The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-29

meath which was the full and cherished en-
title of PETER SASSAFRAS.
Maysville, KY; Jan. 25th. 1868.
An Excellent Exposure. of the Errors of
the Abolition Party-SOme Mistake
of the North.
1. To ALLEVIATE one portion of the Union
from the other by preaching an irrepressible
conflict.
2. To form party based on a geograph-
zeal line and hostile to one-half of the
Union. and pledged to the ultimate extinct
ton of their State institutions .r-,g +
3. To set up a party platform above the
Constitution and the Union. and refuse all
propositions of adjustment and paci6cation.
offered and urged by the best patriots North
or South. -- .'-.--y ...,. : 80 : =
4. To believe the Republican party. in
stead of Washington and Jefferson, when
told that such policy would not end in
disunion and civil war. .-.-
5. To believe Seward, that all would be
right in sixty days. ll.-r.
6. To believe all the Republican papers
and orators, that the election of Lincoln
would quiet the country and stop the agi-
tation of the slavery question. 80
z. To believe the Wide Awakes when
told that they would go down and wipo 'em
out" .s--s- -. .. EL-e
8. To suppose that $4,000 three-months
volunteers would cause the rebels to s'retire
to their homes in twenty days" /.ffC
8. 70 believe General SCOTS anaconda"
would squash" the rebellion in eleven
months. s-a. -..i a- II
10. To believe Mcclellan, that the war
would be ''short but terrible" "
IL. To believe the rebels would be
starved out, had no arms, no clothing, and
no money.
,12 To believe the rebels could not raise
as a, many troops as three of the Northern
Is. To believe it would "take one-balf
to stay at home and keep the slaves from
rising" F-s7 -TF1 p ~ go Q ~--~
IA. To believe slavery to be a magazine
which only needed to be touched with an
Abolition match to explode the whole
South. -a----
Is. To believe there was. Union senti-
meDt South, which, with the presence ofan
army, would upset the rebellion and bring
back every State
Is. To believe that Black Republican,
ism, undiluted, unrecanted, unrebuked, but
rather sancti6ed and Endorsed by Democrats,
would ever allow a single victory to bring
forth Union fruits, or wake up Union SEN
timent.
II. To think that gunboats, bayonets,
bullets, and shells would do, unaccompa
by Constitutional and Union principles. .-
1S. To believe Republicans when voting
for CFittenden's resolution that this war
would not be waged in any spirit of oppres-
sion or for any purpose OF conquest or subiu-
cation, or for the purpose of interfering with
the Institutions of States, but to restore the
supremacy of the Constitution and the IN
ion, with all the rights, the dignity, and
equality of the States uuimpaired n 100 81
Is. 10 believe that the rights of equality
of States ever bad any sacrednes with men
who from the beginning have shown more
interest in abolisbing slavery than in pre-
serving either the Union or Constitution. = >
20. To believe that Stephen A. Douglas
was wrong when he said ''war was eternal
and right when he urged war
to prevent separation ~ T. ~
81. To believe that radical -Repu blicans
now are or ever were for the Union.
%. To believe they now have or ever had
any object higher thanth abolition of sla-
20. To believe the Constitution can be
preserved by violating it. '-t.'' ~ =
"a. 10 suppose that 5000, 900 of people
can be beld by force loyal to goYegnment
hostile to their institutions. - Il
25. To believe that this, if possible, would
not be an overthrow of our Republican form
of government. Lss -@fsi.. sit
26. To expect to save the Union by the
same principles which destroyed it.
II. To expect peace, good will, friend
ship and fraternity, by continuing the policy
which produced strife, discord, hatred and
civil war. - -
At cost of nearly one thousand millions
Of dollars, we have learned nearly all these
twenty-seven mistakes to be such. We
have followed the authors of the irrepressi- |
bic conflict where ever they have led so far. |
until ne have not only DESTROYS ed the u MON. |
but by trying to retrieve their errors with
the sword, have almost ruined the NORTH
Now at this very crisis, is itnot fitting time |
TO foot up the columns, and see what we
have gained, and whether it will pay to 90 |
il blind any longer? We are now told to |
arm the negroes and all will be WE'LL If |
we are to judge the future by the past, we |
nav expect soon to record this as mistake |
1umber %. AS an humble citizen, in the |
anne boat with my fellow-citizens, and |
having the same interests, do most SOL
emily protest against taking any more stock |
q Republican promises or policies, and in
list that the only possible way to queii this
storm, and restore peace, Union, the Consti-
ution, and National prosperity is to undo
What We have done 10 eIecting 'irrepressible
,ond'oe dlsunionists to power, by returning I
hese gentlemen to the walks of private
lie where they can serve their country /
without running it.-A PLAIN MAN, in 81.
Paul MIN Journal.