The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1867-08-07

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HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT Oh THE ONO,
Cincinnati Ohio, June t. 1863
General Orders No -
The publication of general orders No. So current
series was induced BY sincere conviction of its
cessty for the public military service Of the country.
1t had neither party, nor ambitious end III view.
The commanding General had Information, which he
believed and has since found reliable: that in the
State Of Kentucky in parts not strongly occupied by
our troops rebel recruiting agents were constantly re-
cruiting for the rebel army; and CARRYING away from
the State, many men, who duly trained were soon to
return in guerilla bands to give information against
Union men, destroy, steal and carry away their prop
erty always treat them with ndignity and violence,
aud frequently murder them. The impunity these
men enjoyed lead many Of them to act openly, and
induced many of their sympahsers to engage secretly
in the same acts of hostility to the Government, in
the same most material giving OF aid to the enemy tie
giving Of men, Of soldiers.
He also had information, equally reliable, OF con-
slant lines of communication with the enemy, by which
secret macarriers bore to those in arms against the
Government the earliest information Of all Our in
tended military movements.
Whenever reverse attended our arms in any part
of the country, the loyal and selt-sacrifcng men Of
Kentucky, became the sufferers. Partial sympathsers
with the rebel cause became inclined to dlsoy-
atty, while avowed traitors adjudged these occasions
proper ones to prosecute those who remained faithful
loyal and true. Those who thus suffered for their
fidelity and loyalty in Kentucky could not do other
wise than feel that they entitled to the protec-
ton of the Government the generous sFnpathies
throughout the entire country of all patriotic men
nor could they recognise the justice of the equal pro-
lection Of those who remaining at home, were in the
constant habit of avowing their sympathies for the re-
bellious cause and while they suffered injury from
the armies and troops of the Government, thus pro-
tected themselves from injury their lives, and prop
erty from those of the socacd Southern C0ntederacy.
Sound military policy and necessity required that
rebel recruiting agents and secret macarriers should
he promptly punished whenever apprehended. jus
tice to the tried and long suffering Union men Of
Kentucky required that the public expression of SYM
pathy for the cause from which they suffered should
not be permitted in that State.
The commanding General invented nothing for
the purposes of injustice, nor of persecution nothing
for the sake Of ambition nothing for popular applause
He applied simple remedy to great and trying evils
Has kentucky ever regretted his action2 Has she
ever complained that the personal liberty OF her ct-
zens, their lives property, the freedom of her
speech, and of her press, all these the constituent
elements of popular liberty, threatened, or en-
dangered, destroyed by the very means taken for
their greater protection and security?
1t is believed and well informed men knew, that
Kentucky has never been in condition of greater
peace and security, and the enforcement OF the meas
ures adopted by the commanding General has every
where in that State produced the happest results, aud
largely, if not entirely remedied the evils they were
designed to cure Docs any citizen of Kentucky does
any loyal man in any of the States of the Department
of the Ohio, regret this policy? Is he ashamed OF
these results?
Wherein does kentucky differ from the other States
of the department. unless it be that like Them not the
Of strife between two constantly occupying and
contending armies she is unlike them, more open to
the occasional inroads of the enemy. Recent events,
the assurances contained in the Presidents proclama
ton and in those of the Governors OF Ohio and Penn
sylvania, should convince all men that Chic may at
time be equally subject with Kentucky to those
dangers which that State has heretofore shared alone
Would net the same evils existing here justify the
same remedies, successfully applied in Kentucky?
General orders No. 80 were applied to all the States
Of the department. because such great difference of
situation existed, seemed in the judgment and hon
est convictions of the commanding General to require
a modification of principles of administration, which
he honestly believed to be just right and lawful and
demanded by the public welfare
IF these principles to be made universal in the
department, the commanding General could not pub
fish them to the world and fail to enforce them.
Many bad and designing men have seized upon par
ticular instances of their application to cothe them
selves in the livery Of the exclusive advocates of the
freedom of the citizen, of liberty Of speech, and Of he
press.
In this hour of threatened invasion, the command
ing General has doubt but that all rejecting minds
will perceive that the expression and advocacy of
the Government, aud which are known to induce
want of that enthusiastic sympathy in its which
free people will always manifest when contendlnS
for their national existence and honor that the
tnua declaration of sentiments, which have, can
did men know, induced disatecton in the army there
by dissuading enisments, encouraging assertions and
weakening the strength, while cooling the ardor of
our armies i'll the field, by depriying them of the
kindly influences Of home sympathies and encourage
mcnt, and equally estrangng the convictions and SEN
timents of every law abiding man by stimulating
ARMED organisations home resist the laws Of the
land, leading to the murder of the duly appointed
officers OF the Government, recently in Indiana, or
to resistance to thcr authority and armed gatherings
to prevent the discharge Of their daties, such now
dsgoces Holmes county, Ohiol will not be identified
by any pure hearted man. with that freedom of speech
which has in view the welfare of the country, nor has
he for himself any fear that in the cnunciation of
these principles, and in their past application, he will
be adjudgcd enemy to the liberties Of the people,
or as ever having thought or intended to endanger
those sacred rights secured by sacred and yeneracd
constitution, which he has sworn to support
To remove from the hands Of bad men weapon |
which may enable them to misgude the weak or the
ill-nformed the commanding General announces that
general orders No s. from these headquarters of date
April - 1863 arc hereby repealed in the States OF this
department. except Kentucky, except so far as relates
to persons who may be found guilty of actually cncour
aging enlstments in the rebel service, holding actual
correspondence with those in against the Gov
eminent, or supplying them with arms, ammunition,
medicines, provisions, information, and those who
actually encouraging descrtions not by the general
of their declared opinions but by words and acts
limited to that object alone, under recent laws Of
the Congress of the United States liable to punish
mcnts provided by law.
General orders No IS will continue in full force and
effect in the State of Kentucky it being known to the
General that no loyal citizen has ever
desired its change, modification, or abrogation
BY coalmauu of Mljor-Gcn. Burnside: |
J. NJ. CUTS,
Capt 18th In, \. D. c. and Judge Advocate
Department Of the Ohio. |
On the goth day of June, again urged the imme-
liatc publication of this order the only change being
the insertion of the clause in brackets made in view
Of the events therein alluded to- and which had hap
oened since the 10TH Ills answer again was that he
was still waiting the Presidents reply After that
time had little or personal Or official communca-
ton with Gen. Burnside
trust the order proposed by me will sufficiently
explain itself, ard need comment. 1t is however,
to be remarked in passing that great excitement ex
sted in the State at the time and that the style and
language were framed and intended to meet this an
cry condition Of partisan feeling l was, moreover,
obliged to adopt method of argument to per-
suade Burnside himself, and therefore imagining my
self in his position, cndeavored to reason nearly
rs possible, in the direction of my CONVICTIONS in
tn ornnu,Dish object which tho rppral