Weekly national intelligencer., 1863-10-01
THE TROUBLES IN MISSOURI.


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1t is known to our readers that portion Of the
people of Missouri have organized themselves into
political faction hostile to the present Admins
tration, under the name and style Of the Radi
cal Emancipation party, 1t is composed Of anti
slavery zealots, German red republicans, and po-
litical agitators, embracing under one head or an
other, considerable number, though doubtless q
minority of the people of this distracted State. II
has recently placed in nomination q ticket for
Judges of the Supreme Court, consisting OF Henry
A. Clover, Arnold Krekel, and David Wagner
The candidates for the same office supported by the
conservative Union men are Messrs. Barton Bates,
W. Q. N. Bay, and John D. s. Dryden-the first
named being son Of Mr.. Attorney General Bates.
It's painful to mark the Language. of political
Misrepresentation which these "Radical Emanci-
pationsts" habitualy hold towards their loyal op-
ponents and towards the President of the United
States. They manifest in their political speech as
little respect for dncenoy for truth, and offer in
their organs fair illustration of that malignity
which seems to constitute the chief claim of poll
tica emancipationiss to the rank and title Of phi
lsnthropists
The st. Louis /" Democrat" is received expo
nent of this anti-slavery fanatioism run to seed,
and its columns daily betray the faotious hostility
Of its editors to the loyal who do not share its
radical ideas, and to the present Administration,
which refuses to lend itself to the furtherance of
the revolutionary purposes foreshadowed or bold
ly espoused by the " Radical Emancipationists" Of
Missouri If we would Judge Of the direction which
this journal seeks to impress on the pending
for the election of State Judges, we have but to
mark such key notes as the following. We quote
from the Democrat of the 22d instant:
Messrs. Clover, Krekel, and Wagner compose the
Union ticket Messrs Dryden Bates, and Bay compose
the Copperhead ticket We mean exactly what say.
There but two parties in Missouri to-day as every
intelligent man knows-the Union and the Disunion
parties"
The "Radical Emancipationists," composed of
men who are equally hostile to the civil govern.
men, of Missouri, to the Federal military COM
mander of the department of Missouri, and to
President Lincoln, are thus characterized by this
sheet the only "Union party in the State. Their
opponents, consisting of men who sustain Governor
Gamble, Gen. Schofeld, and the President of the
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as "Disunionists." This is the complexion to
which ant-slavery propagandsm in Missouri has
finally brought its patrons and adherents. De-
nouucing their loyal and law-abiding neighbors as
Disunionists," they factiously resist the Federal
military commander in their district, and revile the
President, from whom he holds his command
Indeed, they make the President an especial object
of assault, and we find their chief organ, the ST.
Louis Democrat, speaking of the National Admin
istradon "stubbornly planting itself in the path
of REFORM and again saying that the opera
tions Of "prowling robbers" and "assassins" are
"invited and protected by the policy Of the Go
verument in Missouri" And, as if this were not
enough, they represent "Mr Lincoln himself as
being violently against reform and freedom
as Mr. Vallandigham, and as guilty Of the massa-
ere at Lawrence as Quantrill." Such is the sup
port which these Radical Emancipationists' of
Missouri give to the Administration. And it is Of
men thus arrayed in active hostility against the
President and his military policy that the New
York Tribune speaks as follows:
whoever supposed that the cause Of immediate
emancipation in Missouri was abandoned when the Con-
venon finally passed its fagtious ordnance which
really for the pepetuaon and not the extinction of slave
ry underraed the courage and devoton of the Radical
party that State Against all obstacles and discourage
the struggle for freedom s resoutey maintained
The State to be saved both by faith and works. by
swerving fidelity 10 the principles of universal liberty
which underlie this conflict, and by unremtng efforts
politics. in military affairs, in social life, to estabh their
ascendency We regard the the Radical party
Missouri indissolubly blended with the interests of
the State it's freedom, and its adherence 10 the Union
aud watch it's progress with scarcely less socitude
than have felt for the heroic Uni0niss of East Ten
nessee. ,-.#.@ i Il. ,as
There really but two parties in Mssourthe Cop
perhe.ds and the Radicals The former divided into
sections-open dsloyass and conservatives; but the
ton of The party is 30 wholly controlled by traitors and Is
wholly directed in the interest of the rebellion that the
conservatives practically identified with their allies
The peculiarity Of the that they maintain
equally close with the representatives Of Govern
which they really opposed to- and whose gen.
era policy they have for moment given their ad
heson They oppose the proclamation Of emancipation,
the coD6scaton act the conscrpton act and the
establishment OF its military authority within the State
yet they enjoy its patronage control It's Offices and have
fully succeeded In creating feeling Of antagonism be-
tween the Administration and the only party in the State
which unequivocally supports its And il s to
the adoption Of their policy that Missouri most Of
her misortnes for the last two years and her present de-
| plorabe condition" saEe.
| The New York Times writes Of these feuds in
Missouri under better inspirations. 1t deplores
the spirit Of faction which, in blind and fatuous
zeal against slavery, leads these Radical Emanci-
pationists to embarrass and dcnounce the Govern.