Year: 1863

Editorial Correspondence.


LOUISVILLE, March 10th, 1863.


The editor Of the Eagle feels compelled
express his deep regret that an attempt
b as been made to organize an Administra-
ion party iu Mason county, by published
call for public meeting to consider the pro-
priety Of voting for no man however devoted
in his Uniouism, who does not uncoud ition-
ally sustain every no ca .ure Of the President.
Had been in Maysville at the time, even
had l been induced by personal regard for
many of the very respectable signatures to
the call to give it place in the Eagle, ii
most certainly would not have been per-
mitted to go to the public unaccompaned
by editorial comments expressing tho most
emphatic dissent from the object of the
meeting as expressed in the call, and an ex-
posure of its mscheyoUs tendency in intro
ducing questions of discord among the Uu-
ion people of Kentucky, who are not so
numerous that they can afford to be divid-
ed. 1t is unnecessary to assure my readers
that utterly condemn all attempts to form
a political organization in Kentucky based
upon pledge to yield to any Administration
that allegiance and support which is due
only to the Governm ent itself and to the
country; still less is it necessary for me to
say, that SO far from being willing to sustain
President Lincoln in all the measures which
bis fanatical blindness and narrow minded
bigotry may prompt him to adopt. utter
ly repudiate his distinctive Admin istration
policy ss being fagit;ously wicked in itself,
as being destructive Of the most sacred prin-
ciples of our free government and as a blow
to the hope of restoring the Union which
will be fatal unless that policy is changed by
himself, or the people take measures to pre-
vent him from carrying 1t out. %


Several excellent gentlemen who signed
the call to which 1 refer have already as
sured me that they did not know what was
in it, and that they are opposed TO the OBJ
j ect of the meeting and will do what is in
their power, to prevent any harm from com
ing from it, And we here take the liberty
of stating our firm belief that fully three
fourths of the sgDers either did not know
what they were signing or did not compre-
hend the full purport of its language, and
that when they have time to reflect upon
the matter they win treat it with all the
scorn of which their fine natures are ca
pable. More than this, the very OrigiDatOrs
Of the movement deny that it was their de-
sign to do that which the language OF the
call itself says they intended to do. 1t forms
no part of our present purpose to lmpute to
the getters up Of the call any design to as
sail apy of our public servants; it is not our
WlSD 10 say dBybuInS dOO0kbbOAi - -
cept TO give them the benefit of their ex-
press reputation of design to reflect upon
the course pursued in Congress by Mr..
Wadsworth or for the course pursued in the
General Assembly by that purest of patriot,
and most excellent of men, Harrison Taylor.
We have only to DO with the call ltseif, and
will con6De ourself to 1t. =,


Lest should be misunderstood desire 70
distinctly state here, that see no aiterua-
tive left to the nation except to submit to
disiptegrstion or to fight those who are en-
dee oring with arms in their hands to ac-
compiish that end. The Southern leaders,
who control the army and through the army
control the entire people OF the South have
, explicitly declared that they are unwilling
to accept peace on any other condition than
a recognition of their Independence South
ern Confederacy, with a boundary which
will include every slave State; it bein g
part Of their pretensions that the States OF
Missouri and Kentucky belong exclusively
to them, and that they are determined to
have both of those States at all hazards. L
am unwilling to acknowledge theindepend
ence of the South, or to submit to being sub
iugated by them, and it follows that am IN
favor of putting forth the full military
strength of the Government, to the end OF
crushing out the rebellion by whipping the





time am in favor of offering to the rebels
every inducement to lay down their arms,
by assuring them that their rights in the
Union and under the Constitution shall be
serupulously respectedi and so soon as they
exhibit willingness to return to their al
legiance am 10 favor of cessation OF hos
tiiities, or order that the people NAV agree
upon terms of peace within Union ID
which ali the members will be equal and
sovereign over their own local affairs In
order that this policy may be adopted am
in favor of the election to Congress from
Kentucky and all the loyal States OF men
who will advocate ard uphold it, who will
oppose the policy of the Administration
which declares to the people OF the south
that the only way by which they can save
themselves from universal despoilation Is to
arouse all their energies to beat back the
Federal armies, and declares its purpose to
establish by military violence condition o'
things in the South, even should they lay
down their arms, entirely inconsistent with
received American ideas of liberty. -


This call is for meeting to consider the
propriety of voting for no man foro flee who
Nih not pledge himself to sustain the "Ad-