Camp Jackson
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Drake, Charles D.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from Camp Jackson: Its History and Significance: Oration Great events make anniversaries, and all civilized peoples observe and commemorate them. To St. Louis, now in the hundredth year of its existence, no day has become more memorable than the tenth day of May, eighteen hundred and sixty-one; when was witnessed by her citizens, on this spot, within her own corporate limits, the first collision between our noble Union, and those recreant State authorities, which desired and intended to wrest Missouri by violence from the Union´s embrace. This generation in St. Louis will not forget that day. The Secessionists of St. Louis will remember it as a day that suddenly nipped the treason of their leaders in the bud; and her patriots will cherish it as the day that rescued them and Missouri from the grasp of traitors, which, once fixed upon her, might not to this hour have been thrown off. History, too, will assign that day a position of prime importance in the course of events succeeding the fall of Sumter; for had the designs which caused the assemblage of citizen-soldiery at Camp Jackson been accomplished, who can estimate the extent of the injury to the Union cause in Missouri, and throughout this great Central Valley? God only knows whether the whole course of the dread conflict which has now been waged for more than two years, might not have been changed, disastrously to our country. Let us then render devout thanks to Him, for the day itself, and for the privilege of meeting here in peace to commemorate it! You will not, my friends, fail to remember the wild excitement in our city and State, which followed the capture of Camp Jackson, and the use which was, only too successfully, made of that event, to inflame disloyalty and rebellion through all the borders of Missouri. To have attended to what was then said and written in denunciation of the capture, one would have thought that such an outrage as the world had not before known, had been perpetrated upon an innocent body of citizen soldiers, lawfully convened for a laudable purpose; and that those who composed the capturing force were demons in human shape, worthy only of execration in time, and of damnation in eternity; to the latter of which Missouri traitors would gladly and quickly have consigned them if - they could! As to the character of the soldiery mustered at Camp Jackson, it is not just or true to class them all as traitors, or secessionists, or sympathizers with secession. While it is impossible to say at this time, even if it could ever have been said, who of the officers and men composing the encampment were loyal to the flag which floated over them, and who were not, it is, I doubt not, strictly true that many were there who were loyal; who were unaware of the infamous designs of those who ordered their assembling; and who would have been deeply shocked, had they been led forth to do the work which the State authorities purposed should be done. Of them, as they were prior to, and upon the day of, the capture of Camp Jackson - not as many of them afterwards became - I would use no other words than those of pity for the unfortunate association which made them the victims of cunning and unscrupulous traitors. But of those there who knew the design of the encampment, and lent themselves to the first organized attempt to array Missouri against the glorious flag under which they were born, and by the projection of which they had lived and prospered, it is enough to say, that more devilish traitors ever lived; and that such of them as have not already fallen in the rebel ranks, by Union ball or bayonet, should be thankful to their dying hour that the surrender of Camp Jackson saved them then from the traitor´s ignominious fate, if, indeed, their being saved should be argued of thankfulness in them, or anybody else on earth. [Applause.] It is important, my friends, to put on re
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