The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-22
Missouri.

Missouri,
THE New York World attempts, after its
usual fashion, to make little political capi
tai out of some recent local disturbances in
the State of Missouri. Its remarks display
so much ignorance and malice that we are
tempted to notice them seridtim 1t com
mences -
''The State CT Missouri is The only state in the
Union in which the presence OF the genera
Commanding in Chief of the American army Is
now imper atiyely required, TO preserve society
from resolving itself into chaos OF prlmeyal
barbarism."
This is false. General Grant is no more
needed in Missouri for the purpose indicated
than he is in Pennsylvania. The State Gov
ernment is perfectly able to attend to It's own
affairs, without any outside interference.
"That State was preserved to the Union dur
ing the whole of the civil war. II is now gov
erned by radical State Government, elected
on the strictest principles of dsfranchisment
for Rebels and 'other disloyal persons"
The implied assertion in this extract, that
Missouri is noaC governed by different set
Of men from those who preserved it to the
Union during the war, is false. The radicals
saved Missouri from secession, and saved it to
the Union. The present State Government
was elected in 1864, and by the same vote
that gave Mr.. Lincoln his splendid majority
in that State.
"All the theories which Thad Stevens and his
followers clamor to see apDl led to the lately
Rebel States OF the South are asserted in MIS-
souri,, and have been asserted there by the whole
force OF the local authority ever since the Sdr-
render Of General Lee"
This is not true. Neither the policy of
-, I,o- Lnp
applied in Missouri
THE very preaching of the Gospel of Christ,
save under special license from the Caesars at
Washington and It. Louis, has been made
statuIable oe'ense, and has been repeatedly pun
ished as such, in tn State OF Missouri"
This is not true. No license is required,
but preachers, like school teachers, lawyers,
and other professional men, are required to
take the oath of loyalty.
"And what are the results? That to day Mis-
souri, is ruled, so far as Missouri is ruled at al,
by the sword; that the country is daily startled
by kilograms from Missouri presaging an imae-
diate outburst there of the most terrible forn
of civil strie-a civil war of localities and COM
munities--of town against town, of neighbor-
hood against neigh oorhood. We need appeal
only to the columns of the radical press tor
evidence TO prove tbat in no State of the Union,
from Maine to Texas, is society 80 thoroughly
disordeIed, that in none are life and property
so unsafe, as in Missouri today"
This is mere exaggeraton. The State of
Missouri generally is in quiet, orderly, and
prosperous condition. 1t is only in those
localities that were Rebel and guerilla strong
holds during the war that any difficulty is
experienced. Jackson county and Lafayette
county, III which the Governor has recently
declared martial law, were the hotbeds of
border ruflianism in the days of the Kansas
struggle. They were the haunts OF Rebel
bushwhackers during the war, and give the
general Government more trouble than any
other territory of equal size in the Union.
These Rebels who are making trouble there
are the remnants of Quantrel's and Yager's
and Tod's bands of guerillas, that perpetrated
the horrible Lawrence massacre, and so many
other outrages on the Border during the war.
They have kept up quasi organization ever
since the war closed, and are nothing more
nor less than mere robbers and cutthroats.
Ifthe radical State authorities Of Missouri
would consent to allow these Rebel murder
ers to perpetrate their outrages with impu-
nifty, we should hear no comp ant from the
World. Radical rule is no more responsible
for the existence of these scoundrels than the
law and its ministers are responsible for the
existence of criminals generally. These
Missouri Gu tthroats are the legacy OF slavery
and the Rebellion, and are eminently of the
Worlds way OF thinking in politics.