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Missouri Historical Review, Volume 19 Issue 3, April 1925

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Title	Missouri Historical Review, Volume 19 Issue 3, April 1925
Volume	19
Issue	3
Month	April
Year	1925
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2008
ISSN	0026-6581

Title	Page 423
Page Number	423
Article Title	Personal Recollections of Distinguished Missourians - B. Gratz Brown
Author	Grissom, Daniel M.
Subject	Biography
Volume	19
Issue	3
Month	April
Year	1925
Publisher	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Publisher-Electronic	The State Historical Society of Missouri
Rights	Copyright The State Historical Society of Missouri, 2009
ISSN	0026-6582
Transcription	RECOLLECTIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MISSOURIANS 423 PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS OF DISTINGUISHED MISSOURIANS BY DANIEL M. GRISSOM SIXTH ARTICLE B. GRATZ BROWN This man's name is so conspicuously and in such a personal and intimate way associated with what may be called the restoration to the people of Missouri of the right of self- government, that even if there were nothing else honorable and great in his record, it were enough of itself to entitle him to the enduring gratitude of the people of the state. He came to Missouri in 1849, bringing with him the honors of an enviable record as a graduate from a college in his own state and afterwards from Yale College, and—what was not less valuable—trained habits of thinking, and a conscience which recognized a question of right and wrong in everything. When he left his native State, he left behind him all the traditions that would have bound him to the approval and support of slavery, and, as soon as he became known in Missouri, it was as an emancipationist and freesoiler—two words which were beginning to be the objective points of a great deal of reflection and discussion at that time. It may be that the advice of his kinsman and friend, Frank P. Blair, had something to do with the promptness and decision with which he took his stand on slavery and the kindred questions—for, Blair had come to Missouri from Kentucky several years before and allied himself with Benton—and it is reasonable to suppose that he would influence his young friend in the same direction. Brown became editor of the Missouri Democrat, of which Blair was part owner, and soon gained reputation as an accomplished and effective writer, with aspirations for public life. He knew little about the management of ward meetings, but his friend Blair knew a great

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