Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-01
The VERY LATEST
TELEGR APH.
The Missouri Delegation Meets the
President---The Burden of their
Prayer.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30-The Missouri
Delegation called upon President Lin
coin to-day by appointment, and pre-
sented, through their chairman, Mr.
Drake, an address, containing alleged
grievances, and asking for change of mill
tary command in the Department of Mis-
souri,. The President received the ad-
dress and promised to give it careful
consideration, and furnish reply as
soon as practicable.
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 was signed by 70 persons
composing the committee, who say they
have carefully avoided exaggeration and
speak simple truth.
Among other things they ask the i'm.
mediate return of the military control of
Missouri to the hands of the national
officers and troops, and the entire dis
charge of the enrolled militia of the
State from any further service at the ar
bitrary will of Gov Gamble; and further,
that in place of Gen. Schofeld, a com
mander be assigned the Department of
Missouri, whose sympathies will be with
the Missouri's loyal and suffering peo-
pie, and not with slavery and pro-slavery
men. They say that Gen. Schofeld has
disappointed their just expectations by
identifying themselves with their State
Administration, and his policy has been
as they believe, shaped to conform to
Gov. CANDLES pro-slavery and conserva-
tive views. The delegation says that
from the day of Gen. Schofelds Access
sion to the command of the Department
matters have grown worse and worse in
Missouri, till now, they are in a more
terrible condition than they have been at
any time since the outbreak of the re-
bellion.
They therefore, respectfully pray the
President to send another General to
command that department, and if they
do not overstep their bounds of proprie-
ty, ask that the commander sent them
be Maj. Gen. Benz F. Butler. They be-
lieve that his presence there would re-
store order and peace in Missouri in less
than 60 days
He would be received by the people
with rejoicing, and they would once more
be permitted to feel that loyalty is to
govern in Missouri.
That in their Inflated State the conflict
is between loyalty and disloyalty. That
both should rule is impossible. Then,
one or the other must go down.
They say that if the President refuses
their request, they can return to their
homes only to witness, in consequence of
that refusal, more active, relentless
persecution of Union men, and to feel
that while Maryland can rejoice in the
protection of the government to the
Union, that Missouri is still to be the vic
tim to a pro-slavery conservatism that
blasts wherever it reigns The address
concludes as follows:
We ask only justice and protection to
our suffering people If they are to suf-
fer hereafter as now and in time past,
the world will remember that they are not
responsible for the gloomy page in Mis-
souri's history that may have to record
the Independent efforts of her harrassed
but still loyal men to defend themselves,
their families and their homes against
their disloyal and murderous assassins