New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1863-10-07
THE MILITARY POWEB In MIS-
SOURI,.

the Missouri delegation to President Lincoln,
which We print this morning, sheds much
needed light upon the serious difficulties exist
inc in that State The root OF those ditiicutie,
is in ths-that the military arm Of the State
executing a small force under the exclusive
command of the Commanding General OF the
Department, is controlled by the Executive OF
the State, although supported by the United
States. Thus q power is given to Gov Gamble
where the embers of Rebellion are still burning,
and threatening at any moment to burst
into widespread confagration, which Is
accorded to the Governor of no loyal
State in the Union. The United States
keeps on foot, and ready for active service III
Missouri, a force over which it has no control,
and which, in the hands Of disloyal Governor,
or one weak enough TO be coerced or persuaded
to assume an actively hostile or even passive
attitude might be used against the Govern
ment and place Missouri. for a time, at least.
on the side Of the rebellion. The delegation
which has recently visited the President, appre-
bends this possible, and, as they believe, prob
able danger, and they seek to avert it. They
think il probable, because they know tina,
Gov. Gamble is not in sympathy with, and does
not mean to carry out the policy of the Admin
stration, either in regard to Slavery or in regard
to Rebels, and in proof Of this they cite, frst,
his repeated declarations, and point, next, TO
his acts. To these acts is due the present de-
plorable condition of the State. The laws OF
Congress in relation to slaves fugitive from Reb-
el masters have been, and are still. systemati-
: cally violated, and frequently by the direct or
J. ders Of Gov CANDLES officers men known "a
" have served in the Rebel ranks return with i'm
: punity to their old homes, virtually under the
u protection of the Enrolled Militia, who never
modest them; and it is these men who, with the
dsloyal people Of the State, in organized gucr.
rilla bands, harass the loyasts, lay waste their
. farms, burn their houses, murder them by
, the wayside, or drive them aud then
families out Of the State. II was only from a
population thus given over to anarchy and mis-
rule that Quantrell could gather together the
band OF " bushwhackers" that sacked and de-
stroyed Lawrence. And Government inhex
IDLY determined TO crush these oiishoots Of re-
/, belion, and above all suspicion either Of i'm
c becility or disloyalty, alone can prevent Other
disasters as cruel as that, and restore order and
safety to people paying, at this moment a
sevcrer penalty for therdeyotion 10 the Govern
ment than even they are called upon TO suffer
who live in openly disloyal States
: There would be no question certainly Of the
impro. 'riety Of keeping a military force under
arms, and supported by the Government Of the
United States, but subject only TO the orders Of
its Governor, even in loyal and perfectly
peaceable State. None but those who meant to
rise in open revolt would tolerate such a condi-
ton Of things in New-York, for instance, with
out the lOudest Outcry. But in State like
Missouri, given up already to rapine throughout
a large portion of its territory, such policy is
suicidal and cruel in the extreme. II it were
ever wise TO attempt it, the results which have
attended Gov. Candles use or misuse, which
ever it may be, Of the power thus left
in his hands, are enough to show
that it should be left there no longer. Nor
does such conclusion necessarily involve the
question Of Gov. CANDLES loyalty. However
sincere he may be in his abstract devotion TO the
Union, he is also true, by his own acknowledge
ment, to the interests Of the shareholders OF
Missouri and the policy be therefore adopts mill
tates necessarily and inevitably with his duty
to suppress lawlessness and rebellion in that
State. He cannot protect slaveholding Rebels,
and Rebels generally, and, at the
same time, enforce the laws Of the Union.
His attempt TO do 30 Is only a
continual failure, leading, every day, more and
more rapidly TO revolution and anarchy. The
men to whom he intrusts his power, whether 1t
be Gen. SchoGeld, or officers of his own creating,
meet with no better success, whether they mean
it or not, than he. The Government, in intrust-
ing him with such large powers, are only putting
into bis hands weapon for the destruction Of
its own authority and power
OF the character Of this Missouri Delegation
We have already spoken in former article. II
is an outrage upon humanity and common sense
to assume that men who arc facing such perls
as they are, and who seek redress for wrongs
they suffer because oftheir devotion TO the Union,
arc partisans. They plead for the lives of their
wives and children and for their own, and they
seek through tue restoration Of law and order TO