The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-03-05
For the Dollar Weekly Bulletin.

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was to have been held on the 18th of Febru-
ary, and went up to that nest of unclea1
birds, Frankfort, to perform my duty. hat
hardly arrived, before heard enough tt
satisfy me that efforts were being made II
prevent the holding of the Convention
Officers Of Kentucky, who had not the man
illness and nerve to interfere themselves
were secretly at work preparing the military
for an interference. These State officers are
we'll known, and if peaceful times shall evel
return to us again, will be shown up in thei
true light and will receive the execration o.
all just minded men.
The amusing part of the operation was
that these men were claiming that they and
their friends are the true democracy, and we
who were to hold the Convention, were
cheats, deceivers and false claimants to the
title. To be little more special: That the
Louisville Journal" and Frankfort Com
monwealth" were loyal democratic papers
and Adjutant General Fin nell (sound him
Frenchifed). Wolfe of Louisville, Bush oI
Clark (Senate), Bell of Boyle (Heuse), ] mo-
B. Huston of Clark (House), Underwood Of
Warren, and so on, were the true blue dem
ocrats-the old wheel horses, the time honor
ed servants-those who were always for q
strict construction of the Constitution of the
United States and for what is so well known
and called "State rights" Papers which
never had a sentence commendatory of any
thing that was ever done by democracy since
their publication began, until now, and men
who never cast a vote in their lives but
against the democracy, actually ct up to be
the true representatives of her time honored
principles; and stranger than all, actually
succeeded in making the military believe it
was true. Farewell Jeptha Dudley. Gov.
Meriwether, Jack Leathers, and the hund-
reds of men who never kLew any thing in
politics but democratic principles, who came
to Frankfort to attend the Conventon-you
are cast out, forced to vamose the old emo
cratic rancho, to make way for the new set,
led by such men.
The Convention was not allowed to make
nominations for State officers and no 9th er
will be allowed to make nomina tions ex-
cept such as receive the endorsement of this
new CO Dcern !! So says Col Gilbert in his
military department, EN- braciDg the Capitol
of Kentucky, where abideth all the Execu-
tive power and sovereignty of Kentucky, in
the person of James F. Robinson, another of
the glorious list of democrats who, perhaps,
though he has lived in the democratic coun-
ty Of Scott all his life, never gave three
democratic votes.
Hang up your 6ddles, my old unterri6ed,
unwashe6, fat footed men, who used to be
so called by the papers and men l have re-
ferred to-the sweet scented, newly flavor
ed, newly hedged birds have gotten your
nest. They will hatch you set of rulers
with the aid Of the military, next August,
which will be the very quintescence of all
that ever was democrstic--yes and well
favored with abolitlonism.
But to go back to my Darrative-we were
not allowed to hold Convention. Col. Gil
bert said we should not, and being law
abiding set, we left the place where the Con-
veution was to have been held.
On the night of the 18th, armed soldier;
paraded around, and spies and pimps kept
the poor fellows from their sleeping. running
to tell them the dispersed delegates were
assembling, here now, and at another place
then, until the Lord only knows how many
places were visited by officers and soldiers
heard of two houses, that of Mrs. Major
widow lady, and the house of a Mr.. Steele
I also heard of their preventing prayer
meeting at the Christian Church, fearing the
ladies aud gentlemen would make nomi-
patton, suppose. This is no fiction bu
plain truth.
On the next morning, strolled into the
Circuit Court, which was in session, and
heard q grey-he hesded lawyer state very brief
| ly and quietly, that if as had been stated
and published, the delegates who had come
there had violated any law Of the land or in
tended to violate any, the offences wer'
cognizable in that Court. That the charges
had been very distinctly and emphaticallI
made, that they were here unlawfully anc
for unlawful purposes, by men whose oath
would be believed, and he therefore though
duty to the law, duty to the civil authorities
duty to God and country, required that
the regular grand jury had been adjourned
the night before, Ga singular adjournment i
the face of what the jurors saw themselve
upon the streets), that special grand jur
should be summoned and charged speciall
10 enquire about the purposes of the meetiD
there and if found in violation of law,
have all hands engaged therein indicted.
Jno.L Scott, who used to live in Mays