The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1900-10-02

to decide your way right or wrong.
3-If AN armed and unlawful
force cannot intimidate those who
by law are called to decide such
questions, fill up the State build
ings with armed assassins and
shoot out of the buildings the man
who under the forms of law dares
assert his right to an office you do
not think he should have.
4-When you have shot down
the man who thus lawfully seeks
his legal rights, Immediately fill the
State buildings with armed desper-
ADDE'S and partisan militia and defy
the officers of the law who come to
search for and apprehend the MUIR
derer.
5-As soon as you hear that the
law officers have obtained clue to
the identity of the assassin, pardon
all concerned and send them away
under squad of soldiers to some
point in the State where lawless
partisan Judges will protect them
from arrest.
Call out the militia, suspend
the writ of habeas corpus, take
possession of all public buildings,
| fill them with militia previously
organized of the worst and bitter
est partisans and use the public
property in the most injurious way
and refuse to allow any officer of
the law with any writ whatever to
enter these public grounds.
IF any soldiers or assassins
thus used violate any law or create
any disturbances, pardon them in
advance of a hearing and if they
are caught with weapons tell them
they would be more readily pardon
ed if they had used them than if
taken with them concealed.
S-Immediately disperse the law
making power by the use of the
bayonet, take possession of the
Capitol building and the desks of
the law makers, refuse them ad-
mission to the Legislative Hall and
if they attempt to meet elsewhere
in the Capitol of the State disperse
them by the bayonet and if they
persist in the assertion of their
rights arrest them.
eff the members of the Legis-
lature still persist in peaceably
meeting let the Governor issue a
proclamation adjourning the Legis-
lature 20 some remote town full of
partisans of those who are opposed
TO them and where if necessary a
sufficient number of those who OPP
pose you can be conveniently and
promptly assassinated.
10-Keep the militia constantly
under arms, give them all luXuries
at the expense of the State, put the
expenditures of the money in the
hands OF officers who give no bonds
and refuse any account or official
statement of such proceedings until
the last moment. Garry your claim
to office through all the courts and
when the tribunal OF last resort
decides against you get your fell
low onscpirators together and
make arrangements III advance
with the Governor of some adioin-
ing State, who will violate the law
by refusing your surrender and
then defy the process and authori-
ties of the State in which you have
committed these outrages, and flee
from Kentucky as fast as steam
and tide will carry you.
The cry of civil liberty made by
men who approve or justify the
conduct and acts of w. ). Taylor
should blister their tongues. If
this be liberty, if this be honest,
decent, lawful government, the
sooner such liberty is wiped OIL the
face of the earth the better for men
and mankind.
Men of Montgomery, if you can
approve or condone these things
you are untrue to the teachings
and principles of your brave and
noble fathers who wrested this
beautiful land from the domination
of savages. They came and rsked
their lives to found here in Ken
lucky a great wealth and
for one hundred and eight years
this State has earned and deserved
the proudest place amongst the
commonwealth of this great nation