Evansville daily journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1863-1866, 1863-10-26

Committee; and must therefore have
been contained in one or the other of the
statements prepared by subcommittee.
regret that the charges contained in
those statements were made, for they
were selected by the President as the
points to be answered, to the almost en-
tire exclusion of those urged by the Del
egation and the Executive Committee.
You will observe that his letter does not
meet the grounds which we presented in
those papers. 1t is, in fact, more re-
markable for what it does not say, than
for what it says 1t is equally remarka-
BILE for an apparent want of appreciation
of the true posture and needs of Missouri
affairs.
We stated to \him that pro-slavery
policy dominated in Missouri, and that
Gen. Scho6eld had made himself party
to that policy; but the President did not
see it, though his hope of support for his
Administration is in those with whom is
the anti-slavery sentiment of the country.
We set forth that General Schofeld
had identified himself with Governor
CANDLES pro-slavery administration; but
the President did not heed his friends on
that point, though he had yielded to the
demands of those who are in reality, and
will ere long show themselves to be, his
opponents, and removed from this De-
partment General Curtis, who would not
identify himself with that administra-
| ton. eis1
We represented that General Schofeld
had shaped his policy to conform to Gov
ernor CANDLES pro-slavery conservative
views; but the President does not reply
to that though General Curtis was dis.
/ placed in consequence of his refusal to
suffer Governor Gamble to shape his
policy. e-iH a.s ~ ssst7fai - 4.
| Wealleged that General Schofeld had
| subordinated Federal authority in Mis-
souri, to State rule; and we gave the evi-
dence of it in his General Order No 80
of August 81, 1863, wherein he, in effect,
admitted the necessity for robtsining Gov
ernor CANDLES permission to enlist men
into the Volunteer service of the United
States out of the Enrolled Missouri Mill
tia--a force of State troops embodied
without authority of law; but the Presi-
dent ignores the point, though one of the
prominent causes of the array of Gov
ernor CANDLES whole power to procure
General Curtis removal, was that Off
GERS decided and proper refusal to recog-
nize that force as one to which he should
commit the protection of Missouri.
We claimed that Missouri was as much
entitled rs any other State to be protect
ed by the National arms, and that Meth
er law, justice, nor equity demanded that
the burden of protecting her should be
thrown upon her people and her treas
ury; but the President thinks our de-
mand very extraordinary, and asks
whence the National forces are to come,
and whether they shall be withdrawn
from Banks, or Grant, or Steele, or Rose
Grams; though there does not appear to
have been any serious difficulty in re-
Gently detaching large body of troops
from the Army of the Potomac, to en-
force the draft in New York, even while
that army faced the greatest army IN the
rebel States. In this connection let it
be said, that there is probably not a
Radical Union man in Missouri, who OBJ
iects to Missourians being employed to
protect their own State The objection
is to their being compelled into service
as a State force, and subjected to the
command of pro-slavery men, and used
for the advancement of a pro-slavery
policy. -,
We asked the President not to allow
the Enrolled Militia to be supported al
the expense of the United States, be
cause it,was odiously ,conscripted into
the service without lawful authority
because its existence is hardship tc
the loyal men of Missouri because 1T
aid in carrying out the measures OF the
Department Commander in some points
against disloyal persons, had been de
MED by Governor CANDLES order ant
because the power in Governol
CANDLES hands of appointing the fielc
officers of that force is used to prescrib'
Radical Union men, and appoint il
their places men of doubtful loyalty, ant
in some instances, men who, in the form
er stages of the rebellion, were violen
secessionists; but the President in hi
letter does not deem these points worth.
of remark. .7nssa
We declared that from the day o
General Schofeld's accession to the com
mand of this Department., matters hav
grown worse and worse in Missouri, til
now they are in more terrible condition
, than they have been at any, time sine
, the outbreak of the rebellion; but thi
, does not seem to have arrested tn
Presidents notice.
And finally, we entreated him to oil
: serve-what our address aoundantl
showed-that in our ill-iatec state tn
conflict is between Boyalty and Disloya
{ ty; that every Radical Union man
] wholly and truly loyal, while the grea
: mass of the Conservatives are, and hav
been from the rise of the rebellion, nt
;, toriously disloyal; but even that dos
j not challenge his attention. SO as to lea
, to a reference to it in his letter.
Thus it is shown that the materi;
points presented by the Delegation an
! Executive Committee were passed b,
T r and the case, apparently decided in re
n erence to matters not urged by either
q The only point in which our missio
II was successful, is that of the order of tt
Ii President to Gen. Schofeld concernir
'e elections in this State; which you wi
N have noticed, with qualification, b;
'e been complied with, by the issue of Ge
to 'eral Order No. 120 1t is only justi'
$. to General Schofeld to say, tnat he j
a, sued that order after a conference wi
ID a committee of Radical Union men,
r the course of which he manifested eve
III disposition to do everything inihis legi
o mate power to secure fair electio
e. Readily adopting suggestion fro
! s. them, and afterwards adding an addRio
Is al safeguard, which had not occurred
SO them. This result of itself, compensat
rs for the visit of onr Delegation to t
su suu President .H e-a
a A Radical Union men of Missouri, {
-. case is before you You have done 20
m. duty in the premises, and though y
,lr have not gained all that yeu hoped, the
Of is no occasion to despond. Your can
y is just, in the sight of Heaven and
re men, and must be upheld. Great prin
.es pies ike ours never die ALI that
as. needed to vindicate and spread them,
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