The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-09

and payment for colonization, from the Fede-
raj Treasury:
Il do hereby proclaim and declare, that
hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be pros
ecuted for the object of practically restoring
the constitutional relation between the United
States and the people thereof in which States
that relation is, or may be suspended or dis
turbed"
when, in these three acts, he is not only
eoing far beyond very far beyond, his own
Chicago Platform" aye, even trampllnS
under foot his solemn pledges-but is also as
Stunning powers not delegated to him by the
Constitution of the United States-and refus-
ed him by all the laws of nations for the con.
duet of civilized war. He has no authority in
Grotius, Pufendorf, Burlamaqui, Kent or
Wheaton, under the laws of nations, for the
thus taking of private property-if not from
rebels, from citizens ofthe United States who
may be loyal at heart, but who are obliged to
seem rebels-because he, Abraham Lincoln,
fails to exercise the Executive power of the
United States to protect them from the rebel
lion about The duty of the Government to
protect, to uphold, is just as much duty as
the duty ofthe subject or citizen to obey the
Government. The Government which tails IN
its own duty of protection, and abandons Its
subjects, pro tenn, to The de tacto government
over him, liberates him, pro tenn from the
obligations of allegiance thereto, to the right
full Government, de .jure These are plain
propositions of the law of natiOns-but, never
theless, the loyal citizen in the rebel States is
confused and COMPOUNDED with the rebel, and
his property is to be taken from him, by mere
proclamation-without judge orjury, or with
out giving him power to plead rebel force, con-
straint, &c., over him.
Nor does the President of the United States
paw any more respect in this proclamation to
the Constitution of the United States than he
does to the law of nations. In lieu of restor
b.,l
that part of it which recognizes slaves mate
rial for representation in the Congress of the
United States, and that clause, or compact,
which pledges the delivery up ION claim of
fugitive slaves-as well as treaties, compacts,
laws and judicial decisions, which throng the
statute books, and the Jaw reports, and the
whole history of the United States, from 1877
on to 1850. The proclamation act is an act of
reyolution-the overthrow of principles, pre-
cedents statutes, adjudications, almost in
Vulnerable. Ii is, in short, an appeal to the
| higher law, oreT or under, the Constitution Of
the United States, and if carried out, renders
the restoration of the old Constitution and
! Union impossible.
There are other politico-economical bear
ines and relations in this proclamation, of the
highest Importance to the white labor of the
North, that afford material for bountiiul dis
cussions No man in his mind can ever
think of the enormous deportation of four mil
lions of slaves-or, if its taxation on white Ia
Dor were endurable. of the inhumanities of
such n forced emigration; or, if there were no
forced inhumanities, of the sacking of the
plantation States of the labor which can alone
well cultivate them; or, Of the enforcing upon
white labor the cultivation of sugar, rice, in the
rice swamps, and of cotton in tropical climates,
all utterly untitled for white labor. The white
man can not do field work in such States as
Louisiana. 1t is death to him to try. But
what else is to be the effect of this inconsider-
ate if not inhuman policy of expelling into for
eien countries all the blacks of the Southern
States? In short, the President proposes life
no-trhere to the African, except in Africa or
Central America This policy certainly will,
if executed, preserve the power of the white
race, and of white blood, in the free States, but
is it possible policy? Does he believe his
own party will execute it? Have they mani
Tested any real disposition so to do? Has he
any security that they will :'enact'' any of his
recommendations" And if they do not
and the bars of migration and immi gration are
broken down between the States-such bars
now keep the slaves in the slave States
what else can happen every where-save that
which his lllinoisans apprehend-a wide, ex-
tensiye immigration ofthese free blacks into
the free States, to mix in with and to compete
with the free white labor of the North? The
human mind-so it seems to us-never con-
ceiyed policy SO well fitted utterly to degrade
aud destroy white labor, and to reduce the
whole Of this proclamation scheme.
Now, we may be locked up in Fort Lafay
cite for all this free speech" and 'free dis
cussion," but such fair and free discussion,
while liberty exists for white men, used to be
allowable, and here we venture upon tin
good faith and with the hope-that public
opinion may be SO aroused in the free States
that while drawing the just distinction be-
tween the support ofthe Government and the
support of the Administration of the Govern
ment we demonstrate, in the Congressional
elections to this Administration-that their
negro liberty, equality and fraternity schemes
have no hold upon the Northern mind. or
Northern people. President Lincoln is not
Government only an administrator of the
Government; and, while loyalty is moral and
religious duty to the Government, we owe no
loyalty to these revolutionary and demoraliz-
ing schemes of his proclamation Let us
show we are not to pay thirty or forty cents
on tea, six or eight cents on sugar, or coffee, |
Nc, to provide for the deportation of negroes. |
Let Us show We lend no sanction to any negro |
equality or fraternity schemes of the Amalga |
matlonists or Abolitionists. In Congress now
alone, and In Congressional elections alone, |
can we directly reach the Administration of
the Federal Government, and it becomes our
solemn duty, therefore, to unite upon them, |
and to give them our most devoted attention. |
PROCLAMATION by the President of the !
United States.
WHEREAS 1t has become necessary to call
INTO service not only volunteers but also nor
tIons OF the militia of the Sta ties, by draft. in
order to suppress insurrection existing in the
United States, and disloyal persons are NOT
adequately restrained by the ord mary nroces-