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the unconditional Union men of the State; while theSt. Louis “Republican,” Sterling Price, Hamilton R.Gamble , James S. Rollins, William A. Hall, and John B. Clark consolidatedthe conservatives, and together these elected on the 18th of February a Con-vention not one member of which would say that he was in favor of thesecession of Missouri . To the courage, moderation, and tact of Francis P.Blair this result was greatly due.
Blair was just forty years of age. His father, the trusted friend of AndrewJackson , had taken him to Washington City when he was about seven yearsold, and there he had been bred in politics. In 1843 he had come to St. Louis ,where his brother Montgomery was already practicing law. For that profes-sion, to which he too had been educated, Frank had no taste, and, having init no success, quickly turned his attention to politics. In 1852 he was electedto the Legislature as a Benton Democrat. Shortly afterward he and B. GratzBrown established the St. Louis “ Democrat.” When the Kansas conflictbroke out in 1854, he identified himself with the Free-soil party, and in 1856supported Fremont for the Presidency, though Senator Benton , Fremont’sfather-in-law, refused to do this. He was elected to Congress that year, forthe first time. In the presidential canvass of 1860 he had been the leader ofthe Republicans of Missouri , and it was through him chiefly that Lincolnreceived 17,000 votes in the State. Immediately after the secession of South