The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-03
Linooln,a Infamoua Proclamation.


We givesbelow the comments of sew era 1
Leading Dsmoctatio papers upon Lincoln's
'infamou proclaim alton, which dpoks9to the
overthrow of dar Government. sand consti-
tutes revolution in the most complete sense
of the term ------
The Chicago Times says:
sIEET Y "rHE DEEpE + y = & 4. a
1.-THE deed is done-the deed which unites
the people of the South forever in their re-
bellion, and divides the people of the North
as to the furth er prosecution of the whrr-the
deed which converts the war from a copstl-
tutienal contest for the integrity of the pn-
ion to an unconstitutional crusade for the
Liberation ofthree millions of negro, barbara
ans and their acknowledgements as citizens
the deed which destroy the last hope OF the
preservation of the old Goyernm emit and in
augurates a future dark, Uncertain and dreary
1.-The deed which is an unwarrsuted In mill
tary as il is in civil law, against tho pur-
poses of VIII ich the humanity of Christen-
dom will protest. and to avert the conse-
quences of.which European powers will in
terfere7 The deed is idope.; The craziest
Abolitionism has achieved the very acme Of
its desires. The end for which the war was
commenced by the dominant party-the
separation of the Union and an armed anti
slavery erusade-has been reached. 1t is
not deed without name 1t will be
known in all history in all history as the
most wicked, atrocious and revolving deed
recorded in the annals of civilization"
The New York Express says: 49, HfH.
'THE PRESIDENTS PRoNUNC1AMENTo.
+ ''What the Spanish South American Pres
idents have been doing for years and years,
the President of the Apgle-Saxon United
States is trying to do, this A. D. 1963-viz:
overthrow the Constitution and to make Law
by a Pronunciamento Here is the first Pro-
nunciamaeHto from Abraham Lincoln:
Spanish Pronuncianlentos differ from Eng
fish proclamations but proclaim what Law
has been and is. Thisis nothing but Pro
nunciamento, and is wicked in principle ard
precedent, and destructive, in complicating
the progress of the civil war and its coming
settlem eut." .''
The Indianapolis (Tnd-> Sentinel closes an
important article as follows: ... .ra
"If this act of usurpation passes unrebuked
then we may bid farewellto Constitutional lib
erty.a The constitutional guarantees of per-
sonal rights and personal liberty will not be
worth the parchment upon which they are
written. 1t is for the people to say whether
they will remain free by repudiating tn is
usurpation of power, or, by yielding to. il
surrender personal liberty and the right oil
self-governm ent" D.. L@' r
"Fhe Louisville (Kentucky) Democrat re
marks:
"The Presidents proclamation has come
to hand at last. We scarcely know how to
express our indignation at this fragrant out
rage of all constitutional law, all human
Justice, all Christian feeling. Our very sou
revolts at contemplating an atrocity so helm
Gus, and the feeling is intensified at the in
delible disgrace which it fixes upon on
country. To think that we, who have beer
The foremost in the grand march of civiliza.
ton, should be so disgraced by an imbecilt
President as to be made to appear befor
the world as the encourager of iusu-rection
lust. arson, murdorl The people have con
demned this in advance, and the Presideu
has raised storm that will overwh elm
him. 1t is not in the rebellous States h
has to fear most, but the true, loyal State
VIII not suffer tn cir fair fame to be staine,
by him. 1t is not enough that Kentucky
exempt from its force; not enough that it
Intellectual even in the States It has referenc
to. The people can not. il any State, beg
to be so sIandered by one who usurps au
thority." -..I sd