Year: 1870

Governor elect Brown was serena led
Ut his residence. in St. Louis, last Monday
night, and responded in the following
words to tho scrcnaders:


Fellow citizens, Democrats Of the State
Of Missouri-for presume can include
representatives, Of all your number 10 my
address, wish to say to you that |
thank you from the bottom of my heart
for tho support you have given me ip
this canvass. that has ended in such
magnificent triumph. Cheers I l
assure YOU, moreover, that | do not take
that triumph to myself personally, but
only to the principles that have been SO
emphatically endorsed-tho.e of equal
freedom for every man in this naticn by
right Of his birth right. We have gone
through this contest, We have made no ap.
peal to party, VIC have made no discri,ni.
nation against men, and yet we have made
distinctive appeal to the common SEN
timent of the common country, in behalf
Of the right Of every man to exercise the
franchise Of a free man, aud we have won
upon that principle. [Cheers. Now l
have to say to you without hesitation that
l have to thank the Democratic party of
the State of Missouri for the cordial
support that they have been given me in
that position, and l say furthermore that
no party has ever shown more perfect
command of self, more perfect disregard
of past traditions, moZc perfect devotion
to the patriotic welfare of the common
hop hoc ho Ia
in the last election in this State of Mis-
souri, (chcers] lean say to you frankly,
my fellow citizens, that I am the last
man in this nation to disregard the obi
cations under which l stand, and that 10
this election recognize that my obliga-
tons are in the largest measure due TO
the Democratic party Of the State Of
Missouri. Cheers Now, my friends,
let me tell you another thing. recog
nze the fact that the Democratic party of
the State of Missouri has done this thing


it has elevated itself upon higher
platform than it ever occupied before !;
it has gone for the rights Of all men. and
in so doing, it has made an initiative Of
the future that will 60 through all the
States Of the Union 1t has cut itself
loose from the formulas and the obstruc


tions of the past, and has made platform
upon which the young men Of this nation
can stand [cheers Ia platform where
they can stand disembarrassed of all the
aptecedeuts that have gone before them
-dsem mbarrasscl of all that rctinue of
party machinery that has kept them down
heretofore, and where they can move
forward in the spirit and in the lisht Of
pure Democracy, a!vancing to the con
quest Of the future. [Checrs. ! Fellow
citizens, so far as this question concerns
our own State. desire to say to you that
recognize this as the triumph Of new
ideas; that | recognize this as the initia-
ti>n Of reconstruction of our State from
its bottom upwards Cheers That |
recognize it as the initiative Of new
convention to reorgan,ze our fundamental
law. Prolonged cheering And ac


cepting it in that light, wish you all
GOOD -I..- in +he fu'urv, hoping AVID
trusting only, in addition to that, that the
lesson which has been taught by ,hi.
election to the nation at large will be
received and accepted, and that the ma.
tional representatives who have been sen,
from the western country, when they
understand the force and significance OF
all your votes, will understand that it is


proper fer them to coalesce and combine


and consort with anybody and everybody


that will reduce to the nearer approx
nation Of justice and truth that immense


tax which is now levied upon US under
the false and fraudulent guise Of a reve
+ nue. tariff. Cries of that's Democracy


and "that is what we want" and cheers
, Now. my fellow citizens, have only tt
say to you in conclusion that l have tte
honor to be your Governor elect for thu
State of Missouri Twill promise you al
honest and a'faithful administration o
that Office. will proni.e you, further
more, that I will permit no rings around
, the state house or out Of it, as far as
can help it, to sap the life and wealth ou
f Of the community; and I will say further
, more, gentlemen, that in making that ad
, ministration. l will endeavor to predicate
, it upon live issues, and I will endenvo
, to call young men to the support of it
, fGreat cheering


, The assembly were then hospitabl


entcrtainedby Mr. Brown in his residence
! DESPERATE AND FATAL ArFRAY.-I