An Address to the People and Congress of the United States (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from An Address to the People and Congress of the United States These events gave rise to the most pleasing anticipations, which were strengthened by the first acts of the new regime. Early in September the State was invaded by Confederate troops, who held possession for six weeks of the greater portion of its territory. The people, content with, and hopeful of the new order of things, gave them little encouragement and but few recruits, so that by the first of November they were driven from our borders But contrary to all our hopes, winter brought with it a renewal of military government; orders issuing from military officers of every grade imposed daily more stringent regulations upon our commerce with other loyal States; wider signification was given to the term "disloyal,´ by which the victims were marked out for oppression; arrests without warrant and imprisonment without trial became once more the established system of justice; the property of suspected persons was again seized and appropriated to the use of the army without compensation; the civil power was of course to be not more effective in the hands of Mr. Robinson than in those of his predecessor, and spring found the rights of person and property even more insecure than in the darkest hours of the previous year. The Legislature, composed mainly of the personal and political friends of Governor Robinson, during their session in the winter, had passed resolutions of a strongly conservative character, in which they declared, among other things: 1st. That our institutions are assailed by an armed rebellion on one side, which can only be met by the sword, and on the other by unconstitutional acts of Congress and startling usurpations of power by the Executive, which we have seen by experience can be corrected by the ballot box. 2. That Kentucky is and ever has been loyal to the Government of the United States. 3. That we recognize a manifest difference between any administration of the Government and the Government itself. 4. Solemnly protests against the emancipation proclamation as unwise, unconstitutional and void. 5. That the power recently assumed by the President, whereby, under the guise of military necessity, he has proclaimed and extended martial law over States where war does not exist and has suspended the writ of habeas corpus is unwarranted by the Constitution, and its tendency is to subordinate civil to military authority, and to subvert constitutional and free government. 8. That Kentucky will adhere to the Constitution and the Union as the best, and it may be the last, hope of popular freedom. 9. Hails with manifest pleasure the recent manifestation of conservative sentiment among the people of the non-slaveholding States. 10. Recommends the call of a National Convention to propose amendments to the Constitution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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