The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-06-28
Kcnsaeky asd ths AbslitIen War Policy

kcntacky and ths Abslltisn war felicy.
The so-callcds Union men recently held
conventions In Owen and Marion counties
ky., and passed series Of resolutions, come
Of which VIC sutjein. While protesting to
oppose a,policy on which the radical abolition
party Of tho North are urging on this war,
these Onion men continue to lend their aid and
countenanco to the enemies Of tho South, and
dare not raise hand to strike down the mon
ster which iIas bound their own limbs in
chains, and now seeks to rhackle people who
arc freely pouring ont their blood in the cause
OF liberty and independence. 1t is claimed by
some Of the Western papers that the senti-
ment of these resolutions 10 the sentiment of
the Democratic purity at the North; but, ex-
cept in few individual instances, the whole
experience of the war gives the lie to the as
sertion:
% That the course of the radical men in
Congress-the Summers, the Wilson's, and the
I0veloys,- has a tendency To convert the glo-
rious triumphs Of the nation into barren veto
res, and that in the opinion of this meeting
the measures proposed by these fanatical men
are more dangerous to our institutions than all
the mad efforts of armed rebels in conflict with
the nation. We, therefore, denounce them as
traitors, and their proposed legislation as the
vllcst OF treason, and we endorse and ap-
plaud the patriotic efforts of our venerableand
able Representative from this district. the Hon.
G. A. Wicklife, directed against their n:llig-
pant and treasonable and revengeful legislation;
and we also extend our hearty appreciation to
the entire Kentucky delegation in Congress,
with the Hon Garret Davis in the Senate, and
we here avow tha. they truly represent the
sentiments of the Union men of this State.
~. That the restoration of our glorious
Union upon any otheraprinciples than those of
the Constitution as it is, and the Government
as 1t was, is utterly impossible. \ consolidated
Government might be formed, with a standing
army to sustain it, and ruffian soldiery to exc
cute It's ediets, but not a free Government. And
with all the energy with which we love our
country, its peace, Its prosperity, and it's hap
piness, we appeal to the President and to Con
gress, and We demand of them that they stand
by the pledges they have given -us. We call
upon the whole people TO rally to the support
OF the institutions theS came to lls from the
hands Of our illustrious and venerated ances.
tors, and by conventions and public addresses
that they appeal to the men in power to with.
hold their hands before, in the madness of
fabric of human freedom, and cause the noblest
institutions of the earth to go down into the
dark night Of an endless despotis:n."
The Union Convention in Marion county,
KY, passed the following:
"Resolred, That change Of that policy by
the Government to 8 crusade against the Pc
culiar institution of tle South would be q
fraud Of the most henous character, perpe-
trated by the Government on the loyal South
ern States, us we'll as on the Union loving and
conservative of the Northern States, who have
united together III that grea. national ordeal
through which we arc now passing, We re-
gard such a change Of policy as ominous OF
tho greatest national cHlainities, and VIC are
slow TO believe the President will ever con
sent to stultify himself by any such change.
"Resotced, That every, attempt OH the part
of the Government to destroy the indepen-
dence or equality of the revoltcd States meets
with our unqualified condemnation.
''ResOlced That the ultra and radical mea.
sures of the Aboiitionists in the present Con.
gress, in our solemn judgment, have done ,aore
to weaken tho arm Of tho Government, and tu
add power and numbers to the ranks Of the re.
hellion, than any effort of the Confederate
Congress has ever done.
''ResOlred, That all acts of contiscaton OF
slave property Of rebels, looking to the freeing
among u, or our Southern sister States, Of the
slave population, we regard as not only un
wise, impolitic. and unstatesmaniike, bu'
wholly and unqualifedly ahhorrent 10 avery
true lover Of the Constitution aud the Union
as direct violation of the genius aud spirit OF
the organic law, and as enlnently calculated tc
consolidate the slave States in once mighty
power against the Government, and thus tenG
to procras,inate the most unhappy and deplo
ratie war that ever desolated any land.
"Resoired, That this war must emptatically
be fought on the side of the Union without tbs
aid of>armed negroes. To arm them in thi,
strife is worse than unfeelng and unchris.iar
it ID brutal