In compliance with the request contained in the accompanying letter from the governor of the State of Kentucky, I herewith transmit certain resolutions adopted by the legislature of that State, in relation to a digest of the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States.
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I also with equal strength resist the idea that it falls within the Executive competency to decide in controversies of the nature of that which existed in Rhode Island on which side is the majority of the people or as to the extent of the rights of a mere numerical majority.
I congratulate the country upon so happy a termination of a condition of things which seemed at one time seriously to threaten the public peace.
For the Executive to assume such a power would be to assume a power of the most dangerous character.
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