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

to be n candidate and it was the constitution
al right of every man in the district to vote foT
him. and vet, the autocratic usurper at Wash
ington dared, by the perversion Of military
power, to strike down the most invaluable
RIGHTS of lreemen. He had the immuni OF
having repeatedly before without punishme emit,
committed this great crime against constitu
tional liberty. In Missouri Maryland Della
ware and Kentucky, he had, by the bayonet,
thrown out from their elections the names OF
candidates obnoxious to himself, and forcibly
elected from the polls freemen who would not
enslave themselves 10y voting for his minions,
whom he had pre- determined should fill the
Offices Is not the power that dictates to a
people who may and who shall not stand for
office, who may and who shall not vote su
preme and despotic? and that people slaves
even though they have the form of free insti
tutions.
But the usurper, in the recent case of Ken
lucky, as he had done before, enlarged the
sweep of his despotic power by military ar,
rests and imprisOnments numerous, cause
less and atrociOus as those which made the
letters de cdchet of Louis Nj III the scourge and
terror of France, and the deathless infilmy OF
her history; and, by pecuniary contributions
cOnfiscatiOns of property and Punishment OF
good and true men, in violation of the COnsti
tuition and laws, without trial, evidence in
vestigation, but by his own mere edict pro
hDuuGCh ny lHliiLdIy SubdllcIuS ne CbuStl-
tuition expressly invests Congress with the
power to suppress instructions; yet Presi
dent Lincoln arrogates it tn himself. 1t
clothes Congress with the power to admit new
States into the Union, and to guarantee t.
them all republican form of government ::
but he Is attempting to assert the power OF
himself To demUlsh the Government Of the
rebel States, and to authorize One-tenth OF
their voters to reconstruct them on indispen-
sable conditions prescribed by him in derOga-
ton of the fundamental principle Of popular
government, that people have the exclusive
right to form their own government and the ma
jOrity represent the people and have the right
70 rule. From military necessity he claims
to himself the mOnstrOus and IllImitable pow
er, not only to violate the Constitution, but to
do any act which he may adiudge will con
dnce to the suppression OF the rebellion. This
vast power would put under his foot the Con
stitutiOn, laws and governments o. the United
States, and the lives, and liberty and property
of their whole people. The greatest Captain
that ever wore acOnquering sword, with which
he Glove down the Government laws and in
stitutions of Il country, never erected on their
ruins so extensive and formidable despotism
as is claimed by this trickSter and puny usur-
per lie has moved forward by stealthy steps,
in the name of the Union and Constitutions
and to preserve the life of the nation, clutch
ing one by one the tremendous powers which
he Is welding tor his own re election, while
the confding people, devoted to their Govern
ment, and deceived by his false professions
looked on with fatal apathy. If they vote to
continue him in the office, it will be an appro
val Of his monstrous misgovernment, enable
him to complete and consolidate his scheme
Of military despotisn, and render the rescue
Of constitutional liberty inn ossible. Every
good hope of the future for our country, rc
quire5 that he shall be repudiated by the com
al, hot
not produce as its fruits, an immense amount
Of good to our common country.
Yout obedienJ servant.
GARRETT DAVIS.