Saint Louis, MO

"Show Me"

Thanks to the Thompson Coburn LLP law firm, a Green Bay Packers road game in St. Louis unexpectedly made the bucket list.

Inside the Edward Jones Dome

Go Pack Go!

Packers fans migrated to St. Louis in huge numbers; probably filled 1/3 of the Edward Jones Dome for the game.  After the game, the Laclede's Landing area turned into a Packers fan street party.

Stayed Saturday and Sunday night at the downtown Omni Majestic Hotel.  Easy walking distance to everything downtown St Louis.

Yep; St. Louis is the place with the Gateway Arch.

It's big; the arrow points to people at the base.

  

A glimpse of the Arch between some buildings in the Laclede's Landing area. 

It was a scenic autumn day to be walking around the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.

St Louis' Old Courthouse. 

Construction first began in 1839.

The Old Courthouse was where the first two trials of the Dred Scott case were held in 1847 and 1850.

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A history refresher:

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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2933.html

In March of 1857, the United States Supreme Court, led by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, declared that all blacks -- slaves as well as free -- were not and could never become citizens of the United States. The court also declared the 1820 Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, thus permitting slavery in all of the country's territories.

The case before the court was that of Dred Scott v. Sanford. Dred Scott, a slave who had lived in the free state of Illinois and the free territory of Wisconsin before moving back to the slave state of Missouri, had appealed to the Supreme Court in hopes of being granted his freedom.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2934.html

On June 16, 1858, at the Illinois Republican convention in Springfield, Abraham Lincoln kicked off his bid for the U.S. Senate with a speech that would come to be known as the "House Divided" speech.

Lincoln believed that the recent Supreme Court decision on the Dred Scott case was part of a Democratic conspiracy that would lead to the legalization of slavery in all states. Referring to the court's decision which permitted Dred Scott to live in a free state and yet remain a slave, he said, "what Dred's Scott's master might lawfully do with Dred Scott, in the free state of Illinois, every other master may lawfully do with any other one, or one thousand slaves, in Illinois, or in any other free state."

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."

Although the Emancipation Proclamation did not end slavery in the nation, it captured the hearts and imagination of millions of Americans and fundamentally transformed the character of the war. After January 1, 1863, every advance of federal troops expanded the domain of freedom. Moreover, the Proclamation announced the acceptance of black men into the Union Army and Navy, enabling the liberated to become liberators. By the end of the war, almost 200,000 black soldiers and sailors had fought for the Union and freedom.

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"Citygarden"

Located at 8th and Market Street

The bunnies await your visit to St. Louis

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