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Browsing named entities in 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.. You can also browse the collection for Hamilton R. Gamble or search for Hamilton R. Gamble in all documents.

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announce in your paper, your intention so to do. We shall be glad to be informed of your determination in relation to this matter. Respectfully, your obedient servants, Archibald Gamble, Nathan Ranney, William S. Potts, G. W. Call, H. R. Gamble, Hezekiah King, Jno. Kerr. I concur in the object intended by this communication. Beverly Allen. I concur in the foregoing. J. B. Bryant. This document is indorsed as follows: I did not yield to the wishes here exprl I have suffered, or can suffer. I have sworn eternal opposition to Slavery, and, by the blessing of God, I will never go back. Amen. E. P. L. October 24, 1837. had been written to the editor by nine eminent citizens of St. Louis (including H. R. Gamble, her present provisional Governor), urging him to pass over in silence everything connected with the subject of Slavery; which, in due time, he respectfully declined. The immediate cause of the excitement here alleged was the illegal and vi
ederal Relations to report a bill calling a State Convention, which, in due time, became a law. Jan. 16th. The Convention was accordingly chosen and held; but, when it came to assemble, not one avowed Disunionist was found among its members. Even Sterling Price, a Democratic ex-Governor, who in due time became one of the ablest and most successful of Rebel Generals, had secured his election only by a profession of Unionism. Its Committee on Federal Relations, through its Chairman, Judge H. R. Gamble, Afterward made Governor. reported at length, on the 9th of March--four days after Mr. Lincoln's Inaugural had been read all over the country — in pointed opposition to the views of the Disunionists. After discussing the questions which agitated the country from a Southern point of view, with the usual complaints of Northern fanaticism, intermeddling, and aggression, condemning coercion, whether employed by or against the seceded States, and warmly indorsing the Crittenden Compromi
8--to declare July 30th. the offices of Governor, Lieut. Governor, Secretary of State, with those of members of the Legislature, vacant by the treason of their occupants, and all the acts of said Executive and Legislature, in contravention of the Federal Constitution, and in hostility to the Union, null and void. They designated the first Monday of the November ensuing as a day of election, whereat the people should ratify or disapprove this decisive action ; and, meantime, elected Hamilton R. Gamble Governor, Willard P. Hall Lieut. Governor, and Mordecai Oliver Secretary of State. These officers were that day inaugurated, and the Convention, immediately thereupon, adjourned to the third Monday in December. Their action was ratified, of course, and the functionaries above named continued in their respective offices. These proceedings were met by a proclamation from the Rebel Lieut. Governor, Reynolds, styling himself acting Governor, dated New Madrid, July 31st; wherein he decla
meron and suite, 590; reaches Warsaw; Zagonyi's charge, 591-2; is relieved of his command, 593; review of the difficulties attending his campaign, etc., 593-4; allusion to, 627. frost, Gen. D. M., surprised and captured, 490. Fugitive Slave law, 109; 210 to 224; 212-13. Fulton, Robert, 18; Eli Whitney to, 65; 68. G. Gaines, Gen., ordered to Georgia, 103; instructed to destroy Florida fort, 177. Gallatin, Mr., approaches Great Britain with respect to fugitive slaves, 176. Gamble, H. R., signer of a letter to Lovejoy, 131; 132; makes a report in the Missouri Convention, 483; is chosen Governor of Missouri, 576. Gantt, Gen. E. W.,on Unionism in Arkansas, 515. Gardner, Lieut. Col., killed at Bull Run, 542. Garner, Margaret, the case of, 219. Garnett, Muscoe R. H., of Va., exultingly proclaims the secession of S. C., at Washington, 407; letter to Trescott, of S. C., 479-80. Garnett, Gen. Robert S., attacked at Laurel Hill, 522; at Carrick's Ford, 523; his