Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-02-05
ADDRESS Of GENERAL MARSHALL 10 The
PEOPLE OF KENTUCKY.


This eloquent speaker and gallant soldier, who has
suffered the conscaon of his property voluntary exile
the disruption of family ties the Imprisonment OF his
sons and the sDoatOn of his bone, IN vlndcatlon OF
the South her honor aud her institution has issued
appeal to the people of Kentucky which is we'll calcu-
lated to arouse them of their duty. 1t
tans stubborn facts, and is wthal powerful! and pat
riotic address, 1t is soul inspiring paper-one which
calls upon Kentucky to and throw OF the
chains which are now clanking about their neck5
they rretreyaby bound in the letters of d6spotsm
He points out the way in which they can be rescued
FROM chains and slavery He calls upon the people OF
Kentucky and drive the hreLngs OF the Adolf
ton despotism from their State, and make common
cause with her sister States-States which are iden
fed with her from the nature OF their Institutions as
well as from cherished associations OF the past.
We look for some beneficial tff5ct from Gen. Ms &C
dress OF the people of Kentucky. They will awake to
the dangers which mlnent. They have beeG drIV-
en- to despair and their outraged feelings will longer
tolerate submission to a government whose aim Is to
desoate land and exterminate our people. Our
space will rot permit the publication of the entire ad-
dress Weay few extracts btf FIRE our readers
You about to enter upon new phase OF TIE IN
holy war in which, tor eighteen months, the United
States have been engaged against the Confederate
States of America To pursue the war through this
last stage you will incur sacrifices and endure su5r
ings to which nothing you have yet or felt will
bear comparison. GU have been robbed OF your con-
stutlona tights by the action OF the Federal power,
assisted by unprincipltd men In Kentucky now, you
to be robbed of your property and required to de-
scend to the social level with your slaves. GU
have heretofore borne patiently the yoke imposed on
you by bard task masters, both at home and from
abroad they promise to plunge you into an
abyss CT gnominy from which there will be no emery
ing
Fellow Kentuckians, l am your friend. have no
aspiration so high that of assisting you out OF the
labyrinth of difficulties into which you have bsen de-
Ceived by those in whom you have trusted rttused
to submit to deprivation CT constitutional rights, TO
fha M vyhi | horn.
from Kentucky only because the people OF Kentucky
would not resist the sacregous hand laid upon the very
altar of their most inesmabe rights. have resisted
best could. The con6scation of my property
the spoliaton of my home-the breaking up OF my
famly-tbe dispersion OF its membership lmprison-
ment of my calamities to which have been
subjected. The compromising consideration has been
only sense OF freedom and the consciousness that
have basey sold my birthrght for mess oil pot
tage, or bent the knee to illicit power.
You are not aware Of the spectacle you exhibt-yOu
cannot be. You not conscious IN the comfortable
homes in which you dwell, and surrounded by the lux
ury to which you have become accustomed that ali The
nober attributes OF your nature have persisted IN po
tica sense. The minions of a despot dress in purple
and fine nen-uxuIy may be found in the vilest courts
of the world Tranquility is of the conditions oil
despotsm as stlness broods over the Dead Sea- Rous
yourselves, men of Kentucky Awake from your dream
ing to assert your rights. The people OF toe North
ean Common weaths have, WITNESSES vi the
practices OF the Federal power eXerted your midst
entered their protest. and Governor Seymour, OF New
York. has forbidden those arrests among his fellow Cit
liens in the State of New York, which daily prac
ticed in Kentucky without explanation to you the
friends of the persons arrested New Jersey and other
States will follow the example of New York. You
cannot, without revolution at home, for your masters
politicians bred at home, who this very power
arrest Imprisonment and coDscation dsranehse you
to rob you of your property-to deprive you of your
constitutional hberties-to enslave you and to govern
you regardless of your wishes and your feelings
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The foreigner who knows nothing of our institutions
has the plea of necessity. He is in strange country
and wants bread. He fights for money. The fanatic
from New England has been reared amidst the howlngs
Of Abolitions and be fights under the halIucinatior
that he is assisting enlarge the Of freedom The
Northern artisan may fight in the interest OF free labor
the dreaming visionary may fight for the myth of the
Union as 1t was and the Constitution it Is and the
Northern capitalist may shed blood to prevent the ris
of rival system OF manufactures in the border slave
States. These all have excuses but the Kentuckiar
who eats ON the same mess pan with them who sleeps
under the same tent warns at the same camp fire
draws his pay from the treasury is clad in the
same uniform and his bsyonet to currv out bra
ham Lincolns accused policy against the slavehoding
States, has no excuse. BE stabs bis mother lie
carries desoaton to the hearthstones of his own kin
dred, from no motives that be imagined bnt the
love of gold Office or because he has been BETRAYED
into position he did never intend to occupy vet ron
which be has not the mahliness to withdraw
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have seen the traces otthis war over one part O
Kentucky. have witnessed the protection given b.
Federal arms to your people along the eastern border
OF the State and have wished you could all look upo
It, to the end that you might then answer why you ar
engaged with the North in this wicked crusade aims
the liberties and Independence of The Southern peop