Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1861-12-12

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The Secession of Kentucky.
The injunction of secresy being removed
from the action Of the "sovereign" Conveu
tion Of Kentucky, which met at Russell
vile, we are enabled to give copy Of tbt
declaration of her Independence and oldi
nance of separation, and the plan Of the
Provisional Government instituted BY th'
Convention
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND Or
DINANcE OF SEPARATION.
- Whereas the Federal Constitution, which
created the Government of the U. States
was declared by the Trainers thereof to be
the supreme law Of the land, and was in
tended to limit, aud did expressly limit, the
powers Of said Government to certain gen
eral specified purposes, and did expressly
reserve to the States and people all other
powers Whatever, and the President aud
Congress have treated this supreme law Of
the Uoion with contempt, and usurped te
themselves the power to interfere with the
rights and liberties of the States and the
people, against the express provisions of the
Consultation, and have thus substituted fol
the highest forms of rationa! liberty and
constitutional government central despot'
ism founded upon she ignorant prejudices
= of the masses of Northern society, and in.
stead of giving protection, with the Consti'
tuition, to the people of the fifteen States Of
the Union, have turned loose upon them the
uurestrained and raging passions OF mobs
and fanatics; aud because we now seek to
hold our liberties, our property, our homes
and our families underthe protection of the
reserved powers Of the Ststes, have block,
AIDED our ports, invaded our soil and waged
war upon our people for the purpose of sub
jusating rs to their will.
And whereas our own honor and our du'
ty to posterity demand that We shall not re
linquish our own- liberty, and shall not a
bandon the rights of our descendants and
the world to the inestimable blessings o.
constitutional government, therefore,
Be it ordained, That we do hereby for
ever sever our connection with the Govern
ment of the United States, and 10 the name
of the people we do hereby declare Ken
tucky to be free and independent State
clothed with all power to fix her own des
tiny, and to secure her own rights and lib
critics. - -
And whereas the majority ofsthe Lsgis
lature of Kentucky have violated thel
most solemn pledges made before the elec
ton, and deceived and betrayed the people
have abandoned the position of neutrality
assumed by themselves and the people, aue
invited into the State the organized armies
of Lincoln; have abdicated the Govern
ment in favor of the military despotisu
which they have placed around themselves
but cannot control, and have abandoned the
duty of shielding the citizens with thei'
protection; have thrown upon our people
and the State the horrors and ravages o!
war, instead of attempting to preserve the
peace; and have voted men and money fol-
the war waged by the North for the des
traction Of our constitutional rights have
violated the express words of the Constisu
ton, by borrowing FIVE millions Of money
for the support Of the war without vote
of the people; have permitted the arrest
and imprisonment of our citizens, and trans
ferred the constitutional prerogative of the
Executive to a military commission Of par
tizans have seen the writ of habeas corpus
suspended without an effort for its preser
vation, aud permitted our people to be
driven 10 exile from their homes have
subjected our property to confscation, anc
our persons to confinement in the peniten
tiary as felons, because We may choose tt
take part in contest for civil liberty anc
constitutional government, against a sec
tiopal majority wagiug war against the peo
ple and institutions of fifteen Independent
States of the old Federal Uuion ; and hav
done all these things deliberately, agains
the warnings and yetoes Of the Governor
and the solemn remoustranoes of the mi
uority 10 the Senate aud House of Repre-
ea,t,t;vas therefore
Belt further ordained, That the pucou
stitu,ional edicts Of factious majority Q
Legislature, thus false to their pledges
their honor, aud their interests, are not Law
and tina. such Government is unworth
of the support of brave and free people
and We do hereby declare that the peopl
are absolved from all allegiance to said do'
ernmeut, and have the right to establish an
government which to them may seem bes
adapted to the preservation Of their right
and liberties.
PLAN OF PROVISIONAL GOV ERNMENT.
SECTION l. The supreme executive an
legislative power of the Provisional Gov
ernment of this Commonwealth hereby es
tablished, shall be vested in Governo
and ten counciImen, one from each of tn
present Congressional districts, majorit
Of whom shall constitute aquorun to trans
act business, the Governor and copncllme
to be elected by the members Of this Cot
veo,ion, in such mannerss this Conventio
may prescribe.
SEC. 2. The Governor and councilme
are hereby invested with full power to pai