State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1831-1836, 1836-07-05

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committee to draft resolutions, aud
prepare an address to the Freemen.
The Committee of Nomination after
recess reported the name of
Hon. Henry Il. James,
as candidate, to be supported by the
J Freemen of the 9th Congressional District,
! for representative to Congress, which re-
port was accepted and adopted, without
dissenting voice.
Mr. Davis on behalf of the Committee
presented the following resolutions, which
were severally read and adopted:
/. Res0lued, undnimouSiB That we rec
ommend to the treemon of the Eth Con-
gressional District the HON. HENRY F..
| JAMES as n suitable candidate for Con-
gress, and will use every reasonable effort
to secure his reelection to that Office.
| 9. ReSolUed, That the Autimasonic party
Of this State, though regarding the princi-
pies of antimasonry as of paramount I'M
portance, have never been Indifferent or
vascillating upon the subject Of National
politics that they have repeatedly on eve
ny fitting occasion, pronounced their alb
horrence of the leading measures of the
present administration, rs runOus to the
best interests of the country, and that those
men much mistake the sincerity of the
party, who suppose them to be capable Of
abandoning their principles at the sugges-
ton of a few unworthy leaders, whose con-
sequence has alone been owing 10 the mis-
placed confidence of those whom they
would now bctray.
3. ReSoLued, That we cordially approve
of the nomination of WIN. III. HARRI-
SON, for President, and FRANCIS
GRANGER, for Vice President; also, of
the State Ticket, headed by the name of
Sias III. Jenison for Governor of this
State made at Montpelier in February last,
and that we pledge ourselves to use every
fair and honorable effort to insure their
success.
4. Resolved, That we distrust the homes
ty and sincerity of those who keep up
perpetual clamor about Whiggery and
Whgism, to induce anlimasons to desert
their own cherished principles from APP
prehensions that they may be supported
by others.
5. Resolved, That Martin Van Buren,,
the Office holders candidate for President,
has no feelings in common with the Anti
masons of Vermont; that they have not
forgotten and can never forget his insidi
Gus thrust at the sincerity of their brethren
in New York, contained in his message as
Governor of that State in 1929, in which
he endcavored to produce an impression
that all their eXcrtions to bring to light and
to punishment the actors in the conspiracy
against Morgan, were prompted by consd-
eratlons of self interest," and hankering
after the loaves and fishes of Office that
the insinuation, though characteristic was
contemplate ; that though perfectly natur
al in the man who made it, yet it betrayed
total ignorance ofthoso generous men of
| Western New York, who with patriotism
and devotion never surpassed, made I'M
wearied eXertions to bring the guilty to
punishment, eXertions lily seconded, and
even thwarted by the State Government
over which he presided
! 6. RESOLVED, That to urge upon the An
! timasons of Vermont, the support of Rich
ard Nj. Johnson for Vice President, an adj
! herring Mason, stakeholder, and friend
to the illegitmate amalgamatlon of races, is
! little less than an insult to their understand
! ings, and augurs state of mind in those
who make the attempt, bordering on in
sanity.
/ Z. Resolved, That we approve of the
distribution of the proceeds of the Public
Lands in the several States, in the manner
contemplated in Mr. Clay's Land Bill now
before Congress, because the Public Lands
II common fund, belong to the several
States, and because these proceeds are not
required for any eXigenccs of the National
Government.
8, Resotued, That the large amount of
monies, already exceeding thirty-lhree mil
lions, and every day accommodating, which
now lie unproductiye III the deposlto banks,
ought to be distributed among the several
Suites in some just proportion; that the
people thereof from whom it was taken may
: apply it to public education, internal inn
proyements, or such other purposes as they
may think proper.
o. Resolved That the late casting vote OF
Mr. Van Buren,, given in the Senate of the
United States in favor of the bill concern
ing inccndiary publications, which in effect
denies the use of the public mail to all
papers or pamphlets touching the subject
of Slavery, is one among thousand Other
proofs of his readiness to sacrifice our
liberties, our rights, and every thing we
hold most sacred, at the shrine of AN UNI
holy ambition, and calls for the unqualified
apprehension of every man i'll whose bosom
II single spark of liberty yet glows.
10. Resolved, That we are in no degree
more firmly convinced of the propricty OF
this distribution, because the President in
his opening Messages to Congress in 1895
and in 1880, when there was 10 surplus
Revenue in the Treasury to be distributed