The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-09-30


I..rt With new zeal, and enabled you TO
command all the available Union streng.n
in the nation that upon them congress
voted all the men and money that you oe-
aired that soon you had collected by. vol
nnteer;ne the purest, noblest, grandest NJ,
INV of intelligent Christian soldiers tna'
aver was seen on the face OF the eartn
that this grand army, composed OF Demo
crafts Republicans, Old Line Wings, Abo.
l;tionists, and men of no party, met around
the altar of their country, and, standing
mon your pledges, sunk the partisan in the
natriot. aud, in the name of the God OF Lib
ertv and of the Union, were marching for
ward like band of brothers to victory aud
to glory; that your pledges, too, had IN,
spired the Union man inside OF the reoel
lines with new hope and new life, and MADE
him rejoice in the Justice of the Govern
ment of his fathers; and, finally, that they
served to increase division and dlstractlon
in the rebel army and among the Southern
people, so that great hopes were entertained
Of a counter-revolution in the South in ia
vor of peace and the Union; write down
these facts on one side, say, and then write
down on the other side that you changed
your mind and violated all these pledg 8;
that YOU broke the Constitution and your
oath to preserve it.; that you interfered
with the rights of the States and OF indl
yiduals; that you usurped the power to dis
turb the relations between master and SER
want, and issued proclamatlons freeing the
slaves that you procured the passage by
Compress of odious confiscation laws; that
YOU are now trying to change this war into
a war of plumber, conquest, ana suo)uga>
ton; that you claim the right to reduce
sovereign States into the condition OF con
ouered provinces; that to accomplish these
things you have placed the military above
the civil authority; that you have lnstltu'
ted a system of arbitrary arrests which has
g;yen rise to numerous instances OF cruelty
and oppression by dragging innocent men,
and in some instances even women ana chill
dren. away from their peaceful homes, to
undergo the privations of a prison, IN which
some of them must die and all to crafty
the private malice of some of your partisan
leaders, though l do not pretend to say that
wicked men are not sometimes arrested;
that YOU have constituted strange and un>
constitutional courts to try citizens, deny
inc them the right of being confronted with
their accusers face to face, as well as the
right of trial by jury, and denying them
the benefit of the law as well as the priv
leee of having it expounded in their behalf
nv learned Judge, these strange courts
having usurped the power to imprison citi-
Gems for life, and even to Danish them from
their country; that you have declared mar
tial law and denied the right to the writ of
habess corpus in the loyal State OF ken'
lucky. at time when the civil authority
was in full force; that YOU have permitted
military officers in Kentucky to interfere
with the freedom of elections by issuing or"
ders stating who shall be allowed to run
for Office and who shall be allowed to vote
thus drying up all the fountains of civil
liberty, and leaving life and property inse'
secure; and, finally, that the effects Of this
change of policy have been to drive many
original Union men in the South into the
rebel army, and to unite the Southern PEG
pie to such an extent that all hopes OF q
counter revolution in the South is lost, at
least for the present, while so dividing the
people of the loyal States that you have
fears-which God grant may never be re
allied a revolution will burst forth in
the North which may cause you to lose your
head, and also cause the Union to be lost in
the midst of disorder, blood, and ruin. If.
Mr.. President, you cannot face your case so
stated, it is only because you cannot face
the truth
If you, by persisting in your policy of
forcibly abolisbing slavery, should cause
this war to continue two years longer, it
will involve this nation in a dobt the
amount of which will be twice as much as
the value Of all the taxable property the
nation contains. 1t will bring over mil
lion of freemen to bloody end. 1t will
cause cripples, and widows, and orphans to
become 50 numerous, and crime, and vio-
lence, and blood, and misery will increase
to such an extent, and your tyranny will
have to become so great in carrying out the
policy that you have adopted in order to
keep down the Disconnected and wounded
spirits that your course will cause to rise
I'D to defy you, that impartial history, in
attesting the goodness and severity of God,
will write you down the greatest tyrant
that ever lived. o."
But this is an episode, though one to
which you have invited me by calling my
attention to your letter.
To return to the immediate subject of
this answer; if you are not willing to release
me without pledge, then ask that you
will turn me over to the civil authorities,
in whose hands | can have fair and im-
partial trial by jury, meet my accusers
face to face, and receive the benefit of the
law. If you will not do this send the com
mission that you promised Immediately, so
that | may have the thing over. desire
TO commence the canvas.
We, the Union men of Kentucky, claim
as constitutional rights, alike in time of
war and in time of peace, the freedom of
speech, the freedom of the press, and the
freedom of election; and va claim that the
freedom Of speech and the freedom of the
press extend to the unrestricted discussion
of the merits and dement's of every candi-
date for Office, yourself among the rest-to
the criticism of your whole course, conduct