Of course there was sympathy in the office of the _Missouri Democrat_, that made some amends for the rough treatment I had got at the hands of citizens of Missouri.
Having completed my business in St.Louis I turned my face toward my old field of labor in the "Military Tract," _via_ the Illinois River.

The reader will believe that my reflections were full of anxieties.

What would the brethren say of me?
Were my prospects blighted from this time forward?
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