The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1863-09-09


Gov. Bramletto.
The following is the principal portion o +
the Inaugural Of the newly elected Cover
nor of Kentucky. Gov. B. was elected by
10000 majority. Will our conservative
friends read and profit by it?
Fellow citizens Of Kentucky:
In obedience to the will of the loyal citizens
OF Kentucky, expressed with unprecedented un.
Ianimity at the recent elections. am here this
tlAy, fixed by our con stitution, to take the oath
ofolice, and enter upon the duties of Governor
Of the Commonwealth Of Kentucky.
In times Of peace and prosperity, when the
duties and responsibilities of the Governor of
Kentucky are comparatively light and easy it
would be distinguished honor to be called by
the sovereign will of the free, loyal and eDlight-
ened citizens Of my native State, to the highest
Office in their gift The honor is much magni.
fed by the higher duties and graver RESPONSE.
bilties, which are devolved, by the dangers
which threaten, the perils which surround. the
evils that afflict, and the sorrows which Cypress
US at this time.
Profoundly impressed with the weighty re-
sponsibiitics which am called to assume l
shall enter upon my duties with an honest pur.
pose, and an unfaltering will, to meet and dis
charge them to the utmost of my abilities.
With firm reliance upon a guiding POW
dence, and an abiding confidence in the justice,
inHegrity and loyalty of the people Of Kentucky,
shall look hopeful to the future, trusting to
THAR charitable judgement upon my admnistra-
ton, o shall seek to avoid the justice Of their
ccnsure.
We are fallen upon evil and troublous times
-whep great, free people have turned upon
themselves, to make war upon a peace, hap.
- ifSy shorNv oh So
any age or land crowned people with bless
inGs, and seek by violence to overthrow their
gOtesnment and darken the future of the hopes
Of man. Our future historian will drapc in
nsning the page upon which is recorded the
Go00ry Of these years ofrebelIion, calamity and
Tho terrific warfare which continues to sweep
over our beloved land. filling its great heart
with inexpressible anguish. as pang after pang
f0e16e loved and lost pierces the bosom ofevery
home, should, by is community of woe, OF suf
-fesing, and danger, draw our people more close
~ together, and invoke the noble charities Of
Ournature, to a concentrated and united effort to
stay this tide of misery and flow of danger, by
bringing to constitutional unity those who have
departed from constitutional faith. A departure
from constitutional faith is the foundation of all
Vie evils now upon us; a return is the only per-.
mancnt remedy.
Fellow citizens Of Kentucky: the equal
right OF each and all to live in the peaceful
enjoyment of "life, liberty, property, and
pursuit OF happiness" is the great object
and end Of free government These secur.
cd, man is free; this is liberty. Our Faith
crs graspcd the subj ct Of constitutional
liberty so thoroughly as to leave no excuse
in mitigation for the wckcdness of any
who might, at any time, attempt a forcible
revolution Of the government. SO faul,lcss
in its structure, so comprehensive and yet
80 minute in its safeguards thrown around
the liberties of the people, equal rights ard
equal privileges were alike secured to every
freeman. The rights, so secured, were in
trusted to the custody aud guardianship Of
the people who were to enjoy them. The
rulers were to be servants and the people
the masters. And to insure against usur
patton OF power, or aggravation Of wrongs,
recurrent elections ut short intervals Of time
and an upright and enlightened judiciary,
were ample safeguards. The mode Of eff
Getting any changes in the organic law,
which experience might suggest, was fully
provided for.
In the appointed manner the ruling
power-thc ciliZsns, - could alter, chang"
or modify, not only policies Of Legislation,
but the organic law, through the peaceFu.
medium of the ballot box, thus leaving no
excuse for forcible revolution.
In securing the peaceful enjoyment of
property to the ci,iz n, one subject of diff
Guilty was presented to our fathers, which
they wisely and securely adjusted. Some
OF the states recognized slaves as property ;
others did not; and, it beinga principal OF
universal law among civilized people. that
whenever the laws rccognz d pro- crty in a
thing the same law Insured the owner in
his right; but whore the law did not know
any property ina thing, no owner could as
sert any right it raised the question how
to secure to the owner of slave property
equal protection in its enjoyment with thc
owners of other property, without, at the
same time, doing violence TO the distinctive
character Of thu state ,vernmcnts not
recognizing such property. In states where
slavery was recognlz d, the laws assured
the right Of the owner; but in those states
where property in slaves was not recognized
no right of ownership could be known or
assorted BY law. This is the very nature
OF the government For the non slave
states to recognize, by their laws, properly
IN slaves, so as to return them, by law, to
their owner, would necessarily subvert the
very nature Of their government, and make
them slave states. To ohvate this difficult
IT,, which existed only in reference to thi S
one species Of property, AID secure to the
citizen owning slave property, such pro-
tection in his rights, and at the same time
to preserve the distinctive character of each
stale government, the return Of fugitives
from service or labor, escaping from one
state to another was undertaken by the
Federal government, and the guarantee
given that no law of any state, to which
such fugitive might escape, should dis
charge such fugitive from the labor or ser.
vice which he owed. Thus the character
and laws Of each state were represented
and preserved, and the rights of all citizens
Of each state placed upon footing Of equa
security. Thus the Federal constitution
which created the Union, harmohized thu
equal security Of all III every right, will
the unity OF the government and with thu
rights of the states.
Some, becoming dissatisfied with thi
perfected equality, have sought to destroy
Il, in violation Of constitutional faith. u,
tho one hand the aLolitionists aoouId DESIRE!
the right; on the other, the ssaessionists
tcould elevate slaoe property aborc ecer!
other interest and right. Each seems t
subordinate the constitution to its ertrem
Vieu Each makes war upon the founda
ton theory Of free government; and, by tn
i tanatical energy with which they have urg
ed on their extreme views, they have a
least precipitated upon us the most terrfi
and heart rcndng war of rebellion that ey
er shook the foundations of social being
Notwithstanding the conservative element
North and Soutn-those who, on the on
hand wish to keep constitutional faith an
! grant the equal security which the const
tuition pledges, and those, on the other, VIII
task nothin more, are overwhelmingly j