The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-01-22
ROSS 6 RossER, Publisher.
KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE.

offered the following resolutions, which
were referred to the Committee on Military
Affairs: q rs. --'J r;ss7'r-ri.T ols.E
b WHEREAS: The division Of the Federal
armv under the command, of Gen. Geo. w.
Morgan, in its march from Cumberland Gap
to the Ohio river, was supplied with horses,
provisions and other commissary stores by
the loyal citizens of the country through
which said army passed, for much of which
the proper vouchers were not given, and
which, consequently, cannot be legally paid
by the proper disbursipg officers OF the Gov
ernmert-therefore, .afe 'e--l c-I
i. Resolved By the General assembly of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, That our Senators
and Representatives in Congress be request
/ ed to procure the passage of such law as
may be necessary, providing for the audit-
| ing and payment of the claims mentioned in
tthe preamble to this resolution. .F
! Be it further resolved, That the Governor
be requested to transmit a copy of the fore
going preamble and resolution to our delega-
tion in Congress. -". a-.r-rr 7s' "af, "a.
Mr.. J. R. Thomas of Marion, offered the
following resolutions which were referred to
the Com mittee on Military Affairs: ~.
.1:g RESOLVED by the General AssenaPzy of the
Commonwealth of Kentucky, That. our SEN
ators in Congress be instructed, and our Rep
resentatives requested, to procure the pass
age, by Congress, Of law making compeu-
sation to the citizens of Kentucky for dam
ages to their property, committed by the
Federal army, while in the State.
2 Resolved, That the Governor be request
ed to furnish a copy of the foregoing resolu-
ton our Senators and Representatives in Con-
aress, with request to lay the same before
/ n cir raSnectiye Houses. ..-. .. ..I
! Mr.. NJ. Smith, of Mason, offered the fol-
lowing series of resolutions, which were re-
ferred to the Committee of Federal Rela-
tions and ordered to be printed:
l RESOLVED 6y the General ASSEMBLY of the
/ Commonwealth of kentucky, That the Con-
stitution of the United States Is the lnstru-
ment bv which for certain general objects,
the union of the component States was ell
/ fected and is the measure of the restricted
powers delegated to the Federal Govern
ment as a political agency OF that union; that
the relations of the States toward tne Feder-
al Government, and toward each other, are
MAINLY defined and limited by the Coustitu- :
| tion. that all the operations of that Govern
roent should at all times, be carried on by
constitutional measures tor constitutional al
ends. and tn at the Union, thus created and
/ Government thus conducted, should be pro-
tected and defended against all assailants
from within or from without
q That the Government of the State OF
Kentucky is political agency, created by
the speople of the State, and as such crea.
ture is. at all times subserv;eut to their will
and Measure, subject to be altered, reform ed
or abolished in such manner as they may
think proper-a right expressly reserved to
> Themselves in the 4th section OF the Bill oil
J Rights (article 49, incorporated in then
= State Constitution.
8. "That absolute, arbitrary power over
the lives, liberty and property of freemer
exists nowhere in a Republic--not even II
the largest majority, and the right OF proper
tv is before and higherthar any constitution
al san :tion; and the right of the owner OF {
= slave to such slave, and its increase in the
V same, and as inviolable as the right OF th'
owner of any property whatever."- Consu
1 Ltuticn of Kentucky, art. 13, secs. 2, )
= 4. That the distribution of the powers
= the State Government (and so, also, In thos'
: of the Federal Government into three dis
d tiuct. separate and independent, though CO.
/. ordinate departments. Constitution OF Ken
IF tuckv, art. l, secs. 1, 2, legislative, execu
tive aud judicial, is essential to the estao
j lishment and perpetuation OF individual an'
public liberty rights and happiness; ana an.
in disturbance of this distribution of power
= whereby olJU6T 10
e exercise the functions of another, or IS OBJ
otructed or restrained in the exercise OF 1t
l. legitimate functions, is, to such extent usur
4. nation and revolution. destructive OF the IN
if titntions of governm ent, violative OF repuc
he l;can rrinoiples and dangerous to the peac
lie and liberties of the people:
IN That the chief functions of the Exc
tn -ortive Department of the Governmen
,e C,ybether Federal or State0 is to carry OF
D. the will of the Legislative Department, e.
ia. bnressed In the form of law; that the milIta'
power of the State Gas also the Federal DTo'
ernmen0 is but mere branch OF the hA'
"A cutive Department, ond. In the very ,wU' G'
p of, the Constitution of Kentucky, "sha'i
or all cases and at all times be in strict sui
s. ordination to the civil power"-l Gonstlt'
ty tion of kentucky. art. 13, sec. 26.
- q That the relation of the State OF Ne
= trctv IN the Union and the co-States OF c
10 TTnior rests upon the concurring provision
for oe The State and Federal Constitutions, a
rst c,nnot he maintained on any other iootlnS
en- - 7 That the war powers, both OF I
ess Fed eral aud State Governments is llRe I
'se civil mower in each. derived alone rom ~
'lli Grants of the people, as expressed IN the W
Ts. stitutiou OF each respectively anu tna''
{. even in time ofwar. can the military as:
- or practice any ascendancy over tne ci
: MOWERS: nor can any Department OF Gove
.ns ment, nor all departments concHrrlng' (elt
Ia Federal or State,) exercise any power
g I" delegated by the people in the provisions
oor, tne reu'iI, s TTn;.sJ TrG Stotos amendment,
r,9, 10. --.r
ion 3. mat ln7 the !oyal o,a'0, oI,ltr,,c,
boat the arrest and Imprisonment of citiz
without judicial warrant, process aud u
.o1o % a nalpable breach Unconstitutional guar
oke 10 ." P''t = .,,,o,,,s in vasions of persopal