CHAPTER II.
MISSOURI IN THE EARLY DAYS.
Apathy of the Border States .-- The Missouri State Convention .-- Sterling Price a Union Man .-- Plan to take the State out of the Union .-- Capture of Camp Jackson .-- Energy of General Lyon .-- Union Men organized .-- An Unfortunate Collision .-- The Price-Harney Truce .-- The Panic among the Secessionists .-- Their Hegira from St.Louis .-- A Visit to the State Capital .-- Under the Rebel Flag .-- Searching for Contraband Articles .-- An Introduction to Rebel Dignitaries .-- Governor Jackson .-- Sterling Price .-- Jeff.

Thompson .-- Activity at Cairo .-- Kentucky Neutrality .-- The Rebels occupy Columbus.
The Border States were not prompt to follow the example of the States on the Gulf and South Atlantic coast.

Missouri and Kentucky were loyal, if the voice of the majority is to be considered the voice of the population.

Many of the wealthier inhabitants were, at the outset, as they have always been, in favor of the establishment of an independent Southern Government.

Few of them desired an appeal to arms, as they well knew the Border States would form the front of the Confederacy, and thus become the battle-field of the Rebellion.