[Homer_J_Simpson]

The Disunion Troubles: Excitement Relative to the Proceedings at Pittsburgh – 2-5
Naval Intelligence – 5
From Missouri: Conservative Feeling in St. Louis and Missouri – 5
Editorial: Southern Trade-Its Amount and Comparative Value– 6
Editorial: The Cuban Slave-Trade– 6-7
Editorial: Conflicting Authorities on the Slave-Trade – 7
Putting on Airs – 7-8
Federal Aid and Comfort to Disunion – 8
Delay of the Pony Express – 8
Death of Ralph Farnum – 8
Death of Hon. Henry M. Fuller – 8
Fire at South Bend, Ind. – 8
Railroad Casualties – 8
Boy Drowned at Sackett’s Harbor – 8
Gone into Liquidation – 8
Naval Intelligence – 8

[ProtectOurFreedom]

This could have been written this morning...

---

St. Louis, Mo., Saturday Dec. 22, 1860.
     During this season of sensations and alarms, when the blue-lights of the melodrama shed a livid and ghastly radiance upon the political stage, a veracious newsmonger will find any dlsh which he may prepare for the public palate from this place flat and spiritless, lacking as it must, the essential spice of secession or the rich aromatic flavor of treason. We are in good sooth a quiet humdrum, Union-loving, law-abiding people here, who, suffering intensely in the sensitive pocket nerve from the madness which rules the hour and paralizes public credit, but who do yet despair of the Constitution and the Confederacy, nor realize that the success of the Republicans has been the ruin of the Republic. Although a few ambitious youths have sported in the streets St. Louis the far-famed cockade of disunion, to the amused amazement of sober citizens, and the infinite delectation or a "rabble rout " of curious boys, yet the large majority of the people of Missouri are in favor of giving a fair trial to the President who has been fairly elected, before they permit the chivalric champions of Southern rights and wrongs to smash things generally.