The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-07-10

VI tHc IlDut OI Tree speech J no
would L, in any emergency. advocate th
slightest Infringement by the Govcrnmen n
upon the liberty of the press, Let then
sow their seeds of their infamous doctriu
o broadcast over the land. Whatever may b.
5 the danger. | will not couutenance tn,
. greater danger Of establishing a dictatorship
. over the thoughts of my fellow country
: men.
o But # the abominable theme must bt
0 broue hit into the Council Cham bers of tho na
: ton. for the sake of decency, fnot of Justice
let 1t be at a more suitable time, If there
remains one Union man at the Sou tn, let Us
: remem ber that he is unrepresented here;
that the subject of slavery particularly con-
Germs him. and that it is ungenerous and
unj ust, if not cowardly, to take advantage
OF his absence to push forward measures
in regard to the local institutions of his sec
ton: measures against which, were he pres.
ent, he would give his earnest opposition.-
1t will qnench whatever remains of Union
feeling at the South, if i: has not already
done so. 1t will destroy the last hope of a
reconstruction of the Union on friendly
basis. 1t will prove that the first ii dea of
the dominant party in the North is active
and unwavering antagonism to slavery, and
a fixed purpose to legislate it out Of the land
at all hazards. Is it thus that we are to
CpHi d peace. DIT, we are Uln9l0G away
the last chances of reconciliation as reci =
lessly as maimen cast their treasures into
the sea. The agitation of the subject has
been the countrv'S bane at every period Of
its history; its discussion at tAis crisis is des-
perate self-destruction. + it while the
magazine IS beneath us and about us, burst
ing with the agencies of ruin, that we must
choose to sport with the hIming torch Of the
iucendiary? Sir, until our beloved country
shall be saved, the word emancipation"
should, by common consent, be banished
from the language Of debate in this assem-
blage. 1t is a spell which has wrought
enough already OF desolation 1t is hellish
formula of i1cantation which has couiured
up the fends OF discorl and civil war; anI
it never was potent in its evil tendency
as now, when it is being passed, like the
breath of the plague, from IN outh to m mouth,
in the Council Chambers of tho country
which it has ruined. 1t should be spoken
in a whisper and with PRAYER linked to it,
as a thing that brings curse and spreads a
pestilence. despair of my country, des /
pair of ever livin! once more in blessed
Union Of fraternai States. when | hear all
around me the utterance of that ruin bree
ding word emancipation. - mingling With
the shouts Of battle, the fierce huzzahs of
triumph over fallen brothers.. and the groans
Of our dying country
Sir, if in place of making the negro Qres-
ii on a snbi iect-ma OF debate, this Con-
gre>s would take into earnest, solemn con-
siieration some eXpedient FOR securing peace,
J 30 believe that success would crown our
efforts If they would enter upon that task,
not with hearts embttered aud iutelects
swaved by sectional autpathes and mock
philanthropy, but with all their souls de-
voted to that one slcred purpose-,ru re-
construction of the L Mon and Onr redemp-
tion from civil war; if they would DO this, in
the spirit of conciliation, of forgiveness, Of
tolerance of brotherhood, and kindly feel
ing. it is nv conviction that before the close
of this eventful session, the preliminaries of
a peace wonld bs arranged. But while,
with the obstinacy of a bind fanatic, and
the instict of brutal gladiator, the first
object is to promulrate party creed. and
the second to crush an opponent and wear
the badge of victory, see no fairer pros
pect tnan, at some distant period, reache!
through seas of blood and heaps of car
mage, the forced submission of a crush
ard devastated section, and the enequally
unhappy spectacle of Government trium-
phant: but exhausted by its triumph detes- {
ted by moity of those sovereiIntes that
gave it BIRTH and gazing with horror and
remorse upon the desoation it has wrought.
Sir, it is not my intention to vent re-
prOaches, even where | believe them best
deserved. | have risen to enter my protest
against the discussion, in this Chamber of :
anv ant-slavery scheme whatever at th IS
crisis, and to offer an earnest appeal to this
Congress that its legislation shall embrace
every means of securing an immediate
peace IT, as the Government claims, the
confederate cause is hopeless, the leaders Of
The secession movement cannot be ignorant I
IF the fact; and knowing it. they will be
inclined to lend willing ear to
VII itever proper overtures this 'vernm ent
nav present. At some periol Of this strus-
,le there must be negotiations; it mnst be
'esortel to, sooner or later; why not nov?
Is it hecanse pride forbids that we should
,e the first to stretch ont the hand of con- Z
,iliation? Heaven forefend that thousands
If human lives anl country's we flare
should depend upon 50 false principle !!
Is it because the South has not been suil1-
,ientlv punished, humbled, and subduod
Then let us confess that chastsement and
yen geance are the object of this war. Is 1t =
because the anti-slavery movement has not
,et received sufficient impetus? If so,
20 tell it to tho armies that have won your
victories Make abolition the war cry
Place banner with that device in the van
yard. and lure those armies on to conquest
With t-if you can. Iour soldiers would
end the treacherous ensign into shreads,
md would march to their homes with the
;amo alacrity with which they pushed on
% the battlefield.
What, then, is the cause that withholds
legotiitiou? You will not parley with !
,rmed treason! But You have pirleyed ,
With armed treason. if that be the word ,
1areyed for the mers convenience of an eX I
change of prisoners, and other purpose to =,
mitigate the grievances of war. It was your ,,