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Proclamation of Brig. Gen. Kelly to the people of Hampshire county and the upper Potomac. The following proclamation to the people of Hampshire county was circulated soon after the occupation of Romney, by the Yankee General in command of the Federal forces there. The presumptuous arrogance exhibited by these Hessian thieveHampshire county was circulated soon after the occupation of Romney, by the Yankee General in command of the Federal forces there. The presumptuous arrogance exhibited by these Hessian thieves in thus proclaiming to the people, whose soil they have polluted by their brutish presence, that under certain contingencies, (which means servile submission to the most hated despotism on the face of the earth,) they will receive the protection of the Lincoln Government, is enough to make every true Southerner doubly fixed in his own, as well as the lives of those whom he holds dearest, to the purpose of driving the despicable fiends from our beloved country: To the People of Hampshire County and the Upper Potomac--My object in addressing you, is to give you assurance that I come among you not for the purpose of destroying you, but for your protec