The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-15

lclarhatfdn a6 Looked to an orrejedton of
4 it byout State But Kentucky is equally inv ed
4 in the material branch of the Proclamation which
undertakes, by resi5sntial-sdict, to emancpate,
INSTANTLY all thSfslaves of the rebelous States
IThese may, without an exaggeration of their num-
. bers, be set down four millions. Abstracting
the 6e9 Tnit& stasess sad there rehs here Gag p
ment- in Delaware; tower one hundred thousand
| in Maryland; about fifty thousandin Missouri; and
I by the last census two hundred and twenty-five
thousand in Kentucky. SO that it APPARENT that
Kentucky has the largest residunry interest, sup
! posing that the proclamation is enforced in the
\ Southern States. That the value of this interest
must be reduced to nothing by the successful opera
ton of the Presidents ultimatum is too manifest
| for argument. Is there any reason why Kentucky
should be subjected to this indirect but not the less
fatal blow? Is there anything in the Constitution
] of the United States that warranted it? Was there
any thing in Congressional legislation that warrant
| edit And does any subsequent endorsement by
partzan Congress releveit from itsioriginaI usur-
patton? 1 think that one may search in vain for
any such power given to the President in the Con-
stution of the United States; and any exercise of
powers not granted therein is attempt to save
the Union out of and not an il. Kentucky and all
loyal States hold 1T to be fundamental doctrine,
that the Union, if saved at all, must be saved in
conformity to the Constitution and not in violation
of it. This truth is clear that argument is su-
perfuous. No at all versed in the spirit the
letter of our institutions seriously contend for
such powers the President undertakes to exercise
in his ProclBmation. The assumption of them has
alarmed the American mind, and the contemplation
of the result them has grieved thu American heart
Disguise the purpose you may, it is in truth
inducement TO servile insurrection by giving it
probability of success in fOrbidding the army to
interfere. will not pause here to depict the her
| rOrs of a servile war-no imagination conceive
of them-no pen can paint them. Even the
culinary Catalina, impressed with the sense of the
horrors of servle war; and scrupulOusly regarding
the dignity of Roman citizenship, rejected the aid
of slaves although they ocked in great numbers TO
| his standard. And those slaves were men of the
same generic root with the Romans, and many of
them educated in the arts and arms. This historic
truth might have been needed with profit by the
President and the force oft is immensely increased
from the fact that the ''Amereans of african des-
cent are the progeny of brutal ancestry and of
different race from our own.
But suppose his plan succeededs so far to give
liberty to four millions of slaves, and that it is eff
fected without servile Instruction, what then is to
be done with them? Are they to be permitted to
choose their own domieiliatOR, and, if they are,
may they not come into Kentucky in vast masses
and effectually destroy the institution here if
State had not been excepted out of the immedi
ate operation of the manifesto? Most assuredly
such would be the result. If the migratory wave
comes this way how can it be checked? According
to the Presidents view it Will be effort at free
dom and the army is forbidden to interfere. If
the other hand it is the intention to permit them to
remain where they are and all the landed estate to
be forfeited, will it not all be given to them its
lawful inheritors? What then is to become of the
white race? Either determination removal must
follow, if they remain they will be reduced to the
most abject poverty, and instead of raising the
standard of the ''iguOrant whites" as some call
them, il will reduce all to that level. = FL
But the saddest and most deplorabIe effect of the
Proclamation will be to fire the whole South into
one burning mass of inextnguishable hate and
study for revenge, and to utterly destroy all hope
of restoring the Union. This was undertaken
for that purpose alOnc-it was to put down the re-
bellion IN order that the ancient limits ofthe Nation
and the integrity of the Constitution might be
main tained. But what hope can there be of bring
ing about such desirable results, if the attempt is
made to strip the entire South bare of all estate,
real personal and mixed? 1t will produce such a
spirit of antagonism-such a fierce and uncomprO-
missing resistance that no after proposition will be
needed, and will of necessity compel the Southern
people to fight as those only fight who fight for
their homes and their families and all that makes
life dear. And then, too, what future does it pre-
sent to the occupants of the Mississippi valley! Of
what value will be the of that great artery of
our commerce, when it leads through desolated
fields or to the barren agriculture of lazy, ignOr
ant race who produce nothing to tempt enterprise,
and whose sole idea of liberty is to live without
labor? The entire upper region of the Ohio and
Mississippi is vitality interviewer in the defeat of
this mOnstrOus edict. 1t will reach to every farm
and workshop of that vast region, it will des-
troy the best market for whatever the industry of
the people might produce. will not pursue these
views, any fur ther-they Suggestions that must
sink deep into the mind of every statesman.
But by far the mOgt alarming aspect in which the
Proclamation presents ITSELF is its usurpaton of the
powers of the Government, upon the specious pre-
text that the President Sincerely believes it be
act Ofjustice warranted by the Constitution up
military necessity" If military necessity is
no longer 4 free people The sword has become
paramount and the civil authority subordinate
This monstrous doctrine has already received an in
dignant rebuke from the people themselves The
great States of New York, Ohio, Indiana, New Jer-
sey and Illinois in their recent elections have put
theft veto upon it; and late returns indicate that
COnnectieut an d other parts of New England will
soon add their emphatic condemnation. 1ndeedit
is apparent that the people aroused to sense of
the danger that threatens their constitutional Hber
ties and willin good time come to the rescue, I'm
til that day, which is unquestionaby at hand,
ton she has hitherto occupied. bet her not abate
jot title of her opposition to Secession to
Abolition, but let her Poise herself upon the great
truth that man is capable of self government, and
that God designs this country for great, free and
happy people, and shape her policy to that grand
end. In the meantime the Legislature would do
well to follow the example of our Kentucky fathers
Proclamation, and reafirm the great principles of
American liberty-State and National.
In conclusion, may be permitted to remark that
the distressing calamites of the past year teach
an important lesson. During the long period of
our National independence, God has favored US as
Union of these States; and under the Constitution
of our fathers the people were prosperous hap
py. Man, in the madness of his ambition or
through the insanity of discomfort undertook to
sever the bonds by which we united, and ruin
and desOlation have followed. The wrath of man
fulpenalty awaits those who misuse the goodness
Of Providence. Yet Heavenly Father has
claims upon our gratitude for the mercies he has
mixed with his chastsements.r He has caused the
earth to be prOdgal its yield. The seed time and
harvest have come in their and the gamers
have been filed to Overlooking with the abundance
of the past year. He has tempered the winds and
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