Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-06-21
VOL. X....NO. 80.
who in any degree cherish and retain it.
MARTIN VAN BURKN.

Resolved, That The pledge gwen Oy the
President of the United States, to veto any
bill passed by Congress, without the consent
Of the slaveholding states, for the abolition
of slavery in the District of Columbia, is
worthy the condemnation of our fellow cit
liens of the tree States, not only because it
upholds an inhuman system, but because it
in effect denies the great principle of equal
and republican government, and when the
ma jOrity adopt a measure, IN accordance
with the forms of the constitution, which is
to establish justice,' and secure the bleS-
sings Of liberty it ought to govern.
( Resolved, That as abolitionists, we are
constrained to meet this avowal oC his de-
termination, with one equally decisive on
our part to do all in our power to give him
an opportunity of redeeming his most ex-
traordinary pledge.
Resolved, That inasmuch as the present
Chief Magistrate Of the United States is a
protested advocate of the rights of man
and, as such, in the NewYork Convention
in 1920, exerted himself to secure to the
coIored man, equally with the white, the
privilege of the elective franchise-and in
the Newly ork Legislature, gave his vote
and his influence in favor of the resolutions
OF that BODY against the admission of Mis-
souri, as a slave State,-we regard his pres
! e1t attitude as a new evidence Of the over
whelmng influence of southern slavery;
and an additiona! incentive to Increased and
unremtted exertiOns for its entire overthrow.
PETITIONS.
On motion of H. B. Stanton,
Resolved, That it is earnestly recon-
mended 10 the several State, County and
Town Anti-Slavery Societies of the entire
country, to take immediate and efficient
measures for the wide circulation among the
people for their signatures, to be presented TO
Congress, petitions for the immediate aboll-
ton Of slavery and the slave-trade in the
; District of Columbia and the Territories,
, the slave-trade between the several States,
against the admission Of any new slave
State into the Union; and also petitions TO
the Legislatures of their several States,
PRAYING them 10 instruct their Senators, and
request their Representatives in Congress,
to vote for the Immediate abolition of Slave
nv and the slave-t trade in the District and
the Territories, the slave. trade between the
several States, against the admission of any
} new slave State to the Union; also, praying
= them to grant a trial by jury to persons claim
| ed as fugitive slaves, and to abolish all laws
which make distinctions among men on &C
q count of color.
Resolved, That this Convention, in ac-
Il cordance with the request Of the American
, Anti-Slavery Society, earnestly recon-
mends to the Secretary of each County So
S cietv in NewEngland, as measure abso-
: lutely necessary to accomplish the object of
e the foregoing resolutions, to forward by mail
t Immediately to the Corresponding Secretary
[ of the American Anti-Slavery Society, at
7 New ork city, the names of two suitable
individuals in each town in their respective
: counties, with their post office address, to
e circulate Anti-Slavery petitions.
t EQUAL RIGHTs-THE UNION.
: The following preamble and resolutions, offered
: by John G. Whittier, were adopted men, con.
: Whereas, The union of these states was
: formed, Ito use the words of the Constitu:
: tional bond,) TO establish justice, ensure
o domestic tranquility, provide for the com
= mon defence, promote the general welfare,
and secure to ourselves and our posterity
: the blessings of libertY'-to guarantee 10
each state, a republican form Of government
TO forbid the making Of any law prohibit
= ing the free exercise Of religion, or abrIdglng
j the freedom of speech and of the press, or
y the right of the people peaceably to assem-
, BILE and to petition the government for re-
: dress of grievances'-to provide that no
: person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or
properly, without due process of law'-and
that the citizens of each state shall be en-
; titled to all privileges and Immunities of
citizens in the several states:'
And, whereas, to su stain the institution
, Of domestic slavery, a portion OF the states
d Of this confederacy have proposed certain
It terms to their sister states, as the condition
Of securing the integrity of this union, in
e manner and form as follows:
|. From North Carolina, affirming that
r the claim of that state for penal enactments
i in the free states, against the publications
and lecturers of abOlItIonlSts, is clear ana
= well-founded, and calling upon her sister
states to enact penal laws promoting Inc
d nrinting. within their limits, of all such pub
r Icatons as may have tendency to make
:; our slaves discontinued with their present
L condition.
2. From the legislature of South Carolina,
fully approving the sentiment Of Governor
McDuffie that laws should be enacted, pun
ishing abolitonists with death without
, benefit of clergy and requiring that the
government of the several states should
promptly and effectually SUPPRESS all asso-
Citations, purporting to be abolition societies.
g. From Georgia, requiring the leglsla-
lures Of the free states, to crush the tral-
torous designs Of the abolitionists.'
A. From Alabama, respectfully request,
, ing 'our sister states 10 enact sucn PendA
laws. as will finally put an end TO the ma
lignant deeds of the aboitionIsts.
> And. whereas, in the slaveholdins states,
by Lynch clubs and yganee ,s COMMITTEES init
= as we'll as by unconstitutional Ia"s' lne use
I Of the U. S. MaiI-'he freedom Of Con
Science, of Iocomotion, OF speech and OF the
press denied to those b OF h 'nI
1ndenendence, as evinced in the case of John
HOPPER of N lew Y ork, of Abe Dean of
Connecticut, and Amos Dresser of Massacc
chusetts. aud in the numerous instances OF