The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-26

have suffered every insult and injury at the
hands of the so-called Southern Confeder- 1
scy, and are stimulated by every motive of
interest and honor to oppose aud overthrow.
it. This Confederacy had sought, and now
seeks, to break up this Union, forever dear
and necessary to them; and when, by their
oft repeated decision, they refused to join in
the work of treason, infamy, and ruin, 1t
trampled down their State Constitution, and
put upa,weak and usurping Governor over
them, and placed pretended Senators and
Congressman in its conclave at Richmond,
assuming to speak their voice; it invaded
their States with armies. and sought to con-
quer and carry them away from a Union
they revered to one they detested; itrayaged,
by bands of marauders (not soldiers,) their
fields time and again, robbed them of their
public revenue and private property, de-
stroyed their public records, burned their
towns and houses, carried away their nom
combatant citizens into long and loathsome
Imprisonment, where many still anguish,
murdered many of them, sometimes in their
own houses and in the presence of their
families, and sometimes by cruel and ,infa-
nous deaths, extending these atrocities even
to women and children, thus setting at def
ance all the laws Of civilized warfare; and
these efforts have continued and increased
with the increasing aversion OF the people OF
Kentucky towards all its wicked designs,
and threaten to break with fresh force upon
that State and people; that therefore the
people of Kentucky can never cease their ef-
forts for their own protection, the condign
punishment of the authors of these wrongs.
and the complete overthrow of the rebel
Confederacy; and all citizens Of Kentucky
(if any there be) who refuse TO support their
State and fellow citizens against such I'M
provoked wrongs and cruelties or profess to
smypathize with such enemies. are false to
their allegiance to friends, neighbors, State,
and nation; that nevertheless, of one thing
the people of the revolted and the loyal
States and of the world may rest assured.
Kentucky will submit to such despotism
when she has no power to resist it,
RESOLVED, That it is the duty of the Fed
eral and State Governments to take timely
and energetic steps for the defense of the
soil of Kentucky against invasion, and her
people from further plumber and ruin by
rebel raids and we earnestly invoke their
attention to the subject, at the same time
calling upon all the citizens of the State to
second every effort in this behalf.
RESOLVED, That our thanks are due, and are
hereby rendered, to our gallant soldiers in
the field for the brave and devoted manner
III WHICH Luoy nave nllHeTlO upuolu tue a u
cieut renown of Kentucky, and bid them
God speed in the noble work of defending
the honor of our flag and preserving the con-
stitution and Union, assuring them of our
cordial support. united and uufaltering sup
port. and the praise of grateful country;
that we feel also the profoundest veneration
Tor the memory of the brave Keutuckians
who have fallen in the great struggle for the
Union, and the deepest sympathy for their
surviving relatives. whose just claims upon
the country are hereby gratefully recognized.
The resolutions, as reported by the COM
mittee, weEo adopted enthusiastically by the
Convention.
Mr.. NJ. NJ. Benton, of the committee.
made the following minority report, which
was requested to be recorded upon the min
utes of the Conventions:
L am compelled to dissent from tn Q ma
jority in reference to the first resolution re-
ported, but, as to all the others, I most
heartily concur. M. M. BENTON. ,
Tho resolutions being adopted, on motion
of Hon. John B. Huston, the Chairman was
directed to appoint State Executive Gem
mittee, to be located in the city ofLouisville.