The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-30
EXTRACT FROM THE SPEECH OF THE
HON. JAS. BROOKS
Before the Democratic Union Associa
lion. September 30, 1862.

Hon. James Brooks, on rising, was re-
ceived with great cheering. As soon as
silence was restored, he said:
The next proposition of the proclamat ation
IS compensation for slaves. Here plant nv
foot down on the steps of my fathers, in this,
and other Northern States, and tell the
South to abolish slavery there as our fathers
did, and pay for their slaves when they
abolish the institution, and not force taxa
ton upon us to pay for the emancipation of
their slaves Applause. l will not tax tb e
poor man of the North nor the rich man of
the North TO pay for the emancipation of
slaves in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia.
/ Tennessee, or anywhere else There is no
such authority in Congress to appropriate
money Tor any such purpose whatever. All
| ot these Northern States have abolished
slavery by their own free WILL and under
their own laws have compensated the peo-
pie or not compensated them as the people
OF the States wiied. And yet the Presiden,
of the United States, in the exercise of the
power Of the Executive, promises to call up-
on Congress to tax the people of the North
tor the compensation of slaves, loyal or dis
loyal. What, are We, who are about to be
more and more overriden by taxation to be
taxed even as the people of England and
France are taxed on every thing we eat
drink, wear and move about in? Are we to
tax the laborer OF the North, earning for his
family. dollar or two dollars a dav. for the
emancipation of slaves in distant States of
the Union, yer whose local interests, over
whose municipal authorizes, in who's e debts
or credits. or in whose systems of govern
ment we have no earthly right to exercise
anv power. and in which we have but little
interest? Cheers.
The r,ropoSj.iop oc ba praciJapt i
huge system of colonization for these slaves
Coming as he hoes from the State of Illinois,
his own Republican State which gave him
the Republican vote, imbued with the idea
OF the Western people that they will not
have negroes to live ard dwell among them
he proposes to tax the Treasury of the
United States millions upon millions to col
onize, in Chiriqui or elsewhere, some three
or four millions of negroes, at the expense
of the North. Why, never did dreame-
idea enter the head, it seems to me, Of any
wild Utopan scheming philosopher Laugh
ter and applause
The abduction, the emancipation, the col !
onization Of four millions of human beings
from the cotton and rice fields of the South.
from the tropical districts of that region,
where only the negro can work, where the
white man n.not possibly labor under that
tropical sun, the colonization of three or four /
millions of once happy human beings to .
some foreign country, on some wild prospect .
of EN- igration, and the taxation of twenty .
millions of Northern people to pay the eX-
penses of this negro color ization, is utterly
i'm possible and never will take place. What
ever the President may say, or whatever he
may dream of, the southern negro will re-
main here in the land of his adoption and
now The land of his birth, and the only ques-
.; e s. L. -, Lotb in
ing, States shall be left untrammeled, un-
noticed ard undisturbed by us, they have
been, from the foundation of the Govern
ment, or whether we shall use the pewer of
the army to subvert and destroy the authority
of their masters and install these slaves as
masters Of the Southern States of this y Mon,
never never and when thus installed.
whether we shall have partnerships with
them.
For one, / am ready to say that if the
time ever arises when Georg ia or alabama,
or Virginia or Louisiana is governed by ne
groes, with negro judiciary. negro senators
IN Congress, and negro representatives, 1T is
quite time for the white people of the North
to dissolve partnership with any such State.
T Loud cheers All these, however, are
dreams of negro liberty, equality anu frater-
nifty; and if the schemes of the President are
carried ont, there must inevitably follow
" hat the A bolitionIsts now demand of him,
he armin of the slaves, their adoption in
to the army of the United States, and our
recognition of them, not only as fellow
soldiers, but as fellow-citizens also. APP
plause and laughter. In Louisiana there
are now thousands of slaves supported on
Government rations and every negro costs
the United States forty cents a day for his
rations. Som ethng must be done with these
ho hol StS n
them into the army of the Uni ed States.-
This is no new proposition. A like PROPOSE
tion was made two years ago, in the State
of New York-the beginning Of that idea,
to give negro suffrage to negro voters, and,
though thi was Republican State, going
for Mr. Lincoln by fifty thousand majority,
the Republicans themselves had good sense
enough to vote down that proposition by an .
INN ense majority. But what m can these
propos itions? They are nothing new. Let
us see.
Look at Spanish America Spanish Amer
ca was settled by the lofty and proud III.
dalgos of Spain; New England was settled
bv the Puritaus; am estown, Virginia, by
different class of people. not all Chevaliers,
as some of them far different from gentle
men. These three classes Of people settled
on this continent of America; the Purltans
in the East, Virginians in the center and the
Spanish Americans in the South, God never
made a nober race of men than the old
>prnish Hidalgos True to their loyalty.
rue to their God and King, they carried
heir ole flag from the banks of the Guadal-
luiver far across the Atlantic Ocean. from
he shores of Florida through South Ar, erica
20 Patago MIA, and from thence to Chill. Peru
md California, or across the Cordilleras.-
they wen up the Rio de la Plata; and every
where, faithful to their God and King, they
,arried this old flag of Spain in glory from