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Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., chapter 11 (search)
icense to preach from the second Presbytery of Philadelphia, and spent the Summer as an evangelist in Newport, R. I., and in New York. He left the last-named city in the autumn of that year, and returned to St. Louis, at the urgent invitation of a circle of fellow-Christians, who desired him to establish and edit a religious newspaper in that city — furnishing a capital of twelve hundred dollars for the purpose, and guaranteeing him, in writing, the entire control of the concern. The St. Louis Observer, weekly, was accordingly first issued on the 22d of November. It was of the Evangelical or Orthodox Protestant school, but had no controversy, save with wickedness, and no purpose, but to quicken the zeal and enlarge the use-fulness of professing Christians, while adding, if possible, to their number. There is no evidence that it was commenced with any intent to war on Slavery, or with any expectation of exciting the special hostility of any interest but that of Satan. Its first exh
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I., Analytical Index. (search)
attle at, 527. Allentown, Pa., military organization at, in 1860, for defense of Southern rights, 396. Alton, Ill., Lovejoy's speech at the Court House of, 138; Federal property taken thither from St. Louis, 490. See Lovejoy, and The St. Louis Observer. American Colonization Society, The 73. American Society for promoting National Unity, The, 439; programme of, 439-40. Anderson, Maj. Robert, evacuates Fort Moultrie and occupies Fort Sumter, 407-8; The Charleston Courier accuses hat, 134; Federal property secured at, 412; Gov. Jackson obtains control of the police of, 489; politics of the city; fight between the mob and the soldiers, 490-91; Fremont fortifies it, 554. St. Louis Democrat, The, allusion to, 490. St. Louis Observer, The, 130; extract from, 131; removed to Alton, 134; comments from. 186; its press destroyed, 137; the editor slain, etc., 141. St. Louis Republican, The, citation from, 131; stigmatizes The Observer, 136. Storrs, Henry R., vote on M