Year: 1863

.. M No. 39. n


An outcry has been raised against
General Burnside's late order, but not I
half as great one as we expected. We t
don't know whether the tongues Of I
rebel sympathizers are restrained by
fear or by some higher aud worthier s
consideration. IF we thOught a good q
deal better Of them than we do, we I
might probably conclude that they are a
kept partially in check by conviction
that the order-though essentially cur |
failing their tongue .privileges-is OBJ |
viously right and proper and just
Obviously it is stringent, but any other
policy than a stringent one 10 such an
exigency as this, would be weakness,
imbecility, foolishness. There should


have been stringeucy good while ago;


there must be vast deal of it now


Stringency in kentucky at this time is


the right and necessary thing in the


right and necessary place. ...g


tits required that in Kentucky those,


whether male or female, who declare


sympathy with the rebel cause, shall be


sent where their sympathies are. To


complain of this is absurd. While We


are sending thousands Of our young


men South to subdue the rebellion, we


should be guilty of the most miserable


treachery to them as we'll as to,ourselves


and to mankind, if we were to allow
men and women in tho midst Of us to


clectioneer for tho rebel cause. To
carry on war against the rebellion,
: and at the same time to tolerate on the
theater Of war men and women who by
their acts or words are encouraging and
fomenting the rebellion, would be pre-
posterous to the last degree. No peo-


pie ever did SO monstrous thing, and
ours vii not be likely to set the first
example. So let our male and female
rebels, in view of the facts before them,


act as they think best. II they are sat
is6ed with their homes, let them guard
we'll their acts and put check-rein up
on their tongues. IF they prefer a res
idence within the Confederate lines, let


them talk on without regard TO Gods
law, or their couDtry's welfare, or pub


lie opinion. Which is the better-that
insolent and loquacious rebels should


be sent within the lines of their friends,
or that they should be tolerated here,
; making converts TO the rebellion, COM
municating every day, if not every


hour, spy-information to- the enemy,
and doing ali in their power to iDaug


urate war in its most revolving and
bloody shapes through all our borders2


II the rebel sympathizers among US,


male or female, think that Gen. Burn


sides policy toward them is unduly


Earsh, let them look at the policy of the
:, Confederacy which is the idol Of their
= worship, and into which they are seek
ing TO incorporate Kentucky. Of
: course they are aware that, during the
last two years, or for very nearly that
7" period, all persons, not having taken
: the oath of allegiance to the Confedera


cy, have, according to law of the Con
! federate Congress, been treated as alien
enemies. They arc fully aware that, il
any man or woman should dare to talk
n for single hour or single minute in
6 the Confoderacy as they themselves have


been and are habitually talking here
. he or she would be sum marily punish
ed with rope, bullet or exile. The,
y know that these things are the cstab
&c " lished policy Of their fayorite section
y and they exult in the knowledge


Thy are exhausting their mental ant
T. physical resources from day to day l.
a. force Kentucky into a condition il
le which all her Union people would b
ne compelled to choose at once between
It. submission. death and Danish ment, an
n yet they think it is a terrible thin
I'd that they can not, while our State is
O. member of the Federal Union, be pei
P. mitted to live here in the undist1rL
as ed'sxsrcise Of what they consider tn
l.
lie inalienable right Of stirring up as muc


sedition as they please against the I'm
h. ted States Government. They are ur
ne reasonable, irrational, presumptuOu
* and iusolent.


III. Let General Burnsidss order l
I'd. carried out with the true BurnsiG
in vigor. 1t will do good. 1t will


what must of necessity bc done if '
ial would save the country.


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