, 1863-10-03
AN APPEAL, FROM SCHOFIELD
COPPERHEADISM,
ADDRESS
COhIklITTEE FROM THE STaTE
OF MISSOURI


PRESIDENT LINCOLN.
The following is the full text Of the address
If the Missouri Delegation to President Lin
,oln, which was presented on the s0th ult,
by the whole seyenty-three delegates in
person:
MR. PRESIDENT:
On the first day Of the present month OF
September, Mass Convention Of the Radical Il
Union men Of Missouri was held ut Jefferson |
City. It Was the largcst Mass Convention
ever held In that State; men from every quar-
ter Of the State being present; all actuated By /
the spirit Of unconditional and un1ayeripr |
loyalty to the Constitution and the Union;
ali sincerely attached to you as the Chief |
Magistrate Of the Nation aud Ill earnestly
desiring that your Administration should re. |
doupd to the honor of your own name and tho t
good Of our beloved country.
Previous to the assembling of that Conycn- |
majority of the counties Of the State, In al
most every one of which resolutions we're
adopted cordially sustaining your admlniatra- |
tion, and distinctly endorsing those great
features Of your policy-the Proclamation of |
Emancipation, and the employment Of negro
NfAAA4SAA$
II success Of the Government in subdufng the
rebellion largely depends. The Mass Com
vention, likewise, emphatical1y declared Its
approval ct these measures. In marked con-
tIast With the action so taken is the almost
utter silence Of onr opponents, In their meet
ings, in regard to those great measures and to
your Administration. You eau Judge, Mr.
President from these facts who are your
friends in Missouri.
APPOINTMENT OF THE COMMITTEE.
Among the proceedings Of that Mass Con-
yeutiop vas the appointment of COMMITTEES
of one or more from each county
Of the State there represented, to proceed to
the City Of Washington, and eudesyor, by
IeIsonal conference With you, to re@oye e
our opponents hafe long and industriously
sought TO create, and to procure, If possible,
chnnge In the governmental policy in refer
ence to Missouri. In pursuance Of that ap-
poIntment we, whose names are hereto Sub.
Eeribed, seventy. in number, coming from
fifty -seyen counties ofthat State, Containing,
according to the census Of 1850, more than
three foulths Of its entire population,} and
representing all the industrial ayocations Of
life, have journeyed more than one thousand
miles to perform the duty assigned us. some
OF us doirg SO under circumstances Of much
difficulty snd personal danger. We have
brought with rs a unanimous and conading
faith IN your patriotism, generosity and in
teerity, md an nnauestioning belief in your
readiress to do whatever is right In regard to
our State, whenever you are fully advised
| concerning Its affairs.
We represent, as we verify believe, large
| majority Of the people of MISSOURI, and still
| larger majority Of its lawful voters.
| We come from q loyal people. Through
| The fiery trials Of the list thirty months they
huye been Wiling to peril tteir al for the
Unicn Cause; and nultitudes Of them have
| Had Mi h+1f all 1>Y,k 41,uSr
lyes In that cause, or in consequence Of their
known identification with 1t. No accumnla.
| ton of wrong and calamity has bean sufficient
to sTerIe them for moment from their de-
yotion to it and to your Administration. in
every step you hare taken to subdue the re.
bellion. No doubts or cayils have held them
back, no denunciations deferred them from
| rendering an open, courageous, and honesi
support to al your measures toward thai
crest end. For ourselves, and on their be
tending to re-cstabltzh The rightful author
ity OF the nation over every foot Of 1T
HOSTILITY TO SLAVERY.
The Radical Union men of Missouri, recog
uIziug in the institution Of Slavery, the on
sole cause ard the very life OF the rebellion
ana tier i9m91 hs,rs 1h
tetly inconsistent with the safety Of our coun
try. have deliberately planted themselves /,
apcsition Of hostility to it. They deman'
Its immediate remoyal from Missouri, not on
II for her own sake, but as her contribution
for the sake Of the Union, toward Its cntir
They are opposed to its gradual remova1
because at q time when the late Of the couu
try hangs upon the dread abltrament Of
war begun and continued solely for the e2
tension and perpetnatlon Of Slavery, they q
not believe that It has any claim to til
| ehfEfdnY8ffnn nf f,,rhenr.anra nf rim FRI,
friends Of the Union anywhere. They hold th
institution responsible for all the horribl
evils which have afflicted our country fo
neatly three years, they find in 1t the on1
civil wnr in this land; they see that III II
, springs Of sectional discord, past, present, q
future, are in it; they know from bitter e,
pe1ience what wrongs, ontrages, and calau1
, ties 1t is capable Of infi!ctlng; and they cat
! not appreciate, and do not believe In, th:
Tenderness toward it CT those interested
1t, which would pro1ong It's mischseyous e.
istence single day beyond that at which
can be legally destroyed. We rejoice that
l. your Proclamation Of January i, 1863, 80
: laid the mightf hand Of the nation upon ths
gigantic enemy Of American liberty; and r
and our constituents honor you for that wis
and noble act. We and they hold that til,
Proclamation did, in law, by its own fore
liherate every slave In the region 1t covered
that It is ir7eyocable; and that from the nj
:. ment Of its issue the American people stoc
:. in IN imp:egnable position before the worl
= md the rebellion received its death blow.
4 you, 31r. President, felt that duty to yor
country demanded ,hat you should unshack
the slayes Of the rebel States in IN hour, y
See no earthly reason why the people Of a1
|, eouri should not, from the same sense
duty, strike down with equal suddeI
stitution in their midst.
Such, in brief, are the distinguishing trail
Of the portion Of the people Of Missouri, wl
. have come to be called Radicals. They acceI
the lame. in its tr1e- Significance 10 regard
the rebellion and slavery, and desire 10 9th,
till both the rebellion and slavery are exit
pated. ......-.
THE coPPEnuEAD PARTT.
8 We a!c opposed In Missouri By party Whit
holds to Conservatism Us Its tuudauent
s | idea. We desire that you should know ri
I compose It. It comprises every disloyal u:
} | ycr7 was the cnuse of the rebellion; eve
man who desires to uphold slavery; eve
l | nan who e5mpathizes with the rebellion; E
!. cry man whose hands are red with the bio
: Of Union men: every man who opposed t
every man ~ho holds that proclamation rev
:. cable, and that its revocation would return
/. elayefv tb3 negroes It freed; every u1an "
0 opposes the Enlistment Of negroes In our
e | my: every man Who carps at the radical p
t. icy Of your Administration; every man v
e deuounces you and every man who Wou
n enba1rass 5pur efforts to Eavs the Union q
i. the Constitution from the assaults Of slave
With them are associated small body
D. Union men, who were sn from the ontb1e
If Of the rebellion, and larger body OF tut
= who werc then openly dis]oyal, and who b.
D. since become professeair Union men, only
cause they found It dangerous to be a1
~ thing clse, and rho are ut 5cart 10 more
a. trfots now, than when they bitterly aenou
IN ed You for your cs1ly Efforts to array
1t mower Of the nation for the overthrow OF
rebellion.
ut TIE pQGCs EMASCIrATI0N ORDER.
y From party go constituted, no conser
It. tssm could be expected, nor has any been
'ir aIized. hut Of the institution Of slavery {
IT. the interests connected with 1t, as the FUN
ey tIou ot eocIa1 organization, but far more
ns ni1s the basis Of political power. IL Was the
~ preeentatiyes Of TINT party Thc, In the st
20 Convention of Missouri, distegaFded
~ loyal sentiment Of the State, and passed
n ste4d Of liberatipg Missouri ut once from
natIon's greatest enemy, fastened that enc
upon her absolutely for seven years to col
and, in modified form, for n quarter {
century after that. And ne believe that e
that ordinance was passed IN the expectat
by Of its repeal befcre the date fixed fer slay
clio | 10 cease Between such party aud TINT
represent there is, can be, and ought to be
.u concord, bat only antagonism and strife;
~ r. there ought to be forever between those :
~ statd by their country against all enem
~ and those who divide their allegiance hetw
~ thtir country and slavery.
to TIE GAMBLE POLICY.
At Tit has 20 happened that the State Cor,