The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1812-01-09
DOMESTIC.
KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE.

KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE.
Nh. j. III. HaqVkins read and laid ON the
table the following resolutions:
Whereas it is deemed by the legislature
of this state, thar they have, in the name,
and on behalf of their constituents, at all
times, a right to express, so far as their
knowledge and information will enable them,
the sense of the good people of this state,
respecting the measures OF the national gov
cTn ncnt. And crisis in our public affairs
hay ing arrived, which in the opinion of this
legislature, calls for the expression of tho
public sentiment respecting the course to be
adopted, i'll order to resist the repeated,
long continued and fragrant violations of our
rights, as free and independent nation, by
Great Britain and France, andby the former
esPecially-whose pretensions are an insult
to our sovereignty, and which ifyielded to-,
must end in our entire submission to whatc-
yer they may think proper to impose.
The people OF this state, though not inn
med!ately exposed to those piratical depre-
daSioDs which vcX, and destroy the COM
mcrce OF their Eastern brethren on the oCe-
an. Cannot be less deeply interested in their
effects. They look to the sutferings and
wrongs of single member, as intimately
affecting the whole body. But when an evil
becomes so general and invcterate in its de-
leterious effects, as to threaten dissolution.
unless proper and forcible remedy is ap-
plcd-the state of kentucky, yielding to
NONE In patriotism in it's deep rooted attach
ment to the sacred bond of the Union in it's
faithful remembrance of the price of our
freedom, and III the heartfelt conviction that
our posterity have sacred claim upon us,
20 transmit to them unimpaired, this God.
like inheritance, cannot fail to be penetra-
.ed, with any event which threatens even
TO impair it; much less then, can she be
insensibs to those daring wrongs of TO-
reign power, which lead to its immediate
des,fuCtinD.
If the people of this state, have looked
NJ with confidence to the general govern
mcnt, whose functions empoWe cred, * whose
daty impcriousy called for remedy to G.
wills so intolerable in their progress, and in
their consequences so mcDacing-(and re-
dress for winch, has been so long delayed
10 has not been without firm, and settled
Durpose, not always TO bear the ash, nor f.
Daiiy to become beasts Of burtl'en.
Forbearance beyond certain point, cea-
ses TO be moderation, and must end in entire
subiection.
1t is not the purpose Of this legislature to
recap tulatc, or enter into any argument,
20 prove the existence and extent of those
r Injuries, sustained from both the great BEL
ljgercnts of Europe. Those who feel, need
not reason TO produce the conviction of un-
just SuHernS--dnQ tnpSe, VINO cannot feel
wrongs so palpable, no reasoning will con-
vince.
We wish we could have it in our power to
ray, zyhcn Great Britain has ceased to har-
Tass and iujure us--7vhen she has shcwn to-
wards us an amical,le disposition in the true
spirit Of justice--when she has ceased her
Efforts to dminisli that security and prospe-
Tity, which are the eternal barriers Of sepa-
ration from her power, and I impair that
jibe,ty and independence forced from her
reluctant grasp.
We could willingly have hailed friend In
former unnatural parent, and from the ex-
2cricuCc of her disregard toprinciples of jus
ticc, and reciprocal good Offices, have cea-
sed to recall nose wanton crueltcs, that a
ineatcd Us forever from her family;
but when We have discovered systema-
NC ccirsc u injury from her toward or
eoun.ry, evldenciug too strongly co be mis-
sakea, an 'It.cr disregard of almost every
Drn'ciI.- 2. acknowledged rights between