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and if; in his judgment, the proof establishes authority 6 ubordmatlon of the milital 7 to the civil 



of any of the parties charged, or is Solved, Referring to the spirit of generosity and 



sufficiently strong that a trial should be had sympathy which the Democracy has uniformly ex- 



in the Circuit Court, he shall commit to jail hibited to our citizens of foreign birth as a guaran- 



or hold to bail such guilty parties for trial in !? e of T 6mce rity, we will in the future, as we have 



tbe Circuit Court of the countv " ? M ay d , one m the ,P ast > ext ed " cordial and hospi- 



X,^ 1 in , ty ' T. - ? able welcome to the honest, industrious, intelligent 



Ihere was a convention of the Democratic immigrant, not only to the rich fields of enterprise 



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party at Frankfort, on the 1st of May, the main 

 purpose of which seems to have been to effect 

 a reorganization of the party machinery, and 

 to set forth the principles on which it acts. 

 The resolutions were as follows : 



Present in our State, but to a just participation in our 

 rights as freemen. 



Jiesolved, That the Democracy of Kentucky, for- 

 getting all past political diflerences, and looking to 

 the beet interests of the whole country, cordially in- 

 vite all who are opposed to corruption and consolida- 

 tion to cooperate with them. 



Saolftd, That the Federal Union was formed by Thpr WAI-B nr> im. <t<f ol * v 

 and is composed of coequal sovereign States, and its S t n r tb\ "VT^* elections in the 



Government possesses none but delegated powers tate this year. I he Legislature reassembled 



all other powers not prohibited to the States being P a tne 2d of December, but no measures of 



reserved by the several States respectively, and afl importance had received its sanction before 



attempts to exercise any power in violation of these the close of the year. 



fundamental principles are subversive of the Consti- TTTTTVA ^o"f*i'iv *T j , 



tution, in direct conflict with the rights of the State, T K ^A on ? of i} \ 6 khanates of Independent 



and destructive of the interests of the people. loorkistan, attracted m 1873 the attention of 



8aoloed, That while we earnestly maintain that the civilized world by the war between its 



the Federal Government should bo sedulously BUS- ruler and Russia. It was bounded before the 



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construed, as the established means of securing jus- r""'" 1 ' ? ast ? Russl * aud Bokhara, south by 



tice and harmony among the several States, the tne territory of the Toorkomans, many tribes 



chosen medium of communication between them and of which are nominally tributary to the Khan, 



other nations, and to perfect means of defense Its frontier in the south and the west is en- 



^hfprrsefv.STfTh'eTb'ertls 1 Sf ^'citizen *{f el y -defined, and the estimates of the area 



that the several States shall be maintained in all tnerefor f widely differ, according to the greater 



their rights, dignity, and equality, as the most com- or smaller extent of the Toorkoman territory 



petent and reliable administrators of their own do- which is included in the dominions of the 



mestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against " 

 anti-republican tendencies. 



Betolied, That every attempt on the part of the 

 Federal Government to exercise a power not delegated 

 to it in the Constitution, or to exercise a delegated 

 power in a manner not therein prescribed, is an act 

 of usurpation demanding the instant and unqualified 

 condemnation of a people jealous of their liberties, 

 and especially that every unconstitutional inter- 



ference by the General Government with the local 

 affairs of any State to any extent or under any pre- 

 tense whatever should be at once repudiated and 

 condemned by all classes in every section of the 

 Union, as all such acts tend directly to the destruc- 

 tion of our Federal system and the consolidation of 

 all power in a centralized despotism ; and as a most 

 alarming instance in point, we denounce, as we feel 

 that all good men should everywhere, the atrocious 

 conduct of the present Administration toward the 

 iovereign State of Louisiana. 



Saolntd, That the only power delegated to Con- 

 gress to impose laws upon the people consists in the 

 right to collect revenue, for the purpose of paying 

 the current expenses of the Government, and for the 

 payment of the Federal debt ; and all other duties 

 imposed 'for the purpose of protecting one class of 

 labor at th* expense of another, are in violation of 

 the Federal compact, and subversive of the rights 

 of the people. 



Boohed. That justice to the people as well as the 



Khan. While formerly as many as 150,000 

 square miles were set down for Khiva, recent 

 geographers give to it no more than 54,000. 

 The population was estimated by Balbi at 

 800,000, by Fraser at 1,500,000, by Abbott at 

 2,600,000, while Vambeiy gives no estimate. 

 According to Russian accounts, the lists of 

 population found in the archives of the kha- 

 nate, showed the settled population to live' in 

 60,000 homes, and to amount to about 300,000 

 persons. The nomad population lived in about 

 12,000 kibitka* (tents of Khirgeez), and 20,000 

 tents of Karapalkacs; in all, about 120,000 

 persons, giving an aggregate population of the 

 khanate of about 460,000. Deducting the popu- 

 lation of the territory ceded to Russia, the ag- 

 gregate population of the khanate after the 

 war is believed not to exceed 280,000 persons. 

 The chief portion of the country is an oasis, 

 on both sides of the Amu Darya, having a length 

 of about 230 miles, and an area of only about 

 2,100 square miles. It is made fertile and in- 

 habitable by a number of canals proceeding 

 from the Amu. As far as the country is irri- 

 gated by canals, it produces corn, rice, silk, 



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dictates of common honesty demands the most rigid " ttnT1 f-.,;* wi ' n ,f,] mp i n ,, TJio nn.,<1a 

 economy in the administration of both the State p ott n ' lrult i ^ lne ' an ? melons. 1 he nomads 



in the steppe breed cattle, excellent horses, and 

 many camels. The bulk of the native popula- 

 tion consists of Tadjiks, here called Sarts, who 

 constitute the laboring class, while the Usbeks 

 are the dominant race. In the towns many 



ami the Federal Government, the speedy and the 

 impartial arrangement of all abuses of public trust 

 of whatever character or description, both before 

 the established tribunal of justice and the great bar 

 of popular judgment ; that a zealous care of the elec- 

 tive franchise recognized by the founders of our 

 Government as the exclusive property of the several 

 States, and the palladium of their independence, is 



Jews are found ; in the steppes, Toorkomans, 

 Kirgheez, and Karakalpacs. With the excep- 



