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

referred to the Committee on Military At
fairs, viz: 3S. -5il.7 c'' .s-- ti. p ilVi.
Reso7ved By the Gsneral assembly of the
C0naAionIoeaih of kentucky, That q commit.
tee Of two from the Senate, and three from
the House of Representative be appointed
to make such arrangements as may be nec-
essary for the intermept Of the late la
mented Major General William Nell
son, ct Camp Dick Robinson, where the
patriot-soldier established the first camp in :
tended for the defense of kentucky against
invasion and threatened subjugation by the
enemies Of her peace and tranquility.
Mr.. Thomas offered the following resolu-
tions, which was referred to the Committee
on Military Affairs, viz: [" -"t g.
| Resolved, That the Comm ittse on Military
Affairs be inatructed to inquire into the ex
pediency of raising, arming, and equiping
three brigades Of the State militia under the
State Guard law, with proper proportions of
| infantry, cavalry, and artillery, to be exclu-
sively under the control of the State au-
thorities, for the purpose OF enforcing the
flaws of the State and maintaining the SUI
premacy of civil over the military authority
| in the State of Kentucky; and that said
said committee report by bill or otherwise.
| SENATE.-Jau. 18th. Mr.. Duke offered
! preamble and series of resolutions, as fol-
| lows:
! WHEREAS, Kentucky has proven her 10y
! alty to the Constitution and Government OF
! the United States, and her devotion to the
u MON of the States, by putting forth her
energies with promptuess and zeal IN aid OF
the National Government in the existing
contest with armed rebellion; and whereas,
she has witnessed in silence and pain, dur
! ing said contests, repeated wrongs to her
citizens, and infringements upon Constitu-
! tional rights by the Federal Executive, and
! the army and soldiers of the nation, whose
duty it is to protect instead OF molestiug and
! destroying; these wrongs having been borne
! in the hope that they were Temporary mere
! ly, and would be corrected by Government
action, and from q disinclination to impair
the national harmony or unity; and whereas,
these wrongs have gone on Increasing with
| out rebuke, and, indeed, with apparent, il
not open approval of the existing powers at
Washington; aud whereas, Abraham Lin
| coln the Chief Magistrate of the United
States, has thrown off all of further pretence
| of respect for, or obedience to. the Constitu
! ton and laws of the National or State gov
erumeuts, has violated all his pledges to the
nation, and especially to the border slave
States, aud has proven faithless to his sworn
duties by usurping powers neither vested
| in him, delegated to the National Govern
| m60L, OF eAlSLlUS duN" bCIo III II CO SONOih-
ment; and whereas, we believe it as much
our duty to resist the destruction of consti-
tutional freedom by Executive usurpation
/ as by armed rebellion; therefore,
! /. ResnlUed, That we declare the attempt
! ed suspension Of the writ ofhGbeaS corpus, by
the President of the United States, not only
unconstitutional, but absolutely void, and
declare that ancient aud cherished writ OF
/ freedom in full force in Kentucky; and that
il is the duty of the courts, the judges, the
officers and people of the State, to execute
and obey it according to the existing forms
of law. --u -.-Es-r. -r.-
2. Resolved, That the Presidential declara-
ton. OF martial law in the loyal States not
in the presence of the enemy, nor in places
where the civil tribunals can not safely exc
cute the laws, and remote from any present
army, the law thus declared is an act OF
military tyranny not necessary for any good
or lawful purpose, and is fragrant abuse Of
! the power claimed by military commanders
7 to declare martial law within their lines, be-
cause Of the exigencies and necessities oi
war. ..- .e. g..
/ 8. Resolved That the harboring and entic-
iug away of slaves. owned by citizens o'
K eRtucky, by regiments, or greater or small
er forces of the army, or individual soldiers
are felouies by virtue of the Constitution and
laws of Kentucky, and we declare, it to be
the solemn duty of the State to enforce the
law in that regard.
~ Resolved, That we declare the PTesi-
dents proclamation of the 22i Septem Der
1862, and the ,lst January, 1868, unauthor-
lied by any constitutional grant or vslid en-
actnent. and is not sustained or justified by
anv recognized rights Of a commandments
chief as understood in modern civilization
and is based on a claim of power inconslsten
with the existence of free government.-
That Kentucky will not recognize the pre-
tended freedom of any slave claiming to haV
= been mancipated by virtue of those proclaim
: ations: and it is the duty of the officers ant
, citizens of the State to arrest all sucn a
-fnoitive slaves, to be deal with under thu
statute laws of the State. --- .
I &. ResoLueG, That the public sentiment
This State revolts at the idea OF kentuck
officers and troops serving in the Feders
army side by side with African slaves, q
A theiI compeers, equals, aud brothers in arms
\: and the same sentiment spurns as unwortn
I eons the Kentucky regiment that could stan
: bv with folded arms to witness the massaci
n Iof pon-com bstant citizens, WON en- an
= children, by African slaves, in the assertio
= of their freedom, under the odlous proclaim
l. tiops Aforesaid. -..-
. 6 Resolued. That the arrests, incarceration
"A and transnortatiou of uon-combatant cit
ir zens of the State Of Kentucky, without u
q autho ority and in disregard of the constitu
at ton and law, and debarred trial, or eve
,e the knowledge of the charges prefere
h should be no longer willingly or tAmely su
e mitted to; there being not even Plausib
an pretext for this tyranny when the 10y
tot State and Federal courts are in the full al
70 uninterrupted exercise of their functions, e
cep ept so far as interfered with by the FEEDER
Government itself.
u Ordered to be printed, ana referred TO