Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-08-25

The following letter from Senator Davis was
read at the Vallandigham meeting in Hamil
ton, Ohio on the 10Th inst We copy it from
the Cincinnati Commercial:
PARIS, KY, August 10, 1864
JACOB TEoUTMAN, EsQ-Dear Sir The let
ter of invitation which you chairman of the
Democratic Central Committee of Butler coun-
ty, Ohio, wrote to me, 'to be present and adj
dress a meeting of citizens which will be hold
en- in the city of Hamilton on the 18th,
reached my home In nv absence. An esteem
ed personal friend, lately in the military ser
vice of the United States-as true, intrepid
and patriotic soldier ever drew sword IN
his cOuntTy's cause-who has raised more men
for the army than any other-who has been
in more than three hundred battles ana sklr-
mishes and whose body is SCARED with many
wounds received in them-was some months
since. without trial, and against the Articles
of War ANONYMOUSLY dismissed from his rank
and the service by Abraham Lincoln, because,
on the occasion of the presentation OF Il sword
to him, he dared to exercise the constitutional
right of an American freeman, to canvass and
condemn, before his w-citizens, a portion
of the policy upon which the war against the
States in revolt was being conducted This
noble citizen-soldier, after such Il futile at
| tempt to degrade him, was designated as one
| of the Union Democratic Presidential electors
! for the State of Kentucky ut large, and also
Ireceived 4 special appointment from her Gov
J ernor to raise a militia force for her defense.
! While he was engaged, with signal ability, en-
ergy, and success in performing the duties of
both positions he was, by the authority of the
! tyrant usurper who sits enthrOncd in Wash
ington City, surrounded by his armed body
guard, arrested without warrant or charge OF
crime Ofense, and, In imitation OF the des-
potism of George III, which is made one of the
CHARGES against him in the Declaration Of In
dependence, our President deprived this true
soldier and patriot of the trial by jury. and by
force had him transported nearly one thousand
miles away from the people who know him.
and would testify to his innOcency and great
services, to be tried by drum head court-mar-
tial, chosen by himself from among men who
hold office and receive pay and promotion by
his own will. My friend telegraphed me that
he had been ordered, at Summcrvlle to report
himself Immediately for trial before the uncon-
stitutional tribunal at Washington City, and
requested my services in his defense; and |
hurried to aim to render them wherever they
might be needed. His trial was postponed
without designation Of time, and it may be as
signed for any day, but in the cause of one of
the ablest and truest, and most courageous sup
porters of my country, | must be ready to res
pond to his summons.
This recitation will explain why you did
not receive a more prompt reply to your
courteous invitations, and why can not be
more important purpose of furnishing
specimen, illustrative of the reckless and grev
Gus military despOtiSn, which Abraham
Lincoln has established all over what was So
recently free America, and which would be
consolidated and made perfect by his reelec-
ton
But my dear sir, can not yet close this com.
munication. In yours to me there is this pas
sage; The object Of holding this meeting
will be to express, in suitable terms the abbor-
renee with which the people Of all parties
view the arbitrary and despotic acts Of the
present Administration in Kentucky, as well
as the fears which they entertain Of like
constitutional and arbitrary acts perpetrated
under similar circumstances elsewhere" The
words awaking the deepest and most indignant
sensibiities Of my soul This reference TO
the despOtic acts OF LincOln's Administration in
my native State, Is most deylorably true Those
atrOciOus acts must excite in the bosom OF
every true liberties. and inspire all with the
immovable purpose, by all constitutional means
and at every hazard, TO resist these and all
similar acts of usurpation whether rrepetrated
in Kentucky or elsewhere in the United States.
BY provision of the Constitution of Ken
lucky, Judge Bullitt, the senior justice Of
our Court of Appeals, upon the expiration of
the term of Judge Duvall its late Chief Jus
tice, succeeded to that place. This Court as
organized has four Judicial officers, one of
which is still vacant by the close of the term
of judge Duvall, and by the lawless and for
chile Interference Of the military under the
command of President Lincoln in the late
election to FL it, vtiating the choice OF Judge
Robertson as his SUCCESSOR Jude Bull is
now, and always has been, loyal man, true
and faithful to the Constitution, the Union, |
and the enforcement Of the laws lie is not. |
and never was, Il sccessionist. On the contra
ry, at the beginning of the rebellion he de- |
clared secession to be revolutionary and was |
one Of the most decided and able Of Il II the |
public speakers of Kentucky in opposing it. |
He sustained the early and constitutional |
measures of Mr.. Lincoln and his administra-
ton to suppress it; but when they assumed a
character TO he destructive to the Constitution
and liberty, he exposed and denounced them,
as was his constitutional right, and for this
cause was arrested, but without warrant or
charge, by a military force, and is now held as
a prisoner in atmalefactOr' cell IleiS denied
L trial by ajuEy Of his peers according to the
forms of the common laws which is guaran-
iced to him by the Constitution both Of the L.
;. and Kentucky, and the Government Of Il
sovereign ota4 is obstructed in its course by
he breaking Up Of its Supreme Court on this
assumption Of, dcSpotic power by President
lincoln.
His interference in the election of Appellate
Judge in our fist District was as Iawless and
IS derOgatory 10 the sovereignty of the State
md Federal liberty us was his arrest and i'm
lrsonment Of Judge BulIctt judge Duvall
lad always been opposed to secession. In the
JOurt Of Appeals in which the question of its
alidity arose, Le and Judge Bullett and the
Whole court decided that the Southern Con
ederacy had no legal existence, and must be