Broadway, Missouri

Thirty-second. So much of the "Act to govern and regulate the volunteer militia of the State," approved, as aforesaid, bj this Convention, as conflicts with the provisions of this ordinance, is hereby repealed ; but all legal acts done, and proceedings properly had for the organization and support of the militia, under and by virtue of said act, shall be valid and binding as if authorized by this ordinance.

Passage source: Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861, published 1861.

Or was it, sir, that in the exercise of the same power, expressly admitted in favor of this Convention by themselves, we removed from office that Legislature who, in secret midnight session, with but half their number present, passed so-called "Acts," in utter and treasonable defiance of their sworn duty under the State and National Constitutions ? Do we we not know, both from the official journals of that secret session, and from the clear and authentic statement made at our July session by a delegate who was a loyal member of that Legislature, (Mr. Welch,) that a test vote was forced upon them and defiantly carried by their traitor majority, upon a proposition which was a declaration of war against the United States ? You remember, sir, that section 167 of that infamous "Military Bill" made it the sworn duty of every officer and soldier of the " Missouri State Guard" to attack, disperse and disarm every assemblage of men in this State " having the semblance of an armed organization," which was not organized under that Military Bill itself. You remember that with the express purpose of testing the intent of this provision, an amendment was offered, excepting from its terms the troops of the United States, within any post or arsenal within this State, so long as they conducted themselves lawfully, and until the State of Missouri, by a vote of her people, should change her relations with the Union- And you know that that amendment was voted down ; and that this vote was had before the socalled " outrage at Camp Jackson" had occurred.

Passage source: Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861, published 1861.

the insurgent army might be productive of similar consequences, both to the State and to many of its citizens, who, having been misimpressed and misled in the past, may wish to live in peace and loyalty in the future. Let them do so, upon laying down their arms, and filing with the records of their county, a declaration and an oath of similar import. When I remember how the young and impulsive (especially) have been misimpressed and overreached by those in whom they confided, perhaps but naturally, I feel that I should fall short of the duty of a Christian citizen were I not rather to seek to reclaim and to save them, than to punish them for doing what many of them were brought to believe they ought to do. Take, for instance, the case of a company which was raised in the south-eastern corner of my own county - the proceedings preliminary to which I will read to the Convention as a specimen of the mendacious misrepresentations of the secession leaders all over the State - and for one I feel that I ^iave not the hear; to punish either boys or men (if they can be otherwise reclaimed to society and to peace) who were thus imposed upon, especially by preachers. I read from my county paper of the 9th of May last (since defunct) as follows.;

Passage source: Journal of the Missouri State Convention, Held at the City of St. Louis, October, 1861, published 1861.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on St. Louis City - it names this place 3 more 3 times.