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May 15, 1857
Lewisburg Chronicle
Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania
What is this article about?
The St. Louis Evening News highlights the surprising endorsement by George R. Taylor, a pro-slavery Democrat, of Mayor Wimer's Free Soil inaugural address, where Taylor declares Kansas and Missouri will become free states, defying his Southern background.
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VERY SIGNIFICANT.—The St. Louis Evening News, alluding to the inaugural address of Mayor Wimer, (in which he avowed strong Free Soil principles,) and the unexpected endorsement in reply by Geo. R. Taylor, President of the board of Aldermen, and before regarded as a "National" or Pro-Slavery Democrat, says :
"That the President of the board of Aldermen, George R. Taylor, Esq., a Virginian by birth, in manner and habits, and the toughest kind of a National Democrat, should deliberately, in cold blood, and with malice prepense, echo the hyperborean utterance of the Mayor, is the most surprising circumstance. Mr. Taylor is a southern gentleman, an eminent citizen, and a man of wealth—facts which it was supposed, clinched him to anti-Bentonism for ever. Judge of the astonishment and anguish of his old friends, then, at seeing him give a hearty response to the sentiments of the Mayor, and declare that Kansas will be a Free State, that Missouri will follow, as her climate and country are not adapted to slave labor!"
"That the President of the board of Aldermen, George R. Taylor, Esq., a Virginian by birth, in manner and habits, and the toughest kind of a National Democrat, should deliberately, in cold blood, and with malice prepense, echo the hyperborean utterance of the Mayor, is the most surprising circumstance. Mr. Taylor is a southern gentleman, an eminent citizen, and a man of wealth—facts which it was supposed, clinched him to anti-Bentonism for ever. Judge of the astonishment and anguish of his old friends, then, at seeing him give a hearty response to the sentiments of the Mayor, and declare that Kansas will be a Free State, that Missouri will follow, as her climate and country are not adapted to slave labor!"
What sub-type of article is it?
Historical Event
Curiosity
What themes does it cover?
Fortune Reversal
Social Manners
What keywords are associated?
Free Soil Principles
Political Endorsement
St Louis Politics
Kansas Free State
Missouri Slavery
Thomas Benton Opposition
What entities or persons were involved?
Mayor Wimer
Geo. R. Taylor
George R. Taylor, Esq.
Where did it happen?
St. Louis
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Key Persons
Mayor Wimer
Geo. R. Taylor
George R. Taylor, Esq.
Location
St. Louis
Story Details
Surprising endorsement by George R. Taylor of Mayor Wimer's Free Soil inaugural address, declaring Kansas and Missouri unfit for slave labor and destined to be free states, despite Taylor's pro-slavery Virginian background.