The Chattanooga Daily Rebel. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1862-1864, 1862-10-10
tsdm. B"ckHeH's Address 60 th- People O
k6atasky.
BhRpsrows. Ky Sept %. 1852.

One year ago addressed you from Russell
vile. The desPotism of the North. though at
tliat tisne only in its incipency had already
Invaded our state. The professed advocates
OF free-speecls had crushed the freedom of.thc
lfess. be privileges pi the Writ of H.,beas
Cd1ras had already been suspended by the
osctd ot the petty instruments OF uslrped pow
err The Constitution, which was the bass of
nHr' Old Union, had been violated in all it's cs.
sstnt,ai provisions. Our citizens, for ITO other
roas0lis than the advocacy OF the principles of
the Constitution. we're torn from their homes
and from our State to languisl in Northern
fr'sons,-and denied alike the knowledge of
their accusers and the privileges of Il air trial
The judicial department OF the government was
r'iriaaily suppressed! The Constitution, the
only basis of Union, was overthrown and all
ifs powers nsurped by til, Executive and the
degraded instruments. whom he chose to up
press free and a gallant people. Even then
the washington government WAS n rcvol atom
ary power built upon the ruins OF the Eonsttu-
tion, and welded 10y AN unprincipIet; Execu-
tive for the suppression of The liberties of the
People.
AS citizen of n State so dear TO its own
sons. and so renowned throughout the world
for Its love OF freedom felt 1t Was not onIv
my right, bur my highest duty to resist these
encro,chments upon our constitutional rights.
IL was IN this spirit that ! addressed YOU. The
cisioh OF those who from the beginning oppos-
ed the tyranny which has since oppressed ua
/ u Dorthern army. flushed with II temporary
success, has pursued is niaysuding career " ith
a :erocity and contempt for the CLAIMS oi jus-
tice and humanity which, have asionlsiied the
civilized world. lomr property has been sto-
Ell or destroyed; your slaves have been taken,
from yon on ihc plea that Mon are di>!oyai,L
hisloyal 10 The tyranny and tie us,itpafio
wH6, seek 10 take iiom you eve tie right 0
peaceful rcInon>tramce; your hnI,>e- lave l,cen
invaded by armed soiiIc.>: Won have been
[ mpcleh 20 endure. At the point oil tie bay
unet, unwairailiatlr >carchc>; ui,r la r. women
have been conrclici 10 render lie mo-l .ncnal
services to The EirelinGs uf the North who hav.
aB-umed to be your masters; no iircsit!, In V,
been sucrVi from ifiese ruii less ii!ir,,s on.
The nlufie ding victims OF this iclcille deg
potsm have been dragged 10 The MS ,,.a to
other loathson,e prisons CRAFTY l.il,arc
malice to sata:c tie lust Gi lyr.IilIcni Iu.,-
er. And when the prisons of our own >ta,c
were filled with ireenen and free Women. The
pcuitln,aries ar'i hastil,s Qt lie North still
; opened t. receive others untii the numbers are
astounding HAL even the li:,iucs of ii c
victims not permitted TO he known. The
once hoasicd la1id ,f freedom under abo.it OH
I!onli,,a' iop, % one vast prison house The,
starry banner, once 80 famed in Southern song
has been converted, in The hands uf Snn,ter
and Garrett Davis, and Seward and lincoln
and Hunter and Pope, ami Turchn :inI Boy lie
and Butler into the emblem ol all tha is t,p-
prcssive to nan and cruel and lis, cspcciiu ia
, woman. Yet to this emblem, degraded by be-
ing 50 upheld. we are required .mlmissively
70 bow as 10 talie,nan Which will sanctfy the
mat atrocious OF crimes.
/, Freemen of Kentucky! II needs not that YOU
look abroad upon the burning cities and will
az es and the devastated fields of Tennessee
and the Mississippi valley, and of omr tpohcr
State, Virginia, to convince yourselves or the
true character of our opprcsso Our otca
State shows sufficient evidences oG their tyran-
nv Nor need you listen 10 the piercing cries
of the women of northern Alabama. Our OPP
pressors would teach that the naincless
hrutalities of Mitchell and Turchin were sane
tilted by the folds of the immaculate banner
under which these deeds were perpctrated:
for we learn that their master has rewarded
these isssaiaws for their crimes. Nor need you
atook to Builer and New Orleans to see the
. depths OF degradation to which isiar may dss-
eend when he becomes the instrument of abo-
Etien tyranny. +. on the jaiis and prisons of|
dnr own Siate the fair daughters of Kentucky
call upon ma to release thrm E. om a despofisrn
almost without D parallel in history. We'll
may the organ OF Dir. Seward exclalin, that II
Lis time the North had learned that they were
Awarring not only against o. united South, but
aaains. the sentiments Of tie civilized world.
Tie nsms Of the Austrian Butcher" whose
cruelty was wreaked upon only one woman,
ctryevs an idea of moderation compared with
those of these Northern despots. Let ns not
insult the memory Of the Austrian by NELL
tioning his d sme in the same sentence With
those Of Mitchell and Butler, and Boyle and
Turchin.
Kentuckia.s! View the position in whi:h
the leaders OF the so-called Union party would
pface our state. IN a thousand ways they
solemnly declare that any attempt TO coerce
The Soutl, should be met by the armed oppD-
ai ion Of Kentucky. Wiih these declarations |
uton their lips, they gained your suffrage.
But no sooner had they been placed IN power,
than in violation of their repea'ed pledges,
they joined in the abolition crusade against ihe
Sonth, Under ahe gnise OF . iaithiess ne"traE
iiy, they devised scheme Of treachery to tae
people of this State, which is calculated to de-
privc lis of all civil equality. and to make us
virtually the political serfs Of the North.
Thrslgh h all the n,axes which duplicity can
lcHl to tortueus cburse, they have sought te
lead you from the support Of the neutrality
policy which they imposed upon the State, Ia
ITO aking yourselves the Instruments cf en-
forcing a;,ninst the South and against your
selves the policy ots indiscraminafe piunGer
ai'd robbery now urged by the abolition gov
ernment cf the North.
Freemen Of Kentucky! Whatever doubts
may have heretofore existed as to the designs
OF the northern government. they have been
dispelled by the last proclamation OF theL
President. In violation Of every principle OF
the Constitution in violation Of his own con-
strnetious of that instrument, in violation of
his own moet solemn pledges. President Lin
coin. assuming to be the master Of all his sab
ls'> ts aid that you are his abject slaves, has