The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-07-31

disloval papers Of this city Yesterday, that
jeff Davis; and Toombs, and Yancev, and
Rhet'. aud other secessionists of the South.
would derive much comfort from this days
meeting.
Well sir, have Just come from body Of
men which | would not for II moment pre-
tend to compare for statesm ansIip, respect
ability or patriotism, with this Convention.
That body has devoted its time aud atten-
ton to doing more in six months. for the
cause Of seceSsionism, than Beauregard. and
Lee. and Johnston, and all the Southern
Generals combined have been able TO accom-
plsh in one year. Said a Senator from the
Sonth the other dav. Union man: Jeff.
Davis is running two Con gresses now. and is
making n Id sight more out of the Wash
ington Congress than the one at Richmond. ,
Laughter. and many remarks OF approval. !
The legislation of that body has been al
most wholly for the Aim ,ghty African
From :he prayer in the morning for, gentle
men, we are a piouS body, we are-making
long faces. and sometimes wry. faces. too,
/ Qaughter.) open with prayer but there is
not much Of the Almighty Maker of heaven
and earth in it. from the PRAYER, to the
motion 10 djourn, it is negro in everv shape
and form in which be can By anv pos ibiii y
be served up But it is not only the negrp
inside of the House and Senate, but outside
also. The city Of Washington has been
within the past three weeks. converted into
one universal hospital; every church. except
one Tor each demon nation, has been seized
! for hospital purposes; and while the sanctu-
aries Of the ever living Gpd--the God OF
| Abraham, Isaac and JAcob-not the new
God Of the Burlin2ames and Summers and
other Aholltionists, not that God whose Cos
gel is written in the new Bible Of Abolition
r
/ been confScated for hospitals. every theatre
every concert saloon, everv other places of
amusement, from the highest to the low est
from the spacious theatre in which q
Forest exhibits 10 an enraptured audience
his graphic renderingS Of the immortal crea
tons OF Shakespeare down TO the basest den
Of revelrv and drunkenness, are open still; as
in the Inferno of the great Italian poet
The gates ofhel stand open night and day.
Sir, if these places of amusem ent-inno-
cent some of them but not holy, certainly
had first been seized h cspitals. for th e
comfort and cure of the thousands of brave
and honest men, who went forth believing
in their hearts that they were to battle for
the Constitution aud the Union. but who
/ now lie wasting away upon their lonely pal
lets, with no wife or sister. or mother there
to soothe. groauing in agony with every de-
scription Of wounG which the devlish in
genuty of man can inflict by weapons, whose
! invention was inspired by the very auth or
Of all human woe and suffering g-wound; ,
too, ranking aud fostering far the want Of
surgical aid-if those places, | saw, had first
b cen seized, and then it had become neces-
sary for the com fort or life Of the thousands
of other sick and ,vonndoi who borno
into tho city every day, to occupy the
churches OF " ashington, | know Of no bet
ter or hoier puopose to which they conld
have been devoted And now, sir not far
from the stately capitol, within whose mar
BILE walls abolition treason now runs riot, is
building Green's Row by name, in
which 100 fug:tives slaves contrabands'
in the precious slang Of infamous Butler
daily receive the ratiOns OF the soldier, " b ich
are paid for ont of the taxes levied upon ID e
people. One hundred thousand dollars
day are taken from the Public treasury for
the support OF these fugitive slaves while
the army OF Shields. and the Union armie
in the fi I'D even so lately As SIX weeks ago.
marched bare footed, bare headed, and in
their drawers, for manv weary miles with
out so much a cracker or a crust Of bread
with wnich to allav their hunger. Ave sir,
while many gallant young soldier of OHIO.
just blooming into mar hnoi who heard the
cry that went mp fifteen months ago, rally
to defend the flag and for the rescue of the
capital aud went forth tc battle with hon
esty in his heart his life in his hand. with
courage in every fiber. and patriotism in
every vein. lies wan and on his pallet in the
hospital your surgeons are forced to divide
heir time and care between the wounded
soldiers and these vag ,bond fugitive slaves,
who have been seduce1 or forced from the
service of their m ssters. These things AMI
\
all-are done in Washington We know it
there thouy it Is withhe;c! from the people:
and while every ia sehood hat the ingenuity
of man can invent to delude ard deceive, is
transmitted allowed by the tylegrap phic
c,nsors of the Administrition-'hem selvs IS
usurpers unknown to the Constitution and
laws-these facts are not permitted To reach
the people Of the United States Your
newspapers, the natural watch dogs of liber
ty are thr eatened with suppression il but the
half or the hundreith part Of the truth be
told. And now, too, when but one other
m cans remained for the redress of this & the
hundred other political grievances. un" er
which the land groans-partv org,niz alton
and public assem- blages of the people-even
these, too, are Threatened with suppression
by armed force. Aye, sir, that very party,
which not MANY years ago, bore upon every
/ banner, the motto free Speech AMI Free
! Press,'' now day by day forbids the trans
j mission through Your mails Of the papers
! from which you derive ynur knowledge Of
| public events, and which advocate tn g prin-
ciples You cherish.
And Democratic editors. too, are seized
'kidna pped' in the midnight hour-to-n from
their familes-yayged their wives with
officers over them m snaciny violence if they
but ask one farewell grasp of the hand, one
parting kss-:hrus, into a close carriage ir
the felon's hour OF mid night, and with vio-
lence dragged to this Capitol and here forced
Ipon an express train and hurri ad off 10 a