The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-09-28
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Proclamation of BrigGdier General Braukner.
LOUISVILLE, Sept 2l.-It is rumored Buckner
has advanced on Elizabethtown but cannot be
confirmed in season for p. IN. papers. The Fed.
eral troops are preparing for an emergency.
The following proclamation is just received:
To the people of Kentucky: The Legislature
of Kentucky has been faithless to the will of the
people, they have endeavored to make your
gallant State fortress in which, under the guise
of peutrality, the armed forces of the United
States must surely prepare to subjugate alike
the people Of Kentucky and the Southern States.
1t was not until after months of covert and
open violation Of your neutrality with large en-
campments Of Federal troops on your territory
and recent official declaration of the President
of the United States not to regard your neutral
position coupled, with a well prepared scheme
to seize an additional point in your territory,
which was of vital imp0I lance to the safety and
defence of Tennessee, that the troops Of the
Confederacy on the invitation of the people of
Kentucky occupied defensive post in your
State. In doing so the commander announced
his purpose to evacuate your territory s;multa-
neously with similar act on the part of the
Federal forces whenever the Legislature of Ken
lucky undertakes 10 enforce against both bel
ligerants the strict neutrality which they have
80 often declared. return amongst YOU, cti
zens Of Kentucky, at the head of a force, the
advance of which is composed entirely of Ken
tuckians We do not come to modest any per-
son, whatever may be his political opinions, un.
like the agents of the Northern despotism, who
seek to reduce US to the condition of dependent
vassals We believe that the recognition of
the civil rights of citizens is the foundation of
constitutional liberty, and that the claim Of the
President of the United States to declare martial
law, to suspend the privilege Of the writ of
habess corpus and to convert every prison ia
the land into bastile, ia nothing but the
claim which other tyrants have assumed to
subjugate a free people. The Confederate
States occupy Bowling Green as defensive po-
sition. renew the pledges of the commanders
of other columns of Confederate troops, to re-
tire from the territory of Kentucky on the same
condition which will govern their acts. l
further give you my assurance that the force
under my command will be used as aid to the
government Of Kentucky in carrying out the
strictest neutrality desired by its people when.
ever they undertake to enforce it against the
two belligerents alike.
lsignedJ SD. BUcKNER,
Brigader-G General, G. S. A.
BowLlSe GREEN, Sept. Is, 81.
LOUISVILLE, Sept. 2l.-The following procla- |
nation has just been issued:
Kcntuckians! Called by the Legislature of
this my native State, hereby assume command
Of this Department I come to enforce, not to
make laws. God willing, to protect your pro-
perty and your lives. Enemies of our country |
have dared to invade our SOIL Kentucky is in |
danger. She has vainly striven to keep peace |
with her ncighbors. Our State is now invaded |
by those who professed to be her friends but |
who nov seek to conquer her. No true son of
Kentucky can longer hesitate as to his duty to
his State and Country. The invaders must and ]
God willing, shall be expelled. The leader of the
hostile forces who now approaches, is, I regret
to say, Kentuckian.
Let all past differences of opinion be over
looked. Every one who rallies to the support
of our Union and of our State is a friend Raj
~, then, my countrymen, around the flag our
Fathers loved, which has shielded us SO long
call you to arms for self defence and for pro-
lection of all that is dear to freemen. e Let US
trust In God and do our duty as d,d our Fathers.
EsignedJ ROBT. ANDERSON,
Brig. Gen., U. S. A.
lion ordering Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden to ex-
ecute the purpose contemplated by recent reso
utions Of the Kentucky Legislature in reference
% the expulsion of invaders, and Gen. TCritten.
len has ordered the militia to be mustered forth
With into service. .4,,-a
Hamilton Pope, Brigadier General of the
Tome Guards, also calls upon the people of each
yard in Louisville to meet this afternoon, and
organize into companies for the protection OF
he city. - 5' a-it
The Evening Bulletin says or 5000 Confed-
rate troops with 81 cannon, arrived at Bowling
Green on Wednesday, taking cannon and one
hundred and twenty stand of arms belonging TO
The Bowling Green Home Guard, and sent six !
cannon and 1000 men to Gen. r. W. Hanson,
Soniederate commander on Green River.