The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1865-08-10

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Military Emancipation IN Kentucky.
Major General J. NJ. Palmer lately
issued an order permitting passes to be
given to negroes who desired 10 leave
kentucky. This caused a general stam-
pede from the counties along the Ohio
river, and thousands of slaves have
thus been eInanciputed. Some of the
prominent citizens of Kentucky ap-
pealed to President johnson against
General Palmer's order, which is in eff
feet n decree of general emancipation
in the State, and the President tele-
graphed to the General inqniring MS to
the flcts. The reply of General Palmer
is printed. He gives these reasons for
his course: Dis fats
"Large numbers of negroes were
then in Louisville from the surround
ing country, who had escaped from or
tiers. The mayor and others desired my
approval of plan they had arranged
for the general enforcement of the laws
against vagrAncy, and the law which
fOrbids slaves to go mt large and hire
themselves out as free persons. To
produced great Lnisery and alarm
among the blacks. To leave the lnegroes
i'll the city would have alarmed tile
citizens who were beforehand taught to
think their presence would cause pesti-
lence. They sought to make me re-
sponsible for either consequence. To
avoid both I issued order No. 81. I'm
der it over 5000 negroes have crossed the
Ohio river ut this place alone. 4-r..,... ri
before the Fourth of July an impress
sion got abroad amongst the negroes
Throughout the State that OH that day
they would all be made free. Infiamed
by this belief thousands of them lett
their masters houses AND came into our
posts nj different points in the State.
Every nook and hiding place at such
places us Camp Nelson, Lexington,
Frankfort, Bowling Green, MunfOrd-
vile, &C., was filled with them. They
were without work or means; and the
greater the number and the more desti-
tute they were, the more the people re-
sisted employing them. i was COM
! PEELED from these causes to issue gene
rnl orders No. 40, md the free papers
referred to in the telegram of Mr.. Price
are merely the passes issued under that
order.
"I have been greatly embarrassed in
respect to the colored people by the acts
and declarations of politicians and
Il presses in the anti-RdniniStration inter-
est. They have given the negroes ex-
traOrdinary ideas of the purposes of
the Government by announcing in their
] speeches and columns that it was the
Intention of the government to free
them all, furnish them with food and
Iclothing, and put them upon an equal
lty with the whites. Invariably con-
SENTATIVE gathering in n neighborhood
IS followed by the stampede of negroes,
think, and respectfully submit that it
} is impossible, under the existing state
of tncts here, to enforce the laws of the
the State in Interference to slaves and sla-
: very.
For the sake of keeping the small
number i'll subsection to masterS, the
n whole race in the state are most cruelty
oppressed and Outraged under color of
laws which render freedom to II negro
2 in Kentucky impossible, / have fell II
my duty to give protection to this large
free population MS fur us possible, but in
doing SO l have been, on occasions
compelled to do actions which, i'll effect,
2 greatly impair the tenure of the small
number of persons who are still tech
nlCllly masters of slaves Indeed If
must be, admitted that many slaves
have left the state under orders number
u ana 10, WHICH are enclosed, and every
decision / make in favor of n negro.
seems to starta host of individual cases,
which come within-the same principle.
In short, slavery has no acttinl exist
tional amendment is defeated Mt the
; election, the whole active colored popu-
| iatiOn will fly, unless employ the
troops to prevent it, and Won have not,
and Will not he likely, to orderthat to be
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BELMONT COUNTY, OHIO, ITESts.-The
Union menlof Belmont, by one of the
largest conventions ever held in the
Il county, nominated DIR. West as their
choice for the State Senate. The Sepn-
torinl district is composed of Belmont
and Harrison counties. The Senatorial
convention for the two counties Will
meet at Flushing, on Saturday. Saws
the st. ClairsvilIc Chronicle: Il
Alta picnic between Morristown and
Flushing on last Saturday-gotten up
generally by boys from the 43d and 9st6
Ian attempt was made by Copperheads,
WHO came there armed with knives
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