The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-15


fbeen under the tutelage HfaT Humane but ne
cessary subjectiont9 ayspperirFqe, anf il
I false humanity violates it; the Tesdlt wil be
that the ''American of African descent must
either revert to his original barbarism, or per
ish from, the earth, the victim, of liberty he
couldnot appreciate, or the.victim of vices that
have already exterminated the aboriginal saw
! age. .'5flS tex LG-L > 1Tt % TeE1o5
| Kentucky, in separating from the "Old Do
minionSR engrafted the Institution upon her
own fundamental law. and from that day to
this it has been uninterruptedly protected by
| her own constitutional and legislative enact
ments. Her right TO this species of property
has never been questioned. 1t rs sanctioned
in the National Covenant, has been protected
by Congressional provision for its recovery,
/ and solemnly adiudicated by the Supreme
4 Court Kentucky held it liable to the Incl
dents of the status, land bore with much pa
| thence the losses sustained by those who were
! fugitives from labor. She lost annually from
this cause more than any State in the Union
/ ct she never attempted violence in its recov-
| cry Although she had much complaint
against fanatic citizens of the Northwestern
States, she felt the force of the distinction be-
tween irresponsible individuals and the acts
of those great Commonwealths. She there
| fore did not consider these vexatious interior
ences from her neighbors as a just cause for
her to break up the fraternity of sister states,
OF 10 seek reureSS OQJSlue OF Ine OOhotiIuIlOh
of the United States She was aware that In
strument faithfully administered, constituted
her best safeguard for her slave and every
! other species of property, and when an at
| tempt was made to seduce her from her ale
| glance, she drowned Indignantly upon the
| first seductive enticements upon her loyalty.
In the antecedent pretexts and preparations
| for the rebellion, she took no part As an alb
stract question, and one of but little practical
value, and looked on with indifference upon the
Kansas imbroglio-regarding it as more specu-
blative than of real importance, consid-
ering that, according to the conceded
rights of the States, each Territory, on
becoming a State, would settle the ques
ton according to the views it took of its
own interests And hence, in the Presiden-
tial election, while she chose for her own
candidate one who maintained the abstract
view of the Southern question, she was glad
to see the Northern side enunciating In their
Chicago platform n distinct disavowal of any
right or purpose to interfere with slavery in
the States where it already existed by law
10 this position the successful candidate was
Enthusiastically committed, and hence it was
that, while Kentucky was disappointed by the
defeat of her own candidate, she felt hopeful
that no impossible barrier had been presented
to a peaceful adjustment of all pending diff
culties. She never allowed herself for one
moment to stop to discuss the value of the
OnlO0. IN HcE GSIlmaJlO0, nOGulnR COulu
compare with it in value, or compensate for
its loss; and hence, when the Southern politi-
clans made bare their reasonable purposes,
regardless Of the disruption it made in her
own social fabric, and the utter arrangement
and ruin of her commercial interests, she took
her stand on the side of the Union, and has
maintained it with her treasure and her blood
The Constitution of the Union has not net
been changed, and soith her consent neUer shall
be-
But since the commencement of this civil war,
there has suddenly grown up theory outside of
and above the Constitution, and a new doctrine has
been introduced into practical exhibition-that
military necessity is not to be measured by Constitu
OHdt limits but must be the judge of the extent of
its powers. As OffshOot from this political
heresy there have appeared among not only
anti-slayery prOpagandists, but men who have ac-
tually presumed TO override our own State laws,
and turn regiments brought here Ostensibly for
protection into cities of refuge for runaway slaves.
To such an extent has this been carried, that
only have citizens been driven from the camps
where they have traced their property into the pos
Session of the soldiers, but the civil officers have
been prevented from serving any process for their
recovery. This high handed and ubiquitous con-
duct is daily and hourly weakening the of the
Union and paralyZing the efforts to suppress. the
rebellion. And in addition to all this it putting
the State to imminent peril. 1t is asking too much
the citizen expect him fold his arms in quiet
submission when his property is taken from him in
his very presence, and to be rudey thrust aside at
the point of the bayonet when he attempts to re-
claim 1t. Your state laws are already ample for
redress of Oenses against the property of the cti
zen, as the same have been ordinarily committcd
but suggest to you the prOpriety of other and
more stringent laws against the infamous practice
of abolition soldiers in this particular, and do
this effectually there should be solemn re-afrma
ton of the great TRUTH that in all free governments
the military is and must be subject to the civil
thOrity and by proper legislation give it practical
meaning by providing for its maintenance at all
hazards
1t is but just to add that this accusation does not
apply Unfortunately to all the regiments that
ders ofmany of them oppose the practice as far as
they do consistently with what they believe
to be their duty subject to the rules and articles
of and the Proclamation of the President of the
United States, issued the 22d of Septemb ST.
To that Proclamation L would now call your
especial attention. 80 -
While am willing to believe that the President
thought that his proclamation would have a bene-
fetal effect in expeditng the close of the war; it
now apparent that he has lent too f1eh9an ear to
the schemes of abolition partisan leaders, who have
practiced upon his patriotic heart, blinded his bet
ter Judgment, alarmed his fears, and induced him
to publish manifesto from which nothing but evil
and that continually, CAM flow. AS operative
edict in the Southern rebeliOus States, it have
no other effect than tostrengthen them in their re-
belOn and give tOlerable pretext to their cause.
He might with as much reason have issued a pro- |
to them to lay down their arms. Both |
equally expose him to a cOntemptuOus rejection of
his scheme. --.... e..I. !
But he makes distinction between slavery in |
the rebel States and slavery in the loyal States and
proposes to the latter compensated emancipation
equivalent for their surrender the institution
itself 1t probable that this proposition was in
tended especially for Kentucky; but how vain is
offer when there Is no power to accept it, even if
there was disposition to do so? kentucky 8 Con-
sttution fixes the Institution settled