The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-30


n US. And for what was our Constitution
n mainly formed? What were its purposes
u In the main, exterior orpurposes-purposes ou
!, Of and beyond the domain of the United
u States. 1t was commerce, ,self-interest, tina
e created the Government of the United
o States; it was the desire of the people of the
Chesapeake Bay to have free trade with the
9 Hudson River; it was the desire of the peo-
l pie of Rhode Island to import and export
t from South Caroliua without customs. Free
trade, free commerce, and self-interest were
the main-sprpgs which, in 1887, formed
the Government of the United States. In
the prosecution of this war l would then,
have the Government hold on to New Or
leans, repossess Mobile. take Galveston, con :
quer or subjugate Charleston at any expense.
Let the Government hold on to all the
Southern ports for the collection of revenue.
l would have the army of the United
States occupy the great points of the Missis-
sippi River, and the cardinal points on the
railroads, and | would have those points for
titled, and then | would leave the rebellion
thus surrounded to sting itself to death, to
crush itself out by the violence of its own
venom. [Applause. This geographical war
of overrunning people whose territory ex-
tends from the Potomac to the Rio Grande,
protected in many parts by an internal cli-
mate-this idea of overrunnng with orth-
ern people not habituated to that climate,
that vast extent of territory, is a theory that
in the end must fail. Our great duty GER
! ta;nly is, not to rest till the Constitution Of
/ the United States is re-established, and the
/ Union restored as it was, not as the Aboi-
tionists would have it. Let no man, there
fore, pervert what l say. l have 10 SYM
pathy either with treason or Secession. l
abhor Secess onism and Abolitionism both.
Great applause. | have no more respect
tor Wendell Phillips than | have for eff
Davis. Jeff Davis is but rebel two years
old, and Wendell Phillips is rebel by his
own confession, twenty years old and more.
Laughter and applause.
Fellow citizens | have detained you too
long, No. no, 90 on but felt it my duty
to discuss the cardinal, primary, fund lament
al principles of this Government, and unless
thew are maintained and vndicated, we
shall become here what all other Republics
have been, the victims of tyranny and des-
potism. Turn over the pages of history,
full of the tombs and sepulchers of Repub-
lies that have fallen. With the exception of
the little Republic of Can Marno, on peak
OF the Appenines we are the only Republic
on the face of this broad earth. We are
trying two great periments-hrst, if the
pronu ncam ento of people, dissatisfied with
the constitutional al result of an election, can
subvert the Government; and, secondly, if
tyrants in heart and spirit, can fasten upon
us. a Northern free people, tyranny which
will put our Republic in the same category
of the tombs and sepulchers Of all other Re-
publics that have gone before it. Never,
never.' Freedom is precious boon, a
b;rthri hit boy ond oil Prioo aud caloula
Demagogues, tyrants and monarch lists, th 9
hypocrisy in the North, for while the
preach the equality of the negro, they will
not sit side by side with him in the same
pew, or even in tle same church. They
will not worship God scarcely at the same
altar. They bury him away in some corner,
they hide him in some dark gallery, and
when God has removed him from the earth.
I trust to better world, instead of honoring
him in the grave with some equality, they
put him away in some dark corner of a
Potter's Field. They will not marry or iu-
termarry with negroes. l can not persuade
nv frie nds of the Tribune to make negroes
associate editors with them; 1 can not in
duce them to employ negro reporters, COM
positors or pressmen, and yet they preach
negro equality and fraternity out of the Tri-
bune domain. How are you. Greeley, and
the white coat and hat?' followed by Kisses
for Greeey.l
Let US look, now, at Proclamation No. 2.
1 approach this topic with more apprehen-
sion than have any of the Others, for there
is more threat in its promulgation. Don't
be afraid, go on.' This proclamation is a
corolary of Proclamation No. l. 1t sub
stantially says to the free white people of the
North, if you discuss and agitate this sub
iect of emancipation, ifyou make war against
the Administration upon this snbject, you
shall be incarcerated in Fort Lafayette
Go on, let them try it'll The proclama-
ton forbids all disloyal practices, and among
other thing states that all persons who are
guilty of disloyal practices shall be subject |
ed to martial law. But who is to judge of
this guilt of disloyal practices? The courts
of law-judges and juries? Oh. no. Dick |
Busteed'l The Provost Marshal of the city
of New York Superintendent Kennedy, the
head of the police. Kisses. And if have
an enemy, and that social enemy approaches
the Pro ovost Marshal and whispers that an,
guilty of disloyal practices. he having studied
into the secrets of some family circle, the
Provost Marshal without process, without
Judge or jury, can call to his aid two thou
sand policemen and can arrest and incarce-
rate me in Fort Lafayette, and I am there
beyond the hope of hobeas corpus and the
protection of law. No, never.1 There are
two points in the Proclamation. First is the
suspension of the civil, and the establish
ment of martial law and the second is the
suspension of the habeas corpus. You all
know what the civil law s-judges, juries,
courts, and the process by which you have
been accustomed to see law administered,
but the martial law you DO not know. It
has been our happy lot. since the founda
ton of this Government, never before
to know what martial law was in this coun-
try, and v,e Can not know what it is now,
but we read of it in the history of des-
potic governments over the Atlantic Ocean.
Martial law is the law of the bullet, the law
of the drum head court, OF the epaulette, the
absolute law, the law from which there is
no court Of appeal, but to the iurisd lotion Of