ST. LOUIS — On Monday, 161 years after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II, D-Kansas City, encouraged Americans to be better stewards by letting go of too much “stuff.” “On this Emancipation Day, we need to emancipate ourselves from stuff and also from overvaluing who we are and judging others,” Cleaver told about 125 people gathered to commemorate the anniversary of the famous executive order at Greater Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church, 1617 North Euclid Avenue. The Rev. Earl Nance Jr., pastor of Greater Mount Carmel, introduced C…