The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-08-27
The Kentucky Election.

In the recent disgraceful ceremony ol
electing candidates In Kentucky, the peoi
Pile of the United States may see the be-
ginning of the end. IF Major General
can Interfere, and add the weight of twenty
thousand bayonets to one side of the scale
in Kentucky, he may do so in Ohio or in
Ohio or 10 Illinois. Language is incapable
of properly characterizing the conduct of
Gen. Burnside in Kentucky. No tyranny
ever perpetrated in Austria. in Venice or in
Franco, surpasses it in infamy. The election
of the administration candidates was really
and deliberately carried by the arms Of
Federal soldiers. Men were threatened with
death if they attempted to vote for the Dem
ocratic nominees.
| Conduct like this is ground for revolution,
and if attempted in any loyal State of this
Union, ought to eventuate in revolution
The freedom of the people-the purity of
elections-free speech and free suffrage,
must be preserved at all hazards. The peo-
pie of Kentucky have endured more, from
this tyranny of Burnside, than our fore
fathers suffered when they shook off the
yoke of British oppression. 1t does not
tighten the burden that is cast upon mems
shoulders by fellow countryman. 1t must
be understood that the people of the United
States are to have free ballot-box-unin-
timidated by the sha hadow of federal baYo-
nets, or they will hew their way to it through
all opposing obstacles. This is their right,
and if the authorities of the nation will not
maintain this right-so dearly bought-the
free men of America will conquer it anew.
There is no treason in talk like this. That
man is traitor who would sanction TIE con
duct of the tyrant who oppressed Kentucky
who would not pour out his indignant
protest against the daring attempt to rivet
the chains of slavery upon men of American
birth. A man would be honored to die in
defending the cause Of his liberty. Our
fathers fought seven years to win these
privileges for their descendants; they waded
through seas of blood to conquer our inde-
pendence. Oceans of tears were poured out
through the struggle; and the groans and
cries of our mothers still echo down the
corridors of history In our ears. American
citizens, to whom these blood-bough rights
have descended-a priceless legacy will
never surrender them until wrested from
their grasp by thrice seven years OF deadlier
war than the revolution. Tyranny is none
the more supportable when it emanates
from a domestic, instead Of a foreign tyrant.
And the Federal Administration of these |
United States; it's Major Generals, who slay |
popular rights with bayonets, and the
despicable creatures-6t only to be slaves
who dance in exultation over the bleeding |
corpse of liberty, may know that free peo.
pie will not tolerate such outrages. The
spirit of '76 lives still in '63; the swords |
that cleaned on Bunker Hill will leap from |
their scabbards to the cry Of assassinated
freedom as promptly as of yore. The race
of Warrens. of Hancocks, and the Adams, is |
not yet extinct.
We are uttering words of truth and sober
ness. A free ballot-box-ths palladium Of
iberties-has been stricken down in a sever
sign State. We have no reason to believe
th at the attempt will not be repeated. If
The existing Administration has deliberately
determined to perpetuate itself with bay
onets, let it remember that those who take
the sword shall perish by the sword. The
ions of the men who achieved it, can, with
heir own right arms, preserve American
liberty Springfeld Register.