The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-06-18


correspondence Between Colonel
Moore, Provost Marshal of Louisville.
Kentucky, and Prentice, the Editor of
the Louisville Journal.
- From the Louisville Journal, June 1871
HEADQUARTERS PRovosr MARTIAL,l
LOUISVILLE, KT., June 6. 1868.
To the Editor of the Louisville Democrats:
GENTLEMEN-I have the honor most res
pectfully to request that you discontinue
your attacks and reflections upon the war
measures of the Government.
l am, gentlemen, very respectfully, your
obedient servant.
ORLANDO 81. MOORE,
Colonel and Provost Marshal.
This note appeared in the Democrat of
yesterday, and we find that similar one
was sent to US. 1t is too silly and absurd a
thing to get angry at. We wonder what
under the moon can be the matter with Col
enel Moore. He dumbfounded us, but
hasn't found US dumb, nor win he. He has
seemed to US a courteous and intelligent
gentlemen and officer, but this thing of his,
which wassent upon his sole responsibility,
beats the devil and cock lighting. He
seems to have good heart; perhaps his
heart can't be beaten; but one would think
his head had been beaten all hollow. His
notification to Us, we presume, was the last
act of his Provost life, for be was superse-
ded even before it reached us-his second
suppression within few weeks. He gave
us his dying words as Provost, uttering
them IN the agonies and contortions of Of
ficial dissolution. As he has been ordered
to the head of part of a regiment, we sup
pose we may now venture to do little free
talking, unless he thinks that, as Colonel of
/ half rssiment, he has the same right to
I,rOw 81 khok1 L.. AoA
M Marshal. and shall march his half regiment
against the Journal Office for the first sup
posed offence. Let them charge onr Office
at the head of his fraction of a command
if he chooses; We will charge him nothing
for the charge.
We might ask this ex-Provost why. in
taking such grave step as warning news
papers what they may or may not publish,
he failed to consult General Boyle, or some
other superior authority, but undoubtedly
he hadn't asked himself. We don't sup
pose any Provost ever made such little
burlesque Jupiter himself before. Colonel
M. knew that all of the bitter anti Admin
istration papers on the North of the Ohio
were allowed to come by thousands into this
city and into all parts of Kentucky, and yet,
without attempting to shut out that tide, he
actually contemplated laying his petty fin
SOi upOb tu0 OOUTHUb, WHICH mas
done, and is doing and will do more for the
cause Of the Union, han FIVE hundred ep-
aulet-wearers like himself have done or
will ever do. The Union State Conven-
tion in this city adopted resolutions against
the war policy of the Administration; the
whole Union State ticket stands upon those
resolutions, the Union candidates for Con-
gress stands upon them, the Union caDdi-
pates for the Legislature will stand by them,
and of course we could not defend the ac-
tion of our own Convention or vindicate the
position of the men of our State ticket or of
our candidates for Congress or the Legisia-
ture without opposing the war policy of the
Administration, and yet, for such opposi-
ton, Provost Moore, if his Provostship had
lived long enough >. would have undertaken
to sentence the Louisville Journals head to
the guillotine- basket. We have seen a
great many official asses, and now we see
one Moore.
Let all small officials be careful lest, in
trying to kick newspapers, they by mistake
kick the bucket. t-.F