who was lighting the
| French under Macmillan
"The relationship between Lincoln
and Missouri was continuous from the
conference with Blair In 1857 TO the
message sent Shelby i'm 1866" said
| Mr. Stevens ut was intimate. II
| had a deciding influence upon nation.
al politics. Il had no small part in the
fortunes of the Civil War.
In the spring Of 1860 came fruition
of the Lincoln and Missouri relation
! ship Following at once upon the de
feat of Lincoln in 1858 for the senator
ship. the organization to control the
presidential nomination was started
Into the movement entered a person
ality not publicly conspicuous at the
| time but Of great force under cover.
Blair and the younger men were in
} the forefront carrying the banners Of
! free soil, free democracy. gradual e
Emancipation. white labor. colonization
and the like
In the background was EdwarC
Bates, counseling and encouraging II,
had seen the Whie party go to pieces
He was in sympathy with the work O
new party construction which LincoI
was doing I'm Illinois. He was not op
emily active in the Lincoln movement
/ He was the wise advisor When tn,
! time came TO send a delegation from
| Missouri 10 the Republican nominal
ing convention at Chicago, Mr.. Bate.
permitted his name to be used as tn,
ostensible cadidate of his state.
The delegation went instructed
for him. but. as Mr.. Bates afterwar,
| explained, this was not with the ey
pectation on his or the delegation
part, that he would be nominated
The well-understood purpose was {,
hold the delegation intact against al
\ eastern candidate Lincoln was tn,
choice Of the Missourians and tn,
vote was TO be given him when {
would do the most good The horde
states plan, which Blair and the othe
| gradual emancipationists had been OF
ganizing, was not to be revealed pub
licly committing Missouri to Lincoln
Frank Blair made trips to Spring
field. ILL.,. between the election i'm No
vember and the departure of Lincol
WI W ooAlllHlpu III r tbl udlg ne KEEP
the president-elect informed Of ever,
step in that game that was going o.
for the possession of the St Louis an
senal with its $4,000 muskets and mu
nitions Of war. more than there wa
i'm all the other slave states. He toll
MI. Lincoln that if the Southern
rights administration of Missouri gain
ed control Of the arsenal and its cor
tents the state would be carried int
the Confederacy and with Missouri
and other border states, would be lost
Nine days after his Inauguration
President Lincoln gave Lyon con
mand Of the arsenal and the opportu
nifty of the state government wa
lost"