The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1863-10-03

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30-The Missouri
delegation called upon President Lincoln
to- day, by appointment, aud presented,
through their chairman, Mr. Drake, an
address containing the alleged aggrava-
tions, and asking for change of military
commandant in the department of Mis-
souri,.
The President received the address,
and promised TO give it careful consi-
deration, and furnish q reply as soon as
practicable.
A free conversational discussion took
place continuing several hours. This
having been a strictly private interview,
no reporters of the press were present.
The address is signed by seventy per-
sons, composing the committee, who say
that they have .endeavored carefully to
avoid exaggeration, and speak simple
truth.
Among other things, they ask the i'm
mediate restoration of the military con-
troll of Missouri TO the hands OF the
national officers and troops, and the en-
tire discharge of all the enrolled militia
of the State from any further service at
the arbitrary will of Gov. Gamble; and
further, that in place of Gen. Schofeld,
a commander be assigned the Depart
ment of Missouri whose sympathies will
be with MissOuris loyal and suffering
people, aud not with slavery and pro-
slavery men. They say that General
Schofeld has disappointed their just
expectations by identifying himself with
| their State administration, and that his
policy has been, as they believe, shaped
to conform to Governor CANDLES pro-
slavery and conservative views.
The delegation says that from the day
of Gen. Schoheld's accession to the COM
msnd of the department matters have
grown worse and worse in Missouri, until
now they are in more terrible condition
than they have been at any time since
the outbreak of the rebellion. They,
thererote, res ectfuily pray the President
| 10 send another General TO command that
department. and, if they do not overstep
the bounds Of propriety, ask that the
commander sent them be Maj General
Bsnj amin +. Butler. They believe that
! his presence there would restore order
and peace in Missouri in less than sixty
days. lie would be received by their
! ptbPip WIN iAJVASAhbS anu NAOy hONtu
once more be permitted TO feel
that loyalty is once more to gov
ern Missouri. They entreat the Pre-
sident TO believe, that in their Inflated
State, the conflict is between loyalty and
disloyalty. II is impossible that both
should rule there. One or the other
must go down. They say that if the
President refuses their request they re-
turn to their homes only TO witness, in
consequence of that refusal, a more ac-
tive aud relentless persecution Of Union
men, and to feel, that, while Maryland
can reiOioein the protection of the Gov
eminent, Missouri is still TO be the victim
Of pro-slaVery conservatism, which blasts
wherever il reigns The address cen
cludes as follows: 1--WE ask only justice
and protection to our suffering people. If
they are to suffer hereafter as now and
in time past, the world will remember
that they are not responsible for the
gloomy page in Missouri's history which
may have 10 record the independent
efforts of her harassed but still loyal
men to defend themselves, their families,
and their homes against their disloy al
and murderous assassins."