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North Carolina opposes the Alien & Sedition Acts...
North Carolina opposes the Alien & Sedition Acts...
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February 09, 1799
COLUMBIAN CENTINEL, from Boston, Massachusetts, dated February 9, 1799
* North Carolina opposes the Alien & Sedition Acts
* 18th century original reading
A page 2 report from "North Carolina" states in part:
* The General assembly...view with pain the alien and sedition acts, passed at the last...Congress...they consider those acts...a violation...of the Constitution...[and] altogether improper and unnecessary
A resolution follows directing the Senators and Representatives of the state "...to use every endeavor...to cause...that the acts...be repealed without delay...", and that the Governor present copies of the resolution to the Senators and Reps. Shows that 58 were in favor of the resolves, and 21 against.
Other news of the day to include on page 2 under "Congress of the United States" a report "Naval Augmentation" stating in part that the "House issued a resolution appropriating money to establish ...two Docks...in the United States... and for ...purchasing Timber ....That the Navy be augmented Six Ships, To Carry Not Less Than Seventy-four Guns each, to be built or purchased in the United States....That the President be authorised to take the Revenue Cutters into service....". Other news of the day includes: "Bonaparte's Expedition", "French Finances", "Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions", a message from John Adams which includes his block signature, and more.
Archival mends to a few minor margin tears at the spine, light browning, otherwise in good condition. 4 pages.
wikipedia notes: The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the United States Congress—who were waging an undeclared naval war with France, later known as the Quasi-War. They were signed into law by President John Adams. Proponents claimed the acts were designed to protect the United States from alien citizens of enemy powers and to stop seditious attacks from weakening the government. The Democratic-Republicans, like later historians, attacked them as being both unconstitutional and designed to stifle criticism of the administration, and as infringing on the right of the states to act in these areas. They became a major political issue in the elections of 1798 and 1800. One act — The Alien Enemies Act — is still in force in 2009, and has frequently been enforced in wartime. The others expired or were repealed by 1802. Thomas Jefferson held them all to be unconstitutional and void, then pardoned and ordered the release of all who had been convicted of violating them.
Category: The 1600's and 1700's
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