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The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
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People of Goochland County, Virginia, held a large meeting on Monday last, adopting near-unanimous resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts, instructing delegates to seek a congressional remonstrance. Albemarle County plans a similar meeting on September 1, with expectations for other Virginia counties to follow.
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The real friends of the liberties and happiness of America, will rejoice at the decided part which the people of Virginia have taken against the alien and sedition bills. In the large and respectable county of Goochland, the people met on Monday last, to consult on the present crisis of American affairs, and adopted by almost an unanimous vote, resolutions, expressive of their strongest disapprobation of the late acts of Congress, and the President. There was a very full meeting, consisting of about four hundred, of these not more than twenty or thirty were against the resolutions. They also voted instructions to their delegates in the state legislature, requesting them to move, in the next session of assembly, a remonstrance to Congress, against the late obnoxious acts of government, or to support any other constitutional measure which may be deemed more effectual, to vindicate the liberties of speech and the press, and to restore the trial by jury. The people of Albemarle will meet on the first day of September, to take the late acts of government into consideration, and it is expected the other counties of Virginia, at this alarming period, will prove themselves equally patriotic.
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Goochland County, Virginia
Event Date
Monday Last
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resolutions adopted by almost unanimous vote at a meeting of about four hundred, with not more than twenty or thirty against; instructions voted to delegates for remonstrance to congress.
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People of Goochland County met to consult on the crisis of American affairs, adopting resolutions expressing strongest disapprobation of the late acts of Congress and the President against the alien and sedition bills. They voted instructions to their delegates in the state legislature to move a remonstrance to Congress or support other measures to vindicate liberties of speech and press and restore trial by jury. Albemarle to meet on first day of September; other Virginia counties expected to act patriotically.