KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS OF I798.
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 From the OHgiadi Dfaggbl in Nr JeGer- sons handwriting, as certified by Thomas Jefferson Randolph. Ne copy ffomthe Rich mond Enquirer Of March 18th 1852.

 l. Rcsolrrd, That the several States com posing the United States cf America, are not united on inc principle of unlimited -ubms- sion to the General Governments but by a compact, under the ssile and title ofa Gonsti- jution for the United States, and of ameed- meu.s thereto, theY constituted General Ga- yernmcnt fer special purposes, delegated to that Government certain definite powers, re- serving, each Stale to itself the residuarY mass of right lo their own self governments; and that Whcnsoaver the General government as sumes uudelegated powers, is acts arc unau- tboritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each State acceeded as a State, and is an integral party; its co-Stales forming, as to itself, the other party; lhal the Government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself: since that would have made its discretion, and not the Consti- tuition, the measure of it3 powers; tut that, as in all other cases of compact among pow CTS having no common judge, each party has an equal right 10 Judge for itself, as well o5 inrae.ions as Of the mode and measure of redress.

 2 Reso7red, That the Constitution of the United States having delegated to Congress a power to punish treason, counterfeting the securities and current coin of the United sta- tes, piracies and felonies committed on the high seas. aad offences against the law of na- lions, and no other crimes whatsoever; and it being tue, as a general principle, and one of the amendments 10 the Constitution haY- ing also declared that "tbe powers not dele gated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by il to the States, are reserved to the States 7especnvely or to the people;n therefore, the Act of Congress pass ed on the l4th of July, l798, and entitled ,'An Act in addition to the Act entitled an Act for the punishment of certain crimes in the United Slates;p as also the act passed by them on the-day of June, l79S, entitled "Aa Act to punish frauds committed on the Bank of the t. States ? [and all other their acts which assume 10 create, define, or punish crimes, other than those so enumerated in the Constitutions, are altogether void and of 10 force, and that the power to create, define. and punish, such other crimes, is reserved, and of right appertains solely and exclusive Iy, 10 the respective States, each within it's own territory.