The New Hampshire Gazette

PATRIOTISM.
CONNECTICUT.
Versus Virginia and Kentucky

DURING the late session of the Legislature of Connecticut, the following resolutions passed, the first with only two dissentients; and the latter unanimously.

Resolved, That the attempt to form a combination of the Legislatures of the several states for the avowed purpose of controlling the measures of the general government, is foreign to the duties of the State Legislatures, hostile to the existence of our national union, and opposed to the principles of the constitution. With these impressions, this Assembly doth deeply regret that a spirit should exist in the Legislature of any state, capable of dictating resolutions, like those now under consideration—Resolutions, calculated to subvert the constitution, and to introduce, discord and anarchy.

Were this Assembly permitted to decide on the measures of the general government, they would declare the acts against which the aforesaid Resolutions are particularly aimed, strictly constitutional, but it is sufficient to remark, that the Administration of the government meets their entire approbation, and that the Alien and Sedition acts are wisely calculated among others, "to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves, and their posterity;" And therefore this Assembly doth refuse to concur with the Legislature of Kentucky in promoting any of the objects attempted by the aforesaid Resolutions.

Resolved, That this assembly views, with deep regret, and explicitly disavows the principles contained in the aforesaid resolutions, and particularly the opposition to the "Alien and Sedition Acts"—Acts which the constitution authorized, which the exigencies of the country rendered necessary—which the constituted authorities have enacted, and which merit the entire approbation of this assembly. They therefore decidedly refuse to concur with the Legislature of Virginia in promoting any of the objects attempted in the aforesaid Resolutions.