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MISSOURI. 



MOCQUARD, J. F. C. 



to reject the amendment of the gentleman from 

 Franklin. 



Mr. Clover. And upon it the ayes and noes arc 

 demanded. 



Mr. Drake, i'es, I call for the ayes and noes on 

 that question. 



Mr. Strong. I ask, Mr. President, if it is in order 

 to amend that motion ? If so, I desire to offer a mo- 

 tion that all amendments be rejected temporarily. 



The President. I don't think it is proper at" this 

 time. 



The vote was then taken and resulted : ayes, 58 ; 

 noes, 4. 



The motion to reject the amendment prevailed : 

 ayes, 37 ; noes, 25. 



After the disposal of several points of order the 

 vote was taken on the adoption of the ordinance, 

 resulting ayes, 59 ; noes, 4 ; absent, 2. The noes 

 were Messrs Gilbert of Platte, Harris, Morton, and . 

 Switzler. 



The announcement of the vote was received with 

 loud applause and with waving of handkerchiefs and 

 swinging of hats. The president and sergeant-at- 

 arms found it impossible to quell the enthusiasm. 



Mr. Owen. I desire to move to reconsider the 

 vote on adopting the ordinance and lay it on the 

 table. 



The motion was agreed to. 



Mr. Owen. I understand that the Rev. Mr. Eliot 

 is in the hall, and I move that he come forward and 

 give thanks to Almighty God for the passage of an 

 Ordinance of Emancipation in Missouri. 



Prayer was then offered bv the Rev. Dr. Eliot as 

 follo.ws : Most merciful God, before whom we are all 

 equal, we look up to Thee who hast declared Thyself 

 our Father and our helper and our strong defence, to 

 thank Thee that Thou art no respecter of persons, to 

 thank Thee that Thou didst send Jesus Christ into 

 the world to redeem the world from sin, and that He 

 was the friend to the poor, that He came to break 

 the manacles of the slaves, " that the oppressed 

 might go free." We thank Thee that this day the 

 people of this State have had grace given them to do 

 as they would be done by. We pray that thy bless- 

 ings may rest upon the proceedings of this Conven- 

 tion, that no evil may come to this State from the 

 wrong position of those who do not agree with the 

 action of to-day, but that we, all of us, may be united 

 to sustain this which is the law of the land. We 

 pray, God, but our hearts are too full to express 

 our thanksgiving. Thanks be to God for this day ; 

 that light has now come out from darkness, that all 

 things are now promising a future of peace and quiet- 

 ness to our distracted State. Grant that this voice 

 may go over the whole land until the Ordinance of 

 Emancipation is made perfect throughout the States. 

 We ask it through the name of our dear Lord and 

 Redeemer. Amen. 



Mr. Budd offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That a copy of the ordinance passed by this Con- 

 Tcntion, freeing all persons in the State heretofore held as 

 slaves, signed by the President and attested by the Secretary 

 as a true copy, be. and the same shall be placed in the hands 

 of a special messenger to transmit to the Governor of the 

 State at Jefferson City ; and when received by him, he is re- 

 quested to issue his proclamation, stating that by an irre- 

 vocable act of the Convention, slavery is abolished in the 

 State of Missouri now and forever. 



The resolution was adopted, and the Convention 

 adjourned. 



The news of the passage of the ordinance 

 was immediately sent by telegraph to Jefferson 

 City, where the Legislature was in session, and 

 a scene of great rejoicing ensued. Several 

 spontaneous gatherings of the people were 

 held, " at which the wildest enthusiasm pre- 

 vailed. At one of the meetings speeches were 

 wade by State senators, the chaplain of the 



House, and Congressmen elect, and tl e report 

 says : 



. Mr. Bonner, of St. Louis, offered the following 

 resolution, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That Col. Jameson, of St. Louis, Mr. Kutzner 

 of Hannibal, and Mr. Doan, of Grundy, be invited up in front 

 of the speaker's stand and sing " John Brown." 



The song was sung amid immense applause. 



The Lieut.-Governor offered the following resolu- 

 tion, which was adopted : 



Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed by tha 

 chair to draft joint resolutions suitable to the importance of 

 the occasion, and that the same be submitted to the General 

 Assembly for its action. 



The chairman appointed the committee. 



Pending the proceedings of the meeting, which 

 was held at night, every window of the Capitol was 

 illuminated, and the very hills of Jefferson were 

 made to lift up their heads and rejoice. 



On the next day a message was received 

 by the Convention from the Governor and 

 Legislature of Illinois, expressing their con- 

 gratulations on the passage of the ordinance. 

 Afterwards a motion was made in the Conven- 

 tion to pay the loyal owners for their slaves. 

 It was laid on the table ayes, 44 ; noes, 4. 



A motion was also made to submit the ordi- 

 nances of the Convention to the people. After 

 some discussion it was laid on the table ayes, 

 44; noes, 9. 



The number of slaves in Missouri, according 

 to the census of 1860, was 114,931. 



Measures were introduced before the Legis- 

 lature to provide for the welfare of the emanci- 

 pated blacks. These measures, and also the 

 further proceedings of the State Convention, 

 form a portion of the history of 1865, and will 

 be found in a subsequent volume. 



At the close of the year Maj.-Gen. Pope was 

 ordered to relieve Gen. Rosecrans in command 

 of the military department. 



MOCQUARD, JEAX TEAPOTS CONSTANT, a 

 French man of letters, and private secretary 

 to Napoleon III., Emperor of the French, born 

 in Bordeaux in 1791, died in Paris, Dec. 9, 

 1864. He was educated at Paris, and obtained 

 the place of bursar in the college of Louis lo 

 Grand, then known by the name of Prylanee. 

 On quitting college he entered the school of 

 law, was called to the bar in 1817, and joined 

 the Liberal party in its opposition to the Gov- 

 ernment of the Restoration. lie was employed 

 as counsel in some of the political trials of the 

 period, and particularly in that of the military 

 conspiracy, in which the four sergeants of 

 Rochelle were implicated, and for which they 

 suffered death. He ceased to practise as a lawyer 

 in 1826, and devoted himself to literary pur- 

 suits. It was probably during this period that 

 he prepared his translation of Tacitus, and 

 some other works of less importance. The 

 career and misfortunes of Hortense Beauhar- 

 nais, the beautiful, though not always discreet 

 queen of Louis Bonaparte, ex-King of Holland, 

 seem to have fascinated the young advocate, 

 and he became a warm adherent to the for- 

 tunes of the Bouapartes. In the attempt of 

 Louis Napoleon to incite a revocation at Stras- 



