Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1863-10-01
Night Report
From Warrington.

WASHINGTON. September 80 The Missouri
delegation called upon President Lincoln 10 day
BY appointment and presented through their chair
MN. Mr.. Drake. address containing alleged
grievances and asking for change of military
commandant in the DeIarimen of Missouri
The President received the address and prom
ised % give IL A careful consideration and furnish
a reply a practicable
free conversational discussion took place,
continuing several hours This having been a
strictly private interview. reporters of the
press present
The address is signed bv 20 pers ms. composing
the committee. who say they have endeavored
carefully to avoid exaggeration and speak the
truth.
Among other things they ask the immediate
restoration of the military control Of Missouri
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
trarv will of Gov G. mb!e; and further, in place
Of Gen Schoheli commander be assigned "a
the Department Of Missouri whose sympathies
will be with MisSours loyal and suffering people
and not with slavery and pro slavery men. They
say that Gen Scboheld has disappointed their
Just expectations by identifying himself with their
State administration. and that his policy has
been, ~ they believe. shaped TO conform with
Governor Candles pro slavery and conservative
views
The delegation SAYS that from the day of Gen
Schnheld's ACCESSION TO the command of the de
partment matters nave grown wOr-s and worse
in Missouri I'll! nov they are in a more terrible
condition than they have been AZ any time since
the outbreak OF the rebellion They therefore
respectfully pray the President 10 send another
General 10 command that department, and il
they do not overstep the bounds Of propriety. ask
that the commander sent there be Major General
amin Rufip fh.f
presence there would return order and peace in
Missouri in less than sixty DAYS. He would be
received by their people with rejoicing. and they
would once more be permitted TO feel that 10 atty
is 10 govern Missouri.
Thev entreat the President TO observe that in
their i'll fated State the conflict j. between loyalty
and disloyalty. Ii is impossible that both should
rule there--One or the other must 90 down. They
say that if the President refuses their request
thew return to their homes only TO witness, in
consequence OF that refusal, a more active and
relentless persecution of Union men. and to feel
that while MARYLAND can rejoice in the protection
of the Union, Missouri is still 10 he the victim Of
pro-slayery conservatism, which blasts wherever
it reigns. The address concludes as follows:
We ask only justice and protection to our sui
fering people Ii they are to suffer here fter AS
now and in the past. the world will remember
that they are not responsible for the gloomy page
of Missouri's history which may have to record
the independent efforts of her harrassed but still
loyal men 10 defend themselves, their famlie,
and their homes against their disloyal and muir
derOus assassns.
At a late meeting of the supreme body Of the
Union League of the United States. set ci
highly important resolutions we're passed
amounting. in fact. 10 political platform. Il
the course of few days. they will be made
public.