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 PRESIDENT LINCOLN. 
 
 ^fii. President : 
 
 Oil the first day of the present month, of September, a 
 ]\[ass Convention of the Radical Uoion men of Missouri was 
 liold at Jefferson City. It was the Largest Mass Convention 
 ever held in that State ; men, from every quarter of the State 
 being present; all actuated by the spirit of unconditional and 
 unwavering- loyalty to the Constitution and the Union- all 
 sincerely attached to you as the Chief Magistrate of the Na- 
 tion ; and all earnestly desiring that your Administration 
 should redound to the honor of your own name and the good 
 of our beloved country. 
 
 Previous to the. assembling of that Convention, public meet- 
 ings were held in the great majority of the counties of the 
 Sr,ate, in almost every one of which resolutions were adopted 
 cordially sustaining your xVdniiniscration, and distinctly en- 
 dorsing those great features of your policy — the Proclamation 
 of Emancipation, and the employment of negro troops ; upon 
 which, in our opinion, the early success of the Government in 
 subduing the rebellion largely depends. The Mass Convention, 
 likewise, emphatically declared its approval of those measures. 
 In marked contrast with the action so taken is the almost utter 
 silence of our opponents, in their meetings, in regard to those 
 great measures and to your Administration. ' You can judge, 
 Mr. President, from these facts who are your friends iii Mis- 
 souri. 
 
 Among the proceedings of tliat IMass Convention was the 
 appointment of a Committee of one or more from each county 
 of the State there represented, to proceed to the Citv of 
 
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 Washington, and endeavor, by a personal conference with you, 
 to remove from your mind injurious impressions which our 
 opponents have long and industriously sought to create, and to 
 procure, if possible, a change in the governmental policy in 
 reference to Missouri. In pursuance of that ajjpointmcnt, we 
 Avhose names are hereto subscribed, seventy in number, coming 
 from iifty-seven counties of that State (containing, according to 
 the Census of 1860, more than three-fourtlis of its entire popu- 
 lation,) and re'i^resenting all the industrial avocations of life, 
 have journeyed more than one thousand miles to perform the 
 duty assigned us, some of us doing so under circumstances of 
 much difficulty and ])ersonal danger. We have brought with 
 us a unanimous and confiding faith in your patriotism, gener- 
 osity, and integrity, and an uiu|uestioning belief in your readi- 
 ness to do whatever is riglit in regard to our State, whenever 
 you are fully advised concerning its affairs. 
 
 We represent, as we verily believe, a large majority of tlic 
 people of Missouri, and a still larger majority of its lawful 
 voters. 
 
 We come from a loyal people. Through tlie fiery trials of 
 the last tliirty months they have been willing to peril their all 
 for the Union cause; and multitudes of them liave not only 
 perilled all, but lost all but their lives in that cause, or in con- 
 sequence of their known identification with it. ^o accumula- 
 tion of wrong and calamity has been sufficient to swerve them 
 for a moment from their devotion-to it and to your Administra- 
 tiou, in every step you liave taken to subdue the rebellion. No 
 doubts or cavils liave lield them back, no denunciations deterred 
 them, from rendering an open, courageous, and honest support 
 to all your measures toward that great end. For ourselves, 
 and on their belialf, we bid you God-speed in every policy 
 tending to re-establish the rightful authoi-ity of the nation over 
 every foot of its soil. 
 
 The Iladical Union men of Missouri, recognizing in the in- 
 stitution of Slavery, the one sole cause and the very life of the 
 rebellion, and believing in their inmost hearts tlnxt the con- 
 tinued existence of that institution is utterly inconsistent with 
 tlie safety of our country, have deliberately planted themselves 
 in a position of hostility to it. They demand its immediate 
 removal from Missouri, not only for her own sake, but as her 
 contribution, for the sake of the Union, toward its entire and 
 final extirpation from American soil. They are opposed to its 
 gradual removal, because at a time when the fate of the country 
 hangs upon the dread arl)itrament of a war begun and continued 
 solely for the extension and perpetuation of Slavery, they do 
 not believe that it has any claim to the consideration or 
 foi-l)earance of the true friends of the Union anywhere. They 
 hold the Institution, more than men interested in it, respon- 
 
sihlc for all the liorrible evils which have nttlictcd our 
 country for nearly three years ; they iind in it the only 
 element wliich could ever have precipitated civil war in 
 this land ; they see that all the springs of sectional discord, 
 past, present, or future, are in it ; they know, from bitter ex- 
 perience, what wrongs, outrages, and calamities it is capable of 
 inflicting ; and they cannot appreciate, and do not believe in, 
 that tenderness toward it or those interested in it, which would 
 ]>rolong its mischievous existence a single day beyond that at 
 Avliich it can be legally destroyed. We rejoice tliat in your 
 Proclamation of January 1, 1863, you laid tlie mighty hand of 
 the natior. upon that gigantic enemy of American Liberty ; and 
 we and our constituents honor you for that wise and noble act. 
 We and they hold that that Proclamation did, in law, by 
 its own force, liberate every slave in the region it covered; 
 that it is irrevocable; and that from the moment of its issue 
 the American people stood in an impregnable position before 
 the Avorld, and the rel^ellion received its death-ljlow. If you, 
 Mr. President, felt that duty to your country demanded that 
 you should unshackle the slaves of the rebel States in an hour, 
 we see no earthly reason why the people of Missouri should 
 not, from the same sense of duty, strike doAvn with equal sud- 
 denness the traitorous and parricidal institution in their midst. 
 
 Such, in brief, are the distinguishing traits of the portion of 
 the people of INIissouri, who have come to be called Radicals. 
 Tliey accept tlio name, in its true significance in regard to tlie 
 rebellion and Slavery, and desire no other till both the rebellion 
 and Slavery are extirpated. 
 
 We are opposed in Missouri by a party which holds to 
 Conservatism as its fundamental idea. We desire that you 
 should know who compose it. It comprises every disloyal 
 man in the State; every man who denies that Slavery was 
 the cause of the rebellion ; every man who desires to up- 
 hold Slavery ; every man who sj-mpathizes with the rebel- 
 lion ; every man whose hands are red with the blood of 
 Union men ; every man who opposed the issue of your 
 Proclamation of Emancipation ; every man who holds that 
 Proclamation revocable, and that its revocation would re- 
 turn to slavery the negroes it freed ; every man who op- 
 poses the enlistment of negroes in our army ; every man Avho 
 carps at the radical policy of your Administration ; every 
 man who denounces you ; and every man who would em- 
 barrass your efforts to save the Union and the Constitution 
 from the assaults of Slavery. With them are associated a 
 small body of Union men, who were so from the outbreak 
 of the rebellion, and a larger body of those who were then 
 openly disloyal, and who have since become professedly 
 Union men, only because they found it dangerous to be any- 
 
thing else, and who are at heart no more patriots now, than 
 when they bitterly denounced you for j^our early efforts to 
 array the power of the nation for the overthrow of the 
 rebellion. 
 
 From a party so constituted, no conservatism could be 
 expected, nor has any been realized, but of the institution 
 of Slavery and the interests connected witli it, as the foun- 
 dation of social organization, but far niore as the basis of 
 i)()litical power. It was the representatives of that party 
 who, in the State Convention of Missouri, disregarded the 
 loyal sentiment of the State, and passed a so-called Ordi- 
 nance of Emancipation, wliich, instead of liberating Mis- 
 souri at once from the nation's greatest enemy, fastened 
 that enemy upon her absolutely for seven years to come, 
 and, in a modified form, for a quarter of a century after 
 that. And we believe that even that ordinance was passed 
 in the expectation of its repeal before the date fixed for 
 Slavery to cease. Between such a party and that we repre- 
 sent there is, can be, and ought to be no concord, but only 
 antagonism and strife ; as there ought to be forever between 
 those wlio stand by their country against all enemies, and 
 those who divide their allegiance between their country and 
 Slavery. 
 
 It has so happened that the State Government of Mis- 
 souri, not by the direct vote of the people, but by the will 
 of a Convention elected in February, 1861, and continuing 
 itself in existence and power until July, 1863, has been en- 
 trusted to one whose conservative policy has been a source 
 of great uneasiness and discord. AVhen, in July, 1861, that 
 Convention deposed Claiborne F. Jackson from the oftice 
 of Governor, and appointed Hamilton R. Gamble, provis- 
 ionally, to that ofiice, the latter opened his Administration 
 with a Proclamation to the people of the State, in which he 
 said that his appointment " ?ro;//(/ cSy///6-/)/ r//^ that no counten- 
 ance would he a forded to any scheme or any conduct calcidatcd 
 in any degree to interfere ivitk the institution of Slavery existing 
 in the State, and that to the iitniost extent of Executive poicer that 
 institution would he 'protected." From tlie day of the publica- 
 tion of that Proclamation to the present, Governor Gam- 
 ble's policy and acts have had a pro-Slavery cliaracter, 
 while the Unconditional Unionism of the State has steadily 
 advanced toward its present anti-Slavery attitude. The 
 liadicals of Missouri desired and demanded the election of 
 a new Convention, for the purpose of ridding the State of 
 Slavery immediately. He, while such a proposition was 
 pending in the Legislature, at its adjournment over to the 
 ensuing November, wrested the whole matter from the 
 
hands of the people, by summoning the old Convention — 
 notoriously a pro-Slavery body — to act upon that subject. 
 In that body he opposed immediate Emancipation, and threw 
 all the weight of his influence in favor of the scheme which 
 was finally adopted, not for the purpose of delivering Mis- 
 souri from that which has cursed her beyond measure, and 
 almost beyond endurance, but with the well-understood in- 
 tent of continuing it to the latest possible day, and, in the 
 language of a Delegate from one of the strongest pro-Slavery 
 districts in the State, subsequently addressed to a meeting 
 of his constituents, " in order that something should he done to 
 save slave iwoperty from litter loaste and spoliation, and give to 
 slaveholders a brief opporiimity to make the best disposition in 
 their j)Ower of their slaves." 
 
 Every act of his administration, anywise connected with 
 Slavery, has demonstrated that the position assumed in his 
 inaugural Proclamation has never been abandoned, in fact 
 or in intent, and will not be as long as he continues 
 Governor. 
 
 From the antagonism of the Radicals of Missouri to such 
 a polic}^ have arisen the conflicts which you, Mr. Presi- 
 dent, have been pleased heretofore to term a '■'■ factional quar- 
 reV With all respect, we deny that the Radicals of Mis- 
 souri have been or are, in any sense, a party to any such 
 quarrel. We are no factionists ; but men earnestly intent 
 upon doing our part toward rescuing this great nation from 
 the assaults which Slavery is aiming at its life. We are loy- 
 ally trying to do that, while Conservatism in Missouri is 
 trying how not to do it, and yet appear loyal. No loyalty 
 such as our constituents have exhibited, ever did or ever 
 will characterize a faction. We oppose our State Executive 
 because his policy is, in our judgment, adverse to true loy- 
 alty, and to the vital interests of our State. JSTo flictious 
 spirit dictates that opposition. We would rejoice to sup- 
 port his administration if we could, and be faithful to our 
 country; but we cannot and will not, while his pro-Slavery 
 policy is adhered to, for it cherishes disloyalty in our State. 
 If to make and abide by that resolve constitutes us a fac- 
 tion, then are we, and, God helping us, will continue to be 
 a faction. If, on the other hand, Mr. President, it relieves 
 us in your mind from the imputation of factiousness, and 
 gives us in your estimation our true position as a loyal peo- 
 ple, we shall confide without hesitation in your justice and 
 your friendship. 
 
 The policy of our State Executive represses and chills the 
 loyal heart of Missouri, as a pro-Slavery policy represses 
 and chills loyal hearts everywhere. The true and earnest 
 
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 patriots of om* State have been made to feel in eveiy wa}^ 
 that there is little sympathy l^etween liim and them. No 
 word has ever fallen from him publicly, whicli recognizes 
 wliat we consider to be a vital truth, that, in the rebellion, 
 it is Slavery warring against our noble institutions of Free- 
 dom. In our deliberate judgment, he who has not yet 
 learned that truth, is wholly unable to comprehend how to 
 foster and uphold loyalty, or to discountenance and suppress 
 disloyalty. We do not believe that Governor Gamble has 
 yet attained that point, an.d we have no hope that he will. 
 Yon will not therefore be surprised to learn that he has 
 never publicly approved your Proclamation of January 1, 
 18G8, or the arming of negroes. On the contrary, it is the 
 universal belief of the loyal people of Missouri, that he is 
 opposed to both; as nearly all who support him are known 
 to be. 
 
 It is as well-understood a fact in Missouri as any other in 
 public aifairs, that no man's loyalty to the Union commends 
 him to Governor Gamble's favor, unless it be accompanied 
 by a well-defined loyalty to the State administration; which 
 latter description of 103'alty has secured important positions 
 to many, whose appointment could never have been justly 
 based upon their devotion to the Union cause. But not in 
 such points alone have the loyal hearts of Missouri learned 
 that between them and Governor Gamble there is little in 
 common. The whole policy of his administration, so far 
 as it connects itself, directly or remotely, with tlie civil strife 
 in our countrj^ is adverse to them, and lenient, if not favor- 
 able, to their adversaries. He has interposed his ofHcial in- 
 fluence to screen disloyal men from military measures 
 deemed necessary to subdue the spirit of treason. He and 
 his partisans used their influence to procure the removal of 
 a Commanding General of the Department of the Missouri, 
 whose only ott'ense, so far as known, was a just severity 
 toward rebels and their aiders and abettors. He has, with- 
 out authority of law, in the judgment of some of our ablest 
 jurists, drafted into active service under the State, large 
 bodies of the Enrolled Militia of Missouri, every ofi'icer'of 
 which above the rank of Captain, holds office at his pleas- 
 ure. We declare it to be an incontrovertible fact, that known 
 identification with the Kadical Union party is almost cer- 
 tain to exclude an individual from any official position in 
 those troops. Many such men have been summarily dis- 
 missed from important commands, without explanation, and 
 their places supplied witli men of doubtful loyalty, and in 
 some instances by those who, in the early stages of the re- 
 bellion, were violent secessionists, and wlio now combine 
 
with professed Unionism a conservatism whicli leaves no 
 doubt of the quarter toward which their sympathies flow. 
 It has been too marked a fact to escape notice, that the offi- 
 cers thus dismissed were generally those who had distin- 
 guished themselves by the vigor with which they pursued 
 traitors, and those who fed, clothed, and shielded them ; 
 while we believe it to be strictly true, that no one has been 
 dismissed because of neglect or inefliciency in that work. 
 Companies and regiments of the Enrolled Militia, which 
 pursued rebels, guerrillas, bushw^hackers, and their accom- 
 plices with a legitimate severity, have been disbanded, under 
 circumstances which left upon loyal minds the painful 
 conviction, that their offense was a too active and resolute 
 eflbrt to rout and destroy those fiendish marauders. In 
 every way the people of Missouri have been forced to learn, 
 tljat rigor toward those enemies of law, order, property, life, 
 and loyalty, commends no man to the favor of our Execu- 
 tive. It is equally well known that those wdio cordially sus- 
 tain your Proclamation of Emancipation, and your policy of 
 arming the negroes, fall under his displeasure in the be- 
 stowal of appointments. 
 
 The result of all this is only what would inevitably fol- 
 low. Disloyalty, under the cdias of Conservatism, is pre- 
 sumptuous and detiant. In large portions of our State, it is 
 far safer to be known as disloyal, than as truly loyal. Thou- 
 sands of Union men have been driven from their homes 
 beggared, and multitudes have been murdered while pursu- 
 ing their peaceful avocations — often in the presence of their 
 families — for no offense but that of uncompromising fidelitj' 
 to the Union. The whole country was shocked at the recent 
 awful tragedy at Lawrence, in our neighbor State of Kan- 
 sas; but were that multiplied a hundred-fold, it would not 
 equal the sum of the outrages which loyal men have suffered 
 in Missouri, but wdiich, occurring in detached instances and 
 isolated positions, are little heard of away from the immedi- 
 ate vicinity, and therefore come not to your knowledge. It 
 is a lamentable fact, that in the larger part of our State the 
 property and life of a Union man are less secure now, than 
 they were when rebel armies were there. 
 
 In sober truth, Mr. President, the condition of loyal 
 people there is rapidly becoming intolerable. To what 
 further extent our suffering brethren can bear in patience 
 the load of unmerited wrong which presses them on every 
 side, God only knows. And all this we unhesitatingly lay 
 to the charge of Governor Gamble's pro-Slavery conserva- 
 tive policy, which infects all administrations, civil and mili- 
 tary, discourages and depresses loyalty, and elevates dis- 
 
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 loyalty into a predominance which is galling to the last de- 
 gree to the unconditional Union men of Missouri. 
 
 AVe desire, Mr. President, distinctly to invoke your attention 
 to the organization by Gov. Gamble of the Enrolled Militia of 
 Missouri. It is a matter in which, in our judgment, the Gov- 
 ernment of the United States is concerned. We have already 
 stated that it is the opinion of many of the ablest jurists of 
 our State, that the organization of that militia force is without 
 any warrant of law. It has proceeded solely from the will of 
 the Governor. Seventy-five regiments have been organized, 
 and, as before stated, all the officers above the rank of Captain 
 receive their appointments from him. It has been officially 
 announced that this is a State force, organized under State au- 
 thority, whose duty is to enforce the laws of the State, and 
 that to those laws alone they are amenable. This force is fur- 
 nished with subsistence, forage, and transportation by the 
 United States ; and yet, by orders from the Head Quarters of 
 the State^ they were prohibited from rendering assistance in 
 enforcing some orders issued by Federal authority. Until 
 recently they were used for the purpose of returning fugitive 
 slaves to their owners. In organizing this force, those citizens 
 capable of performing military duty, who declared their sym- 
 pathies to be with the rebellion, were, without commutation, 
 exempted from rendering military service, and yet have received 
 full protection ever since; many of the loyal militiamen being 
 com})cllcd to stand guard over their property. At the same 
 time loyal citizens have, without authority of law, been forced, 
 without having previously voluntarily enlisted, to enter the 
 service of the State, for periods varying from one to eight and 
 ten months; in many instances leaving their families wholly 
 without tlie means of support. The organization of those 
 troops has assumed a quasi permanent eliaracter, by the 
 creation of a force known as ^^Provisional Regiments.'' The 
 intended strength of this force is unknown. That rests entirely 
 Avith the Governor. It is organized by arbitrary detail from 
 tlie Enrolled Militia, l)y officers selected to serve in a Pro- 
 visional Regiment. The term of service is indefinite, its nature 
 and objects undefined by law and unknown to those who are 
 detailed, and the selection of the soldier is independent of any 
 fixed rule. His first intimation is that he has been detailed to 
 serve in a Provisional Regiment, and he is not permitted to 
 inquire by what authority he has been detailed, or into what 
 service he must enter, or for what length of time he must 
 serve. It is sufficient for him to know that he has been 
 detailed, and must go at once, without time for preparation ; 
 and if he fails to res])ond immediately to the call, he is hunted 
 out and compelled into the ranks at the point of the bayonet. 
 In the exercise of this arbitrary ]K)wer intolerable l)urdens 
 
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 have fallen upon lo3"al citizens, from wliich the disloyal are ex- 
 empt : in a word, a bonus is thus paid for disloyalty, and a 
 penalty exacted for loyalty. 
 
 And we call your especial notice, Mr. President, to the 
 fact that on the 17th day of tliis month, at the very moment 
 tha<" steps had been or were about to be taken, b}- habeas 
 corpus, to test tlie legality of this whole s^'stem of conscrip- 
 tion into the service of the State, the Commanding General 
 of the Department of the Missouri issued a General Order, 
 declaring that your Proclamation of the 15th inst., suspend- 
 ing the writ of habeas corjms in certain cases throughout the 
 United States, would in that Department be "held to apply 
 to all Missouri Militia called into active service under the 
 orders of the Department Commander." Gen. Sciiofield 
 has thus made himself a party to Governor Gamble's sj'stcm 
 of compulsory service in the ^lilitia, in a manner which, we 
 respectfully suggest, was not contemplated by you in that 
 Proclamation. 
 
 In regard to tliis whole matter of the Enrolled ]Mi]itia-, 
 we would further respectfully suggest, whether it is consist- 
 ent with the Constitution of the United States for such a 
 force to be organized and kept under arms by any State au- 
 thorities ; and we hope it may please you, Mr. President, to 
 cause that point to be investigated. But whether so or not, 
 we beg leave, with all respect, to protest against the further 
 continuance of that S3'stem in Missouri. Permit us to say, 
 with the frankness due to this occasion, that Missouri is as 
 much entitled as any other State to b'e protected by the 
 National iXYxn^. Neither law, justice, nor equity demands that 
 the burden of protecting her should be thrown upon her 
 people and her treasury. We ask therefore, the immediate 
 restoration of the militar}- control of that State to the hands 
 of the National ofHcers and troops, and the entire discharge 
 of all the Enrolled Militia of the State from any further ser- 
 vice at the arbitrary will of the Governor. 
 
 "We ask further, Mr. President, that, in the place of Gen. 
 ScHOFiELD, a Department Commander be assigned to the 
 Department of the iSIissouri, wljose sympathies will be with 
 Missouri's loj-al and suffering people, and not with Slavery 
 and pro-Slavery men. We regret to feel compelled to make^ 
 this request, but duty demands it. Gen. Schofield has dis- 
 appointed our just expectations, by identitying himself with 
 our State Administration '; and his policy as Department 
 Commander has been, as we believe, sliaped to conform tt) 
 Gov. Gamble's pro-Slavery and conservative views. lie has 
 subordinated Federal authority in Missouri to State rnle. 
 lie has become a party to the enforcement of conscription 
 
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 into the State service. lie has coaiitonanced, if not sus- 
 tained, the orders issued from the State Head Quarters, pro- 
 hibiting enlistments from the Enrolled Militia into the vol- 
 unteer service of the United States, Officers acting under 
 him have arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned loyal citizens, 
 without assigned cause, or for daring to censure Gov. Gam- 
 ble's polic}'' and acts. Other such ofHcers have ordered loyal 
 men to be disarmed, and in some instances the order has 
 been executed ; -while, under the pretense of preventing an 
 invasion of Missouri from Kansas, notorious and avowed 
 disloyalists have been armed. He has issued a military 
 order prohibiting the liberty of speech, and of the press. 
 An officer in charge of negro recruits, that had been en- 
 listed under lawful authority, as we are informed ar^d 
 believe, was, on the 20th instant, arrested in Missouri, by 
 Brigadier General Guitar, acting under General Scho- 
 field's orders, his commission, side-arms, and recruits 
 taken from him, and he imprisoned and sent out of the 
 State. And, final]}', we declare to you, Mr. President, 
 that from the day of Gen. Sciiofield's accession to the com- 
 mand of that Department, matters have grown Avorse and 
 worse in Missouri, till now they are in a more terrible con- 
 dition than they liave been at any time since the outbreak 
 of the rebellion. This could not be, if Gen. Schofield had 
 administered the afiairs of that Department with proper 
 vigor, and with a resolute purpose to sustain loyalty and 
 suppress disloyalt^'. We therefore respectfully i»ray you to 
 send another General to command that Department; and, 
 if we do not overstep the bounds of propriety, we ask that 
 llie Commander sent there be Major General Benjamin F. 
 Butler. We believe that his presence there would restore 
 order and peace to Missouri in less than sixty days. He would 
 be received by our people with rejoicing, and they would once 
 more be permitted to feel that Loyalty is to govern Missouri, 
 Mr. President, we have laid before you a frank statement of 
 the condition of Missouri affairs. We have endeavored care- 
 •fnlly to avoid exaggeration, and to speak the simple truth. 
 Much more might have been said, but we wished not to weary 
 you. Seventy of us, from every part of Missouri, stand in your 
 presence to witness the trulh of our statements. We invite 
 your inquiries upon any point that we have touched. We 
 shrink from no investigation. We entreat you to observe, that 
 in our ill-fated State the conflict is l)ctween Loyai^ty and Dis- 
 loyalty. It is impossible that both should rule there. One 
 or the other must go down. Whether the loyal hearts of Mis- 
 souri shall be crushed, is for you to say. If you refuse our 
 I'ccjucsts, we return to our homes, only to witness, in conseciucnce 
 of that refusal, a more active and relentless persecution of 
 
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 Union men, and to feel that while Maryland can rejoice in the 
 protection of the Government of the Union, Missouri is still 
 to be tlie victim of a pro-Slavery conservatism, which blasts 
 wherever it reigns. Does Missouri deserve such a fate ? What 
 border slave State confronted the rebellion in its first spring 
 as she did ? Remember, we pray you, who it was that, in May, 
 18G1, captured Camp Jackson, and saved the Arsenal at St. 
 Louis from tlie hands of traitors, and the Union cause in the 
 Valley of the Mississippi from incalculable disaster. Remem- 
 ber the Home Guards who sprang to arms in Missouri, when 
 tlie Government was without troops or means to defend itself 
 there. Remember the more than fifty thousand volunteers that 
 Missouri has sent forth to battle for the Union. Remember 
 tiiat, tliough always a slave State, her unconditional loyalty to 
 the Union shines lustrously before the whole nation. Recall to 
 memory tliese things, Mr. President, and let them exert their 
 just influence upon your mind. We ask only justice and pro- 
 tection 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 to record the independent efforts of her har- 
 rassed but still loyal men, to defend themselves, tlieir families, 
 and tlieir homes, against their disloyal and murderous assailants. 
 
 WASHiNrxTON, Seplemher, 30, 1863. 
 
 CHAS. D. DRAKE, of St. Louis, Chamnan. 
 
 BEN. LOAN, M. C, 1st Vice Chairman. 
 
 J. W. McCLURG, M. C, 2d Vice Chairman. 
 
 EMIL PREETORIUS, of St. Louis county, \ 
 
 N. T. DOANE, of Grundy county, ' Secretaries. 
 
 H. T. COMBS, of Harrison county, ) 
 
 W. B. ADAMS, of Montgomery county. 
 
 THOMAS ANSELL, of CaUaway county. 
 
 J. W. AZELTYNE, of Cooper county. 
 
 .J. F. BABCOKE, of Miller county. 
 
 S. H. BEALL, of Carroll county. 
 
 0. H. BEEMAN, of Adair county. 
 
 GEO. A. BEZONIA, of Plielps county. 
 
 T. B. BRATTON, of Livingston county. 
 
 A. G. BROWN, of Platte county. 
 
 C. CARPENTER, of Jackson county. 
 
 ALFRED CASE, of Laclede county. 
 
 JOHN B. CLARK, of Dade county. 
 
 ENOS CLARKE, of St. Louis county. 
 
 J. L. CONSALUS, of Morgan county. 
 
 W. P. COX, of Christian county. 
 
 J. H. CRANE, of Clark county. 
 
 DICKINSON CROW, of Texas county. 
 
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 W. A. DELANO, of Iron county. 
 
 T. A. EAGLE, of Macon county. 
 
 W. \V. EDWARDS, of St. Charles county. 
 
 N. B. GIUDINGS, of Andrew county. 
 
 CASPER G RUBER, of Lafayette county. 
 
 W. N. HARRISON, of Camden county. 
 
 REN. HARIUSONT, of Crawford county. 
 
 R. S. HART, of St. Louis county. 
 
 I. N. HEMRY, of Ray county. 
 
 K. A. HOLCOMB, of Chariton county. 
 
 .T. H. HOLDSWORTH, of Monroe county. 
 
 A. G. HOLLISTER, of Holt county. 
 L. V. HOLLYFIELD, of Polli county. 
 
 B. HORNSBY, of Johnson county. 
 G. HUSMAN, of Gasconade county. 
 
 W. SMITH INGHAM, of Marion county. 
 ALBERT JACKSON, of Cape Girardeau cnunt.\ 
 CHARLES P. JOHNSON, of St. Louis county. 
 ARNOLD KREKEL, of St. Cliarles county. 
 E. A. KUTZNER, of Scotland county. 
 J. G. Mcknight, of Osage county. 
 P. VV. A. McPIKE, of Perry county. 
 
 A. McWILLTAMS, of St. Clair county. 
 L. C. MARVIN, of Henry county. 
 WILLIAM MONKS, of Howell county. 
 T. S. MORGAN, of Hickory county. 
 
 J. H. MORSE, of Jeffcnson county. 
 
 C. E. MOSS, of Green county. 
 
 D. MURPHY, of Franklin county. 
 
 B. T. NORTON, of Marion county. 
 A. PEABODY, of Cole county. 
 
 W. R. PENICK, of Buchanan county. 
 W. A. POILLON, of Audrain county. 
 I. V. PRATT, of Linn county. 
 
 D. PROCTOK, of Caldwell county. 
 
 J. r. ROBIVSON, of Washington county. 
 J. F. RODGERS, of Sullivan county. 
 ELI SMlTfi, of Worth county. 
 GEO. R. SMITH, of Pettis county. 
 J. R. STILLE, of Putinan county. 
 J. S. THOMAS, of St. Louis county. 
 P. A. THOMPSON, of Atchison coulity. 
 DAVID WAGNER, of Lewis county. 
 
 E. W. WASIIBURNE, of Moniteau county. 
 L. U. WEATIIERBY. of Linn county. 
 
 W. H. WHITLOCK, of Green county. 
 J. B. WRKHIT, of Platte count v. 
 
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