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y; that a dissolution of the Union would be ruinous to the best interests of Missouri; and that no efforts should be spared to secure its continued blessings to her people. The fourth resolution was a pointed rebuke for all disturbers of the peace of the Republic. This Convention, it said, exhorts Georgia and the other seceding States to desist from the revolutionary measures commenced by them, and unite their voice with ours in restoring peace. and cementing the Union of our fathers. Judge Birch, of the same Committee, offered a minority report, in the form of resolutions, less offensive to the slaveholders. The two reports were laid on the table, and, by a vote of fifty-six against forty, the subject was made the special order for the third Monday in December following, to which time it was proposed to adjourn the Convention when it should adjourn. The atmosphere of St. Louis, in and out of the Convention, was not congenial to such seditious sentiments. The population of that