Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-05-17
HISTORICAL.
From che KenfucLsr Gaset.e.

9TH Gay OF aug. 1909, RECOMMENDED W
the officers of the militia, to meet in
! their respective counties, and concert
such plans as they should deem expedi-
ent for the defence ofthe country. They
also drafted memorial to The Legisla-
ture of Virginia, on the state of the
country, and another to the inhabitants
Of the District of Kentucky, of which the
\ following are copies:
Esio TIE Honorable General .7Sser;biy Of Virginia.
CONFERENCE.-The subscribers, resi-
dent in the counties of Jefferson, Fayette,
Lincoln and Nelson, composing the dis
trict Of Kentucky, being chosen at free
elections held 10 these counties respec-
lively By the ireemef of the same, for
the purpose OF constituting convention
! TO take into consideration, the general
state of the district, and expressly to
decide on the expediency of making APP
plication TO your honorable body, for
an act of SUPPLEMENTARY impressed
With the Importance of the measure,
and breathing the purest filial affection,
beg leave to address you on the momen-
tous occasion,
The settlers of this distant region,
Taught by the arrangements of Proyi-
Adence, and encouraged by the condi-
ions of that solemn compact for which
they paid the price Of blood, to look for
ward to a separation from the eastern
\ parts OF the Commonwealth; have view
ed the subject leisurely at distance,
and examined il with caution on its
near approach:-irreconcilable as has
been their situation to a connection with
any community beyond the Appalachian
mountains other than the federal union;
manifold as have been the grievances
4 flowing therefrom; which have grown
with their growth and increased with
4 their population; they have patiently
4 waited the hour of redress, nor even
i yentured to raise their voices in their
own cause until youth quicksning into
manhood, hath given them yigor and
I stability.
10 recite minutely the causes and
reasoning which have directed, and
will justify this address, would, we con-
ceive, be matter of impropriety at this
juncture, it would be preposterous for
as TO enter upon the support of facts
and consequences, which we presume
are incontestible; our sequestered ST.
tuation from the seat of government,
with the intervention of mountainous
desert OF two hundred miles, always
dangerous, and passable only at particu-
lar seasons, precludes every idea of a
connection on republican principles
The patriots who formed our consttu-
ton, sensible of the impracticability OF
connecting permanently in a free gov
i eminent. the extensve limits of the
u commonwealth, most wisely made pro-
VISIONS for the act which we now go.
4 icit.
10 that sacred record we now anne al
lis not the i'll directed or inconside
rate zeal of a few; tits not thai impa.
Hence OF power to which ambitious
MINDS are prone; nor yet the baser
considerations of personal interests,
"olch influences the psope of Ken.
lucky; directed by superior motives
'ney are incapable of cberishing wish
uhtounded in justice; and are now i'm.
teued by expanding evils, and IRENE
u'an'e grievances, universally seen. fell
snG acknowledged, to obey the irresis.
''o,e dictates of self pre- ,trvation, AMI
seek Tor happiness by means HONORABLE,
10 themselves, honorable to YOU, ant
injurious to neither.
we therefore, with the consent an,
oy tne authority of our constituents, al
'e' the most solemn deliberation, bein,
warned of every consequence which cal
ehsue' Tor them, for ourselves. and 70
p's'ef''y unborn-do pray that an &C
may pass at the ensuing session of tn
assembly, declaring and acknowledg
- ,%s ,n NE sovereignty and independence
H.a.v'ng no object in view but the &C
I ,L:s" OF that security and ha?pines
, Zen may be attained by scripulou
%unerahce to principles of private iu,
n ,,.e, ana public honor; we should mo
"'unsiy at this time enter into the az
Ius,ment ofibe Concessions which ale
20 ne condition of our separation, d
n'' our relative situation forbid SUE
HeSo'iauoni'the separation We reque
suggested BY necessity and hsir