Year: 1863

GERS as ever did the rebels
and not scrupe to advise volunteer and awes
ganxatons defeat the regular work of the
This faction has been beard of in Missouri before No
long ago called convention and gravey resolved tina
the President should dsmss Gen. Halleck from his place
as Generain-chef and turn Mr. Seward out Of his Cabl
4 net committee was sent 10 Washington to communi
cate their august pleasure TO the Presdent Mr. Lincoln
| reply to their chairman (Taussig) will be remembered


IL suited the President not long since to appoint new
commander TO the Department OF Missouri The faction
became enrsged at this of the President than
they were at his retention Of Haeck and Seward With
IN week after Gen. Schofeld entered upon his duties
they commenced bitter and unscrupuous warfare upon
him, which has been continued to this day Every effort
ingenuity could devise to bring contempt upon that
officer personally or to discredit his authority embar
rass his administration has been res0rted to- The out
breaks of the guerras in whatever part Of the State
have been hailed with delight and exulted furnish
ing the opportunity of deridng Gen. Sch field and de-
manding his removal 1t s clear that in their anmosty
to the they have sunk all patrotismas they have
long since sunk all respect for ths President and his Ad
minstration Gen. Schofed that unless he stop
the ncendary conduct of these people the State of Mia
souri, must relapse into condition Of anarchy and blood
shed The order he has issued goes to the root of the
evil He declares that the military law will hereafter be
rgdy enforced against all persons his department. who
shall IN any manner encourage mutny and insubordina-


On endeavor to create disaecton among the troops
and against all persons who shall publish utter publicly
words calculated to excite nsurrecton awless acts
among the people, who shall publish fasehOods or mis-


of facts calculated to embarras weaken
the military authority, in any manner Interfere with
them in the discharge Of their duties The President has
doubtless authorized this measure. He owes it to the
dignity of his Office to the respect due to his officers and
army to the peace Of Missouri and the credit Of the


try to put end to the nselence Of faction n tho West


The st. Louis Republican, in allusion to the as
saults made upon the President by the "Radioal
Emancipationists" Of Missouri, refers to the Pre-
sidents position and responsibilities in the fol
lowing terms We quote from its number Of the
Esd Instant:


Whoever supposes that the Radicals are going to
tormenting the President because he has repeat
edy put his foot down upon their refractory and ewiled
dogmatism will be egregiOusly mistaken. They will
stick to him like leechestange themselves around his
legs-corner hm-thrust themselves in his pathway
bauot hm--and bore him almost to desperation with
their nexorable opportunities No man ever beseRed
by the dsas of bevy of cnnstabes he will be by these


ons him with complaints, worry him with entreaties
plague bu with satire, barrow him with serviy, rack
him with deririon sting him with jeers torture him with
pocrtcal praise and dsquet the poor in ways
thsn possibly enumerae In President like pa
tience and pacidty, but the equanimty Of Mr. Lincoln
hold against such fuss and fury without mani
fes ations of uneasness shall esteem him most extra
ordinary MORTAL meek and composed enough to stand for
model Of human forttnde Er


"In the Preriden,'s great wrestle with the Missouri
Radicals the world will have opportunity to witness
exhaustive trial Of his backbone Having planted
his foot down resolutey to be whether Jaco
bin clansmeD make him change his base, and finally
compel him to eapituate The enemy has been long in
training, but hope still to be able to record the
grail perectness of the Presidential spinal column
the Missouri question" s ~