American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-04-13
Tl.e Draft i'm Kentucky.

Tribune, thus states the facts eyidencing
"a reasonable purpose conspiring between
Governor Bramlette and the Louisville
journal factiohists:"
l. The fact that Governor Bramelette
sat upon the platform at Lexington, and
gave his countenance to the traitorous
speech of Wolford, in VIII ch he eulogized
''the Buckners, and Stephenses of Ken
lucky and the SOUTH" denounced Presi-
dens LINCOLN as "a tyrant, and usurper,"
and moaned over ''the desolation aud mis-
cry this war was bringing on the women
and children of the South
II. The fact that the Provost. Marshal
Of Boyle county, while engaged in enroll
ing the negroes in this district, received a
dispatch by telegraph front Governor Bran.
lctte, nearly, if not literally in these words:
II have dispatched the President, and
have demanded this business of enrolling
and drafting of negroes in Kentucky
must be stopped and if he don't stop it,
| will"
H. The facts that Governor Bramlette,
aftera interview with Shipman, of the
Louisville Journal, wrete proclamation
to the people of Kentucky, and sent it
for publication to the Office of the COM
monaoeaiM newspaper, and that it was there
put up in type, and proofs of it taken
that that proclamation CD in its opening
and throughout was grossly abusive of and
hostile to Mr. Lincoln's Administration.
(2). That it unhesitatingly counseled re-
si~tance to the enrolment of negroes and
specified how this could be done stating
first, that the owners of slaves could re-
fuse to give in their names, ages, &c; sec
ond that if means were resorted to to compel
them to furnish the negroes names, ages,
&c, they could appeal to the court and to
him as Governor. @. That it pledges
the people of Kentucky that ifHey aoouhl
tak,e this course, he seoutd sustain them "a, al
wHh all the po'oer Of tie State. (4) That
it attacked the law of Congress as "un-
questionably unconstitutional, y and urged
resistance to the draft on that ground.
". The fact that at a meeting of five
gentlemen in frankie at 8 o'clock at
night, Governor Bramlette read that proc
lamation aloud from proof freshly brot'
in from the printing office.
v That the loyal, stout hearted DR..
Breckenridge, withstood its publication
and rebuked its spirit, telling the Govern
pr that it would bring on civil war in the
State, and that ho would be held to ter
ribe responsibility, both personal and Of
fe.al if he pubs she'd it,
VI That the Governor, ,coweI by Breck-
cnridge's fidelity and sternness, and the
miIdcr disapproval of the others, then
am there eviscerated the traitorous docu-
nent, AMI sent it to be re ct for publica-
ton, shorn of five-sixths of its length and
purgod of nearly all its treason,
VII That Lieutenant Governor Jacobs
in conversation with, few days
before the event just narrated, counseled
open resistance to the draft "How will
you make it?.' inquired. ave will
overcome Gen. Grants army" How?"
We will stop his supplies-they all GO
through Kentucky" ''What then; for
Grant will fall back to Kentucky, and
Longstreet will follow him and the State
will be ruined " We'll" answered ia
cobs doggedly, "this thing has got to be
stopped, and we may as well stop it now,
if we perish in the attempt"
We here leave this presentation of the
case against Gov. Bramlette and the Pro-
Slavery Union traitors of Kentucky; with
the jury of the public.
The Governors demands upon Mr. Lin
coin toned down here to request that
the negroes when drafted should not be
kept in Kentucky, but should be removed
from the State forthwith. Ex-senator
Dixon, his comrade, begged that the draft
might de suspended until after the tobac.
co crop was made-that is, to let off Ken,
lucky from hurting the Rebels for at least
six months.
1T is historic and interesting, aprapos Of
all this, to say that, when Gen. Grant was
in Louisville, he said, in reply to dis
tinguished Union man, who asked him
what he would do if Bramlette & Co..
made trouble about the enrolment .
DO ?"-looking at his interrogation a
moment with surprise-"My God Sir,
what have | to do with their notions about
slaves ?This is a law of Congress. 1t shall
be executed if have to bring up the en-
tire army from Chattanooga. Tell them
so"