The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-09
From the Lexington Statesman.
Gen. Buckner's Proclamation.

One wear ago 1 addressed you from Rus
seville. The despotsm OF the NORTH
though at that time only in Its inciPienoy'
had already invaded our State. The pro.
fessed advocates of free speech had crushed
the freedom of the press. The privileges of
the Writ of Habeas Corpu, had already been
suspended by the dicta Of the petty instru-
ments of usurped power. The Const'tution;
which was the basis of the old Union, mad
been violated in all its essential provisions.
Our citizens. for no other reason than the
ad vocacy of the principles of the Constitu-
ton. were torn from their homes and from
our State, to ianguish in Northern prisons
and denied alike the knowledge OF their
accusers and the privileges Of fair trial.
The judicial department of the govern
ment was virtually suppressed. The Con-
s,itution, the only basis of Union, was over
thrown and all its powers usurped by the
Executive and the degraded lnstru ments,
who he chose, to Cypress free and gallant
people. Even then the Washington govern
ment was a revolutionary power built upon
the ruins of the Constitution, and welded oy
an unprincpled Executive for the suppress
sion of the liberties of the people.
As a citizen of State so dear to its own
sons. and so renowned throughout the world
for its love Of freedom, felt it was not only
nv right, but my highest duty, to resist
these encroachments upon our constlt utlonal
rights. 1t was in this spirit that addressed
YOU The events of the past year have just
fled the decision of those who from the be-
ginning opposed the tyranny which has
since oppressed us. northern army, hush.
ed with a temporary success, has pursued
its maraudng career with a ferocty and
contempt for the claims of justice and hu-
manity which have astonsh ed the Civilized
world. Your property has been stolen or
DESTROYED; your slaves bave been taken from
YOU on plea that you are dslo yal ,-disloyal
! to the Tyranny and the usur patton which
seek to take from you even the right OF
pc ceful remonstrance; your houses nave
been invade ed by armed soldiers; you have
been com PEELED to endure at the point OF the
bayonet, unwarrantable searches; onr faiT
women nave been compelled to render the
most mental services to the hlreirnSs OF the
North who have assumed to hey our asters;
no firesides have been sacred from the ruth
less lntrusions. The unoffending victims OF
this relentless despoti,m have been dragged
to the tails and to other loathsome prisons to
crafty private malice or to satIate the lust OF
tyrannical power. And when the prisons o.
our opn States were filled with freemen and
free women, the penitentiaries and bastlles
Of the North still opened to receive others,
until the numbers now so Astounding
that even the names of the victims are not
permitted TO be known. The once boastsd
land OF freedom under abolition, IL one vast
prison house. The starry banner, once so
famed IN Southern song, has been converted,
in the hands Of Sumner and Garrett Davis,
and Seward and Lincoln. and Hunter and
pope. and Turchin and Boyle aEd Butler,
into the EN- Diem of all that is oppressive to
man and cruel and disrespectiul to woman.
Yet to this emble1,, degraded by being so
upheld, we are required su bmissiv eiy TO bow
as to talisman which will sanctIiy the most
atrocious Of crimes.
Freemen of Keutuckyi It need not that
you look alb Dad upon the burning cities and
villages. and the devastated fields Of Ten
nessee and the M ississippi valley, and OF our
mother State. Virginia, TO convince your
selves of the true character Of our oppresscrs
Our o,on States shows sufficient evidence Of
their tyranny. Nor need you listen to the
piercing cries of the women of northern Ala
bama Oar oppressors would teach US that
the pameless brutal,t;es Of Mitchell and
Turchin were sanctified by the folds of the
immacua ate banner under which these deeds
were perpetrated; for we learn that their
master has rewarded these outlaws for their
crimes Nor need you look to Butler and
New Orleans to see the depths of degrade
ton to which man may descend when he
be comes the !nstru ment of abolition tyranny.
From the ials and prisons of aur own State
the fair daughters OF kentucky call upon US
to release them from a despotism almost
without parallel in history. Well may the
organ of Mr.. Seward exclaim that 1t Was
time the North had learned that they were
; "warrng not only against a united South.
but against the sentiment OF the civilized
world" The name of the Austrian But
cher" whose cruelty was reaked upon only
| itoa Mt a. "A
com pared with those Of these Northern des-
pots Let us not insult the memory OF the
Austrian by mentioning his name In the
same sentence with those Of Mitchell and
Butler and BOYLE and Turchin.
Kentuckians! View the position in which
the leaders of the so called Union party
would place our State. In thousand ways
they solemnly deelared that any attemp: to
coerce the South should be met by the arm
ed opposition of Kentucky. With these
declarations upon their lips they gained your
suffrages. But no sooner had they been
placed in power. than in violation Of their
repeated pledges, they joined in the aboli-
ton crusade against the South. Under the
euise of faithless neutrality. they devised
a scheme of treach cry to the people of this
; State, which is calculated to deprive US of
civil equality, and to make us virtually the
political serfs of the North. Through all
the mazes which duplicity can lend to
tortuous course. they have sought to lead
YOU from the support of the neutrality policy
which they imposed upon the State, into
making yourselves the instrumen OF en-
forcing against the South and against your
selves, the policy of indiscrimnate plumber
and robbery now urged by the abolition
government of the North.
Freemen of Kentucky! Whatever doubts
may have heretofore existed as to the de-
sinns of thu northarn GOV ernm emf they have