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Buchanan, James R., Louisville, Kentucky, to James Alphonsus McMaster, Editor Freeman's Journal, New York, New York, 1864 July 4

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Identifier: CMMA I-1-m

Scope and Contents

The excellent service McMaster has rendered to the cause of civil liberty leads him to enclose a remonstrance and requests McMaster's attention to the subject. They are sunk in a dead sea of despotism there. The convention in the midst of despair and under Federal terrorism is the first political movement of the Democracy in Kentucky since the dispersion at Frankfort by _____ Gilbert ?. However, it was a success in numbers, characters, and harmony of spirit and action. They must suffer the will of the Jacobins of this despotic act against the press while their opportunity lasts. They must put off the hands of the Federal administration from the throats of democracy and Kentucky, for unless she is emancipated from her present position, she can do nothing. He asks McMaster to turn his interest their way a little. If the Federal yoke is thrown off they will be able to take care of their own domestic Jacobins. Say a word in reference to those triple-faced cheats, the Bramlette's managers. Bramlette has been the scrub boot of the administration all the time and was in alliance with General George Thomas even six months ago when the Journal passed his stern defense of state rights and opposition to abolition at which Thomas simply laughed and declared then that he would carry out his system with Bramlette's aid or without by the fourth of July. Today it is fulfilled. Bramlette is endorsed by the Jacobin organ, the Union Press of Louisville, and they have a grand dress parade and flag presentation with the freshly stolen Negroes in the city as Thomas said in January. Fight for freedom of the press; when that is taken, all else soon surrenders. :: I-1-m A.L.S. 3pp. 8vo.

Dates

  • Creation: 1864 July 4

Language of Materials

English.

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