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NEWTON COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM Inside Back Cover State Historical Society of Missouri Gerald T Plistoricgtl Review The State Historical Society of Missouri COLUMBIA, MISSOURI BOARD OF EDITORS LAWRENCE 0. CHRISTENSEN SUSAN M. HARTMANN University of Missouri-Rolla Ohio State University, Columbus WILLIAM E. FOLEY ALAN R. HAVIC Central Missouri State University, Stephens College, Warrensburg Columbia JEAN TYREE HAMILTON DAVID D. MARCH Marshall Kirksville ARVARH E. STRICKLAND University of Missouri-Columbia COVER DESCRIPTION: George Caleb Bingham com­ pleted Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap in the spring of 1851. Prior to late October, 1852, Bingham had repainted it from the original sunlit to a dark, mysterious, even brooding, picture. Bingham portrayed Boone as the calm, reso­ lute frontiersman leading a band of emigrants on a dangerous undertaking into the unknown wilder­ ness. This picture was Bingham's most successful as a painter of historical events. It did not, however, show the likeness of Daniel Boone. Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap, 1851-1852; oil on canvass; 36V2 x 5014 in. (92.7 x 127.6 cm). Washington University, Gallery of Art. For a study of the only painting of Boone made while he lived see: "The Authentic Image of Daniel Boone." MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW Published Quarterly by THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI COLUMBIA, MISSOURI JAMES W. GOODRICH EDITOR MARY K. DAINS ASSOCIATE EDITOR R. DOUGLAS HURT ASSOCIATE EDITOR LEONA S. MORRIS RESEARCH ASSISTANT Copyright © 1988 by the State Historical Society of Missouri 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, Missouri 65201 The Missouri Historical Review (ISSN 0026-6582) is owned by The State Historical Society of Missouri and is published quarterly at 10 South Hitt, Columbia, Missouri 65201. Send communications, business and editorial correspondence and change of address to the State Historical Society of Missouri, 1020 Lowry Street, Columbia, MO 65201. Second class postage is paid at Columbia, Missouri. SOCIETY HOURS: The Society is open to the public from 8:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., Monday through Friday, and Saturday from 9:00 A.M. to 4:30 P.M., except legal holidays. Holiday Schedule: The Society will be closed Saturday VOLUME LXXXII during the Memorial Day, Labor Day and Thanksgiving weekends; and Saturday, December 24, 1988 and December NUMBER 2 31,1988. On the day of the annual meeting, October 22, 1988, the JANUARY, 1988 Society will be closed for research. THE STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MISSOURI The State Historical Society of Missouri, heretofore organized under the laws of the State, shall be the trustee of this State—Laws of Missouri, 1899, R.S. of Mo., 1969, chapter 183, as revised 1978. OFFICERS 1986-1989 JOSEPH WEBBER, St. Louis, President AVIS TUCKER, Warrensburg, First Vice President SHERIDAN A. LOGAN, St. Joseph, Second Vice President VIRGINIA YOUNG, Columbia, Third Vice President NOBLE E. CUNNINGHAM, Columbia, Fourth Vice President R. KENNETH ELLIOTT, Kansas City, Fifth Vice President ROBERT G.J. HOESTER, Kirkwood, Sixth Vice President ALBERT M. PRICE, Columbia, Treasurer JAMES W. GOODRICH, Columbia, Executive Director, Secretary and Librarian TRUSTEES Permanent Trustees, Former Presidents of the Society LEWIS E. ATHERTON, Columbia ELMER ELLIS, Columbia WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington RUSH H. LIMBAUGH, Cape Girardeau FRANCIS M. BARNES III, Kirkwood LEO J. ROZIER, Perryville WILLIAM R. DENSLOW, Trenton Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1988 JAMES W. BROWN, Harrisonville BOB PRIDDY, Jefferson City ILUS W. DAVIS, Kansas City DALE REESMAN, Boonville JOHN K. HULSTON, Springfield ARVARH E. STRICKLAND^ Columbia JAMES C. OLSON, Kansas City BLANCHE M. TOUHILL, St. Louis Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1989 MRS. SAMUEL A. BURK, Kirksville DOYLE PATTERSON, Kansas City VICTOR A. GIERKE, Louisiana STUART SYMINGTON, JR., St. Louis JEAN TYREE HAMILTON, Marshall ROBERT WOLPERS, Poplar Bluff W. ROGERS HEWITT, Shelbyville DALTON C. WRIGHT, Lebanon Term Expires at Annual Meeting, 1990 H. RILEY BOCK, Portageville GEORGE MCCUE, St. Louis ROBERT S. DALE, Carthage ROBERT C. SMITH, Columbia FREDERICK W. LEHMANN IV, WALLACE B. SMITH, Independence Webster Groves ROBERT M. WHITE, Mexico BOARD OF TRUSTEES The Board of Trustees consists of one Trustee from each Congressional District of the State and fourteen Trustees elected at large. In addition to the elected Trustees, the President of the Society, the Vice Presidents of the Society, all former Presidents of the Society, and the ex officio members of the Society constitute the Board of Trustees. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Six Trustees elected by the Board of Trustees together with the President of the Society constitute the Executive Committee. The Executive Director of the Society serves as an ex officio member. WILLIAM AULL III, Lexington, Chairman JEAN TYREE HAMILTON, Marshall FRANCIS M. BARNES III, Kirkwood ROBERT C. SMITH, Columbia ELMER ELLIS, Columbia JOSEPH WEBBER, St. Louis EDITORIAL POLICY The editors of the Missouri Historical Review welcome submission of articles and documents relat­ ing to the history of Missouri. Any aspect of Mis­ souri history will be considered for publication in the Review. Genealogical studies, however, are not accepted because of limited appeal to general readers. Manuscripts pertaining to all fields of American history will be considered if the subject matter has significant relevance to the history of Missouri or the West. Authors should submit two double-spaced copies of their manuscripts. The footnotes, prepared ac­ cording to The Chicago Manual of Style, also should be double-spaced and placed at the end of the text. Authors may submit manuscripts on PC/DOS, 360K floppy disk. The disk must be IBM compatible, pre­ ferably a Displaywrite 3 or 4 program. Otherwise, it must be in ASCII format. Two hard copies still are required, and the print must be letter or near-letter quality. Dot matrix submissions will not be accepted. Originality of subject, general interest of the article, sources used, interpretation and style are criteria for acceptance and publication. Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words. Articles that are accepted for publication become the property of The State Historical Society of Missouri and may not be pub­ lished elsewhere without permission. The Society does not accept responsibility for statements of fact or opinion made by the authors. Articles published in the Review are abstracted and indexed in Historical Abstracts, America: His­ tory and Life, Recently Published Articles, Writings on American History, The Western Historical Quar­ terly and The Journal of American History. Manuscripts submitted for the Review should be addressed to: Dr. James W. Goodrich, Editor Missouri Historical Review The State Historical Society of Missouri 1020 Lowry Street Columbia, Missouri 65201 CONTENTS NAUGHT FOR YOUR COMFORT: AN ANTIDOTE TO BICENTENNIAL EUPHORIA. By Gerald T. Dunne 147 THE AUTHENTIC IMAGE OF DANIEL BOONE. By Clifford Amyx 153 ANDREW TAU: MISSOURI PHOTOGRAPHER. By Susan Yeshilada 165 ANTEBELLUM MISSOURI IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. By William E. Foley 179 HISTORICAL NOTES AND COMMENTS Society Holds Annual Meeting 191 News in Brief 198 Local Historical Societies 201 Gifts 215 Missouri History in Newspapers 220 Missouri History in Magazines 229 In Memoriam 238 BOOK REVIEWS 239 BOOK NOTES 245 NEWTON COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM Inside Back Cover State Historical Society of Missouri Gerald T. Dunne, McDonnell Professor of Justice in American Society at St. Louis University, presented the luncheon address at the annual meeting of the State Historical Society of Missouri. Naught for Your Comfort: An Antidote to Bicentennial Euphoria BY GERALD T. DUNNE* We have Professor Parkinson's word for it that the ex­ ternals of a system are never more impressive than when the historical curtain is about to fall.1 Thus, he cites both St. Peter's in Rome, whose construction coincided with the Prot­ estant Reformation, and the palace of Versailles, completed just in time for the French Revolution. His admonition carries a certain apprehension that the hype and hoopla of the constitution bicentennial should not be a circumstance of smugness and self-congratulation but an occasion for a real­ istic appraisal for the perils that beset the republic. Let me take as my text a quotation from G.K. Chester­ ton's Ballad of the White Horse: Gerald T. Dunne, McDonnell Professor of Justice in American Society at St. Louis University, is a prolific scholar of American legal history. He is the author of Monetary Decisions of the Supreme Court, Justice Joseph Story, Hugo Black and Grenville Clark: Public Citizen. 1 C. Northcoat Parkinson, Parkinson's Law (London: Burns, Oats & Washburn, 1957), 61-63. 147 148 Missouri Historical Review 1 bring you naught for your comfort Yea, naught for your desire Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.2 It is a nicely fitting epigraph, for today I would seek to counteract the recent orgy of self-congratulation by probing our constitutional faults with a view of suggesting three disquieting areas of concern. Let me proceed in the role of devil's advocate which, as has been well said, is not an instrument of the powers of darkness, but an instrumentality of truth. The first two areas are general; the third is specific. Generally, it should be a source of apprehension that the two foundational principles of the framers have virtually vanished in the two centuries of experience. Surely, the fore­ most axiom of constitutional organization is the proposition that a union of executive, legislative and judicial
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