The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-19

A"u SnfSys VII al length some puppy Doiu
beyond his powers, provokes him, when
With "a clap Iof his paw and snap of Us
teeth helsendsthe whole pack, offayelpihga
We onl ssgshe reminds us Of susA thiAgs,
but wetdo not mean to insult the canine
race in general by calling him dog. We
only say he is not "a dog, but he Is Thaddeus
Stevens.
~ : = Charles a. wicklifs. - 49,
Mr.. Wickliffe, the Representative in Con:
gress of The 5th or Bardstown district from
Kentucky, is now far advanced in life, GER
tainly past the allotted age ofthree score and
ten. and perhaps not far short of the -four
score (which by reason ofrgrest strength"
the Divine Psalmist ASST ed as the length
of mans life. He was long respectable
member Of the bar; was early in life a mem
Der of the Kentucky Legislature; served7in
the war of 1872; represented his district in
Congress-, in the times OF Monroe, Adams
and jackson, being supporter OF. the latter
President until the Notification and U nited
States Bank discussions arose, when be went
over to the Wings; he then returned to the
State Legislature and was chosen Speaker
of the House of Representatives; he was next
elected Lieutenant Governor, as Wing, on
the ticket with Gov. Clarke; administered
the State government for about a wear
(I939-4 o) on the death or Gov. Clarke; then
served as Postmaster Geueral'fn the Cabinet
of President Tyler. abandoning his whig
sympathies and associations; mex. ran for
Congress as a Democrat and was defeated by
John B.. Thompson, Wing; but at the last
election (June '6I) was returned Repre-
sentative 10 Congress as strong Union man.
This is a brief and rapid sketch of his public
life. -,-,.-.--,. .,.t.3sf. .s.,.,., |1-.at
AT the outset ofthis Congress and for more
than year after the outbreak of the civil
war, be was Jealous supporter of the m ca :
sures of the. Federal governm emit for the
suppression of the rebellion." He was for
crushing it out" by military coercion. He
was for restoring by force Union founded
on the Paternity of the people and perpetu-
ating by arms government created by the
voluntary assent oflhe parties which m ad g it.
But in the progress of the war, change
seems to have come over the spirit of his
dream. s' ts1[ AstA -'ae
On the I'd of February, inst, he addressed
a labored speech to the House of Represen-
tatives, on the "Origin and Objects of the
War;" In reply to Thaddeus Stevens OF
Pennsylvania. We have carefully read this
speech. Mr.. Wickliffe is not a great orator,
nor are his written periods distinguished BY
the electrical force of eloqusnce or the
graces of refined rhetoric. But he is GER
tainly a man of large Information, of strong
practical judgment and excellent common
sense. And what is still more to his credit
he displays in this speech, manly indepen-
dence and infexible honesty. 1t is search
ing and scathing review of. the whole course
of the Administration from the beginning,
demonstrating that what he supposed and
what the Administration professsd, at the
beginning, was the object of the war. namely.
the restoration of the Union and the govern
meDt by constitutional measures for eonstf-
tutTonal objects, has turned out to be a war
like crusade against slavery. prosecuted by
unconstitutional, arbitrary and tyrannical
measures. He made this discovery when
Lincoln summoned them eulbers of Congress
from the Border Slave States and proposed
to them that they should join him in recon.
msnding to their States his absurd scheme
of compensated emancipation" From that
moment Mr.. Wickliffe lost confid euce in the
Federal administration, and from that mo-
ment perceived that the object of the war,
on the part of the party in power, was the
abolition Of slavery, eve If the result should
be reach ed over the destruction of the IN
ion, the Government, and all the guarantees
for the protection of the lives, liberty and
property Of the people. Mr.. Wickliffe's dis
coVery late in the day as it was made, is
nevertheless one of value, which will have
a salusary effect in Kentu cky and elsewhere.
We only wonder that he Gas well as many
others) had not made the discovery long be-
fore. There has never been doubt in our
mind, that the real (though not professed)
design in the original organization of tho
Black Republican party. in 1856, was, the
compulsory abolition of slavery even at the
hazard of the disruption of the Union. A
thousand proofs, direct and cumulative,
seemed to us to furnish concl usive proof of
his. Our suspicion seemed to some of our
friends harsh at the time; but few men nov,
Of any party, deny 1t, since the Abolitionists
lvow, justify and glory in it, and Lincoln
9roclaims it under the false and fraudulent
plea of military necessity" ( as .4
',o.' Hooker and Burnside.
Mcclellan was superseded by Burnside