Winchester daily bulletin. [volume] (Winchester, Tenn) 1863-1863, 1863-02-01

these arrests among his fellow citizens
in the State of New York, which are
daily practicod in Kentucky without
explanation to you or to the friends of
tho persons arrested New Jersey and
other States will follow the example OF
New York. You cannot, without a
revolution at home; for your masters
are politicians bred at home, who use
this very power of arrest, imprison
ment and confscation, to distranchise
you-to rob you of your property
to deprive you of your constitutional
liberties--to ENsLAvE YOU and to GOV.
ERN YOU, regardless of your wishes and
your feelings.
Let US, however, resume the review
of events. The party in power in Ken.
lucky in September, 1861, affected
great indignation at the advance of
Southern troops 70 Columbus and
Bowling Green, although it was evil
don't that the occupation of those places
was necessary to defend Tennessee
from tho invasion threatened from Cal
ro and louisville. They made the en-.
try of those troops an excuse for their
invitation to Major General Robert
Anderson to enter upon Kentucky as a
Federal military department, and to
place the State under the control of
Federal armies, which by invitation
were introduced at once into your
midst. BY the most fervid appeals to
the young mon of your State to pro-
tect her from Southern invasion, at the
very moment they were making hor the
victim of Northern invasion, they in
duced thousands fyour sons and broth.
ers ito enlist for three years in the
army of the United States. Directly
the Southern troops vacated the State
of kcntacky-Nashville fell into the
hands of Lincolns Generals, and Ken.
tncky was made to play new part on
the theatre otthc war. Her regiments
wero n0,o led againS: the Southern States,
to carry desSolation and devastation ouer
the fields and homes of the South. Such
was the curious commentary Kentucky
made in few short months upon the
resolves of her Assembly and her po,
litical Conventions. The same Ken.
tuckians who figured in the Conven.
tons and Assembly Us orators, profess
ing Southern sympathies, now turned
up as Generals and Colonels in Lin.
coins army, leading the young men of
Kentucky to the field against the South,
and Haunting hcr now inglorious BAN
ner over the soil of her sister States.
Some of them are to be found yet in
those places, though some have paid
with their lives tho penalty for posi-
tions SO ignobIy acquired. am quite
sure the men of Kentucky thus led
into service against the South would
protest that thoy did not design to
enter on war of aggression against
the South, and they would have been
seriously offended at the charge of be-
ing Lincoln'S mercenarieS. But, were
they not? Arc they not, and his Dorst
mercenarieS /?
The foreigner who knows nothing of
our institutions has the plea of neces.
sty. He is in strange country and
wants bread. He fights for money.
The fanatic from New England has
been reared amidst the howlings Of fAb
oitionism, and he fights under the hal
lucination that he is assisting to enlarge
the area Of freedom. The Northern ar
tizans may fight in the interest of free
labor; the dreaming visionary may
fight for tho myth Of "the Union as il
was and the Constitution es it is" and
the Northern capitalist may shed blood
to prevent the rise of rival system of
manufactures in the border slave States
These all have excuses, but the Ken.
tuckian who eats from the mess pan
with them, who sleeps under the same
tent, warns at the same camp fire,
draws his pay from the same treasury,
is clad in the same uniform and uses his
bayonet to carry out Abraham Lncoln's
accursod policy against the Slave-hold.
ing States, has no excuse: He stabs
hic o\yn m NJ how Ha n, rr; ao 1ooola ion