Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-07-21
From tbs Washington Constitutional Union.
Proclamation of the Presidents Grounds

saw. % that day the negroes Of Washing
ton city assem- bed in large mum bers on the
grounds south of the Presidents House, and
there, beneath the very caves of the build
ling erected by white men for the residence
of the Chief Magistrate of nation of white
men, made a nations park the Oh oseu scene
/ Of their feasting aud revelries, under the
sanction of that nations President.
Tie Incident bears terrible significance
from the circumstances connected with il,
aud the horrible con dition into which the
country has Nbsen placed Here in the
Capitol of the country, on the banks of the
Potomac-wtthin the grounds surrounding
the mansion of the Countay's Chief Magis-
trate, assembled vast herd Of negroes to
enjoy themselves 10 the gayeties of a pic
ME. The warm July sun beamiug in a
icloudless sky shoue upon them protected
from the ierceness OF its rays By the leafy
branches of the thickly clustering trees
The breezes from the blue Potomac cooled
their dusky brows. The fountains sparkled
1 in the giittering sunshine for their delight
Their hearts were cheered by the gayeties
OF the occasion. aud joyously excited by the
thought that in front Of them was his house
who. to bestow upon them such pleasures,
bad stepped the country to the very dregs Of
the bitterest cup of-woe ever held to a ma
tons lips z,s..s 60.
(, A nd but few miles away from them, be-
meath the hot glare of Virginia suns, and 10
the sitting atmosphere of Virginia swamps,
rendered still moro horrible by the decay
] ing corses OF thousands of their comrades,
toiled and fought the noblest of the land -
No trees to shelter the,l-no cool river
breezes 10 refresh theln-uo fountains
splashing music on the air for them -
Parched with heat and worn with toll
their hearts saidened by recolectio of
their noble comrades whose dead bodies
filed every mile of that terrible M arch from
the Rspifan to the Appom attox-visioDs
of happy Fourths of July stealing over their
minds-this nobly army Of s0hite men-the
very flower of the land-were hurlins tn en-
selves fruitessly upon almost impEsguable
Notifications at the commands OF head
long and unrehectiug leader, for What?-
That the negro should have the privilege
Of enj oyiug him self socially and pleasurably
on the 4th of July in the public grounds OF
the Nations Capitol.
The question may be pertinently asked
foI what are we now fighting. and 10 what
are we tending. when such disgrace al
scenes may be witnessed as the legitim ate
result of the efforts Of those intrusted with
TIE management of the WARP We sec the
country torn and rent, tears in every mo-
TIERS, eye, agony at every fathers heart;
the proud prestige OF the great Republic
perhaps forever gone; constitutional liberty
and law ruthlessly inundated upon their
own allars, and conte mptuously trampled IN
the dust; the last and the brightest hope of
humanity withered in the grasp of coward
ly tyranny, like flowers in the frost of an
autumn blast; law, eT, and security be-
heath the iron heel of foully corrupt des-
potisin; with the insane cry still going up
fOrt har If Srfa nal at,.- IF
death; and as compensation for all these we
have the proud elevation to social and po-
lticsl equality with American freemen Of a
race indelibly stamped by the hands Of tho
Creator with the mark Of degradaton-of a
race whose finest instincts are a coarse bru-
tally, and whose highest aspirations are a
bsastly sensuaIity. Great God! is this a
com pensation for the ineffable horrors of
the sacrifices the grooming country has made
for the past three m emorial years? Is this
the restored and happy Union the Repub!i-
can party promised US should emerge from
the fiery furn ,cs of this unholy war? Or IS
it but an experiment on the part of these
blood thirsty and visionary fanatics to over
turn the immutable laws OF physical ma
ture, and by destroying all that is dear to
man, attempt an improvement on the work
OF the Almighty?
1t is well that the people should ponder
these things. 1t is well that tbev should
think deeply upon the fact of negro enjoy
Inent Of the delights oflife purch assd at the
expense OF thousands of lives and countle 9
millions Of money. 1t is well they should
ask themselves if the UDioH is to be ire =
triev ably ruin ed -th emselves crushed into
/ hopeless poverty by the unendurable weight
OF public debt-their SOUS dragged of by,
corscriptiou like sheep to the snambles--
| raaOllaafionu nf At OlOFv and THAR
| hopes of future greatness alike buried in the
| inc xtrieabe ruin to which all things are
tending, merely to increase the pleasures OF
an inferior race which true and immuta-
| BILE instinct of our nature has pronounced
un6t for any relations with white men but
those OF servile type. And il is especially
well that the people should ponder these
! things when this party whose policy iuAu-
gurated the existing horrible condition of
affairs--in whose tTeacherous EN- brace Un-
ion aud Consultation have persisted and
who, in the name OF Freedom, assassinated
Liberty at the very foot Of her sltars--who
pulled down the temples of constitutional
devotion, and dedicated groves to the wor
ship OF the fslsest and foulest heresies that
ever disgraced the political religion of
nation-who have proved most terribly 70
the country the truth of the old Roman
maxim of whom the Gods wish to destroy
they FIRST make mad''-when this party, We
say, come before the people, and graVely
demand that peoples support, because the
country's salvation rests solely with them, it
is well that they should deeply mediate
this glazing inconsistency-thisw worse than
suicidal policy-this horrible but legitimate
result Of Black Repu blican teachings.
1t cannot be that the people will support
them. God. in His justice, has another and
a more merciful destiny for America. The /
people of the country are too intelligent to
ha daoaiuAd lonoar hv Ambition a0Dhis tries I