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Resolutions respecting Abolition Societies. 1835 683 (1835)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0289 and id is 1 raw text is: REMLUTIONS. The foregoing is a correct detail of the facts as developed to the committee. The character of Mrs, Addison stands unimpeached. Her condition in life is humble but respectable. Wherefore the committee recommend the adoption of the following address to the governor of this state: To James T. Morehead, Esquire, lieutenant and acting Gov- ernor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The general assembly of the commonwealth of Kentucky, (two thirds of both houses concurring in this address) would respectfully state and charge, that Major J. Price, a justice of the peace in and for Logan county, then in commission, did, on the twelfth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, in the county of Logan, at the house and residence of J. Addison, attempt to seduce the wife of said Addison, and when repulsed he persisted in his efforts, ly violent entreaty, vulgar appeals, and by the use of violence, to such a deg?6e:.as to alarm the said Amanda Addison, contrary to the peace *d dignity of the commonwealth, and against mo- rality aa4.debency : Wherefore, Resolved, That the said Price be removed from his office of justice of the peace, by the acting governor of this common- wealth. Approved, March 1, 1836- RESOLUTIONS respecting Abolition Societies. The select committee to whom was refered, so much of the message of the Lieutenant and Acting Governor as relates to the abolition societies at the north, together with the preambles and resolutions of the states of North and South Carolina, in relation to the same subject, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report: That although your committee have not been able to ascertain the precise number and extent of such societies, yet they are satisfied of their existence, and that their object is to produce an entire abolition of slaver), in the United States, by printing and circulating, thron.gh the poct offices, and other modes of communication, tract3, pamphlets, almanacks, and pictorial representations, the manifest tenlency of which is to produce a spirit of discontnt, in Iuhordiiuntion, and perhaps insurrection with the slave population of the co7,mtrv. Your committee have not thought it a part of their duty, to present to the house, upon tlii4 occasioi, a fbrmal vindication o! the justice and propriety of the institution o' dnmestic slavery: to do so, would involve a recognition of the right of those north- ern abolitionists to question it. For this institution, the people of Kentucky hold themselves responsible to no earthly tribunal, but will refer their cause to Him alone, through the mysterious dis-

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