The dollar weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1862-1864, 1863-02-05
KENTUCKY LEeIsnATURH.

following resolutions:
1. Resolved blythe General Assembly of The
Commonwealth of Kentucky, That although
this Commonwealth has been engaged In
aiding the Federal Government to suppress
armed rebellion against its authority. it is
our duty. by every legitimate means, to
keep the President of the United States, In
all his acts, within the limits of the Consti-
ton, If we would preserve for ourselves and
our posterity the blessings secured to US by
our admirable system of Government, State
and Federal.
2. The Federal Government is one of
limited and delegated powers; and all pow
ers not granted to 1t by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by the Constitution, nor prohib-
tied by the Constitution to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the
people. Any claims of power on the part of
said Government, which infringes upon the
well-de6ned guards of constitutional liberty,
must arouse the jealousy of free people;
and it is as much q departure from the Con-
stitution, and almost as dangerous in its
tendencies, for one department of the Gov
erument to infringe upon the province, and
assume the powers delegated to another de-
partm ent, as it is to assume powers that have
never passed from the people to the Govern
ment. .
3. That we view with apprehension and
alarm the claim set up by the President of
the United States by his proclamation, un-
der an assumed war power of military ne
cessity," to change the domestic relations of
communities, and repeal laws guaranteeing
the rights of property in whole States or dis
tricts, whether that property belongs to the
loyal aud disloyal, the combatant or non
combatant. As this alleged power is limit
ed only by the will and discretion of him
u lla
form of outrage upon individual rights or
public interest that can not be perpstrated
under it. ALI legitimate war power in sub
ordinate to the Constitution. Any other
doctrine would give to one man, IN time OF
war, power co-exteDsive with his will, or,
in other words, despotic pol0er, would yield
to the Executive alone what, by the COPsti-
tuition, Congress- and the Executive COM
bined, cannot do. Kentucky cannot give
her countenance or support to doctrine so
abhorrent 70 the true friends of the Govern
ment of the United States who desire its
perpetuity aud perpetuity of the Union; and
we hereby solemnly protest against its exc
cution in the name of a sovereign State.
4. That to m axe emancipation the OBJECT
of the war would be, not only to violate the
Constitution, but to US the treasure and blood
of this country to carry out political views,
great extent, produced the war, would be in
bad faith to the nation, and especially to
those who have freely given of their wealth
and voluntarily offered their lives to the
Government, after that Government had, OF
its Own accord, put on record the solemn de-
claration that the war was not to be prose-
cutsd for the purpose of overthrowiDg the
established Institutions of the States
Moreover. the sudd en- liberation of millTons
of negro slaves. without property, without
homes, without education, industry, or en-
terprise sufficient to provide for themselves,
cannot benefit either the black or white man.
Two distinct races Of men of different color,
who cannot by any means be brought into
social eouality cannot long exist in the same
locality, in large and increasing numbers,
without one race becoming subject to the
other. We cannot violate the rules OF civil
lied warfare by inviting or encouraging ser
vile insurrection, which, after bearing It's
bitter fruits of iudiscriminate slaughter, must
inevitably end in the exterminatiou OF the
seryile race. Every consideration OF duty
and humanity forbids it.
s That negroes, free or slave, are notciti-
zens of the United States nor do they con-
stitute the militia which the Constitution
authorizes to be called forth to execute the
| laws of the Union, suppress insurrection. the
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| tnckv. negroes, mulattoes, and Indians are
| EXPRESSLY excepted, aud it is believed that
| II ia similar in this respect to other State
! Constitutions. So much of the proclamatlor
! therefore. which authorizes negroes to be
| received into the armed service OF the
! IJniteu States' is unwise, mpolitic, uncon :
| stitutional and tends to the destructlon OF
our common country.
| 6. That the question of emancipation oi
j the slaves of Kentucky is one OF exclusively
! State concern. Our people are satlsneo WIN
1 the domestic institutions of the State as they
now exist, and as they have existed since
the formation of the State Government
They do not desire to liberate the slaves o.
tbe States either with or without compen-
satiop. and do not wish to be taxed to pay
for those which other States may see Mt II
, liberate.
7. That the thanks of the General Assem-
blv and of the people are due and are here
by rendered to our Senators and Representa-
tives in Congress, for the watchful vigilsnc
with which they have, from to time, com
I battsd the dangerous and unwarranted mea
. snres which have been proposed, and to
y often adopted, by the executive aud leS's'a
> tive departments of the Government
8. That Kentucky, eyer loyal 10 In 70 Ooo
! stitution and the Union, does not look to So
9 cassion as a remedy for any of the evils {
;: which she so Justly complains, but devote
now as ever, to the perpetuatiou OF the Cor
e stitution as it is and the Union as 1t was
q q will not despair of the Republic as long
= that motto forms, as it now does, the rally
70 ing cry of large majority of the millions
~ American freemen of the North. At tl
II same time, she snxiously desires speeo
J. settlement of the unnatural strife which b
so long been pending between those '"
10 should be brethren; and to that end wou
i hail the earliest dawning OF spirit OF co