M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1863-01-22
Affairs ia Ekentucky-M Message OF
GOVERNORS ROBGNsoN.
To The General Assembly Of Kentucky, attRe
Adjourned S,ssior, JInusry8, 1868.

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relation TO the Presidents Proclama.
tion Of Emancipation. This PARTON
We give in full. The Governor Gays
From this brief but vain. glorious
Ialusion in the action Of Kentucky
ones would naturally suppose tiiat &c
much loyalty aud so much sacrifice
would have endeared her 10 all
her sister States, and that her rights
wulld have Ieen most sCrupulOusIy
Iragardtd. But has it been sol Has
Kentucky no right to complain OF a
disregard Of those rights, and Gre,
lquenty Of a wantOn violation oflhem.
Let this important question be ans
wClcG by setting ivr the wrongs she
has suffered end which daily increase
in frequency and violence.
nhe has q light to complain that
her neutrality has been denounced in
the halls OF Congress rs cit cr treas
enable or cOwardly or both. This is a
most unkind return to those patriotic
and loyal men, who, perfectly under.
standing the difficulties ia their path,
Inhopted the cnly line of policy that
corIL stein tho tide OF Snnrbera SYM
pathy, and in 50 doing keep safely to
her noorings great State wli'h, il
II had been lost 10 the Union. would
greatly have Weakened the National
strength, If it had not indeed changed
the whole character Of the var Bnt
this perhaps is an ephemeral wrong
which eventually may recojl upon it,
perpetrators and be visited npon them
with contcmporaneous and historic
contempt.
She has wight to complain. that
since the occupancy OF her country by
the Federal troops, the rights Of pro.
perry have not been duly respected.
Under the srccions plea OF mltary
necessity lalms have been laid waste,
provisions have been seizad forage h rs
been c. elected, and instead Of being
bonght in open market, whore the
supply would lave been ample and
the competition far. CommIsssrics
have gone with teams and suIAicrs,
taking grain and other commodities
iiom The farmers at whntvvrr price
the CUmmssarirs chose to aliix to
they, and utterly regardless whether
the Farmers cDuld spare them ur not,
and, instead Of prompt payment, lvav'
i,g III ils stead Cunbrous certificates
which have to pass thrpngi: many
bands before they are properly audited
and ihen TO pass into the general vor
tex vt Governmental claims. In con.
sequence OF this oppressive and mex
cusabIe, because unnecessary couduct,
many vi our farmers have been dt~
iriyed of the means oI subsistirg their
own stock during the present winter,
AID the direct and consequential losses
To them have been rnInuus in the
extrcme. Yet even this might have
been borne as one Of the unpIt aSant
cOncomitants that follow the marches
" encampment5 OF troops but still
il ia Il natlrrpi wonder to kentuck;ans
why q different rule prevails on the
opposite side Ol the river. Why is it
HAT all supplies are bought and paid
for in Ohio, the Government coming
in as any other purchaser, while the
same things are unceremoniously
seized in kentuckyi Had Kentucky
lost any Of her equality with other
loyal States, if rot, who is responsible
for making a disparaging difference
with heri
call your attention 10 these as
among the maAy annoyances our
people endure; and perhaps they
complain less of them because there
Looms up before them more gigantic
evil one, the bare contemplation OF
which s'ckens the heart and fills all
with gloomy and dreadful forebOdings.
allude to the disturbance OF the slave
property in Kentucky. 8.
Whether it would have been better
for her that the institution Ind never
been Incorporated in her civil polity,
it is useless now to inquire. 1t was
brought from onrold mother Virginia,
and by men who had fought through
the Revolutionary War until its tri
umphant conclusion. Whatever Utop,
an notions there may be about Afri
can liberty, these men had achieved
American freedom. 1t came among
US unincumhered with prejudices, and,
the gradual growth of century of
mutual accommodation until the Iela.
tive rights of master and slave were
fully understood and so administered
as to lead to mutual prosperity and
advancement. The African captive,
the creature Of superstjtious ignorance
and soyare cruelty. wac gradually