The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-09-25
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FROM, FOREIGN PAPERS.
What the Irish Press saw. of us.

VI 90
5 fly tor change to some region where potism
> is the rule. Toe. much liberty is. no doubt
; as injurious to nation as too much plum
pudding to child and the Federal Gov
ernment, with more than paternal solicitude =,
} IS putting its subjects upon low aud less
. palatable diet. Whether the said subject will
relish this die. is their own affair, but there
are not wanting indications of mutinous
spirit, which may become very difficult to
curb. In plain words, drafting has com
menced in the States and the people do not
like it. Whether their repugnance will be
overcome remaines to be seen; but it can on
ly be overcome by arguments as strong as
steel, and as sharp as the point of bayouet.
/ The Secretary OF w ar has issued two or
ders, the appearance of which shows plainly
that We were lot wrong when we asserted
that drafting would not be popular in Amer
ica. he first order 'forbids all persons Ii.
able to be drafted from leaving the United
States, or even their State or county, upon
pain of arrest; and we take it for granted
that the Secretary will make himself the
! Judge OF the liability OF any and every per
son claiming exemption or attempting to
make his escape. Thus the Federal States
have become a vast prison house, and men
who one year ago prided themselves upon
The liberty they enjoyed are to day in bon
dage more oppressive than That under which
the subjects OF tb be late k:rg Bomba suffered
| a county in America is a very small portion
/ of territory, something like a barony in Ire
land. OG the tongue of land Known as the
/ Yorktown Peninsula, for example, there are
| DO fewer than eight counties between Rich
| mond and Fortress Monroe. In the State
of Pennsy lyana there are seventy counties;
and the effect of the order issued by Mr.
/ Stanton will be to make every citizen liable
| to be drafted & prisoner in his own country.
| He must not pass across its border on anv
preteuce ot business or lleasure-though in
/ deed, in one sense, that may not be SO great
a derivation as il seems. Commerce and
business will soon forsake land which it
given up to insanity; and as for pleasure,
the only pleasure that remains for the Fed
eral States is that OF committing the final act
of suicide. When men can be found 20 pass
a resolution such as that adopted by the war
m eeting at Washingtan-a resolution to
"prose secute the war until their towns and
cities are made deSsolate. aud they and all
that are dear to them have perish ed, with
their posse ssioDs'-it is idle to speak OF Ell
ther business or pleasure in connection with
them. t ct
The second order is that any person do
ing or saving anything to obstruct enlist
ment will be summarily imprisoned. This
order is, of course, corollary to the other [
In a country where men are liable to be
drafted. the universal impulse must be to
escape. Order No. provides for the check
ing of this impulse. The natural conse-
ouence of coufning men as prisoners wlthir I
q Given district is, that they wii grumole
and protest. Bat the Federal Government
is lust as well prepared to prevent Srumo-
ling and protestation as to check natural I'M
nnises. and. therefore, Order No. is issued
to make men close their mouths and keep
their Indignation to themselves. 1t Is OF
course, possible that this course OF proceed
ing NAV succeed; but it can only be success
ful on the suppositon that puollc spirit ma mas
no existence in the Federal States. We
have hitherto been accustomed to think
that there was such thing as public spirit
at the other side of Atlantic. Ii we were |
mot deceived in th at notion, there VIII be
snch resistance to the recent order OF MT.
Secretary Stanton as will very soon end his
official existence, and with it end the war.
II is essentially an American maxim that
all Governments exist only by the consent
of the governed. If that be granted, then
# follows that the leading acts OF govern
ment must have the popular asse and ,ha'
so soon as the governing pooy 90 ahvthlps
| oainst the liberty of the people, and pursue
noIicv Of which the people do not approve,
| the Government must either come % an
and or DEGENERATE into a despotsm Now,
newsnaners nav write what they please, and
meetings may pass any set OF suicidal reso-
| lutiops that Government ofhcer may oic-
tate but tn e truth remains that the people
| for the Federal States do not want any iur-
| thor fiohting. unless it can be done by
nroxv The cautious Irishman who an
| nounced. at the close of meeting that IL
was desirable that everyone shouIu Keep
his nlace until the crowd had gone out. has
a
order of the day has been, let everyone de-
! cline to volunteer until the 100000 men
ore made up, and the eifectual consequence
| ;s that the men are not forth com ing. III
the war was popular-ii the masses oeiieVeo
that il would be successiui-the hlSn Doun-
tv would have filed the ranks ct the army
nmonth AGO. The ranks Of the army have
not been filled, and we may infer that the
war is not popular, and that the peop'e
have lost faith in its success. Ihe qnes-
tiop. then is, if they will not volunteer wnen
offered a considerable bounty, Will they
consent to conscription? The prooao'i!'y
is, that they will not 1ne hFso iesioS
will. of course, be compelled to JOIN the
army or 90 to prison; but. in the mean
time. an organization may be made whlcn
will effecruaIly end the CONSUMPTION an Inc
war. In Indiana, for examp pie. secret So
ciety. consisting of 1900 members, mas
been discovered. Its object was TO prevent
Federal enlistment. resist taxation, and as
sist the Confederates. In Kentucky, there
is great excitement on account oi the ofa'':
inc and many persons have been arrested
in sndeavorins to leave. IN Missouri. there
hoe been collision between the State troop
and the populace, 'the'cltizens having oonn'
Themselves together to prevent enrollment'
In New York, the Irish crowd the oihce o
the Consul and the cry for exemption paper: ape