William Parrish in Turbulent Partnership pp 12-13 says George Y. Bast of Montgomery County was the only vote against the Gamble Committee's "most important" resolution: "At present there is no adequate cause to impel Missouri to dissolve her connections with the Federal Union, but on the contrary she will labor for such an adjustment of existing troubles as will gain the peace, as well as the rights and equality of all the states." Parrish doesn't mention how many aye votes there were.

He also notes that 23 members supported and 70 members opposed Bast's amendment to take a firm stand in favor of the slave states if the North declined a settlement on the basis of the Crittenden Compromise and that many of the 23 later "went South."

These early votes came before the Camp Jackson affair.

Tom Jones