The Virginia and Kentucky resolutions of 1798 and '99 : with Jefferson's original draught thereof. Also, Madison's report, Calhoun's address, resolutions of the several states in relation to state rights. With other documents in support of the Jeffersonian doctrines of '98.

Preface

The celebrated "Resolutions of Virginia and Kentucky of ''98 and }$9, and Madisorts Report on the former , being nearly out of print , a new edition\f these invaluable state pavers will doubtless be acceptable to the American people, \lliese doci'Jinents embody the principles of the old Republicans of the Jeffersonian school, the genuine disciples of the Whigs of '76. They were promulgated at ct time when the encroachments of the Federal Government on the rights " reserved to the Staies and to the People" threatened to break down all the landmarks qpJhe constitution, and to destroy the liberties of the country. These principles fearlessly advanced and nobly maintained by Thomas Jefferson and his compatriot^ during ii the reign of terror," effected a political revolution which restored the public liberty — in the emphatic language of Mr Jefferson, " saved the constitution^ en at its last gasp" — and thereby preserved the Union itself, bringing back, at the same time, the administration of the Government, to the purity fand simplicity from which it had so widely departed.

In bringing these important state pavers to the view of the public, we hate deemed it advisable to present, in connexion with them, the late able Address of Mr Calhoun, Vice President of the United States, in relation to the truep-^vcipies of the constitution and the nghls of the States: to which we have also added the Resolutions adopted at various periods, by the different States of the Union, at. I the opinions o r several of our most distinguished public men on these mtally important questions. These documents shed a broad and clear light ondhis subject, which will remove from the mind of the candid enquirer after truth every doubt as to the true theory of the constitution — the " boundaries of jurisdiction "' between the Federal and State Governments — the rights of the States, and the conservative principles of our political system. Tlie recently discovered manuscript containing the original draught of the Kentucky Resolutions, in the hano^writ" ingof Mr Jefferson, will be found in this collection. The preservation of so interesting a document in a more permanent form than the columns of a newspaper would, of itself, be of sufficient importance to justify this publication, which is sub* mitted to the people of the United States, in the hope, that it may — by diffusing correct information en the great questions embraced in it — so enlighten the public mind, as to enable us to transmit our free institutions unimpaired to the fates? posterity,

Pity of Washington, May 1, 183& tABLE OF CONTENTS.

ia Resolutions of '98, •

s to the People, accompanying the same,

s to the Resolutions of '98, by the States of —

Delaware, 9

Massachusetts, ....... 10

19 21

Jfew Fork,

tucky Resolutions of '98, • «• /" ' « '99,—

Mp Madison's Report,

Mr Calhoun's Address. 41

ffrlr Jefferson's original draught of

Kentucky Resolutions, • 57 to 61

Mr Jefferson's Letter to Mr Giles, 66 Protest, Jefferson's, for Virginia Legislature. •. -66

Chief Justice Mar shall. Speech in case

ofUonathan Robb ins, ... 68

State/ Interposition, id.

& i wun, Mr, his opinions quoted, 69 Ni ification, origin of the term,"" id.

Rights, resolutions in relation thereto, by

Connecticut,

New Hampshire, Vermont,

6^ 70

Opinion of Chief Justice Tilghman, Jin unconstitutional Law void. .••• Chief Just. Mar shall on same subject, id* The Supreme Court not the final arbiter, (Mr Madison) id.

Opinion cf Mr Jefferson to same effect id.

Chief Justice McKean's opinion, • • • • 71

Judge Roane's opinion, 72

Majority and Minority, rights and

duties of '.... id.

Opinions of Genera' Sumter, «... 7(, Dr. Franklin's opinion <>f Free Trade id.

Dr. Charming on the same subject, and the Union, " id.

Pennsylvania, 74 to 76

■ 'rginia, id

orgia, •" 77

Kuth Carolina, • 77

V irth Carolina* 79j

ts from the Federalist, 81 to 82