New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1861-11-07
The Kentucky Resolutions.

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The following are the resolutions adopted by tie
Southern Rights Convention of Kentucky. whseps
met recently at Russellvilse:
Whereas, the majority of the Legislature M Ker-
tucsy haVe violated their most solemn pledees
. .aSae before tue election and deceived and be-
~ [ssyea me people; have abandoned the position
oi neutrality assumed by themselves and tha
psopie' snd invited into the State the orpapised
ataL.es q Lincoln have abdicsted the Govern
tens Eaza ~ lssor Of the military desposm which they
. naye ptaGeo around themselves, but cannot con-
Ioi and have abandoned the duty of shieldno fhe-
cltlzen with their protection have thrown 9nor,
our people and the State the horrors and ravageg
,eaee and bave 81 attempting to preserve the
pe@ce; ana nave Voted men and money for the war
waged by the North for the destr5etian sll ~ m,
constitutional rights have violated The eynreaa
Wofas OF the Constitution by borrowing Eve million
OF dollars in money for the support OF the war
without vote OF the people; have permitted the
arrest and imprisonment of our citizens and tranq-
lerrsd the constitutional prerogatives Of the BIZ
ecutlVe 10 military commission of partisans have
seen the writ Of h0beds corpus suspended without
an effort for its preservation and permitted oar
people to be driven in exile from their homes
nave subjected our property to confscation, and
oar persons to confinement in the penitentiary as
| felons, because We may choose 10 take part in a
contest for civil liberty and constitutional Govern
aent, against sectional majority wagfBg war
against the people and institutions Of fifteen nfe-
pendent states Of the old Federal Union and hare
done all these things deliberately against the
Warnlngs and vetoes of the Governor, and the
VI ttie mlHOT1tY
and House OF Representatives. Therefore, be itsss
| Resotred, That the unconstitutional edicta of n
| taetious majority of Legislature thus false to
shslr pedges their honor, and their interests are
pot law, and that such Government is unworthy Of
NE support of a brave and free people, and we
therefore denounce their Unconstitutional acts and
asergasIona, and bid defiance both to the Federal
and state Governments. N"
Resosued, That abandoned and betrayed as Ws
nave been BY the Lincolnte majority Of the Legs
asate 9. hentueky, and prescribed BY the Ab0
Il ment and broken dswnlti1e Copstit,Itior, 81 ths
| Federal Unon, and being as yet no part Of the
Southern .Confederacy; and therefore, altogether
W,.hont tne Psass esion Of law the people have by
4 the laws Of God, and the express letter of the
Constitution Of Kentucky, "at all times an IN
alienable and indefeasbie right to alter Or
| abolish their government in such manner as they
may think proper; and in the language of the
same Constitution, we declare that absolute and
arbitrary power over the lives, liberty and proper
ty4of freemen, exists nowhere in q Republic, mot
/ e. On in the largest Majority s4
4 kesOlped, That we do hereby declare that the
majority Of the Legislature, by their acts, have
/ abandoned betrayed, and abdcated the Govern
ment, and that the people have now a right to a
fair representation of their will and that the Coy
ernor be, and is hereby invited to convene Legs-
lature to meet outside the lines of the Lincoln
! army, to be composed of such members as are
be chosen by the people.
4 And whereas, we have reason to believe that
the Governor is unable to convene the Legislature
tue liit tlLfncOiE army, therefore
i Resolced, That we recommend Convention to
! be chosen, elected or appointed, in any manner
now possible, by the people of the several eoun-
ties of the State, to meet at RussellVine on the
18th. day of November; and we recommend to
them the passage Of an ordinance seyering forever
our connection with the Federal Government, and
to adopt such measures, either by the adoption Of
Provisional Government or otherwise, as in their
a Judgment will give full and ample protection to
the citizens in their persons and property, and se-
cure to them the blessings Of Constitutional Coy
J. ernment.7 1H
Res3lred, That we recommend to the people i'm
every county where they have the power so to do
to organize at once County Gnafd of at least one
hundred men, to be armed by the people in every
{ county and mounted if possible; to be paid as
Confederate troops, and subject to duty in their
| own and adjoining counties, and subject also to
a the rules and regulations of the Confederate
J, States and to the orders of the Commanding Gen
4 eral., ssa st.r, sgis9 =tt S ~ 3&
= sReso'red, That we will never pay one cent oi
the unconstitutional loan of five millions of dollars
obtained by the Legislature from the banks for The
prosecution of this war; Instituted for the coercion
| and hjugation of the slaveholding States; and
that we will resist by the force of arms, if nefes
sary, the collection by the SheriGs of all taxes in
tended to be paid over to the Lincoln party Ct the
y Legislature, and that denounce. as enemies ss
I their country and constitutional Government, all
. those who may advocate the payment of the same
\ to the Sheriffs for the purpose aforesaid. sg
:; IesoEeed. That each one Of MS will go to wsrl
actively and energeticaly to secure full represen
y taton in such Convention, and that we win uFgt
y upon our friends everywhere to take such steps d
: will secure such result.
;. Resolged That Robt. Mckee, John C. Breekin
= = ridge, Humphrey Marshall, George W. Ewing, Fl
y W. Bruce, G. B. Hodge, VIM. Preston, G. w
{, johnson, Blanton Duncan and P B. Thompson b,
:, and they are hereby appointed a committee 1,
u carry out the above resolutions. &
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