The Travail of Missouri for Statehood (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Travail of Missouri for Statehood "But the agony is over and Missouri is born into the Union, not a seven months baby but a man child; his birth no secret in the family, but a proud and glorious event, proclaimed to the nation with the firing of cannon, the ringing of bells and illumination of towns and cities." In this enthusiastic spirit the St Louis Enquirer, of March 29, 1820, commented on the passage by Congress of the Missouri statehood act. The Enquirer was the paper for which Benton wrote. Two years and two months had elapsed since Missouri´s petitions for admission to the Union had been presented to Congress. In a way congratulations were premature, for a year and four months were to pass before President Monroe´s tardy proclamation announced that "the admission of the said State of Missouri into this Union is declared to be complete." As early as the fall months of 1817, petitions were being circulated by men of influence in Franklin, St. Charles, Herculaneum, Ste. Genevieve, Cape Girardeau, New Madrid, St. Louis. They were "from sundry inhabitants of the Territory of Missouri praying that said territory may be admitted to the Union on an equal footing with the original states." The movement was timely. Across the river, Illinois, supposed to be some thousands smaller in population, was asking statehood. Seven states had been added to the original thirteen. Missouri was growing faster than any of them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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