Gov. Charles Scott message to the Kentucky General Assembly, 1809 Dec. 5.

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Gov. Charles Scott message to the Kentucky General Assembly, 1809 Dec. 5.

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This is the State of the Commonwealth message sent to the Kentucky General Assembly, December 5, 1809, by Governor Charles Scott. Scott's message considered at length his concerns about continued differences between Great Britain and the United States. He wanted the federal government to assert itself, "command arms," and "establish discipline," but said much of this area continued to "appear at present to be the business of the states." Scott felt Kentucky's military establishment had "several radical errors." Included among these errors were improper reporting from militia units and the location of the Adjutant General away from the seat of government, Frankfort. Scott felt a number of men should be organized, armed, and ready at all times. He stated the commonwealth was then six months late in responding to a federal call for militia troops. He reported a "late communication" from the federal government that Kentucky needed to appoint a commissioner to act with one appointed by the president in holding a treaty with the Chickasaw nation "for the purpose of extinguishing their claim, to certain Lands in the south western part of the State." This presumably was preliminary activity in the eventual Jackson Purchase treaty negotiated by Andrew Jackson and Isaac Shelby.

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Kentucky Historical Society, Martin F. Schmidt Research Library

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