Annals of Cleveland

Missouri

Abstracts: 9

290

Cleveland Morning Leader, 14 November 1864 (ed; 5 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

290 - L. Nov. 14; ed:2/1 - The adoption of the new constitution of
Missouri forever prohibiting slavery in that state was of an importance
not to be exaggerated. "Revolutions never go backward, especially those
revolutions which have God and Freedom on their side. Men now gray-
haired shall live to see the last fetter fall from the last slave - and
to thank God for his glorious work." (5)

Constitutions / Missouri

Index terms:

Missouri

1580

Cleveland Morning Leader, 30 May 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1580 - L. May 30; ed: 1/1 - "All signs go to show that the coming Cleve-
land Convention will be a most formidable gathering. Our Albany cor-
respondent, who has excellent means for knowing, states that there will
be from Missouri alone, two thousand delegates, of whom one thousand
will be from the city of St. Louis." "The above, from the New York
WORLD, is a sample of the kind of puffing bestowed upon the Fremont
Convention by the Copperheads. There is not a particle of truth in
the statement and it is published merely to assist in swelling the
numbers." - (6)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Albany, N. Y.; Copperheads; Fremont, O.; Missouri; New York WORLD; St. Louis, Mo.

1583

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 June 1864 (ed; 128 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.2,3,4 ~ View at ChronAm

1583 - L June 1; ed:2/2-4; 4/3-5 - "Yesterday... was a great day for
politicians. It was the day in which (vide the New York WORLD and -
HERALD, the Chicago TiMES and the Cincinnati ENQUIRER), the greatest
political movement of modern times was to be set on foot, a new party
be formed, and the next President nominated - a day more fatal to
Abraham Lincoln than the Ides of March to Caesar. -- -
"The day certainly passed off with most remarkable quiet. Besides
the arrivals chronicled yesterday, but few made their appearance, and
the convention, for one so widely heralded and anxiously prepared for,
was singularly small in numbers and weak in talent."
The convention inet at eleven o'clock at Chapin's hall. "The two
thousand delegates from Missouri have not been heard from. It is sup-
posed that they stopped at Cincinnati for consultation with the proprietor -
of the ENQUIRER as to the best mode of defeating Lincoln. The two
thousand from New York were similarly missing, and the convention was
in numbers a very slim affair....
"There was also a 'most pleasant lack' of leaders in the convention.
Horace Greeley... was absent, and his absence was regretted by delegates
even more than that of the masses. B. Gratz Brown was also unaccountably
missing, and the convention felt the loss of his active and commanding
intellect. -
"From the first it was evident that there was a secret, but
irrepressible conflict between the friends of General Grant, including
most of the New York delegation and many from the Eastern States, who
were mainly of Democratic antecedents, and those of General Fremont,
composed mainly of the old abolitionists and the radical Germans,
and led by Coionel Moss, of Missouri."
E. Gilbert, president of the New York "Fremont" club, called the
convention to order and immediately nominated ex-Governor Johnston of
Pennsylvania as temporary chairman. Johnston was elected by acclama-
tion. B. H. Brooks of California and S. Wolf of Washington were
chosen secretaries. A committee on permanent organization, of ten
members, was appointed.
The number of delegates attending the convention was so small that
the committee appointed to enroll their names never made its report.
"We believe, however, that there were about one hundred and fifty dele-
gates present, of whom nearly half were from Missouri and wild for
Fremont, and ihe others mainly from New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois."
In addressing the convention, General Cochrane said, in part: "You
assemble here intending to support the army in the field, and at the
same time to organize a great civil army to fight for principles, and
to save for all generations the precious legacy obtained for us by the
sacrifices of the soldiers of the Union. The rebellion, it must be
suppressed; the Union, it must be preserved."
The nomination of Grant "was very faintly cheerei, and it was evident
that the name of the hero of Spottsylvania would pale before that of
the swordless general of New York.
"Nothing would do however, for the St. Louis Germans, who voted not
to recognize God's hand in war, but to nominate Fremont.
"General Fremont was nominated by acclamation.
"The 3,000 delegates, with whom the city was said to swarm yesterday
by the imaginative PLAIN DEALER, cheered heartily over the good work."
General Cochrane was nominated by acclamation for vice president. The
naming of the party was deferred until night when a committee, appointed
in the afternoon, reported the name of the new party to be the Radical
Democracy. Bird B. Chapman represented Ohio on the executive committee,
consisting of 15 members. (128)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Brooks, B. H. (California); California; Chapin's hall; Chapman, Bird B.; Chicago, Ill.; Chicago TIMES; Cincinnati, O.; Cincinnati ENQUIRER; Cleveland PLAIN DEALER; Cochrane, General George; Fremont club; Gilbert, E.; Grant, Gen. U. S.; Greeley, Horace; Illinois; Johnston; Lincoln, Abraham; Mass, Colonel (Mo.); Missouri; New York city; New York HERALD; New York WORLD; Ohio; Pennsylvania; St. Louis, Mo.; Spottsylvania, Va.; Union; Washington, D. C.; Wolf, S. (Washington, D. C.)

1584

Cleveland Morning Leader, 2 June 1864 (ed; 18 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1584 - L June 2; ed:2/1 - The "Fremont" convention held here May 31 was
given wide publicity by the Democratic press throughout the country, but
its slimness and insignificance was a surprise even to those who knew how
feeble the whole affair would be.
The authorized delegates present did not exceed 200. Of the six
or eight individuals who manipulated the convention only General Cochrane
of New York was f any national prominence. -
The state of Missouri, in which a rabid red Republicanism finds ex-
istence, virtually controlled the convention.
The object of the convention, aside from gratifying a spite toward
President Lincoln, was to affirm a more radical policy than any yet
enunciated, and to put forward a man who will carry the policy into
effect.
Mr. Foster, the special champion of radical views, was obliged to
confess in his speech Tuesday (May 29) that the Republican party holds
the same views on the subject of slavery as expressed in the Fremont
platform.
The doctrines laid down in the Fremont platform, those that are
vital, will all be substantially affirmed at Baltimore, (the Republican
convention.) Their realization will be much sooner attained by a strict
unity of the Union party, than by such a disorganizing scheme as the
one inaugurated in Cleveland.
"We have commented thus at length, not from any apprehension, ...
but from the conviction that the Copperheads... will endeavor to fan the
whole affair into importance.
"The Convention, in a word, was made up of oily politicians from
New York, impetuous, hair-brained Germans from St. Louis, several
venerable abolitionists... together with an admixture of personal friends
and parasites of Fremont, all controlled by one feeling - that of hatred
for Abraham Lincoln." - - (18)

Political Parties / Fremontites

Index terms:

Baltimore, Md.; Cochrane, General George; Democratic press; Foster; Fremont, General John C.; Lincoln, Abraham; Missouri; New York; Republican convention (Baltimore); Republican party; St. Louis, Mo.; Union

1645

Cleveland Morning Leader, 1 June 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.1, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1645 - L June 1; ed: 1/1 - In the convention of the Missouri "Radicals"
a gentleman suggested adding the words "with God's assistance," to an
amendment to the resolution that the Rebellion must be down. One-
half of the convention were infidels and atheists, who voted the phrase
down with boisterous demonstrations. "Nothing is truer than that God's
providence is manifest in this war." (3)

Politics and Government / Missouri

Index terms:

Missouri

1706

Cleveland Morning Leader, 7 April 1864 (12 inches) ~ See original
p.4, col.3 ~ View at ChronAm

1706 - L. Apr. 7:4/3 - Letters by express is a new and important arrange-
ment by the American Express co. The envelopes used for this purpose
are the regular three cent government-stamped envelopes, with the pre-
paid stamp of the express company on them, stating that carriage and
delivery of the same is paid to and from their offices in the states
of New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Illinois,
Missouri, Iowa, and Minnesota.
(This appears to be the first attempt at "special delivery" of letters.)
(12)

Postal Service / Special Delivery

Index terms:

American Express co.; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kentucky; Michigan; Minnesota; Missouri; New York; Ohio; Pennsylvania; Wisconsin

1979

Cleveland Morning Leader, 17 February 1864 (ed; 6 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

1979 - L. Feb. 17; ed:2/1 - A large meeting was held in Covington to ap-
point delegates to the Emancipation convention to be held in Louisville
Feb. 22. "The work of abolition in this stiff-necked state will be one
of great importance, but who can doubt that Kentucky will be obliged to
follow in the wake of Maryland, Missouri, Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana
and Florida?" - (6)

Slavery / Emancipation

Index terms:

Arkansas; Covington, Ky.; Florida; Kentucky; Louisiana; Louisville Ky.; Missouri; Tennessee

2311

Cleveland Morning Leader, 21 July 1864 (ed; 3 inches) ~ See original
p.2, col.1 ~ View at ChronAm

2311 - L. July 21; ed:2/1 - Parts of Missouri are in a sad state of af-
fairs due to the terrible acts of cruelty and depredation committed by
guerrillas. It seems that the only way to stop such outrages is to arm
the people and permit them to shoot these guerrillas on sight.
"Something should be done to check the villains who roam through the
State shooting Union men, even if conservatives should be annihilated in
a body." (3)

Wars / Civil War / Bandits and Guerrillas

Index terms:

Missouri; Union army