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Very naturally such a body selected pro-slavery officials. Hamilton R. Gamble, whom it made Governor, was a bigoted supporter of the instiri for Alton, Illinois, where he was murdered by a pro-slavery mob. Gamble was an able and ambitious man. The Conservatives, likewise, had souri, who was Attorney-General in Lincoln's Cabinet, had long been Gamble's law partner and most intimate friend. He never was more than nomhowever, and with such success in propagating their views that Governor Gamble and the other Conservative leaders decided that heroic measurerol. On the assurance that he could maintain peace and order, Governor Gamble was given authority by the President to recruit an army of Stauccessful. The principal cause of failure was the adoption of Governor Gamble's policy of trying to run the State without the help of Federaey ever received west of the Mississippi, but they cared little for Gamble's militia, into which a good many of their friends were mustered, a
9. Fish, W. H., 205. Fletcher, Thomas C., 155. Fort Donelson, capture of, 184, 192. Fort Henry, capture of, 184. Foss, A. T., 205. Foster, Daniel, 205. Foster, Stephen, 39. Free-soil party, 65. Fremont, General, 151; and western command, 184-185; financial bad management, 184; defeats Stonewall Jackson, I 84; removal, 185; freedom proclamation, 185. Frost, John, 203. Frothingham, 0. B., 204. Fugitive Slave Law, 5, 121. Fuller, John E., 201. Fussell, Bartholomew, 203. G Gamble, Hamilton R., 160; and emancipation ordinance of, 163; and military control of Missouri, 163. Garrison, William Lloyd, 13 21, 26, 201, 202; dragged through streets of Boston, 32; imprisonment for libel, 54; reception in England, 131-132; speech at Exeter Hall, 131. Genius of Universal Emancipation, The, 51. Giddings, Joshua R., 2, 6, 205. Gillinghamm, Chalkly, 203. Goodell, William, 203, 205. Grant, General, 44; and Charcoals, 172; nomination by Missouri Radicals, 174-176; capture of Fort Done