The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-07-09
A remarkable ana criminal oorrespon-

a remarkable and criminal correspon-
dence--Abolitiou the object of the War
Act of Congress of Furnishing unau-
thorized Diplomatists.
We copy, in this weeks Bulletin, re-
markable correspondence, between Rev. Mr..
Conway, late of Cincinnati, and Hoe. j. M.
Mason, Confederate Commissioner at Lon
don, in which the former was deservedly
snubbed by the latter. This correspondence
is very significant, developing. asst does, the
objects sought by a large and influential,
(indeed we ought to- say controlling) portion
of-the Administration party, in prosecuting
this horrid civil war. The letters of Mr..
Conway unequiyocally prove that that ele-
ment of the war party which controls the
will and policy of Lincoln's insane and
maddened Administrator are eitherwillng
to make war upon their Southern brethren
| for the sake of abolishiDg slavery, or willing
to step the war for the sake of abolition; and
in either case to disrupt the Union to attain
the object, by uniting the Aboltionists with
the Democrats, and, with charming nGiUete,
tells Mr.. Mason, that his political sect, being
the "balance of power" party, can, united
with the Democracy, achieve his ends. 1t
requires but few words to dispose of pro-
position so monstrous, absurd. uuprincipled,
disloyal and traitorous. For, first, even if
! the Administration, or the Abolition party,
or both, have winked at Conway's mission,
both will deny it, on the development of the
object ofthe blabbing envoy, true or false;
and il takes nobody by surprise that Wen
dell Phillips has promptly come forward to
repudiate Conway in his representative char
acter. Second, the Democracy can never be
enticed or entrapped into political asso-
citation so degrading and damning as that
proposed by this Rev. semi infidel. Conway,
who has been laboring at Cincinnati for
many, many, long years, for the abolition of
slavery, with a conscious, If not avowed sense
of its result if achieved, namely, the dis
ruption of the Union. He and his co-labor-
ers-and they are neither few nor uhinauen-
tial, care less for the Constitution aud the
Union, than Mahometans or any other Inf
dels care for the principles of the Christian
religion. Yet Lincoln is controlled by such
impious contemners of the Constitution, Laws
and the Union. They shape mould and
fashion his policy and measures at will; and
though for present expediency's sake, and
for the sake of seeming cousd erateness be
has at times apparently held back, he has
obediently subm tilted to all their unconstitu
tional exactions-as witness. the coniscation
measures, the emancipation proclamatious
the arming of negroes. bond and free, the
suspension of habeas corpus, the arbitrary ar
rests, and many other enormities, which no
sane man could conceive. and which no
honest man, with thimblefull of brains or
an ounce of legal learning, could justify, or
attempt to excuse, kept with bayonets at
hand to awe or terrify any freemen daring
to question the infalibility of "the powers
| that be-" We are not at-sll surprised, how
| ever, at these developm ents of a usurping
administration, or at the disclosure of the
designs of that elem ent of its party support
ers which controls It and the remainder of
| the party. Lincoln and Seward and their
| followers virtually avowed it all in the an
nunciation of the "Irrepressble Conflict"
before the date of the last Presid entail elec-
| ton. Our voice was not hush ed in silence
then; for we lifted it up, feeble as it was, in
| oft-repeated monitioDs to our countrymen
| as to the danger to the peace of the country
and the safety of the Union, from this bru-
tai and bloody and reasonable doctrine of
the "Irrepressible Conflict" according to
which, though full in the teeth of more than
! eighty years. experience to the contrary,
Lincoln and Seward affirmed; and their
partisans re-echoed, the Union could not
exist part slave and part free States. The
practical abolition programme of the present
day, is but the logical and inevitable result
of that traitorous doctrine; and both Lincoln
and Seward, and all their supporters who
had enough of mental discipline to trace
proposition to its logical consequence, knew
that the doctrine would so result; and so also
did many others. even in our midst, who,
though professedly opposed to the doctrine,
yielded to it tame and submissive acqui-
escence, rather than confront the swelling
tide of northern fanaticism. But, although
we are thoroughly satisfied that it was the
design of the Abolition leaders, from the
day Cor even before) they organized, in 1856.
with Fremont as their standard bearer, to
effect the compulsory abolition of slavery,
albeit recognized, protected and guaranteed
by the Const tuition, and at the hazard of
disruptiug the Union, yetwe retain the opin-