The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-26
From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Important Debate in the keRtncky
t Ell LEGISLATURE. t

From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Important Debate in the Kentucky
t 81, Legislature. ~
The following letter should have come to
hand some days ago. but as 1t refers to more
than temporary subject, time is not OF so
much importance, and we do not therefore
think it too late to give 1t to our readers:
FRANKFORT, Ky February 4, 1868.
To the Editor of the Enquirer:
"A House Bill came up in the Kentucky
Senate to-day for its consideration, appro-
prating fifty thousand dollars for the pur-
n pose of advancing one months pay to Ken
lucky troops who have enlisted, or may
hereafter enlist, for the nine-months SER
vice. The Hon. T. f. Marshall, Senator
from Brack en-, offered an amendm emit to the
bill, providing that none of the money thus
intended to be appropriated should be paid
to troops that might hereafter volunteer.
The amendment was terribly assaulted IN
bitter speech, by the Hon. Martin P. Mar
shall, of Mason. He said 10 had tendency
to secession, and if that line of policy was
pursued lit would destroy the State. He adj
mitted, however, that the President was
guilty of committing many unconstitutional
acts, among which was his Proclamations OF
Septembe and January last; but he con-
tend ed tn at, although the President had been
guilty of ,many unconstitutional and impol-
itic acts, yet Kentucky must sustain the
Government, let the consequences be what
they may. In word, his speech indicated
that it mattered not what line of policy the
President might pursue, the State of Ken
lucky ought to sustain him in it. He claim
ed that the President had done great deal
for Kentucky, and in consequences of this
she should stand by him and the Govern
ment. avs .ta.t,i t.r
Ho was responded to by the Hon. t. T.
Marshall, the mover of the amendment, in
speech of an hours length; and / can safe
" say, for power, brilliancy and statesman
ship it was the speech of the session. Mr..
Marshall said that be was, and always had
been, loyal Union man, and would, If nee
essary, sacrifice his life for the restoration
of the Government; but that he differed in
policy to many other Senators and polti-
clans. He took the ground that, to furnish
men was but to assist the President in carry
ing out his Proclamation, and thereby ut
terly destroy the Union, and heap untold
woes upon iDnoceDt and helpless women and
children. His plan to preserve the Union,
the Constitution and the rights of the States,
was that the war should be prosecutedl in
strict accordance with the Constitution and
the laws of humanity, and had 1t been so
conducted, the rebellion would long since
have been put down, and been at an end,
and to-day this nation would have been the
admiration of the world. He coutended
that the policy of the Administration was
widening the difficulty, and nothing but ut
ter ruin seemed to be the fate of the nation.
He took the ground that not dollar nor q
man ought to be furnished !, until the Procla-
nation was revoked, and the President
should administer the Government in the
purity intended it should be by the found
ers of the Republic. He said it was in the
power of New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Kentucky and Maryland to correct thst
evil; let them, said be, withhold supplies
and men, impose the condition that the
President should administer the Govern
ment in strict accordance with the Consti-
tuition, and his word for it, it would bring
him the Presidency to sense of his duty
in day. He commended that to furnish the
President with men and money under the
existing circumstances, was but adding fuel
to the flames. He reviewed the condition
Of the army, and showed that hundreds were
deserving every day, and the army becom-
ing demoralized, and utter defeat and ruin
awaited the country in consequence of, and
growing out of the policy of the Admins
tration. He showed up in the happiest style
the effect the negro bill of Congress would
have upon the soldiers now in the field and
the effect it would have upon the civilized
world. In this short letter can give you
but faint idea of his speech. 1t is enough
to say hs did honor to himself, to his dis
trict, and to his State. have been recent
ly travelling over a large portion of the State,
and can safely say that his speech reflected
the sentiments of nine-tenths of the people.
He was followed in a speech of over an
hour in length by Colonel Whitaker Ga rad
ical). He did not pretend to meet the ar
guments of Mr.. Marshall, because they were
unanswerable. He con6Hed himself to cpl
thets and denunciations against the South
and the Dem ocracy of the State. He SEEM
ed to be disposed to throw obstacle in
the way of the policy of the President, and
was willing to exhaust the State, if neces-
sary, to push on the war. He finally closed
his speech by telling his auditors that be
had been to the war, and expected to go
again. Taking it as a whole, it was very
poor and lam effort.
The sentiment of Kentucky, and the feel
ing of her people. are misrepresented abroad.
She is loyal, but, at the same time, nine out
of ten of her people are opposed to furnish
ing a man or o dollar to carry on the war
any farther upon the basis of the Admiuis-
tration.- The present or a majority of the
present Legislature do not reflect the senti-
ment of the State, for which they will be
held to a, strict accountability. The State
is powerless; she is perfectly subjugated.-
You can write and speak things in Ohio and
elsewhere in the North, for which we in
Kentucky would be incarcerated in loath- /
some prisons. We are denied the right to
run for office, the right to hold Office, the
right of speech and the press, except it suits
the radicals. can safely say that in Ken
lucky twenty thousand of her citizens have
been arrested, their property taken from
them, and thousands of them taken out of