The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1864-01-28
From the Philadelphia Age.
Proclaim Liberty Throughout the La

9 Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land
r In the days of King Charles II and Jane:
s ii, party existed in England which main
&, tanned "that no breach of law or cont ract
C no excess of cruelty, rapacity, or licen tious-
ness on the part of rightful sovereign
? could justify his people in withstanding him
2 by force" The adherents of this party
} were called Tories.
t In the days of the American Revolution,
large party existed in Am erica, who were
J jealous of the extension of the power of the
people; its adherents were opposed to the
revolution, were favorable to unconditional
) submission to the tyranny of King George
} and to unconditional support of his govern
ment; thus they were the enemies of George
Wash ington, and they were called Tories.
In these days of Abraham Lincoln, a
large party exists, who are the legitimate
representatives of the Tories of King lam es
aud King George, and who are at this day
the unconditional supporters of the govern l.
ment; dreading the association with Tories
of the revolution. they have not the courage
to assume the title, but are known as "Loyal
Leaguers."
From the days of King George to the
present time, strong government party has
existed In this country. who have been ieal-
GUS of the power of the people; who have
aim ed, even at a monarchical form of gov
eminent and the overthrow of State rights,
which. by their diffusion of Lower, are the
only sure buwarks of liberty. MAY they
ever be preserved inviolate.
Mr.. Ohm Quincy Adams, when he was
President of the United States, wrote that
he had "unequivocal evidence" of the ex-
istence Of plot in 1904 formed by New
England Federalists, the purpose of which
was the dissolution of the Union. Their
. OhianE onrnr1ipn 70 Tho l.
Mr.. Adams, was to form two separate iude-
dent governments, the Northern States to
form more "energetic Government;" it was
considered essential to success, that the
State Governments must be favorable, $50
that those who acted should be supported
by State laws"
Mr.. Jefferson in 1920, at the time of the
Missouri anti.slavery excitement, charged
certain of the Federal leaders with mon
archism, and that this anti-slavery agitation
was a mere party trick to obtain power; he
wrote. that these leaders "are taxi ng advau-
tage Of the virtuous feelings of the people,
to effect division of the people by geo
! graphical line," and that "some of these
leaders if they could attain the power, their
am btion would rather use it to keep the
Union together; but others have ever had
in view its separation"
In 1888. Henry Clay, in the Senate of
the United States regarded the Abolitionists
as the enemies of the Union; he denounced
| them as aiming to "arrav one portion agains t
another portion Of the Uniou;" and in or
der to excite the imaginations and stimulate
the rage of the people of the free States
against the people in the slave States, the
stakeholder is held up and represented as
the most ''atrocious of human beings"-
| Have not these traitors to the Constitution
and to the people, at last succeeded in ar
raging one portion against another portion
of the Union?
He indeed must be blind and must have
read the history of our country for the past
| forty years to little purpose, who does not
now, alas, too late, perceive that to the
Abolitionists do we owe the ruin of our
country.
Their leaders had avowed their purpose
long since to be no "union with slavehold-
ers." This was also proclaimed through
Helpers Book; whose false figures and false
statements of slavery, and the helplessness
o the South, as we'll as whose programme
of emancipation, Seward and some sixty
Abolition members of Congress fully en-
dorsed and recon- m ended, as the text. book
of the party in 1860.
But the records of Seward, Banks, Lin
coin. Wilson and Phillips, will show equal
ly with this textbook, that the programme
OF the party now in power, was known be-
fore their election, and those who voted for
Lincoln, did SO, knowing that if elected, e
was pledged to the following policy:
"No union with slaveholders ineligibii-
ty OF Shareholders to Office; no recognition
of pro-slavery men, except as rufians, out
laws and criminals
This was the policy laid down in Hell
per's "Impending Crisis.'' (p. 1860 en-
dorsed by Seward and his confederates.-
Alas! that America should be ruled by such
craftsmanship. With such purposes pro-
claimed from the stump. and by their press
and pulpits. these men were placed in pow
er by the votes of the Republican party,
who thereby endorsed with open eyes and |
proscriptive policy pursued against slave
holders from the outset of Lincoln's Ad-
ministration.
For forty years have the leading states
men of the country warned the people OF
the end; for years have these Abolition agi-
tators been denounced as the enemies of
their country and their race.
But what had we to expect from the
people of the South, who had for years wit
messed the people of the North trampling
th fugitive slave prov ison of the Consti- |
tuition; ard when they had just witnessed
this expression of the determination of the
people of toe North. thus preparing to over
throw their rights? Lincoln was elected,
and with this dark prospect before them,
the agitation was extreme.
South Carolina seeded on the Goth OF
Decem Der, 1860. Lincoln declined to re-
Iieve the anxieties of the people, the2exhi-
bltion of a conciiiatory spirit on his part
might have arrested secession; but by the
first of February the seven leading cotton
States had seeded.
This was succeeded by q lui!; the re-
naming States were waiting for conciliation
and compromise from the North. Lincoln