The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1862-12-11
DECEMBER IL

From the London Times, November s.
The Late Elections in EngIand--Presi
dent LincOIn's Arbitrary Arrests.
Opinion of the London Time
We have come to tie end Of the second
year of the great war for the Union Misery
beyond conception has fallen on a large sec.
ton of people; the most 6ourishing regions
have been laid waste; the bodies of tens o.
thousands of brave men are Wondering in
pts and trenches. wherever there has been a
camp or battlefield throughout the bord er
States; a debt, unascertaned in amount, but
known to be enormous has been contracted
and must be paid or repudiated; and, above
all. fiendish hatred has been epgendered
between two kindred communities which.
whatever the event of the war, must poison
al social Intercourse for years, perhaps gen
erations TO come. And what is the result?
Mr.. Lincoln ard his party has been dom-
nant as no set of men ever were before in n
land peopled by the English race. They
have governed twenty millions of their
countrymen with revolutionary freedom
from the trammels of law. They have
seized their political opponents. dragged
them from their oeds at night. hurried III I'M
on to military prisons. and kept them there
for months without, even informing them OF
their crime.
They have not on V suspended the hqJeas
corpus. bu; insulted aud threatened The high
est Judges in the Union the legal interpret
ers Of the Constitution. They have carried
on a y ar with a barbarity at which the
world has stood amazed, destroying harbor<
burning river side towns. putting the in
babiiaDts of captured places to hard labor.
contrary to all the laws OF war. arI even
wresking A shameless vengeance on women.
They have passed a coniscatinn act. to en-
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they have forced on their chief prnclama-
which is to excite. ifpos<ibe, an ignorant
race TO deeds of murder. lust and rapine -
And what is the result at the end of the Sc
cond year of war? TO what purpose have
these multi udes persffed-these millions of
money been ,'asted? To what purpose has
the industry of the chief European nations
been impaired. ard the population of an
English province begsared? Let the &C
cot nts we are now publishing from America
answer The question. 1t is plain that
change is coming over the people Of the
Northern States. Every where there
signs that m en- reused 10 ask themselves,
what is this Government to which they
have surreb d cred their liberty, their nation
al honor, their private fortunes their very
lives: what is this war of exrerminati"n
agair.t six or seven millions of their ow"
race, whose only fault is that they have IS
serted'tbe right OF -lf-government, which
all Americans hold TO be the foundation OF
human Institutions; and what are the mill
tarv achievements of this political party
which is so VI scrupulous in its practices.
both toward its own citizens and the enemy!
Are the dest:nies of Ar erica to be in the
hands of those who, while they violate all
constitutional law in the North and all mill
tary aud international law in the south, are
unable to advance the cause OF the Union by
a sirgle decisive campaign?
The most important events within the last
mouth have been the elections From the
returns already MAZE, il Is beyond doubt
that throughout The whole country the dis
t.us, ant, hatred Of President Linc"'n's gov
eminent are becoming every dav stronger -
Three months ago no Democrat dared 10
open his mouth in opposition to the Wash
ipetop terroristS, and sever.i men OF nigh
posjtiops in their own States were SeiZ I'd
ard sent OF to one fort or aro'h-r Tor no
other reason than they were su>p"c'e! TO
mediate ar electoral campaign. O"e of tho
most eminent men III Pennsylvania. IT VIII
be remembered, was lately arrested under
ono of these Ietlres de c,,chet, and only liher-
a,ed because a serious disturbance would
have f. Flowed. All over the North, how
ever. the battle OF free government Is now
being fought by the Democratic party an"
with singular success In Pennsylvania.
Ohio. Indiana, even in Connecticut, the
gains Of the Democrats have be en- large, and
were there such a thing a general cleo
ton, the majority iE Congress would prob
ably belong to them, and the whole policy
of the country he changed. But enough
has been done to sober the President and
his Cabinet Should the contest in the En-
pire State of New York result in the cleo
ton of Mr.. Seymour. or even in the polling
of large minority for him, the policy OF the
Government would receive a condem nation
against which it ould hardly dare to strnS
gle. 1t is generally admitted that the Re
publican majority which brought MIR. LIN
coin and his friends into power two years
ago has been destroyed BY the mingled IN
capacity and violence which are displayed
at w Washington. A brilliant desporism may
blind a nation for a time. but Governm en'
that is at once tyrannical and stupid can 10,
long avert its overthrow.