Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-02-01

troops in Kentucky for the military
service of the United States.

rg7h tne Ylectlons Ior congressional
Representatives, which tool, place
directly, candidates made pledges to
refuse men and money to coerce the South.
ern States. You trusted and elected
them. They audaciously betrayed their
pledges by voting half a million of sol.
diers and FIVE hundred millions of
money to prosecute the war, and to
coerce the Southern States.
The elections of State representa-.
tives wore carried under similar pre-
tences, but when the Assembly con.
vened the representatives, usurping
the constitutional functions Of the Ex.
ecutiye branch Of tho State Govern.
ment, assumed through their agents
the distribution of arms and the man.
agement of military affairs in the State
enforcing their will upon the people
of Kentucky by DEGREES, as odious in
their sanctions rs they were eXtraor.
dinary in their severity.
You, people of Kentucky, BY IL few
politicians in your State, were thus
first hoodwinked and betrayed, then
Inundated and coerccd TO line of
action which we all know has not rep
resented vour svmpathics, your feel
ngs or your will. You knoU H-you
feel it-and thousands among you daily
confess it. Pardon mo for saying that
this condition of things bespeaIis a
people sutjug0ted-who have yielded to
torce-who are under an influence they
cannot throw off. | appeal to you to
look and see what that force is which
thus has enthralled you, and You must
recognize the fact that Il few audacious
politicians at home, assisted BY Federal
bavonetS. WELD it now and have done
so from the beginning. aud that these
men act as your masters, and not ~
your representatives.
Am | not right in these n scrtions
| refer to what was called your elec,
tons, last spring. to bear out my views.
Did not Il kentuckan. acting under
the authority of the National Govcrn
meht. diSfranchise all men in the State
Of different opinions from his own?
Was not this done boldly and in ad.
vance Of election days? Were not his
ukases recorded in the louisville Jour
nal, and published for the control of
tho people in the State? We're not
native citizens oxiIed for the crime of
being candidates-prufessins respect for
constitutional liberty and sympathy
for Southern wrongs or good will for
the Southern peoplo--and have rot
these citizens been confined ever since,
away from home, business, family afoc-
tions and interests
How could such tyranny b success
full y exertcd except over subjugated
people! Again: have not men wear.
ing Federal uniforms or assuming Lin.
coin livery, among you, arrested your
citizens, male and female, in open day
and in defiance of right, charged them
and collected from them from 800 to
$4,000, for the privilege of having the
oath of allegiance to the United States
administered to them. You know this
could not occur and 90 unpunished
among free people. Thore is not a
community in Europe or in Asia, where
such a practice would have been toler.
atcd as you have tolerated this for the
past year I do not record it here to
humiliate you by the publication Of q
fact discreditable to you, but to prove
to your own senses that you have been
Observation-Disclosures are this
day enslaved! You are not aware of
tho spectacle you exhibit-you cannot
be. You arc not conscious, in the com.
Portable homes in which you dwell,
and surrounded by the luxury to which
you have become accustomed, that all
tho nobler attributes of your nature
have perished-in a political sense
The minions of despot dress in pur.
pie and fine linen;--Luxury may be
found in the vilest courts of the world
Tranquility is one of the conditions of
despotism, as stiffness broods over the
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