The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-19
unconditional Union1---John ]. Crit


On our frSt pags..we place, side by side,
two remarkable manifestoes, to both of
which We solicit the cousiderate attention
eff every thoughtful reader. One is the call,
signed by many citizens of Maysville and
Mason County, for a consultative meeting as
70 the principles on which the stgners pro-.
pose to support candidates for Office; and the
other is the speech of the Hon. j. Critten-.
den in Congress, against the Conscript act
aud other measures of Congress, and the ,Ad-
strong and striking conflict with each other.
The cali goes in for {" a rigid enforcement of
the Conscript act in the State Of Kentucky"
Mr.. Crittenden's speech opposed its very
adoption and denounced it and other mea-
sures as unconstitutional. unwise, and mis-
chievous. All the members of Congress
from Kentucky Except one Casey, who be-
ing an accidental Abolitionist filling va
cancy, should always be mentioned in
parenthesis) voted against the Conscript act,
against which Mr.. Crittenden's speech was
aimed. The siguers of this call, therefore
must have meant, if they knew the import
| of its terms, to launch a censure against all
the members of Congress from. Kentucky,
Cexcent the accidental Casey.3, The motives
| for uttering such ceusure are in the breasts
of the authors, and are only subjects Of con-
lecture by others. We do not know how
the fact may be; but we have heard it sug-
gested by many men on the streets, that one
or more new aspirants for Congress are in
the list of signers; that other places in the
gift of the Administration Were desired by
others; that some signed blindly without
reflection; that some signed boldly without
caring what principle was involved except
the suppression of the rebellion, W neither by
lawful or unlawful m cans; and some from a
secret design at heart, not openly avowed,
to promote the Abolition schemes Of the
Administration, so strongly condemned by
Mr.. Crittenden. ..,r -...a'
Mr.. Crittenden's speech hotonly condemn rs
the Conscript act, but many other measures
of the government; and according to his
view the very injunctioDs of loyalty requir-
ed him to dose. He charges that the war has
been perverted by an Abolition Congress and
Executive from its original avowed design
of restoring the Union, according to the Con-
stitution, into an unconstitutional crusade
against the lawful Institution of slavery; and
that thereby the government has lost the
hearts and confidence of the people, which
can never be recovered, unless. perhaps, by
revoking their acts and returning to the
original policy avowed at the outbreak o.
the war.
Mr.. .Crittenden's speech has the ring o.
the true FETAL of the good old days, when
patriotism meant something else than abjec
servility to reigning power. Had his lot
been cast in the time of the Stuarts, we
think he would not have been an advocate
of the doctrine of Passive Obedience. He
would not have been Tory in the time Of
the American Revolution. In the former
period, he would have sympathised with
John Hampden; in the latter, with George
Washipgton-mighty rebels as both indis
| putably were. But Mr.. Crittenden's speech
speaks best for itself and we leave it to the
reader.