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Missouri risen.--Kentucky fallen. --Of all the border States, Missouri seemed to present the most hopeless case at the outset of the war. Eargely settled by emigration from the North; with St. Louis, a German city of great population, as her centre of wealth and wade surrounded on every side but one by a "cordon of free States;" Kansas, with her cut-throats, under Montgomery, flanking her on the West the Northwestern States teeming with adventurous and desperate characters, fashioned after the pattern of John Brown, flanking her on the North and East; it seemed inevitable that Missouri must be the first State of the South to fall under the threatened subjugation. But there was one circumstance which offered a gleam of hope to her friends outside. She had a Governor of unfailing courage, who was true to his duty and to the South. From that one single piece of good fortune has resulted the rescue and redemption of Missouri. There were people enough in Missouri, as there are