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

of the Federal Government is q history Of
repeated injuries and usurpations. tending
directly to the overthrow of State authority
and State institutions, and consolidation In
the Federal Government of all political
power. and the erection upon their ruins Of
great military despotism as tyrannical and
despotic as the worst goternn ents of Eu-
rope, to prove which we refer to the follow
ing facts:
The President has, without authority of
Congress, suspended the writ of Habeas cor
pus-thus striking a deadly blow at the liber-
tics of the people.
He has caused citizens to be arrested,
transported to distant States, aud incarce-
rated in loathsome prisons, without charge
or accusation against them.
He has denied to citizens thus arrested
aud imprisoned, trial by jury, or indeed
any trial, and has withheld from them all
knowledge or inform alton as to their accusers
or the cause of heir arrest. ats
He has subjected his prisoners thus held
to barbarous and inhuman treatment, en-
dangering both life aud health, and has re-
quired hundreds of them so held, as con-
dition upon which they might be released.
to take illegal oaths arbitrarily prescribed by
himself or his agents.
He has attempted to destroy the freedom
of the press by the forcible suppression of
newspapers, because they saw proper to criti-
else the measures of his adm nistration; and
such as have escaped suppression have beer
subjected to a censorship wholly incompati-
BILE with freedom Of thought, or expression
of opinion.
He has attempted to destroy the freedom
of speech, by arresting citizens who amin
adverted upon the m easures OF his admins
trstion.
He has caused to be arrested persons en-
gagged in circulating petitions for the sigua-
lures of the people-thus interfering with
the right of petition.
He has wholly disregarded the right of the
people to be ''secure in their persons, houses,
papers, and effects, against unreasonable
| searches and seizures"
He has interfered with the administration
of Justice in the State courts by violently
! forcing the Judges to adjourn, and dispensing
their grand juries, and by breaking open
iails ard releasing prisoners confined under
regular judicial process for felonies and
other crimes.
He has in some OF the States (among
which is Kentucky forcibly wrested from
the citizen his right to be a candidate for
office within the gift of the people-thus
striking down the elective franchise; and
confinement beyond its borders for no Other
known reason than that they presented
themselves as candidates for Office before the
people.
He has quartered soldiers in the houses oi
citizens against their will, and not in the
manner prescribed by law.
He has permitted his troops to overrur
this State, destroying houses. and fencing oi
farms and lots. They have sacked the
houjes of peaceful citizens, estroying tn ell
furniture, family pictures, carpets clothing,
aud other articles of household goods, and
robbed them of their silver ware, stock, and
provisions. .... -.-e
He has permitted his wagonmasters aud
others, with armed soldiers, to seize the
corn, oats, aud hay, &C.. Of our citizens fol
the use of the armies, without their consent
and without just discrimination as to whether
the farmer could spare the article or not
fixing their own price upon them, and max
ing their own estimate as to the value anc
quantity taken, and giving no receipt o
name whereby the owner could successfully
seek his pay; and often, when voucher
were given, they were so informal that M
money could be drawn upon them.
He has permitted his officers and soldier
to entice slaves in great numbers to leave
their masters and owners, and to take then
to protect them from reclamation; and wheI
civil suits have been brought for their re-
covery. in many instances the process of The
court has been resisted by armed forces, anc
J the owner of the slaves maltre ated and i'm
prisoned, for no known cause other than hi
attempt thus to recover and protect his pro-
perty.
: with out authority Of law, to levy large CON
tributions of money upon unofending cltl'
: zens, under the pretence of reimbursin:
other citizens for losses sustained By th
casualties of war.
He has permitted bis officers aud soldier
3 with impunity to murder peaceable citizens
i He has given his assent and approvai Z
' acts of Congress appropriatins and proPosin
to appropriate enormous sums OF the pubh
? money to purchase the freedom of slave
$ and their deportation to some foreign coun
4 try. and has invited the border slave State
t (including Kentucky to liberate their siaye
: with promises of compensation from th
= Federal treasury.
g He has set aside the Constitution of th
); United States by giving his official sanctie
: to an act of Congress creating new Sta
o within the territory of Virginia without h
n consent.
), He has, without Constitutional authorit
t, aided in freeing the slaves of the District
al Columbia. rrHa
Q He has, in violation of the Constitutio
by proclaim alton, declared free all the slav
Is in many of the States-invitsd them
s, vindicats their freedom by force, and soug
q, an alliance with them in a war waged agair
s. their masters monstrous and iniquito
IS act, sanctioned by no law human or divir
finding no parallel in atrocity in the histo
re of barbarous nations.
1e He is spending large sums of money, q
to propriated by Congress for the support Oh :
Ia - =: ro.5;.. "a .lotb;no slaves stOl