Year: 1863

prem Oourt; aud fuFtner the call COndemOs
any denunciation of the Administration and
its measures, no matter how infamous they
may be. Could humanity descend to low
er depth of sbjectness and servility? They
are not content with devoted Unionism,
they are not satisfied that you are deter
mined to resist to the bitter death the at
tempt to dissolve the Union; It Is not suffi-
cient that you are ready to fight for the sup
preston of the rebellion, notwithstanding
the dispiriting direction the Administration
has given to the war;-but you must "sus-
tain'' the Administration in all it's m easures,
not only those which it may hereafter adopt,
without questioning, without doubling,
without venturing to ask yourself if they
are expedient. wise, lawful, constitu tional,-
No matter if the conviction is forced upon
you that these measures are destructive of
the very fabric of society and of the ediice
Of constitutional liberty, you must still sus-
tain them; nor, even If you are convinced
that they will prolopg the war and unless
recalled, secure the success of the rebellion,
you must nevertheless sustain them until
the Courts. whose decisions the Administra-
tion has repeatedly trampled upon and
against whose interference with its illegal
acts they have opposed the bsyonet, have an
opportunity to decide them unconstitutional.





for authority, moy assume to have unlimit-
ed control over the liberties and property of
the whole people, and even exercise that as.
sumption of power in the most odious and
Infamous manner, and yet you must "hold it
to be constitutionalF' He may even assume,
nnder the "t0ar measure" to set the constitu-
tion itself aside and utterly disregard it, and
give practical illustrations of his pet idol,
and yet you must sustain him in il and hold
his act to be constt:oual and not presume
to denouDce it; for if you do not come up to
that standard there are certain gentlemen
who will not vote for you. In other words,
you must become the purch asable minion,
the abject slave, tho despicable sycophant,
the mean hatterer of a President whose
corruption and clustering imbecility covers
with ridicule the Republic, on the penalty
ofIforfeiting the political support of some of
his admirersi Such a doctrine sounds
strange indeed when coming from the
mouths of Kentuckians, and yet, with un-
speakable modification we say it, Kentuck-
ians can be found who openly ad vocate such
sentiments and even brand as traitors all
who do not agree with them.


The call condemns our excellent Con-
gresham, who, though ready to vote for
men and money to suppress the rebellion,
and to risk his life in defense of his country,
is not willing to sustain the Administration
in all its measures, but has opposed it and
will oppose it whenever it transcends the
Constitution or adopts measures Injurious to
the public interests. It condemns Harrison
Tay lor and DR.. Smith, who from their seats
in the General Assembly, repudiated the
Presidents Proclamation as q dangerous
usurpation. Unconstitutional, without au-
thority in law, null. void and of no Effect
And though the name of Mr.. Marshall is ap-
pended 10 the call, it is a repudiation OF his
whole bright record as a Kentucky Senator,
of the traditions OF an honorable family, and
of all the warm and generous impulse Of his
manly and noble nature. That the name of
this gentleman, for whose intellect we have
the profoundest respect and for whom we
cherish feelings of the ws.mest friendship,
should be found appended to such call, is
to us utterly incomp prehensible. The call
is a repudiation of the loyal press of the
State, of the action OF the General Assembly,
of the candidates nominated on yesterday
by the State Convention, of the platform
adopted by that Convention. aud of the past
history OF the Union party in Mason Coun-
ty. We can regard it in no other light than
as al attempt to compel the Union party to
identify itself with the usurpations of the
Executive aud become his unscru pulous
partissns, or to divide that Union patty
The former these gentlemen cannot do; and
the guilt of all the consequences OF the lat
ter will rest with themselves. We will
speak for ourselves and for those who agree
with us, for the great mass of the Union par
ty of Kentucky: We will fight the rebels
with bayonets and never submit to theni
while We have the power to resist: We
will oppose, and t0e t0iH not sustain, and no
earthly power can COMPEL US To SUSTAIN the
infamous Proclamation of the 22nd Of Sep
tember and the one declaring martial law
in the loyal States: We t0ilnot cease to de-
noUnce those iniquitous measures, and we
will do what we can to procure their repeal.
and if the President will not repeal them,
we I0iH tie his hands and not permit him to
carry them out: We will try to put down
the rebellion, but we will not surrender our
own liberties: We will in August run can.
didates for all the offices who will stand
pledged to apply the civil remedy for the
redress of evils, and instead of sustaining
those evils and doing what they can to en-
graft their consequences upon the country.
The Uuion, the Constitution, constitutional
oppositiou to abuses of power by Congress
or the President, ress of evils by the po-
tent agencies of the ballot box-these are
our principles, and with these sentiments
emblazoued in colors of living light on cur
banners we will enter the lists against Sc
cessionists, Aboltionists, or men. who hav-
ing no fixed principles of their own to con-
tend for, are simply Administration MEN
We tell ali who feel tn emselves concerned
that it is idle to expect that Kentuckians
will not do what they can to prevent the
conservation of Mr.. Lincoln's wicked
schemes, and that they, had as well attempt
to dam up the waters Of our beautiful river
with bulrushes. as to check the tide OF free
thought which revolts at inhuDanity and
tvrat,v. and " hich must and will express t.
ssIf,n leeitimate and loyal condemnation.


THOMAS M. GREEN.