Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-04-22
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REx. Dk R. J. ,BRRGx1aRi6aR madesa a
speech at Lexington, Kentucky, on the
1Ith, in which he stated positively thar
Governor Bramlette did prepare procla.
nation threatening resistance to the draft.
log of negroes, and that ,helproclsmation
was essentially changed during the night
Of the 18th of March. The Louisville
Journal has repeatedly denied this on the
authority of Governor Bramlette, aud there
is therefore question of yeracity between
the Governor and the venerable doctor OF
divinity. The-doctor Gays that beis pre-.
pared to prove his assertions, aud as he
cannot fight the Governor, aud the Presby-
terian church would excommuntcate him
if be should, he sees no way'to get the
case publicly settled except by court, Of
law. Whether he expects to sue or, be
sued, hetdoes not say. IL does not appear
thai DR.. Breckinridge has discloed, OF, that
he knew, the details Of the suppressed
proelamatiUn, aud tbs account of it sent
from Washington was no doubt built oh
the small clue given 10 the previous speech
of DR.. Breckenridge. The practical con.
clusion OF the whole matter has been that
Governor Bramlette decided 20 make no
resistance tosLhe enrolment ot the KEN
tucky slaves preliminary to the draft, aud
that the President has assured him they
shall not be drafted If the quotas of Ken
tucky are filled with white men.
DIR. Breckiuridge, whose loyalty has been
ofthe sternest stuff from the beginning,
and who has had an excellent Influence
upon the better class of Kentuckisns, has
now declared fully for emancipation. His
speech at Lexington was made in support
OF the emancipation wing of the Union
party, which will be represented in the
Baltimore convention; while the pro. slave.
ry wing seeks Its natural atfinities ut Chi
cago. De. Breckenridge takes the common
sense ground that slavery is certain TO be
destroyed by the war, and he tells the
Keutuckians if they resist the progress Of
events their only course is to join the rebels
and share their fate, thus:
All you have TO do now is to stand still
and see the general government exercise
its powers, and do what it pleases to do.
If we go 10 war, and take the other side,
we lose our country. our lives too, perhaps,
and our slaves Oertatnly. Let it alone, and
let the government do what seems best in
their own eyes-Whelher this, that or the
other is constitutional is not question
want to 6gbt about apw. On this point
am like the negro who says he wants to .be,
Tree. but doii't want 20 tight for his freedom
Aud you want your niggers saved, but /
advise You not to go to shooting for them
at present. Letit be forever remembered,
that it is tie secession of the South, and
the war which has followed, which has
brought slavery to the crisis of It's fate.-
Let 1t be settled in your hearts, that the
SO often spoken of has come.-
The preservation of slavery demands that
the general goyernment,9 and the nation
itself, should not only be resisted but con-
quered. II demands not only thar Ken.
lucky should aid the South in doing this,
but that she should join the South and take
her final lot with the confederate states.