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The New Hampshire Gazette
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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Kentucky House introduces resolution to impeach Judge Silas W. Robbins for high crimes and misdemeanors, including advocating Hartford Convention doctrines during the War of 1812, seen as traitorous.
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A new ground of impeachment of a Judge has been discovered by some of our fellow-citizens in Kentucky. In the House of Representatives of that State, a preamble and resolution were introduced on the 3d inst. for impeaching Silas W. Robbins of high crimes and misdemeanors, &c. "The charges against him," says the editor of the print now before us, "are of a nature well calculated to excite the public mind, and create prejudice against the Judge, and, if true, consign him to merited obscurity and contempt." We shall not go through the whole of them, but pass on to the 15th, which seems to be the most weighty, and by which the reader may form some idea of the odour in which the Hartford Convention is in the State of Kentucky. This charge is in the following words:
"Charge 15.—That the said Judge has discovered a traitorous disposition to the government of the United States of America in this: That, during the late war between Great Britain and the United States, said Judge Robbins, then residing in Winchester, Kentucky, and basely abandoning the duties of an American citizen, and treacherously betraying those principles established and consecrated by the blood of the Revolution, did, then and there avow the direful necessity and openly advocated the detestable doctrines of the Hartford Convention."
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Kentucky
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3d Inst.
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In the House of Representatives of Kentucky, a preamble and resolution were introduced on the 3d inst. for impeaching Silas W. Robbins of high crimes and misdemeanors. The charges include Charge 15: That the said Judge has discovered a traitorous disposition to the government of the United States of America in this: That, during the late war between Great Britain and the United States, said Judge Robbins, then residing in Winchester, Kentucky, and basely abandoning the duties of an American citizen, and treacherously betraying those principles established and consecrated by the blood of the Revolution, did, then and there avow the direful necessity and openly advocated the detestable doctrines of the Hartford Convention.