Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1863-10-15
THE MISSOURI TROUBLES.

1t having been represented 10 Msor General FRAEcIs
p BLAIR that In the present excited condition Of public
aar 40 Missouri might be Of Importance that he
should make address to hs I'D friends and associates
in ST. Louis pointing out to them the dangers which APP
pear threaten the public tranquility In that quarter, he
appeared before the people in st Louis the evening of
the Goth ultmo and delivered earnest speech the
dsseuons In Missouri which engage the attention Of the
whole country la respect for the influential position
long held by this distinguished Republican leader in Mis-
souri, who has recently added To his civil titles such hard
won and justly -earned distinction soldier extract
from remarks much Ay clearly "a Indicate
his opinion a, to the temper aud purposes Of the political
Of Missouri aud against the military author-
~ OF the United States ia that district represented
by the Presidents chosen commander, Major Genera
Soho6eld.
EXTRACTS PROM GENERAL BLAIRs SPEECH.
1t is needless my fesdsl have not the time, have
Won the patienee-that should follow out thrse
they have Disclosed the mseses Ii 10 apparent, 10
tho most casual observer that while they 10 them
selves the entire patriotism OF the State Of Missouri they
ara making war upon the National Administration and the
Administration which exists in this State and which has
difficulties enough contend with IL may have discharged
the leo and Of the state there
is but one way which true and loyal American citizen
one who knows any thing OF the workings Of State
and National Goyernments-can oppose IT, II i Is dis
loyai as these men sometimes claim; il Gov Gamble
gone of his way and his friends have out OF their
way to place him in the gubernatora chairand hs has
state whs denounc- him in the very language which these
Jacobn borrowed from their secesson brethren yet
STILL he has attempted in however feeble aud imperfect
manner carry the Government instead OF attempt
ING to destroy this in illegal aud uncoDsti
tutiona MANNER it ought to have been and is the duty Of
every loyal have offered hun assistance and the
ia discovered the weakness and Ter benrs
the Administration. But instead of that every possible
obstruction has been thrown in the way 81 Gov Gamble
believe it pretty Well underlto TODD that did not agree
with Gov Gamble in political opinion and yet did not
hesitate when he appointed Governor OF this State,
nor have hetated up this hour TO give him the sup
port he deserves tho leg and constitutional Governor
Of the State and propose TO continue to do 40, IN def
Of all oPposon from whatever quarter II may come
Great applause
ments that he has done Mis- that and the other that is
wrong and improper that argument for breaking
down his Government ia illegal and unconstitutional
manner IT. my friends the Government Of the State
be displaced at the will Of set OF pollclans, otherwise
than by The of law shall sacrifice our republican
institutions and down uto sort of Mexican republic,
where presidents Judges &c made by pronunciamien
The people Of this State not prepared t. degrade
theme elves this standard OF gov ,rumrnt We are
people who desire that there shall be stability dignity and
responsibility in our Government We are OF q race Of
people Who fight it rather than submit All these
who entering upon this career OF rebellion all these
make our great contest for our national exist
ence degenera revolution like that which afflicted
France IN the last century, these who are following ia
the footsteps of the Jacobus Of the French ion
who demanding the gui otine-who constitute them
selves Judges witnesses and execuOneTs alike tell them
to be,oarei They will not fnd submissive people They
will find GrUndiss of different samp-a Robespierfe
will never live [Cheers Their Robesperres and Dan
tons viii never 1--we to the authority which they
cavet IMMEDIATE people who differ from them in opin
ions But they will fluid themselves travelling the road to
the galows There is other way to deal with such
people 1t idle to d this question with men
stituted these Why, was related to me by
gentle whom know thoroughly reliable, that he
held conversation the other day with who belongs
now to this Jacobn faction that once knew TO be of
the temperate AMI men in this State
but that had become 80 imbued with this sprt-ths
jacobnical revolutionary sprt,hat he declared to
this gnteman that the opposers OF the Radicals in this
State must go out of the Satethat they could not live
III the State ogethe He said also that he did not care
much about the nagro-the fact Is he wanted to get
rid Of the negro and the negro questions but The oppoeers
of the radical party, their oppon nttheir enemies he
scribed them-must go ont Of The State.
Now, my friends, it is abut time to who toiH go
out of This State Applause. For my part when they
that overt ret OF expelng those who
opposed to their anatca aud Revolutionary doctrines
shall feel inclined wherever may be upon the face Of this
earth shall inclined 10 bask 10 this State and try
The issue noih them Applause. =
Now gentlemen, you may have observed here in your
MIDST tendency Of this kind of teaching regi
men called out in Missouri the other day 10 order
that night take the place, IN some town. believe near
Cape Girardeau New Madrid, Of another OF reg
which demanded by of our Generals 10 the
field reinforcement for his ensebled and shattered
columns and this regiment told over and over again
that it called out for this purpose and to protect our
laws and the Constitution against guerriIlas Yet when
that regiment called out instead OF responding with
aacr,y-insead Of leaping would have supposed
had been put upon them t. ill the place f those whose
duty called them into another fe'd-ins,ead Of being
anx 60 there and vinica,e their patriotism ard
their surprising courage find that when they went
board the boat supper not there and they ali deserted
Laughter They could not go to the war without their
| supfer. Renewed merrimeht How many snppers,
my dear friends have your poor soldiers In the held gone
without How many dinners have they missed How
many marches have they made without dinner supper or
breakfast for perhaps than day-for many days.
mplaDng And how it must have sounded to those
brave the field when they heard that the enrnRed
militia of Missouri regiment If picked men, in the city
Of ST. Louis selected carefully, one hundred from each
regiment 10 the cy-when called out and oithou supper
could not go to fight [Lsughter IL was not thu fault
of the They had been told and over again. by
publication in the Jacobin newspapers in this city, that
CANDLES government was usurpatlon--.hey had been
told this until they believed 1.-THE thing hid been rung
their that they to be- called out by usurp
ing Government and sent into the field and being 40
priced they would not CO. Aud man, who is candi
date for Judge upon the Supreme Bench, WAS found
plant enough grant habeas corpus in the OF
soldiers in that regm. mt, upon tn solicitation Of one
the leaders 10 this faction They to be protected
| IL part Of their programme and am informed
upon good authority that these very radical leaders went
| among the 81 that regiment and advised them
| not to go to relieve their brethren who we're IN arms
| in the lace OF the enemy, and promised them That
they should be protected il they refused And the men,
believing these assertions made by their leaders, that this
was usurping Government all mutined against the
horty Of the Government of the United States and re-
fused TO 90 into the held and the who encouraged
this mutiny-the who totk away from the Govern
the strength that rested in the of these
thousand men, and made the Government much weaker
the face OF the enemythe men that did that and de-
c.pdaA aft