hat Kentucky had the right to ask, and this is all she has
asked.

Mr. BALDWIN here read the Kentucky resolutions, as follows:

_Resolutions recommending a call for a Convention of the
United States._

_Whereas_, The people of some of the States feel themselves
deeply aggrieved by the policy and measures which have been
adopted by some of the people of the other States; and
_whereas_ an amendment of the Constitution of the United
States is deemed indispensably necessary to secure them
against similar grievances in the future: Therefore,

_Resolved_, by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Kentucky, that application to Congress to call a Convention
for proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United
States, pursuant to the fifth article thereof, be, and the
same is hereby, now made by this General Assembly of
Kentucky; and we hereby invite our sister States to unite
with us, without delay, in a similar application to
Congress.

_Resolved_, That the Governor of this State forthwith
communicate the foregoing resolution to the President of the
United States, with the request that he immediately place
the same before Congress and the Executives of the several
States, with a request that they lay them before their
respective Legislatures.

_Resolved_, If the Convention be called in accordance with
the provisions of the foregoing resolutions, the Legislature
of the Commonwealth of Kentucky suggest for the
consideration of that Convention, as a basis for settling
existing difficulties, the adoption, by way of amendments to
the Constitution, of the resolutions offered in the Senate
of the United States by the Hon. JOHN J. CRITTENDEN.

DAVID MERIWETHER,
_Speaker of the House of Representatives._

THOMAS P. PORTER,
_Speaker of the Senate._

Approved January 25, 1861.
B. MAGOFFIN.

By the Governor:
THOMAS B. MONROE, JR.,
_Secretary of State._

Mr. BALDWIN continued:--Now, what are we asked to do by the majority
of the committee? It is not to unite with Kentucky or to accede to her
wishes for a convention of the States, under the Constitution, but to
thwart the wishes of Kentucky, and to induce Congress itself to
originate and propose amendments, or to propose those which we may
originate. Kentucky asks t