The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-12-17

Thefe yes remain a subiects ii graye eooaaid

blOuo WHICH nave grown up Win the IeD6llOH
and demand some positive action, Tor our own
eecuriEy In presenting those Questions it is
net-m5 PuFpese'to invite vindictive action and
wrathful legislation, but legislation tempered
By q diecreet and sober Judgment, which shall
he-addressed toour security as q loyal people,
rather than to the punishment of the disloyal
The duty OF, allegiance to our government
Is so palpabie and simple, that it requires Meth
er depth Of intellect nor breadth of intelli-
geuoe 10 comprehend it. To observe that du-
IL jsran instinct of loyalty. The most .lgnor-
ant know It; the most vicious feel it. To sym
pathize with rebellion and treason is vicious
sympathy, entitled to none Of those charities
which cover less venal crimes tits the hariotry
ofthe heart with the worst Of crimes, and inevi-
tably leads to criminal acts of treason, unless
restrained by the touch of loyal Judgment and
rational duty. ~ --.-5 g s5arr ~ sea -..ft
No one has the right to commit treason
No one has the right to encourage or promote
treason The right to be a rebel or rebel
sympathizer can not be admitted; we may toll
crate, but can not admit, the right of such sym
pathies. 'a
1.-The right to hold, express, and advocate any
form of policy for conducting the govern
rnent is political right which can not and
ought not 70 be abridged, however much abus-
ed. Treason is not a policy 1t strikes at the
ife-aims not at the management of the Gov
eminent The safety of free gOvernme mt,
which admits the right to advocate and urge,
most deleterious policy, without any restriction
save public judgment, demands that none
should be permitted to overthrow, or aid, or
abet, or In any way encourage promote the
overthrow of the government which secures
this perfect political liberty. Whosoever, there
fore, commits treason, or advocates it, or in
any way encourages or promotes It, does what
he has no right to do, and that which is at war
with the perfect political freedom secured by
our government, and should not be tolerated
therein. To sympathize with rebellion is
wrong, Al rebellion is wrong. But as mere
sympathy can not endange- the life of the gov
ernment, 1t may be tolerated, though wrong.
Yet when that sympathy assumes the form of
aid or encouragement to treason and tends to
promote it by either acts or words. the duty OF !
those who would perpetuate Onr political free
dom, as secured only by government, is to
stay the work of treason by inhicting on its
workers such restraints and penalties as will
enforce obedience and respect to the govern
ment of our fathers. ~
Every Kentuckian ought to be loyal, not
only in act, but word and sympathy. Ken
lucky has not and will not, under any circum
stances become rebelliOus against the govern
ment of our fathers. Having no rights out
side of the Union, Kentucky will seek none
except in the Union. An invincible loyalty
confronts those who seek to force Kentucky
into rebellion. When rebellion reaches such
mas nitude as to assume the dignity of a revO-
lutionary war, it is supported or resisted by
physical forces. Expressed sympathy adj
vocacy of rebellion is giving moral force to re-
bellion. If the rebellion is wrong, sympathy
or any other aid given to it is wrong; and those
who are to be injuriously effected by it have
the moral right to protect themselves against
rebellion by suppressing every form of trea
son. They have the right to Danish its Shadol0,
as we'll as its substance. In self defense they
ought to do so. 1t is no excuse for any one to
say he can not helph his sympathies. A wrong
and criminal sympathy is as much under the
control of the will as wrong and criminal az.
ton. Both are voluntary. and therefore Grim
inal. Every man who henceforth remains in |
Kentucky, or shelters here, should be loyal to |
our Government, and true to its service, or be |
held to a rigid responsibility for dislOyalty =
Those who rejoice or exuit over rebel inva- |
sions and guerrilla raids should be held ac- |
countable for all the injuries inflicted by their
fellow-accomplices In treason. We may, and |
perhaps should, ignore the past, if the future
of. such be loval but. to be loyal should be |
made imperative.
L IuereiOre recommend that our penal code !
be amended SO as to provide proper preventive, !
as well as punitive remedies, for every form of
reasonable action, whether it consists in acts
or words, which tend to promote or encourage
rebellion.
l further recommend that the laws be so
amended as to give to any loyal man, who suf
fers in person or property, from invasinns or
raids, right OF action against any or all per
sons who, after the passage of such act, may
aid, encourage, or promote the rebellion, eth |
er hx acts or words of encouragement or by |
api oval, or by mani(esting an exultant and |
joyous sympathy upon the success of such |
raids. 1t is time that dislOval and criminal |
sympathies should cease in Kentucky There |
remains no excuse for any to indulge in them
and remain here,
Such amendments to the civil code will be /
bnt the application of the principles oil the
common " to this rebellion. By the com
mon Law LII who counsel advise, aid, assist
promot Encourage, or adopt trespass, are
held De equally guilty and responsible to the
injured party. 1t is right that those whose
avOwed sympathies encourage and invite inva-
Bions and raids should be made to bear the ex-
penses for the entertainment of their friends
= Rebellious persons are fleeing to Kentucky
as a city of refuge. This is becoming so com
mon that 1t Is worthy of consideration how far
and upon what terms this is to be permitted
The citizens of each State by virtue of the
Federal Constitution, "shall be entitled to all
the privileges and iInmunities of citizens in
the several States" But to enact or nromote
treason is not one Of the privileges" or lin
munities" of citizens of any State. So long as
those refugees deport themselves as good and
loyal citizens, they should be, so far as our
laws are operative, left unmolested. But those
who bring with them the infection of treason,
and who, by words or acts endeavor to incite
reasonable sentiments in our communities
should be restrained by proper penalties suf
nclent to reach and eradicate this evil
Another important matter affecting the in
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