The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-29


command of the United GtatesIoficers, and
were in actual service Of the United States
army; and in the line of their, duty, a great
many contracted disease and died, and some
were killed In battle, before they were mus
tered into the service of the United State;
and whereas, there is no law of the United
States providing to pay their widows and
heirs the arrears of pay due them at their
death, and their bounty of 800 therefore,
be it 1s |-sr. - &. - "a s..t .i'a-.s l
Resolved. By the General Assembly of the
Commonwealth Of. Kentucky, That Congress
be requested to pass an act providing to pay
them their arrears of pay, and 800 bounty
due them at the time of their death, in the
same manner and way that they would have
been had they been mustered into the ser
vice of the United States
f Be it resolved further, That the Governor
be requested to transmit copy of this pre-
amble and resolutions to the members of
the Senate aud House Of Representatives in
Congress from this State.
SENATE-Jau. 16., Mr.. Goodloe offered
the following preamble and resolutions,
which were ordered to be printed, aud re-
ferred to the Committee on Federal Rela-
tions: - 'fa s--i' -ah .rs
2. Resolved, That the Emancipation
Proclamation of the President of the Uni
ted States of January list, 1863 aud the
orders or proclamation establishing martial
law in loyal States, are clearly uncoDstitu-
tional, null and void. The Senate of Ken
lucky. deeply regretting the necessity
therefor, but every jealous of constitutional
rights and guarantees, and watchful Of the
liberties of the State and interests of its
citizens, now earnestly and solemnly records
its protest against those and all similar
assumptions Of power. But at the same
time, clearly distinguishing between the
administration of the Government and the
Government itself, hereby declared that it
finds 10 those measures no justification for
rebellion or armed hostility to the Govern
ment, nor excuse for favor to or sympathy
with secession or treason, the remedy there.
for being cure aud auop pie under the Cousti-
tuition, though it may be temporarily OBJ
structed and delayed by reasons of the re-
bellion and the danger growing out of it to
our entire political fabric; and again reiter-
ates its immovable devotion to the Union
and the Constitution.
2. Resolved, That notwithstanding the
radical doctrines and unconstitutional action
of the present Congress, the Senate OF
Kentucky remembering the spirit and
corrective processes of our form OF Govern
ment-that the people themselves can
through the medium Of the ballot box, and
by the exercise of their constitutional pow
ers reform the national Legislature and it:
unconstitutional action, by discardiug al
faith less aud dangerous servants and substi-
tuting honest and obedient ones, unaltera-
bly, 10y yal to the Union and the Constitu-
ton. .
8 Resokved, That 1t is essential to the
preservation of civil liberty, that the mill
tary power shall be subordinate to the civil
and that we can never consent or submit to
an invasion of this order. .- -.
4, Resolued, That the Senate of Ken
lucky has seen with pleasure and hope, lu
the late elections held 10 some of the North
ern States, that there is power there thai
reverently regards constitutional law, thai
will faithfully observe constitutional boun-
daries, and unhinch;Dgly resist, by all law
full means, unconstitutional assumptions
We will cordially second their efforts to re-
store the Uniou as it roas and the Copstitu-
tiou as It IS.
5. ResoIved, That the Senate Of Kentucky
esteems the blessing of the Federal Unior
and Government as inestimable. That WI
will cheerfully, in good faith and with 10y
nj spirit, promote, with all our powers anc
energies, every effort to suppress the rebel
lion and save the Government and Consti-
tutional liberty; and that we will now anC
to the last, in and not out OF the Union
seek redress for all our wrongs and injuries
HoUsE-Jan. 18th, The following reso-
lutions were introduced INFO tae House o
Repres entatives, on Saturday last, by iona
Martin. Esq. aud were referred to tn
Committee on Federal Relations. viz:
WHEREAS, His ExcellenCy Abraham
Lipco %, President of the United States o
America, has recommended to the borde
slave States, in his annual message to Con
sress, system of gradual com Pensate
emancipation; and whereas, said Presiden
Lincoln did issue proclamation on the Is
day of January. 1868. in which he ordere
that all persons held as slaves shall
henceforward free within the designate
States of Arkansas. Texas, Mississippi
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolin
North Carolina, and parts of Louisiana an
Virginia; therefore,
1. Resolved, That we very respectful
decline accepting his Recommendation
Gradual compensated emancipation, from tn
fact that we regard Il as contrary to an &C
kuowledgsd principle of right, and were "
to accept it nnder the present cIrcumstar
ces, we would be acting in bad faith to ol
constituents, and absolutely unworthy
represent the people of the glorious o.
Com monweslth of Kentucky. Is
2. That Kentucky clings to the Unit
; and the Constitution with acnild's evotiC
to q parent, and she does not intend to
driven from it; but she does BOT indorse Il
extreme doctrine of abolitionism, as adv.
Gated by the abo,itionists OF the Mort
> neither can she indorse the extreme DO
: trine of secession as advocated by the dj
i unionists of the South; but she STANDS
!, u amidst the clash of arms and occupies
conservative, wise, constitutional, ana .
i tioEal position. -..-.- -,
slavery in it, and that it is guaranteed
. the Constitution of the United States a