The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-02-01
KENTUCKY GRIT.
Bold Resolutions Adopted by the
Late State Convention of
Kentucky Held at


Hon. Isaac Caldwell, as Chairman Of
the Committee on Resolutions. read the
following resolutions as its report:
ResolUed, That we reafiirm cur an
cient faith in Republican institutions,
our devotion to the Union Of the States,
the doctrine that the Federal Govern
meut IS one of delegated powers, and
that each Stnte has the right to regulate
its own domestic concerns.
ResolUea, That it is our firm con7ie-
ton that Samuel j. Filden aud Thomas
A. Hen tricks, st the late election for
President and Vice President, received
not only large majority of the poiul1r
vote, but also 4 large majority of the
electoral vote, and that liberty and the
CONSTITUTE ton demand that they shall be
placed in the Offices to which the voice
Of the people have called them.
Res9lUed, That a count of the electoral
votes by the President of the Senate,
without tie concurrence and direction
OF both Houses of Congress, would be IN
violation of the Constitution, contrary
to usage, revolutionary in character,
and an act of usurpatiOn to which the
people viii not submit.
ResOlUed, That We viii sustain our
Senators and Representatives in Congress
in the maintenance of their cons titu-
tioual powers and the fearless discharge
of their duties, un9wed by attempted
usurpations by the Senate or menace Of
military power by the President
ReS0IUed, That an appeal to arms is
the last desperate remedy of q free peoz
pie in danger of being enslaved, but
may become a necessary remedy Ia re-
sistanee to destructive usurpations and
military despotism. We urge upon our
Senators and representatives the exhaus-
Gon Of all peaceful means consistent
with honor AID with the Constitution,
for ayerting the sperils with which our
institutions are threatened before lea7-
ing the people to the dire alternative of
submitting to tyranny or fighting for free
dom a
Resolred, That every State in the
Union is the equal of evsry other States
aud Kentucky does now, as heretofore,
protest against the cflim that certain
States may Be treated by the Fed aral
Governmsnt differently from the treat
ment accorded other States. She avows
/ that this is q Union Of equal States, and
that outrages committed upon any State
are outrages upon, aud fun of danger to,
all the States. She denounces the use
1 Of military force in upholdihg silIsgA
governments IN Louisiana and South
Carolina with the same warmth and in
/ dignation with which we would resent
the seizure Of her capitol as barracks
and the inspection Of the certificates of
her legislators by corporal Of the
guard. p ar8sz
ReSoloed That We unite with the De-
mocracy OF Ohio 10 the request that the
national committee call a national con-
ventiou; ana, in response to the action of
the Democracy of Indiana, the ahair-
man of this convention Is directed to
appoint a committee on Federal rela-
| tons, to consist Of nine members, To
whom power is given to select delegates
to represent Kentucky IN any conyea
ton that may be called, and to take such
other steps as the exigencies of the times
may require.
Resoired, We look with apprehension
upon the resort to unusual tribunals for
the settlement Of the Questions now in
issue; and we believe that the ffn ez
ereise Of its constitutional powers By the
House of Representatives win result in
the proper adjustment Of the troubles
now threatening the country.