The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-09

io"0'0oS, niS arolGIary arrests as WITHOUT |
semblance or shadow of law, and other
Executive acts, which together with the
acts of Congress above Cited, he consci-
entioHsly deemed Unconstitutional, unwise,
inexpedient, injurious, if not fatal to ell
hope of restoring the Union or re-estab4ish-
ing legitimate government, and threatening
to engulph the liberties of the people and
the cherished institutions of the country in
the abyss of military tyranny and despotism.
In short, Wichlife is one of tbose old fash
Toned pupils, who learned from the cid fogies
of the time of the Revolution and the franz
ing of our State and Federal Constitutions,
that no government is legitimate that does
not operate itself alone by means of conss;-
tutionai measures, directed to the attain
ment of constitutional ends; that govern
ment operated by other than constitutional
means, is usurpation, tyranny and despotism;
that the military should at all times be in
strict subordination to the civil authority;
and that the people, as expressly set forth in
the bill of rights, have reserved to them
selves the inalienable right to alter, reform
or abolish their government, whenever and
however they think proper, they (the peo-
pie. not their official agents. being the sole
judges of the necessity or propriety of rev.
olutionizing their government. For pur-
suing this course and uttering such anti
quated sentiments in Congress. Gov. Wick
life fell under the displeasure of the i'm
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suspicious Of his loyalty have been whisper
ed against him by the radicals (abolitionists
at hearD in Kentucky; but they are so con-
temptible, not only from their manifest
utter them-willins tools of usarper and
tyrant-that no intelligent or decent man
can be deceived by or even listen to them.
! Wicklffe was called ont as a candidate by
prominent Union men.
Such are the two Union candidates for
Governor of Kentucky. The position of
neither of them is satisfactory to US; for
while we hold Bramlette in utter detesta-
ton, we think Wicklffe has not come up to
the standard of true democrat in respect to
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or platform, which we published in full last
week. His fundamental error is, that he
thinks Union, which can only be founded
in the fraternity and love of the people, and
can only be perpetuated by those holy feel
ings, may be restored and perpetuated by
the sword. We believe in no such utterly
absurd nonsense. Every stroke of the sword,
instead of restoring concord and amity, in
stead of reviying fraternity and love, but
engonders more deep and implaeable an
imosity and hatred, and cuts away, thread
by thread, and strand by strand, the cords
that should be left Intact to bind together
the Union in bonds of ''thrice perdurable
toughness," indissoluble and eternal. But
madness rules the hour; and there are those
who pretend ardently to desire Union with
Secessionistsy rebels traitors, and the wicked
est and worst men that ever lived, and also
pretend that blood is the best cement for
such desired Union. 1t is far beyond our
skill 10 language to express our sense of the
infatuation, insanity and madness, not to say
the malignant and desperate wickedness of
such preposterous sentiments. For though
we have always regarded secession as a
heresy in theory, and revolutionary in prac-
tice, and faithfully and seasonably done all
in our power to discredit the doctrine and
Illustrate its practical application, we have
never believed that military coercion or any
violent measures, but that enlightened d.
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were the true remedies for it; and we have
also believed, with equal depth of sincerity,
that abolition, but for which secession, a
pestiferous doctrine originally. of Yankee in
vention, never would have been resorted to
by our sister States of the South. Yankee
abolition-the intermeddling of outsiders
who hold neither moral nor political juris-
diction over slavery in the Southern States
was the potential provocation to secession.
And if the war were stopped at once, nego-
tiation entered on in good faith. and salts
factoIy guarantees given against future
meddling and disturbance of the question,
the Union might be restored; but in our opin-
ion this is the only ! s;s for it never can be
done otherwise. The idea of Union en-
forced by the sword is the shesrest, absurd
est nonsense, and none but bloody -minde
malignants and incurable madmen can de-
sire the continuance of a war perverted from
the originally professed design of restoring
the government and Union to a war for
abolition; for none but an idiot can fail to
see that the subjugation of the Southern
people is an impossbility, as nothing short
of their utter determination can achieve