Mr. NOELL. I have some documents which I desire to have printed as a portion of my remarks. No objection was made, and leave to print was accordingly granted. The documents are as follows: To his Ercellencythe POTUS: The undersigned, as U.S. assessorfor the 6th collection district of Missouri, would respect fully submit to your Excellency the following statement in regardtothe unfortunate anddisturbed condition of things in the county of LaFayette, my residence: 1. Martial law has been proclaimed by the goveorrndoinrariny sparidocceosusnty, as he avers"he is satisfiedthat posse cannot be executed, and a sufficient will not respondto the call of the officer for that purpose.” It is not alleged that civil process huapsonbebeynresistedor that the citizenshave beencalled the proper officer and refused to respond, which alone could, under the Constitution of the U.S., authorize the placing of the county under martial law and the calling out of the militia of the State. The facts are that no processhas ever been resistedin the county; that the citizens have never failed or refusedto respondto the call of the civil officers: that the great, mass of the citizensof the county are ready and willing at any and all times, tihfeneeendfoerdcoermceanlltedofutphoen, latwo saiadgathinestciavlill ooffffeicnedresirns: that the civil officersof the county stand ready at all ttiamryes to executethe laws, and saythey neednomili by aid in doing so; and it isnot at their requestnor their desirethat martial law hasbeenproclaimed and troopsquartered upon the peopleof the epunty, and there is no necessity whatever to justify such interposition of the Governor.. 2. Since such quarteringof militia from other counties they have by their lawiessnessand violengein terrupted the execution of the civil laws and also the revenuelaws of the U.S. odriving out tahsesewsshoerarinffdancodllheicstodreopfustaieids, daisntdrict, the w U.S. throni’if”ho rotum. They have taken the U.S. asstassessora prisoner: 3. They are committing such actsof violenceupon the citizens of said county as to causemany of them tcoomflepelefrtoemsusthpeeinrshioonmesand business, and to causea of businessin said county. For the further information of your Excellency we enu merate the following amongthe manyactsof blood shed and violence perpetratedby said militia, who are in the main composedof desperatemen, someof whom were known during the late war asconfederate bushwhackers. William H. Bowen, county clerk for the county, was attacked and beaten by them and driven from his office and his life threatened, Alexander Mitchell, a prominent Union man and $o: was stopped upon the street by one of the coimlitpiae, llead revolver Presentedto, his head, and he to remain quiet while he was robbed. Next morning, in company with Major Kelly, of General Hancock'sstaff, he called upon Major Mont gomery, the commander of the militia, and pointed out the man who robbed him. Some of the stolen K?os. was found in his possession. The life of Mr.Mitchell was then threatened and he was coman.sfietold, flaeegtehnetlecmouannty from OnMthicehisgaamn, e naingdht fMour.r other gentlemen were robbed and beaten in the streets. 3 went to the residenceof John Aull, county treasurer, drew their revolvers, and threat ened to shoot his wife. A squad of them attacked Major John E. Ryland, who was during the war in the U.S. military service, and were about to maltreat him when Major Montgomery coming up compelled them to desist, telling them to have n o controversieswith citizens on the streets, but if citizen insulted themto shoot him down at once. strTeheetrseawndas kaillceidtizes innnceamtheedyRhiachveardbseoernf isnhotthoencitthye. The murderer has not yet been identified. The U.S. ExPress has been robbed by them. A quiet and peaceful citizen named Mason wasshot by them caintidzednasn, gaemroounsgly wounded. A largenumber of Union whom we name James M. Poole, the sheriff of the county, and who wasin the U.S. serviceduring the entire war; his deputy, Ja cob A. Price, a prominent Union man, and his 2 sons;.Z. Ryland, who also served during the war in the U.S. service; the county attorney for the county, R. Beverly Vaughan; the U.S. iansstihstean U.S. wmhiloitaw raysdsuerrivnigcet, haenwda. rmaalnsoy others overtaken by themilitia and held as prisoners, tarnedatseodm, eof thembadly beaten and otherwise mal and when dischargedwere told by the commander that if any of his men were hurt or injured, at no matter who did it they should be held responsible. The commander of themilitia threatened to setfireto the city Hotel, and ordered turpentine for the purpose, but was prevailed upon to desist. If fired it would have burned the mostvaluable business square in the city. Squads were searching for the U.S. assessorfor the district, threatening ghuisarlidfee.d bAyllththeemr, oads leading out of the city were and I escaped by the ferry over tghuearrdiveedr, bwy hich a few minutes afterward was also them. The lives, liberty, and property of the citizens are at the mercyof these desperate and lawless men, sent into the county, it is said, by iosrsdueinr gof the Governor, some 2 weeks before the of his proclamation, which is herewith in closed, and they are now being reinforced by large numbers of the most desperate men in the State, under the call of the Governor for troops. A state cmoeunnttyo, f the facts, signed by leading citizens of the was laid before the Governor, and he was solicited to remove them or protect the citizens, assured of the ability of the civil officersto enforce wthiellinlagwnsesisf tohfethmeicliittiiazewnserteowaiitdhdthraewmn, inanddoine fgtshoe. Tbhye only responseto that application wasforwarded LextinhgetGoonv, ewrnhoor, to the commander of themilitia at with a squad of his men, mobbed Colonel CasperGruber, a leading Union citizen, be causehehadaidedin having the application or statement madeto the Governor. The U.S. revenue laws cannot be executed in the district while this lamentable condition of things exists. The U.S. asstassessor foIrnRay countyis alsomadea prisoner by themilitia. view of the interruption to the U.S. laws in said district, and the fact that civil officers of the U.S. cannot remain in said district without protection againstthe violenceof theselaw less men, who are now in possession of the count we respectfullysolicit the interposition of your cellency to protect us in the dischargeof our duties alesncayssessorin said district, and that your Excel complwetiell itnavkeesstingcahtiostnepsaswill lead to a full and of the outrages perpetrated upon a loyal and peaceful people under this unfounded and false pretext, that the law cannot be executedin said county. It ICHARD C. V.AUGH AN, U.S. Assessor, 6th District, Missouri. We, the undersigned, citizens of Lexington and cine gunty of LaFayette, statethat we know the forego recital of someof the outragesperpetratedupon the peopleof LaFayette county, asset forth by the U.S. Assessor, R. C. Vaughan, to betrue, and can be establishedby the concurrent testimony ionfg the greatmassof the peopleof the county, includ the civil officers. And we most carnestly and respectfully unite in the prayer of said petition for protection, under the laws of the U.S., to our lives and property, and that an investigation may be instituted at the oliost period practicable. AioFR MITCHELL. THOMAS B. WALLACE, U.S. Marshal, Western District of Missouri. JEFFERsox CITY, Missou R1, Decembe1r2. arTyhpero Govern oiorhna: sissued the following supplement ToHtahveincigtizensof LaFayetteand Jackson counties: becomesatisfiedthat the ordinary process oafsluafwficcieanntnpoot sbseeewxilelcnuotetdrienspyoounrdctooutnhteiesc, aalnl dotfhaant officer for that purpose, I have, by authority of the act of the General Assemblyof the 14thof March, 1866, entitled "An act to provide for the enforce tmweennttoyf fothuer ccivoiml lpaawn, i”es&c., called into activeservice of cavalry and ten compa nies of infantry for duty in the countiesof LaFayette abnyd Jackson, which countieswill be required to raise taxation the amount necessaryto pay said force. Whenever I am satisfiedthat the peopleof the counties namedwill enforcethe law against all men who have violated it, as they can and ought to shall, by do, and their support of civil authority, give the usual legal protection to the law abiding citizens, and each evil doer has a proper fear of the punishments of the law, the troops ordered there will be withdrawn. In testimonywhereof, I have hereuntoset myhand and caused to be affixed the great seal of the State of Missouri. Done at day the city of Jefferson, this 12th of December, in the year of our Lord 1836, and of the independenceof the U.S. the 90 1st, and of the State of Missouri the 47 th. thOMAS C. FLETCHER. By the Governor: FRANCIS RodMAN, SecyState. StLouis, Decembe2r1, 1866. I have the honor to years state that during nearly 2 of the past war I was in command of the U.S. forces in the district of country herein referred to. That I acquaintedwith thesiagmneprsersonally and intimately of ment, this petition andstate and know that they were original Union men and have ever been such, and that they are men of unblemished reputation and character. I also say that I am personally acquainted with the men who have beensent by the Governor to LaFayettecounty as militiamen, either personally or by : general reputation, and know them to be men of acter, bad char: a portion of the servicefor badwchoonmdwucetr, eadnidshsoonmoeraobf ltyhdeimsmhisasveed the reputation of having been robel ors. Late Brigadier General Volunteers. StLouis, Missouri, Decembe2ro, 1866. To the POTUS: The undersigned, citizens of the State of Missouri, respectfully rePresentthat they are well acquainted with MessrS.R.C. Vaughan, Amos Green. A. ell, and Thomas Mitch B. Wa?lace, who have signed the accompanying statement in relation to the deplorable condition of aflairs in county the city of Lexington, and of LaFayette, in this State. They aregentlemenof unblemished private characterand of well known loyalty. Mr. Vaughan was among the 1st troebteallkioen, arous for the Government du.ing the late and was made prisonerby the rebels at the time of subsequtehnetcly capture of Coloncl Mufligan, andserved until near the closeof the war, withthe rank of brigadier general in the serviceof theState. Mr. Green is a lawyer of high character andsocial position in Lexington, and known to munity the wholecomas a firm and decided Union man. Mr., Mitchcll was also in the serviceduring the war aas quartermaster, with the rank of major. Mr. Wallace was appointed U.S. marshalfor the western district of Missouri by Mr. Lincoln at the beginning of his Administration, and has beenreappointed to that position by your Excellency. The undersigned, therefore, do not hesitate to in duoprosneyfuolulyr Ethxecestllaetnecmyentof these gentlemen and call to exert the power of the Government to arrest and punish the outrageswhich huanvoeffebnedeinn, gand are now being committeduponan and unresisting community, whomthe Executive of this State, in violation of law and without any justifiable pretext, has made the victims of robbery and murder. The extraordinary occurrencesdetailed in thestate amlleynt of Messrs.Vaughan and otherswould natur excite incredulity, if the history of this Statefor the past few years had not preparedmostmen of telligence in and observation to expect such a trophe. catas The governmentof the State of Missouri haslong since ceased to berepublican except in itsmerename. The Present Governor of cerswere elected in the midthsteoSf ttahteereacnednStwtaater.oAffti the same time a constitutional conventionwascalled to consider amendments to our constitution. At that time the great bodyof patriotic citizensof ourState who were exerting themselves to put down the rebellion were absent from the State serving as soldiers in flagrant the armies of the U.S.: war was in almost everycounty of the State, and in many places the polls surrounded by armedmen from other Statesand the militia of our ownState. The result was the success of those who clamored most loudly againstthe rebellion, but who2nduct in remaining at home during the war showed a appetite keener for civil office, aas means of its oyerthrow, than for the hardship and danger of service in the field. The constitutional convention thus elected passedan ordinance vacating almost all the civil offices in the State, even those elected at the same time and by the same votesbywhich their ownpower was conferred, and gave to the Governor of theState the power of appointment to all the officesthusva cated. The Governor, under this authority, reappointed such as were his friends and partisans, and filled the other vacancies from the same class of persons. The convention then made a newconstitution which was not submitted to the peopleof theState for ratification, but to thoseof the people only who would take an oath which the convention had prescribed, which oath is believed to be in violation of the Constitution of the U.S., and which sthcoieunstaionudssloyftaokuer, most loyal citizens could not conand least of all thosewho favored the oath and forced it upon the people of the State. The resultwasthat 85,000 votesonly were cast at constitution, the electionupon theratification of the lessby some 20,000 than the number of soldiers contributed by the State to the armies of the Union, and only onehalf of the number of votes!!!” in this State at the Presidential election of 1860. The new constitution was proclaimed to be ratified by 1800 majority: some of the strongest Union counties at the 1st out break of the wargiving the heaviest majorities against it, and some of the strongestsecessioncounties in the State at that period giving majorities for it. Thus at an election in which more than 1/2 of the people were disfranchised by an unconstitutional test oath, many 1,000s of thosethus disfranchis. ding be in the service as soldiers of the Republic, by a minority vote of the peoplethis newconstitution was fasteneduponthe State as its fundamentallaw. The constitution required a registry law to be put in foree and one was enacted born of the spirit which made the constitution and intended to retain the power of the State in the hands of the minority who had madeit. This registration law gave the Governor the authority to appoint a supervisor who was to appoint the registrars for everycounty in registrars theState, and the thusappointedhad the powersubstantially to appoint the voters. They could with or without evidence reject the vote of anyone or, admitted the franchise whomsoever they pleased. The judges of election wereappointed by the judges of the county courts, all of whom were appointed by the Governor and the clerk of the county court, whoseduty it was to give the certificate of election to candidates, the successful was also appointed by the Governor. No single link of the chain of despotism by which the absolute control of the elections was given to the Governor will be found wanting in this elaborately contrived pian. So shameless and carelesseven of appearances were the contrivers of this paipable fraud that at the last election in this State a large number of the registrarsand supervisorswere then selvescandidatesfor the most lucrative, offices in the severalcounties while making out the lists of qualified voters. The result of the election, if that can be called an election in which one political party had the Pow of to disfranchize its political antagonists, was ss . wasintendedit should be, to confirm the power of the minority, and retain its leaders in office. The majorityof the people of theState, disfranchized by their political antagonists, haye neverthelesssub mittedpeacefully and quietly in the hope, and expectation that their constitutional right of suffrage wouldbe restoredto them by an appeal to the judiciary of the U.S., and that with its restoration the State would again resume its republican character, in fact as well as, in name, and, that the fundamental principles of liberty would be vindicatedand enforced. It is not to be supposedthat thosewho have committed such crimes against o:!. ". would hesitate, to commit further and greater crimes to retain the power they have usurped. Nor is it to. that these crimes have been perpetrated or the mere purpose of possessing themselves of the modest emoluments of office Prescribed during the days of our former republican frugality and simplicity; nor has the honor which attended these positions, as attesting the confidence of citizens, our fellow much attraction for those who no longer seekthemthrough the consent of the people: These men have been actuated by other motives: the manner in which their usurped power has beenused will disclose the objects for which they have committed SO manycrimes in its pursuit. the declaration of war by the Governor of this Stateupon the people of Jackson and LaFayette counties and the unprovoked robbery and murder of their citizens is but the continuation of similar acts of violence by which many citizens of this State have beenstripped of their property and lives by the directsanction and connivance of the authorities whoseappointment and power emanatedfrom the Governor. Preachers of, the Gospel have in many parts of this State been dragged from their o to: by the officers of the law under the bar us provisions of the new constitution, but also by armedmobs of lawles' rufhans. One preacher, at least, if not more, Rev. Mr. Headlee, was taken from "the horns, of the altar” and brutally shot and killed by a band of armed Qutlaws, and no effort of anykind has been made by the authorities of the State to arrest or punish the perpetrators of these crimes.Many menhave beenmurdered, in somein stancebsy persons claiming authority under the Governor, under the pretensethat they were or had been rebels or sympathizers, and that while the courts of lawwereopenfor their trial and punishment, and no attempt has beenmade by the State authorities to prevent or punish these crimes; but on the contrary e perpetrators (as in the instance of a man by the name of Babeoke) have by such, acts atoned for a long life of infamy and crime and becomethe familiarsand favorites of Themerepossessioonur Governor. of property in some parts of theStatehas affordedsufficient cause for a notice to. the country under pain of death in case of rel, and alwaysunder circumstancesinvolving the sacrifice of the property, which usually falls into the hands of the patriots most active in o ridding the of such obnoxiouscharacters. Nor has this spirit beencontentwith thespoliation of private property. The railroads, public works, andother valuable property of the State to which ourcreditorslooked for reimbursement, andour tax: burdened people for relief, have been wickedly and corruptlysacrificed for sums of money absolute trifling in comparison with their cost or value, an at, too, when in someinstancesdoublethe amount, and in every instance much larger amounts were offeredfor the same propertythan wasacceptedfrom the political partisans to whom this property was sold. We challenge the record of any civilized State to show a more shamelessand profligate spoliation of public property, to gratify and enrich partisansand favoritesthan that furnished by the sale (so called) of the Iron Mountain railroad and the South ot ch of the Pacific railroad. such transactions by which the property of the State was disposed of for sums of money so inadequate, when a larger amountwas offeredfor the same property by parties of greater pecuniary responsibility, brings us irre sistibly to the conclusionthat the officialswho sanctioned them musthave shared in the plunder. The declaration of war upon the counties of LaFa yette and Jackson is the continuation and development into a systemof the by which Missouri has been governed during the last few years under the usurped rule of a minority. It will last as long as the rule of theminority continues. It foreshadows the fate of eyery county in the State which has sufficient wealth, to tempt the plunderer. The object seems to be to drive the peopleby violence and in: dation to abandon, their homes and lands and then to purchase themfrom the banishedproprietors aat nominal price or at tax sales under laws passed for that purpose. nder these painfuland threateningcircumstances the undorsigned feelthemselvescompelled to appeal to your. Excellency, and through you to the Congress of the U.S., for protection against the out rages of which our fellow citizens in almost every ounty of the State, andespecially those of the counties of LaFayette and Jackson, have beenmadethe vietins. In this State the executivefunctionaries, a well as the legislative and the judicial, are almost all the creatures of a minority, and the equal instru inents of the opPression of the people whom they Ho: wronged, whom they consequently fear and.We invite from Congress a scrutiny and investigation of th; facts alleged and the charges we have made. If Congress fails to perform the duty which it owes to our reople, if it fails to investigate the rges we make, and to interpose the authority of the Government to protect peaceful, loyal, and faw abidingcitizens front opPressionswhich havebecome unendurable, then will Congressmake itself responsiblefor the consequenceswhich may follow. Respectfully, FRANK P. BLAIR. S. T. GLOVEIR. JOHN HOW. THOMAS T. GANTT. G. F. JOSEPFHILLOE'NY.EIL. O. D. FILLEY. JAMES O. BIROADHEAD. E. R. BROWN.