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December 16, 1816
Alexandria Gazette, Commercial And Political
Alexandria, Virginia
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The Lexington Reporter denounces the Kentucky Senate for ordering Col. Philip White into custody and arraigning him for breach of privilege after he published a handbill criticizing the senate. The act is called usurpation and tyranny, compared to British and European precedents.
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From the N. Y. Columbian,
Ultra-Federalism in Kentucky.
The Lexington Reporter of the 15th ult. denounces an act of usurpation and tyranny of the Kentucky Senate with just indignation. Col. Philip White, for publishing a handbill, animadverting on the senate, has been ordered into custody and arraigned at the bar for breach of privilege! The Reporter asks, 'what privilege?' are the privileged from public opinion! and a federal assembly thus behaved like a British House of Lords, how angrily we should reproach them!
The official minutes, and comments of the Reporter shall be given hereafter. We consider the proceeding disgraceful to Kentucky, and to our party, worthy of a Spanish inquisition, but unbecoming the assembly of a free state. Before this upstart usurpation that of Napoleon seems little: it almost matches that of the Congress of Vienna.
Ultra-Federalism in Kentucky.
The Lexington Reporter of the 15th ult. denounces an act of usurpation and tyranny of the Kentucky Senate with just indignation. Col. Philip White, for publishing a handbill, animadverting on the senate, has been ordered into custody and arraigned at the bar for breach of privilege! The Reporter asks, 'what privilege?' are the privileged from public opinion! and a federal assembly thus behaved like a British House of Lords, how angrily we should reproach them!
The official minutes, and comments of the Reporter shall be given hereafter. We consider the proceeding disgraceful to Kentucky, and to our party, worthy of a Spanish inquisition, but unbecoming the assembly of a free state. Before this upstart usurpation that of Napoleon seems little: it almost matches that of the Congress of Vienna.
What sub-type of article is it?
Politics
Legal Or Court
What keywords are associated?
Kentucky Senate
Col Philip White
Breach Of Privilege
Handbill
Lexington Reporter
Usurpation
What entities or persons were involved?
Col. Philip White
Where did it happen?
Kentucky
Domestic News Details
Primary Location
Kentucky
Event Date
15th Ult.
Key Persons
Col. Philip White
Outcome
ordered into custody and arraigned at the bar for breach of privilege
Event Details
Col. Philip White published a handbill animadverting on the senate, leading to denunciation by the Lexington Reporter as an act of usurpation and tyranny by the Kentucky Senate.