The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-07-31

probably be put upon war footing very
shortly"
And who. pray. are the militia Of The
State? They are not made up OF the lead er.
of the Republican party in Indiana or Ohio
] know. 1 never knew that sort of polite
ians to 90 into any such organization, il
peace or in war. No men have ever been
more bitter and unrelenting in thoir opposi =
ton TO and rdicuie of the militia; and none
knows ii better than |. as my friend before
me by his smile. reminds me that one of m Y
own olfenses is that am militia brgadier
IN favor of the mkt foreign war.
But who are the militia? They are tb G
free born. strong armed stout-hearteG demo
Gratis OF 1niiana as they OF Ohio. Let
them be put on war footing. Good! We
have hosts OF them in the army already, and
on a war footing. but who are soun Demo-
Gratis and much devoted to the principles
OF the party they were they enliStcc.-
They have been in the South, and | have
the authority of hundreds of officers aud pri-
Yates IN that gallant army. for saying that
not only the original Democrats IN 1t,
more devoted to the party to-day than ever
/ before. bat that hundreds also who went
hence Republicans, have returned. or will
return, cured Of the disease. Laughter and
applause Sir, the army is, fortunately,
most fortunately for the country, turning out
TO be sort Of political hospital or sanitary
Institution, and | only regret that there are
not many more Republican patients in it
Laughter
Well. put the militia upon q war footing
Put arms in their hands. They never can
be made the butchers or jiilors OF their fel
low citizens, but the guardians OF free speech
ond free press. and Of the balot-boX.
Standing armies of mercenaries. not the
militia OF a country, are the cU, tomary in
struments Of tyranny and usurpAtou.
But this correspondent proceeds
'Ifthe YIN ,athizers with treason and traitors
We svmI athiz9 with treason and traitor>,-
We. who have stood by the G institution Id
the / mon from the organization Of the par
ty. in our fathefs' day and in our own day,
IN every hour of trial. in peace and in war.
IN victory ard in defeat amid disaster and
when prosperity beamed upon us-we to be
branded ~ euem es to our country by those
whose traitor fathers burned blue lignts as
signals for foreign foe. or met in Hartford
Convention TO plot treason and djsurion fifty
wears agoi We false to the COnsti' utjon and
to our government. he bones Of whose fathers
lie buried on every battle field Of the war of
1872. from the IN a-sacre at the K yer tlSin
TO he splendid victory at New o cleans: we
who bore aloit the proud banner Of the Re
public and planted it in triumph upon the
palace Of the Montezumas: We bv whose
wisdom n council and COURAGE in the field
for seventy years, the Constitution aud the
Union and the country which has grown
great under them. have been preserved and
defeuded; we to be denounced "a svmpa-
thizipg with treason and traitors, bv the men
who Tor twenty years have labored day and
night for the success Of those principles aud
Of that policy and that party which now
destroying the grandest Union the noblest
Constitution and the fairest Country on the
globe. Talk TO me about svmpat izng with
d:SuniOn. with t.easou and with traitors!
tell YOU. men Of Ohio. that in six months in
three months in six weeks it may be these
very men and their masters in Washington
whose bidding they do, will he the aavo-
Gates Of the eternal dissolution of this l Mon:
aud denounce all who oppose it As enemies
TO the peace of the country. Foreign inter
vention and the repeated and most serious
disasters which have lately befall?n our
arms. will speedily force the issue Of scpara
ticn and southern inderenieu
or Of Union by negotiation aud compromise.
Between those two | am-and I here pub
licly proclaim ii--for the Union, the whole
Union ana nothing less, if by any possibility
| can have il; il not, then for so much of 1t
as yet can be rescued and preserved; and in
auy event and under all circumstances, for
the Union which God ordained of the Mis-
sissippi Valley and all which may cling to
it. uuder the old name the old Constitution
and the old flag, with all their precious me-
mories, with the ba tile fields of the past
with the birth place and the burial place of
Washington the founder and Jackson the
preserver of the CONSTITUTION as it is and of
the Union Is it was. Great applause.
-; ,rocanAs-
.:If the rnpathizers with treason and traitors
med ate to carry ont their plans in this quarter :
What plans? Just such as to-day have
been the business of this Convention; the
plans of that old Union party, laying down
platform and nominating Democrats to fill
the Offices and control the policy Of the gov
ernment to the end that the Constitution
may be again maintained, and the u ion
restored. and peace, prosperity and happiness
once more drop healing from their wings
Plans the fellow proceeds, 'in this quar-
ter they will doubtless find the work quite
as hot as they hargained for And / tell
the cowardIv mjscreant who teIesraphed
the threat that he and those behind him,
will find the work hftv fold hotter when
they begin it than they had reclloued on.
both here and in Indiana.
Ten thousand stand of arms he adds,
have been ordered FOR the State troops
For wha;? To put down the Democratic
party. Sir. that is work which cannot be
done by teu. or twenty or fifty thousand
stand of arms in the hands of any such daS-
taras in Office or out of it. II so full OF valor
and 50 thirsty for blood. let them enlist un-
der the call just issued for troops in OHIO
and Indiana Let them % down and hIht
the armies Of the rebels in the Sonth. and
let Democrats fight the unarmed but more
insidious and dangerous Abo o'ition rebels ot
the North and West. through the ballot box.
!, Il ia