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Show What lias This to Do With the Louisiana Steal? New York, 16. An interesting letter let-ter relative to the famous Missouri order of 1SG3 will be published hero to morrow. The following is a eynop sis: Major General Schofield, now in charge of the military academy at West Point, has written a letter to General Thomas Ewing, for tho purpose pur-pose of vindicating the military order issued by General Ewing in 1863, depopulating de-populating part of the western border of Missouri. General Schofield Bays in Bubstanco that he took command of the department of Missouri in May, 1S63, and assigued General Ewing to the command of the district of the border. A savage guerilla warfare had raged there two years, which had nearly depopulated the farming districts dis-tricts on the Missouri side, and all the farmers who remained wero, whether they sympathized with the guerillas or not, mere furnishers of Bupplies for these outlaws. Civilization and humanity hu-manity alike demanded the prompt suppression of this border war, whatever what-ever might be the means necessary to suppress it. Thero were only two methods of Btopping it to largely increase the military force in the district dis-trict which was lound impracticable because of the necessity of sending send-ing reinforcement to Grant's army at Vicksburg, Ihe other to remove the few remaining farmers from the Missouri border, whose crops and stores furnished the guerillas wilh subsistence. The fiondish massacre at Laurence in August by Quantrell and bis band made immediate action absolutely imperative. It is wholly a mistake to charge that the order was issued in revenge for that massa- 1 ere, as its issuance was contemplated and discussed some time before the massacre occurred. The order was an act of wisdom, courage and hu- n mamty, by which hundreds of innocent inno-cent lives were saved and a disgrace-s disgrace-s fill and barbarous warfare brought to a summary e.loBe. Not a life was sacrificed, nor any great discomfo-t inflicted in executing it. The neces-8 neces-8 sities of all the poor people were provided pro-vided for, and none wore permitted ' to suffer. General Schofield adds: J "hen the order was issued he went to the border, and after personal observation ob-servation approved it, and then sent it with bis approval to President ! Lincoln. That humane president I never uttered a word of dissent as to f Ihe wisdom, justice or humanity of I that policy. He tays he does not! ! write to vindicate his own conduct or I to shift the responsibility, but that it i is only uslice lo General Ewing, wbo has been censured for issuing the order, lo say that the responsibility lor its execution belongs to President Lincoln, lo himsolf and to General living, in proportion to their respective respec-tive work and authority. |