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MEMORIAL,
TO THE HONORABLE
The Congress of the United States of America:

THE Memorial of the Leigislature of the State of Kentucky, would respectfully represent, that of the militia of this state who volunteered in the service of their country at the commencement and du-
ring the progress of war, ir engagedin it in obediecnce to the nation's call, many(as was expected) never returned to their families. They perished in the sevice of their country. The na-
tion enjoys the benefits and the glory if which thier blood was the price. Their widows and their or-
phans sustained a loss, which, which, while it excites the sympathies of the good people of this state, has a
strong claim upon the justice of the nation. The bereavement, so far as it addresses itself to the wounded seneibilities of the widow and the child, in those characters, admits of no equivalent, and
but little palliation. But so far