KENTUCKY. 



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established therein. I do, therefore, hereby require 

 of the military officers in the said State that the 

 privileges of the writ of "habeas corpm be effectually 

 suspended within the said State, according to the 

 aforesaid proclamation, and that martial law be es- 

 tablished therein, to take effect from the date of this 

 proclamation, the said suspension and establishment 

 of martial law to continue until the proclamation 

 shall be revoked or modified, but not beyond the 

 period when the said rebellion shall have been sup- 

 pressed or come to an end. And I do hereby require 

 and command, as well all military officers as all civil 

 officers and authorities existing or found within the 

 said State of Kentucky, to take notice of this procla- 

 mation and to give full effect to the same. 



The martial law herein proclaimed, and the things 

 in that respect herein ordered, will not be deemed or 

 taken to interfere with the holding of lawful elections, 

 or with the proceedings of the constitutional Legisla- 

 ture of Kentucky, or with the administration ot jus- 

 tice in the courts of law existing therein between 

 citizens of the United States in suits or proceedings 

 which do not affect the military operations or the 

 constituted authorities of the Government of the 

 United States. 



In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my 

 hand "and caused the seal of the United 

 States to be affixed. Done at the city of 

 Washington this fifth day of July, in the 

 [L. s.] year of our Lord, one thousand eight hun- 

 dred and sixty-four, and of the independence 

 of the United States the eighty-ninth. 



ABRAHAM" LINCOLN. 

 By the President : 

 'WILLIAM H. SEWARD, Secretary of State. 



Arrests of individuals by a military force 

 soon commenced, and a large number of per- 

 sons were thus seized. A correspondent of the 

 JT. Y. Times, writing from Louisville, Aug. oth, 

 says : 



What will be done with all the numerous arrested 

 has not transpired. They were arrested under Gen. 

 Sherman's instructions to Gen. Burbridge, and upon 

 Gen. Carrington's information to Gov. llorton. The 

 policy is to arrest the prominent guilty, and make a 

 wholesome example of them. Those proved to be 

 leading "Sons of Liberty," "American Kniirhts," 

 " Knights of the Bush,'"' or leading sympathizers 

 and aiders and abettors of such, will doubtless be at 

 least banished for the war. No convicted conspira- 

 tors and traitors can be tolerated upon Kentucky 

 soil, any more than their knightly friends, the guer- 

 rillas. J. R. Buchanan, J, N. Leathers, and other 

 Peace Democratic delegates, and not a few prominent 

 Keutuckians of all professions and callings, are in 

 limbo. 



The following persons were among those ar- 

 l previous to Aug. llth, at Louisville and 

 in Jefferson County, on a charge of beini: " Sons 

 of Liberty " : Joshua E. "Bullitt, Chief Justice 

 of Kentucky, residence, county; G. W. G. 

 Payne, residence, city ; Dr. H. F. Kalfus. ex- 

 Colonel Fifteenth Kentucky, residence, city ; 

 John Colgan, city ; TV. K. Thomas, jailer, Jef- 

 ferson County, residence, city; Alfred Harris, 

 President Louisville TVater Company, residence, 

 city ; Thomas Jeffries, city ; J. R* Buchanan, 

 president Democratic Central Committee, city ; 

 if. J. Paul, chief of fire department, city ; John 

 Hines, Henry Stickrod, Michael Carroll, TVm. 

 Fitzheury, Erwin Bell, A. J. Brannon, Thomas 

 Miller, county; A. J. Mitchell, John Rndd, 

 R. S. Tharin, Charles J. Clarke, B. C. Bedford, 

 John H. Talbott, TV. G. Gray, R. S. P. Vaughn, 



Dr. A. B. Chambers. The Lieut.-Governor of 

 the State, Jacobs, was also arrested on Xov. 

 13th, and banished to Richmond. In Dec. he 

 was allowed to return. 



On August llth a party of nearly forty per- 

 sons, citizens of Columbus, Paducah, and the 

 vicinity, arrived at Detroit under the charge 

 of Capt. B. II. Norton, 8th U. S. colored artil- 

 lery, and about twenty artillerists, on their 

 way to Canada, whither they had been ban- 

 ished by orders of Gen. Paine, The party con- 

 sisted of men. women, and children, all of whom 

 belonged to the prominent families of the State. 

 They consisted of judges, magistrates, wealthy 

 merchants, young women, &c. They had not 

 been allowed a hearing, nor trial, nor any 

 opportunity to vindicate themselves. 



The State election is held on the first Mon- 

 day in August. It was confined to local officers 

 and to a judge of the court of appeals from one 

 district at this time, and took place on Aug. 1st, 

 The candidates were Chief Justice Duvall and 

 M. M. Benton. 



On Friday, July 29th, Gen. Burbridge issued 

 the following order : 



HEADQUABTEBS DISTRICT OF KEXTUCXT, ) 

 FIRST, DIVISION, TWENTY-SEVEXTH ASMT V 

 COKPS, LEXIXGTOX, Ky., July 29, 1564. \ 

 To the Sheriff of Junto* Co., Independence, Ky.: 

 You will not allow the name of Alvin Duvall to ap- 

 pear upon the poll books as a candidate for office at 

 the coming election. 



By order of ilaj.-Gen. BURBRIDGE. 



J." BATES DICKSOX, Capt. and A. A. G. 



Duvall was the nominee of the Union Demo- 

 crats, and Benton of the Republican Unionists. 

 Duvall now declined, and his friends imme- 

 diately substituted the name of Judge Robert- 

 son, and by means of activity, secured a vote 

 for him in fourteen of the twenty-three coun- 

 ties of which the district is composed. The 

 result was as follows : Benton, 1,830 ; Robert- 

 son, 3,511 ; Duvall, 1,200. 



The vote at the Presidential election in Xov. 

 was as follows : 



Lincoln. 



Home rote, 2(5,592 



Soldiers' vote, 1,194 



McClellan. 



61,473 

 2,823 



Total, _ 64,301 



McClellan's majority, 36,515. 

 On Oct. 17th the Governor issued a proclama- 

 tion, of which the following are extracts : 



If military force is brought to menace the officers 

 of election or voters, your duty is clearly marked 

 out by law. The law is as binding upon the soldier 

 as upon any other citizen. He has no more right to 

 violate it, and is as amenable to its penalties. As no 

 officer of any rank, from the President down, has 

 any right or authority to interfere with elections, no 

 order to do so can legalize the act. If there be suf- 

 ficient power in the citizens present at any place 

 where such interference may be attempted to arrest 

 the offenders, and hold them over to answer to the 

 violated laws, it will be the duty of the sheriff to 

 make the arrest in such case. He has authority to 

 require the aid of every citizen, and it should be 

 readily and promptly given, in defence of a common 

 right of a blood-bought franchise. If the force em- 

 ployed to interfere with the election be too great, at 

 any place of voting, to be arrested, the officers of 



