The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1863-10-01
The Missouri Delegation.

| WASHINGTON, Sept 30.-The Nilsson
delegation called upon President Lincol
to-day by appointment and presented
through their chairman, Mr.. Drake, an &C
dress containing alleged grievances, an
asking for change of military commander
in the Department of Missouri. ~ >. :.
| The President received the address, an
promised to give it careful consideration
and furnish reply as soon as practicable
A free conversational discussion tool
place, continuing several hours. This hav
ing been strictly private interview, no re
porters were present. 7
The address is signed by 70 persons, com
posing the committee, who say that they
have endeavored faithfully to avoid exag
geration and speak simply the truth. Among
other things, they ask the immediate resto
ration of the military to the hands of the
national officers and troops and the entire
discharge of all the enrolled militia of the
State from any further service, at the arbi.
trary will of Gov. Gamble, and further
that in place of Gen. Schofeld a comman.
der be assigned the Department Of Missouri
whose sympathy will be with Missouri and
her loyal and suffering people, and not with
slavery and pro-slavery men. They say
thatG en-. Schotield has disappointed their
just expectations by identifying himself with
their State administration, and that his
policy has been, as they believe, shap.d to
conform to Gov. CANDLES pro-slavery and
views.
The delegation says that from the day Of
Gen. Schoheld's accession to the command
Of the department they have grown worse
and worse in Missouri, till now III ,ir con-
dition is worse Than it has been at any lime
since the outbreak of the rebellion, they
therefore respectfully pray the President to
send another General to command that de-
partmrnt, aad if they do not overstep the
bounds of propriety, they ask that the
Commander sent them be Major Gen. B. F.
Butler; that his presence there would re-
store order and peace in Missouri in less
than sixty days. He would be Received by
the people with rejoicings, aud they would
once more be permitted to feel that loyalty
is to govern Missouri. They entrear the
President to observe that in their Inflated
State, the conflict is between loyalty and
it is impossible that both should
rule there. One or the other must 60 down.
They say that if the President refuses their
REQ uest, they will return to their homes
only t. witness, in consequence of that re-
fusal. more active and relentless prosecu-
ton OF tue UnIon lneD, auu W Ivrf that
while Maryland can rejoice under the pro.
lection of the Government of the Union,
Missouri is still to be the victim of pro-
slavery conservatism which blasts where
ever ir exists.
The address concludes as follows:
We ask only justice AMI protection to our
suffering people of the State to prevent
their suffering hereafter as now and in time
past, and the world will remember that
they are not responsible for the gloomy
page in Missouri's history which may have
to record the Independent efforts of her
harrassed but still loyal men to defend their
families and their homes against their dis
loyal and murde. Gus assasslnators.