Chapter VIII

ANOMALOUS CONDITION OF THE STATE—GREAT EXCITEMENT.

Border Slave State—Missouri State Convention—The Last Hope—Virginia
Convention—Missouri would not Secede—Rights in the
Union—Disappointment—Anomalous Position—Governor Jackson and General
Trice—Great Excitement—Ministers Embarrassed—One False Step
Fatal—The Sword _vs._ Sympathy—Why the Innocent and Helpless
Suffered more in Missouri than Elsewhere—Constructive
Sympathy—Predatory Bands—Hon. Luther J. Glenn Commissioner from
Georgia—The Effect of the Fall of Fort Sumter and President
Lincoln’s Proclamation—The State Officers, Legislature and Militia
Adhere South—Assemble at Neosho, Pass an Act of Secession, Elect
Delegates to the Confederate Congress, etc., etc.—Preparations for
War—Union _vs._ Price’s Army State Convention Meets Again—Its Acts
and Doings—Two State Governments—Sympathy, Property and
Plunder—Ministers Again—Their Course—Days of Fasting and
Prayer—Conferences—Meeting in St. Charles—Resolutions—Prudence and
Prayer—The Press—Anti-Christ Abroad—_Central Christian Advocate_ and
a few Facts—Rev. Mr. Gardner—“Men and Brethren Help”—State
Convention again in October—The First Oath for Ministers.