Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1863-10-01
Last Nights Report.
The Missouri Delegation and the
| President.


WAsuISOToH, September 30.-The Mis-
souria delegation called upon Presiden'
Lincoln TO day, by appointment, and pre-
scented through their chairman, Mr.. Drake
an address containing alledged grievances
and asking for a change OF military com
mAnders in the department of of Missouri.
The President received the address and
promised to give it a careful consideration
and furnish a reply as soon as practicable.
A free conversational discussion took
place, continuing several hours. Having
been strictly private interview, no re-
Porters of papers were present.
The address is signed by seventy per
sons composing ;he committee, who cay
that they have endeAvored to avoid exag-
GRAFTON and speak simply the truth.
Among other things they ask the imme-
diute restoration 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 SER
vice at the arbitrary will of Gov. Gamble,
ami further that ia place of Gen. Schohsld,
IL commander be assigned the department.
OF Missouri whose sympathy will be with
MissOurians and her loyal suffering people
and not with slavery aud pro- slavery men.
They say that Gen. SchOfeld has disaP.
pointed their just expectations By identi-
fying himself with their State administra.
ton, and that his policy has been, as they
believe, shaped to conform to Gov. Gam
ble's pro slavery and conservative views.
The delegation says that from the day of
Gen. SChciield's accession to the command
ofthe department, they have grown worse
and worse IN Missouri, till now the cOndi-
ton is worse that they have been at any
time since the outbreak of the rebellion
They therefore respectfully pray the Pres
iden, TO send another General to command
that department, it they do not Overstep
the bounds of ProPriety, ask that the Com
mauder sent them be Maj. Gen B.F. Butler;
that his presence there won d restore or
der and peace in Missouri in less than 60
days. He would be received by the people
with rGjOicings, and they would once more
be permitted to feel that loyalty is to gov
ern Missouri.
They entreat the President to observe
that in their i'll thted State the conflict is
between loyalty and disloyaIy. 1t is i'm
possible that both should rule there; one
or the other must go down. They say that
tthe President refuses their request they
return to their homes only to witness in
consequence OF that refusal, n more active
and relentless persecution of Union men,
and to feel that whilst Maryland can re-
jOice under the protection of the govern
ment of the Union, Missouri is still to he
the victim OF a pro. slavery conservatism,
which blasts wherever il remains. The ad.
dress concludes As follows:
We ask only justice aud protection to
our suffering people OF the State; not to
suffer hereafter as now and in time past
The world will remember that they are not
responsible for the gloomy page in Nissou-
ris 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 dislOyal and
murderOEs AssAssIus.