The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-26
Breaking up of the Democratic State
Convention at Frankfort.

lBreahnS up OF the DemoCrat1C State
Convention at Frankfort
We publish in our columns this week, the
official report of the proceedings of the
Democratic State Convention at Frankfort
on the 18th OF February, and also the ac-
count of the tyrannical process by which the
Convention was dispersed. The latter was
evidently prepared as a justification of the
arbitrary and lawless action of Col. Gilbert;
but it utterly fails in presenting single ele-
ment Of Justification His conduct was law
less and indefensible throughout; and we do
not believe there is a decent citizen in the
land, who knows any thingof law, or justice,
or government, that will have the hardihood
to defend the conduct of this military up
start from Abolitiondom. Certainly none
will defend it, except such as may shield
themselves, as cowardly tyrants habitually
have done in all ages, under the protection
of military force. The people of Kentucky
are startled by this outrageous proceeding
Evidences are already exhibited, showing
the electrical indignation with which they
regard it; and showing, furthermore, that
they will not submit to it. till they are pre-
pared to become slaves. The act of sup
pressing the Convention was illegal, tyran-
nical and utterly indefensble.
Every consideration relating to the sub
ject, epjoins upon us to say, what we religi-
ously believe to be true, that the delegation
from Mason County to the Democrat State
Convention, comprised as respectable class
of men as ever repr esented any community of
people. We believe we know every one Of
the twenty odd citizens who represented
Mason. They were all men of the highest
character as gentlemen aud citizens. Out Of
all the masses of those opposed torthe DEM
ocracy, a more respectable delegation, in any
of the elements of character which make
men estimable, could not have been chosen.
even by critical selection. The Mason
delegation were men who were peers, rot
merely in the legal sense, but in every sense,
as men, as citizens, as patriots, intellectually
and morally, OF the best that could DO picked
out Of the opponents of the Democracy in
this County or elsewhere. And we feel it
duty to state moreover, what we believe
down to the bottom of our soul, that there
was not one single Democratic delegate from
Mason, who was not and is not better friend
of the Constitution of the United States-a
truer friend of the Union-a more loyal sup
porter Of true governm mcmillan Abe Lin
coin himself, or any man who supports him
In his admitted unconstitutional acts of
usurpation and tyranny. Abe Lincoln's pur-
pose clearly is-and what honest man can
now be blind to it or have the hardihood to
deny it?-to abolish slavery, recognized and
protected as it is by the Constitution and
laws, even if the effort to do so everturn the
Constitution and Union. The Democracy
are for the Constitution and the Union
and there can be no q MON, and ought to be
none, except that established by the Con-
stitution.
We have no reason to suppose that the
delegates from other counties were less de-
serving of public confidence than those from
Mason.
Gilbert, in breaking up the Convention,
played a small part which some of the Adolf
ton papers heroize by comparing it with the
part of Cromwell in dispensing the British
Parliament. This is simply ridiculous
Gilbert's act may have been as lawless and
even more wicked, but to compare it in
moral dignity, is the sublimity of nonsense;
for the fact is known, and will be fastened
in history, that Gilbert only played the
mumbling part of an instrument of others,
with a regiment of fixed bayonets at his
back In his lawless proceedings at Frankfort.
The time is coming for fuller discussion of
this subject, and it will be done thoroughly; |
and when done, no man who participated in,
or approved this indefensible outrage can
respectable reputation before
proud and intelligent people, who claim to
be freemen.
Some papers assert that Gov Robinson
approved the doings of Gilbert. We don't
believe one word of that. We shall refrain
saying, therefore, what we would say Of His
if we did believe it. We are
quite mistaken in the man, if he would lend
his sanction to any lawless or tyrannical acts
in subserVience to any power under heaven.
o. General Butler visited Baltimore