The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-04-09
The conscription Act.

ACT, puDIlSned In the MeropOlltan RECORD
of this city, the official organ of Archbishop
Hughes, but we have not the space to spare.
The article for plain speaking cannot be
surpassed, and if any body can be arrested
for talking against that so-called law, evil
IDENTIFY Bishop Hughes and the proprietor of
the Record are just the men for Mr.. Lincoln
to begin with. When it is remembered that
Bishop Hughes only q few months since was
an earnest supporter of the war, and went to
Europe with Thnrlow Weed, as an agent Of
the Administration, the change that has now
taken place is pre- emineutly worthy of note
Both the Bishop and Mr.. Weed now con-
demn the war, and the latter is writing let
to show that, in the hands of Greeley, Sum-
ner q Co., 1t must result in the overthrow
of the Union and Constitution. It is evil
dent that the war spirit is now confined to
the old original Abolition-Ger Smith
Garrison party, who, with the aid of few
greenback Democrats, are making the most
painful and excruciatirg efforts to get up
meetings in order to revive what is deader
than Julius Caesar. Asit may turn out to be
difficult to enroll all the names of parties
subject to the conscription, it is supposed by
some that the "Loyal National League" has
been gotten up in order to secure the names
for that purpose. The Record tells us that
"this law is not binding upon any Citizen"
and that it will "fail," 1t is very easy to
use language, but the operation of this
"law" will be as follows:
On certain unknown day after the names
are enrolled draft will take place in some
back office. No one will know who is draft
ed or who is not. The next morning after
the draft has taken place ten thousand men
in New York city will wake up deserters,
from an army they have never been in, un
I. IL Hlok
then? Why. the Provost Guard arrests them
one by one, just as they are doing now, and
they are m anacled and sent to the Forts,
where, if they are refractory. ball and
chain is added to their handcuff ornaments.
Now, all this is very plain, practical busi-
ness, and up to the point we have stated we
do not see where the Governor of the State
can interfere. But suppose writ of hdbeGs
corpus is issued for one of these men thus
ruthlessly dragged from his homo by the
minions of Executive tyranny, and Mr.. Lin
coin refuses to allow it, or to bave the con-
stitutionality of his claw" tested in the
Courts, then comes the tug of war. Gov.
Seymour is pledged to see the writ of habeas
corpus respected in this State. If it is re-
spected, Abraham Lincoln's Conscription
Act is not worth the paper it is printed on,
for there cannot be a Court in the United
States which will pronounce it constitu-
tional.
In the twenty ninth number of the Feder-
alist, Alexander Hamilton, in answering the
arguments urged against the Constitution,
it gave too much authority to the President
over the militia, treats all such expressions
as the cravings of dishonest fauatics."-
"What reasonable cause of apprehension, -
he asks, "can exist, while TIE particular
States are to hare the sole and exclusive ap-
pointanent of tie oficers2" Hamilton is re-
ported to have been a man of great ability
and no inconsiderable imagination. Evi-
IDENTIFY, however, he was incapable of con
ceiving of Lincoln, Seward, Chase, and
Stanton as the future directors of his coun-
try. Breaking forth, however, as If some
usurper might dare to try so bold pro-
ceeding, he exciaims:
"WHither would the militia, irritated al
being required to undertake distant and
distressing expedition, FOR THE PURPOSE OF
RIvETING THE CHAINS OF SLAVERY UPON
PART OF THEIR CoUNTRYMEN, direct theil
march. but TO THE SEAT OF THE TYRANTs
! who has m editated so FOOLISH, as well as SC
WICKED a proiect-to CRUSH THEM IN THEIR
IMAGINED ENTRENCHMENTs OF POWER, ano
make them an example of the just venge-
ance of an ABUSED and INCENsED PEOPLE
y = If we were even TO suppose th'
national rulers actuated by the most un-
4 governable am mbtion, it is IMPOSSIBLE to be-
lieve that they would employ such PRE-
PosTERoUs MEANS to accomplish their de-
signs"
|. Alexander Hamilton, like Bishop Hughes
is evidently amenable to the Provost M ar
shall for TALKING against the ConscriptioI
Act. The FedeYalist has become the mos
Unreasonable publication" Of the day, ant
will, perhaps, very soon be burnt, as it !
, said The Caucasian, Freeman's Journal, ant
Medary's Crisis have been within9the line
of the army. In the meantime, all men VIII
have some recollection of the provisions
the Constitution. that was once the suprem
law of the land, stand aghast at the onwar'
march of the centralized despotism a
Washington, which, drunk with power an,
enraged by successive failures, at las
threatens to seize every white man who can
not raise S30-decrees that poverty make
I him its slavei-Neto York Caucasian.
sYhere is now an odor of loyalty abou
4 W Was6ington,' says an exchange, coutrastin
the past with the present. What peculis
I odor the editor means can be found out b
8 visiting a wheat-feld fnll of negro laborel