The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-02

y ceeded or failed, the condition of slave,
would remain in all the States as it was ur
Q on the commencement of the war. Has M
If this national pledge been violated?
IL L believed the Administration were boun
by these declarations; that they meant whs
a they said. Nevertheless, that I might plac
y myself in position not to be misund erstooc
Inc following sentences composed part G
: my letter of acceptance of the nominatio
/. as candidate for Congress:
NO patriot, no Kentuckian, would b
t willing to see, willing to witness with in
difference, the efforts of the Southern Con
D Iederacy to take possession or or destroy tn
: Capital of the nation, and destroy that Gov
eminent which has protected him at hom
aud abroad. Was 1t wrong to resist this de-
sermined and avowed purpose of the con-
, federated men of the South? That Capita
must be protected, and our Government
preserved. 1t is not Lincoln's Government
but the Government of the people. tbe
Government of the United States, that
am anxious to preserve from destruction.
i wish to be distinctly understood upou
this subject. Should the present war as
sumo the purpose and design of the aboli-
tlon OF slavery in the States, or of deprivine o
state OF any constitutional right, it will
receive no support from me of either men
or money; on the contrary, my firm decided
! oPpoStlon. SO long as it may be necessary
70 keep an army in the field to defend the
OaPltai and preserve the Government from
tne assaults OF Its enemy, foreign or domes-
tic, 1t must be sustained-no longer,
have kept my faith and redeemed nv
pledge. ~
became satisfied that the policy of the
war was changed; that the Abolition power
had triumphed; that the measures of Con-
gress and the policy of the war had fallen
under the control of the Abolitionists.
what will be the result may be inferred
from the character of the men who com pose
the a bolition party.
Mr.. Webster, who lived among them and
knew them well, has left upon record his
opinion of their fitness to rule the Govern
ment:
If (says Mr. Webster) the internal Aboli-
tionlsts ever get the power in their hands
they Will override the Constitution; set the
supreme Court at defiance; change and
make laws to suit themselves; lay violent
nards on those who differ with them in
tneir opinions, or dare question their infalli-
bility, aud finally bankrupt the countrv and
deluge it with blood
Mr.. Clay said of the Abolition marty.
with them the rights of property are moth
ing; the deficiency of the powers of the
ueneral Government are nothing; and ac
Knowledged and incontestble powers Of the
states are nothing; the dissolution of the
Union, and the overthrow of the Govern
rnent, In which is concentrated the hope of
the civilized world, are nothing. A single
IDEA las taken possession of their minds.
and onward they pursue it. overlooking all
barriers, and regardless of all onsequences.'
The prophesies of Isaiah are not more |
clearly verified than those above, of the two |
departed statesmen.
The Abolitionists had the majority in |
both Houses of Congress- The President
had issued his Emancipation Proclamation,
and pledged the powers of the army and
navy ia execute his mandate, and to protect
and aid the negroes in the maintenance of
heir freedom. The leading Abolitiouists
had declared the future purposes and OBJ
ects OF the war to be tho abolition of slave
~ the subjugation of the States, the total
destruction or expulsion of the white man;
MS home to be given to, and occupied, bv
he freed slave, protected by the military
power of the United States.
Mr. Stevens, the chairman of the Com
nittee on Ways and Means, and the &C
Snowledged leader of the party, in speech
delivered by him, used the following Ian
'uage: 1 will,not stultify myself by suppos-
ng that we have any warrant in the Con-
tltutlon for this proceeding. The talk of
estorlng the Union as it was, under the
constitution as it is is one of the absurdities
which L have heard repeated until 1 have
'ecome about sick of it. The Union can
lever be restored as it was. There are
many things which render such an event
impossible. The Union never shall, with
ny consent, be restored under the present !
Constitution as it is, with slavery to be pro-
ected by it, .-
Mr.. Bingham, Chairman of the Commit
ee OF the Judiciary, in a speech in the
Iouse, used the following words: Who a
q the name of God wants the Cotton States I.
r any other States this side of perdition to |
emain in the Union if slavery is to be con. i,
inued?
Sentiments of this kind were uttered
gain and again by members of less notori-
ty. No doubt was entertained by the con- I
ervative members as to the future policy
t the war. 1t was to be a war to recover
be territory aud destroy the State govern I
lents, drive out the owners of the soil, and T
ettle the homes with freed negroes.
Could any honest man, man faithful to Z
is conscience, his published declarations,
aithfui to his State, which has often hon .
red him with her confidence, the State of q
is birth, vote the money of the people to
rm negroes to prosecute war for the des-
ruction of State Constitutions, to reduce a
tates to the condition of conquered prov
nces, under the false pretenses of restoring :
be Union as it was? i
Irecoraed my vote against these m easures,
nd against the bill appropriating, for the
resent year. the sum of S7o0O0o 900, that
should be known by my constituents and
he Christian world, that was opposed to v
hese measures, which, if consummated as T
ow begun, will never restore the Union, 0
ut result 10 military despotism. ..r
Is it not apparent to every man of sense Z