Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-06-30
the iufamy of m en- whom Europe has al

the infamy OF m en- VIII ON Europe has al
ready condem med and whom even their
own couLtrynen avowedly regard with
feelings more akin to contempt than to con-
! fdence. What is worthy of observation is
the significance of their conduct as illusra-
ting the spirit and intention of the war. At
! first we were prsseveringly told that the
North was fig hting for the restoration of tn Q
! Union, and moth ing more; to liberate from
secessionist tyranny the loyal Unionists of
the South. and to bring the seeded States
back, with their own consent, as free and
equal Confederates. Next, English admi-
rers of Mr.. Lincoln assured US that the war
was waged for the abolition of negro slave
ry, while every captured negro was either
enlisted as soldier or consigned to forced
labor under some Yankee squatter in Ten
nessee or Louisiana.
Finally, the dominant party in Congress
openly proclaimed the necessity of conduer-
ing the Sonth. But the proceedings of Fed.
eral Generais-the devastating expeditions
which have no other object than destruction,
which go forth without any hope of subdu-
ing an additional inch of territory, simply to
burn, slay, and plunder-the cruelties in
ficted on the Inhabitants of conquered lis
tricts-the appointment to command of
such satraps as Butler-clearly tell another
and a trusr tale, aud proclaim the war a
war of vengeance. aud of vengeance only
Slaves are not liberated; they are simply
carried off to die uDder cruel taskmasters or
of still more cruel neglect. Conquest is not
effected; on the contrary,every thing if done
to prove to the South that she has no hope
o. mercy, to arm even women and children
against the invader, and to make the whole
population unanimous in their resolve to
fight while an ounce of powder, bushel of
aol 90, of 80 Z.
to them.
Conquest by L:ncolns, and Buffers, and
Turchins m cans determination, and nothing
less, for to such conquerors no man
will submit while resistance even
the resistance of a disorganizsd guer-
rilla warfare-is possible. But these |
men are as well aware as the opponents |
whom they are striving to expel from Con-
gress, that the war, war of conquest, is |
utterly hopeless. They do not expect to
reduce the South to submission. They sim
ply hope to increase her injuries ard to pro.
tract her suffering, to destroy her wealth, to
destroy the flower of her population, to let
her go -.snce go she must-ouly when she
is weakened, impoverished, crippled, bleed.
ing to death. For these purposes and these
alone-for the sake Of ruin. slaughter and
! 1evaststion-for the purely evil end of in
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on people guilty only of re-
solving to be independent-this war is now
To this lust of vengeance those English
men who have devoted themselves to the
Federal cause have given their sanction and
To this wauton indulgence of
he worst of human passions the Govern.
nents of Europe, at the instigstion of Eng
and have given their silent consent. And
.hus in the face of the world. with the per-
mission of Christie ndom, under the patron
lge Of England. is about to be enacted au-
,ther act-God grant it be the last--of the
most horrible tragedy that human wicked
less has yet brought about; spectacle
if wholesale and useless slaughter for
daughters sake and misery Inflicted from
pure love of evil, with the full certainty
hat the final issue has long ago been de-
ermined, that all this bloodShed, cruelty
md crime can not avert, and can not long
lelay, Neutrality-suspicious. to which the South
las so calamity maintained her right.