The daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1863-1864, 1864-10-10

Tor with their domestic institutions, will
the right of individuals, or with then
private Affairs; that the relations of parent
and chilli. guardian and ward, husband and
wife, mister and servant, should all be re-
spected md remain unchanged BY the war
that thee lodges strengthened the weak,
confirmed the doubtful, fired the patriots
heart with new zeal, and enabled you to
command all the available Union strength
in the nstion; that upon them Congress vot-
ed ell The men and money that you desired;
that soon you bad collected by volunteering
the pufest, noblest. grandest army OF intel
hgent christian soldiers that ever was seen
on the4hce of the earth; that this grand
army, composed of Democrats, Republicans,
Old Line Wings, Abolitionists, and men Of
no party, met around the altar. Of their
country, and standing upon your pledges,
sunk the partisan in the patriot, and, in the
name of the God of Liberty and of the I'm
ion, were marching forward like band OF
brothers to victory and to gloIy; that your
pledges, too, had inspired the Union man
inside Of the rebel lines with new hope and
new life, and made him rejoice in the JUS
tice of the Government of his fathers; final
ly, that they served to increase division and
distraction in the rebel army and among
tho Southern people, so that great hopes
were entertained ofa counter revolution in
the South in favor Of peace and the MON;
writs down these facts on one side, l say,
and then write down on the other side that
you changed your mind and violated all
these pledges: that you broke the !Constio
tutisn and your oath to preserve it; that
you interferred with the rights OF the
States and of individuals; that you usurped
the power to disturb the relations between
master and servant, and issued proclama,
tions freeing the slaves; that you procured
the passage by Congress of odious conts
cation laws; that you are now trying to
change this war into war ofplunder. con
quest, and subjugAtion; that you claim the
right to reduce sovereign States into the
condition of conquered provinces; that TO
accomplish these things you have placed
the military above the civil authority; that
you have instituted system Of arbitrary
arrests which has given rise to numerous
instances of cruelty and oppression; BY
dragging innocent men, and 10 some instan'
ces even women and children, away from
their peaceful homes, to undergo the priVa-
tions of prison, in which some of them
must die, and all to crafty the private
malice of some of your partisan leaders,
though do not pretend to say thatwieked
mon are not sometimes arrested; that you
have constituted strange and unconstitu-
tional courts to try citizens, denying them
the right of being confronted with their ae-
eusers face to face, as well as the righ.o
trial by Jury, and denying them the benefit
of the law as we'll as the privilege of hav'
ing Fit expounded in their behalf by q
learned Judge; these strange courts having
usurped the power to imprison citizens for
life, and even to banish them from their
country; that you have declared martial
law and denied the right to the writ Of ha-
baes corpus in the loyal State Of Kentucky,
at q 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 orders sta.
ting 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 insecure; 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 people to
such an extent that all hopes of 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 realized-that
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, MIR.
President, you cannot face your case so
stated, it is only because you cannot lace
the truth. .- t,
If you, by psrsisting in your policy of
forcibly abolishing slavery, should cause
this war to continue two years longer, 1t
will involve this nation in q debt, the
amount of which will be twice as much as
the value of all the taxable property the
nation contains. 1t will bring over a mil
lion of fresmen to bloody end. 1t will
cause cripples, and widows, and orpha1S -
become SO numerous, and crime, roo.. 70
lence, and blood and misery NV NM n wiiI M 1.ve W
such an extent, and your saanuy nn, W." ,bs noI
to b, come so great j. earrylng on' tue POI
~ ~, 49,. uo 90" ~ ho.U adopted in order to keep
Sgv icy that .ts you and wounded spr,
otn =. .n.. your course will cause to rise up TO
d..y % YOU, that impartial history, in attest
ing the goodness and severity OF God, viii
write YOU down the greatest tyrant that
ever lived. ~ '.'I
But this is an episode, though one to
which you have invited me BY calling my
attention to your letter. lE 49,
To return to the immedisss subject OF
this answer, if you are not willing to re-
lease me without pledge, then ask that
YOU will turn me over to the civil authorl-
ties, in whose hands can have fair and
impartial trial by a 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, 50
that | may have the thing over. | desire
IN commence the canvass. '.sh 's..r
We. the Union men Of Kentucky, claim
AZ constitutional rights, alike in time of
neacs and in time Of war, the freedom Of