516 



MISSOURI. 



The following is the Federal census of Mississippi, taken iii 18GO, and approximate for 1870 : 



The following table, compiled from the 

 United States census, shows the agricultural 

 products of six counties Madison, Holmes, 

 Eankin, Neshoba, Jones, and Lauderdale for 



the year 1870, as compared with the same sta- 

 tistics for 1860. These counties represent 

 about one-eighth or one -ninth of the popula- 

 tion and wealth of the State : 



MISSOURI. The political history of the 

 State of Missouri, during the year 1870, is one 

 .of unusual interest. The convention which, 

 framed the present constitution was called in 

 1864, when the feelings engendered by civil 

 strife were at their height, and far more intense 

 in a border State which was the scene of out- 

 rage and devastation, and all the wrongs and 

 horrors of such a warfare, than in any other 

 part of the country. The Union sentiment was 

 predominant in Missouri at that time, and those 

 Avho did not sympathize with it were, for the 



* Lse from Itawamba and Poutotoc. 



time being, in open hostility with the estab- 

 lished authorities, and proscribed from all polit- 

 ical action. As a consequence, the Constitu- 

 tional Convention which did its work in the 

 early part of 1865, just before the final surrender 

 of the Confederate army, was animated with a 

 feeling of bitterness against those who had in 

 any measure contributed to the losses and suffer- 

 ing of which Missouri had a double portion to 

 bear. The active supporters of the Southern 

 cause were deprived of the elective franchise 

 and the privilege of holding office, and search- 

 ing test-oaths were prescribed for all who 

 should lay claim to what had formerly been re- 



