The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-04-02
From the Louis,ille Democrat, March aad.

would have said so plainly.
From the Louisville Democrat, March 22d.
GThe Union Democratic party charged
that we have left them. Well, they per-
haps think so. We are quite indifferent
how they have it. We, as our readers
know. are just where we started. We ur-
ged with all our might conciliation before
the affair came to blows. We hoped it
would be compromised.
After the South had gone so far as to bonn
bard Fort Sumter we held the Government
to enforce the authority of the United
States and execute its laws, but it has no
authority to disregard State laws; consti-
tutons or institution. So all though at the
commencement. All recollect the Critten-
den resolution. This was again and again
indorsed by the Legislature. The Legisla-
ture repeated, with great unanimity, last
September, the Crittenden resolution, as
follows: - e.- +eF -~
THAT Congress. banishiHg all feeling of
mere passion or resentment, will recollect
its duty to the whole country-that this war
is not waged upon our part in any spirit of
oppression nor for any purpose of conquest
or subjugation, nor purpose OF overthrow
ing or interfering with the rights or estab-
lished institutions in those States; but to
defend and maintain the supremacy of the
Constitution, and to preserve the Union
with all the dignity, equality and rights of
the several States unimpaired; that as soon
as these objects are accom- plished the war
ought to cease.
The Legislature went on to resolved that
we " ere slow to believe that the Admins
tration would be guilty of the bad faith in
volved in departure from the doctrines of
the resolution. There was no dissent
from this sentiment in the Legislature last
September. c
Now it is not denied that the Admins
tration has departed entirely from this
pledge. made by Congress almost unani-
mously. It is now assumed at Washington
that slavery is the cause and the strength of
the rebellion, and that it must be destroy ed
as q necessary precedent to sub6ue the re-
bellion. Nothing that could exasperate the
South and unite the people in q desperate
resistence has been omitted.
The Union party in this State have not
dealt fairly with the people of Kentucky
Our people know the promises and pledges
made at the commencement of this con tro-
versy They know that lltbese pledges
are broken, and thatg 1--WE have an entirely
different programme OF the war. We have
now con6scation bills, emancipation procla
armed. We have the writ of habeas corpus
suspended, aud all power and sword given
to the President. The South is all united
and che North divided. Scarcely an act
that could disgust the people Of this State
has been omitted. Why should we not
state plainly to the people the whole truth,
and suggest what can be done? Our re-
dem ption must come from the Democracy of
free States They are opposed to all these
departures from the Constitution and these
radical measures in the prosecution of the
war. They are for the Union, and against
all these m easnres, because they render the
cause of the Union hopeless. We believe
thev are right. They tell their people the
whole truth about the Administratio n -
They explain terms. whilst we speak mildly,
and want to lay these outrages down easily.
There seems to be nervous anxiety when
the conduct of the Administration is expos
ed. This is not the way to put down un-
constitutional acts aud usurpations.
The cry of rebels is raised at every sug-l
gestiop against the radicals. A mans de-
votion to the Union counts nothing unless
he apologies for any outrage the party is7
power may commit. We affirm, and an
i'm partial world will support the affirmation
that the authorities at Washington have
adopted measures that aid the REBELLION
Such is the position OF the South now tn at
her people, if they fall under the power of
the Union are liable to lose life, liberty, and
all their property.
What motive have they to desire the res
toration of the old Union? What can they
hope from it? They have ali to lose and
nothing to gain by it. The folfes of Lord
North in dealing with the Colonies are re-
peated by this Administration. We are
treated to nothing but force, forcs. Mass
the whole South together and crush them
out! Are we not bound to consult human
nature little, and offer some protection to
to q people whose obedience we demand?
This radical, blind ferocity in war defeats
its end, and in eur opinion, renders the con-
tess hopeless. The Administration must be
forced by the ballot box to abandon this vi.
olent programme. 1t proposes now, by the
power Of one section Of the Uuion, to en-.
force by the sword the Institutions of that
section upon States of the other. It is a
programme of the war that destroys State
Constitutions, laws and institutions.
The Abolitionists are going into what il
called t0hite slavery. Any white slave may
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