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Resolutions on Federal Affairs. 1863 165 (1863.12)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0847 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. No. 49. 186. RESOLUTIONS on Federal Affair.. Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 1. That this State need make no further declaration, by legislative resolutions, of her intense loyalty, or of her sin- cere and unalterable devotion to the national Union and the Constitution. Her stand has been taken after the ma- turest deliberation, and is known to the world. She will not now prove recreant by taking any backward step, but will go forward with all her resources of men, money, and credit, to the support of our gallant armies in the field, until the rebellion is subdued and treason disarmed; and she will, through the peaceful mode prescribed by the fun- damental law of the land, use her efforts to correct any errors that have been committed, either by the executive or the legislative department of the Government. 2. That we regard as impolitic the enlistment of negroes as soldiers into the armies of the United States, and we earnestly protest against their enlistment within the State of Kentucky; and we respectfully request the President of the United States to remove from our limits and borders all camps for negro soldiers, by which our slaves are en- ticed to leave the service of their owners. 3. That in the opinion of this General Assembly, the constitutional relation of the States in rebellion, as regards the Union, was not changed by the criminal action of their people in attempting to secede, thus forcing a civil war upon the country; and when the people of any, or all those States, shall, in good faith, return to their allegiance, their States are, as before the war, members of the great Amer- ican Union, and the people thereof are citizens-all sub- ject to the constitution and laws of the United States. 4. That the inaugural address and message of Governor Bramlette to the present General Assembly, so far as the same treats of our federal relations, reflect truly the senti- ments of the Union people uf Kentucky, are approved by the present General Assembly, and are recommended to the patriotic consideration of the American people. Approved February 22, 1864.

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