Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-10-01
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WAsHIHGToN, Sept. 80.
The Missouri delegation called upon President
Lincoln to-day by appointment, and presented
through their chairman, Mr.. Drake, an address
containing an alleged grievance, and asking for =
enange OF military commanders IN the D=pass-
ment OF Missouri. The President received the
ADDRESS and promised to give it a careful cOnsid-
BILE.
A free conversational discussion took place.
continuing several hours. This having been a
strictly private interview, no reporters Of the
press were present. The address is signed by
seventy persons, composing the COMMITTEES, who
say that they have en0eayOred carefully 70 avoid
exaggeratlon, and speak simple truth. Among
other things, they ask the immediate Iestors-
tlon OF the military control OF Missouri to the
nands OF the National officers and troops, and
the entire discharge of all the enrolled militia of
the state from any further service at the arbitrary
Will of Governor Gamble and further, that in
place OF Gen; sehoheld, smother commander be
assigned 10 the Department Of Missouri, whose
sympathles will be with MissOurIs loyal and suf-
terng people, and not with slavery and pro-
slavery.
They say that General Schofeld has disap-
pointed their just expectations by Identifying
himself with their etate Administration, and
that his policy has been as they believe shaped
70 conform to Governor Gamble pro-SlaVery and
Conservative views.
The delegation says that from the day Of Cen
eral SehOheld's accession to the command Of
the Department matters have grown worse and
worse IN Missouri till now, and they are in a
more terrible condition than they have been at
any time since the outbreak Of the rebellion
They therefore respectfully pray the President
to send another General to command that De-
psrtment, and if they do not overstep the
bounds Of proprety, ask that the commander
sent there be Major General Benjamin F. Butler
They believe thathIs presence there would re-
store order and peace tn Missouri in less than
sixty days He would be received by their peo-
pie with rejoicing, and they would once more be
permitted to feel that loyalty is to govern Mis-
souri,. They entreat the President to observe
that in their Inflated State the conflict Is be-
tween loyalty and disloyalty. 1t is improbable
that both should rule there. One or the other
must go down.
They say that if the President refuses their
request they return to their homes only to wit
ness, in consequence Of that refusal, more &C
tive and relentless persecution of Union men,
and to feel that, while Maryland can rejoice in
the protection of the Government Of the Union,
Missouri is still 70 he the victim of pro-slaYery
which is blasting wherever Il
reigns.
The address concludes as follows: " We ask
Only justice and protection to our suffering peo-
pie If they are to suffer hereafter as now, and
n time past, the world will remember that they
are not responsible for the gloomy page in Mis-
'ouris history which may have to record the
efforts of her harrassed but still
oyal men to defend themselves, their fami-
les and their homes against their disloyal and
nurderOus assassIns.