Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-11-21

amount of money by the first Of January
AS many as can pay just as conveniently in
December as in January, will greatly oblige
me by doing it, If any would know for
what the money is wanted,-I answer,-tor
paper, used during the present quarter.
The following resolutions, on political action,
were adopted at the late annual meeting of the
New York State Anti-Slavery Society:
From the Friend Of Nan.
ON POLITICAL ACTION.
l. Resolved, That American slavery,
which exists only by American laws, can
be abolished only by the repeal of those
laws E.; therefore,
2. Resolved, That it is contradiction
in terms. for American citizens to talk OF
breaking every yoke" and delivering
the spoiled out Of the hands of the oppres-
sor,' without repeal of the laws which
sanction American slavery.
3. Resolved, That if every STAKEHOLDER
in the United States should now liberate
his slaves, and yet the slave laws should
remain unrepealed, the yoke of slavery,
bAONS hOb AL NCCS lDl Tic lItuC UGIuO3
would not be broken, according to the d.
vine command; there would be no gov
ernmental testimony agains: slaveholding,
nor security against its introduction to-
morrow, and consequently the national
and state guilt of slavery, would remain
unrepented of, and unremoved.
4. Resolved, That as the Legislators of
the slave states, and the people who elect
them, are morally bound to break the yoke
of slavery, by the repeal OF the slave laws
of those states, so, in like manner, the
Legislators Of the United States, in Con-
gress assembled. and the people who elect
them, are morally bound to repeal the
slave laws of the District of Columbia,
and territories, and prohibit the slave trade
between the different states.
5. Resolved, That in a representative
form of government like our own, the vote
of the representative of the people is vir-
tually the vote of the people themselves,
so long as they sustain him: so that a
member of Congress, or of state legis-
lature, who votes against emancipation,
is not only guilty hlmself-but every in
dividual freeman, who sustains him in
his seat by bis suffrage, is also guilty.
| 6. Resolved, That as the legislators Of
the slave states, and of the national Con.
gress. are guilty before God when they
permit any reasons Of state policy to PIE
vent them from breaking every yoke o.
oppression so every individual free.
man, whether at the north or south, is
equally guilty before God, when he per
mits any reasons Of state policy to prevent
him from voting against slavery, in the
choice of his representative. Hence,
7. The freeman of the north who re.
fuses to vote against slavery in the Dis
trict of Columbia, lin his selection of &
representative to Congress) because hi:
vote will injure the interests of his polite
al party, or put in hazard his favoritt
scheme of political economy in the matte
of a national bank, sub-treasury, or Z
$ tariff is as really guilty as the southern
statesman, and his constituent, who vii
not break the yoke, lest it should IS bank
rupt the south "-endanger the public
tranquility, and tend to dissolution O
y the Union.
8. Resolved, That as there are no cir
e e~mstGnees which can justify the slave
holder in refusing to emancipate the slave
and no circumstances which can iustifv
n the southern statesman in negleciing /,
e break the yoke of oppression in the slav,
n states-so there are no circumstance
e which can justify northern freemen il
e neglecting to break the yoke of oppres
o sion in the District of Columbia, whicl
e they are constitutionally and politicalE
able to do, by their votes for members q
. Congress. and President and Vice Presi
dent ofthe United States, and no circum
stances which can justify them in neglec,
! ing to abolish the relics of slavery 10 III
- non.slaveholding states, by their votes 70
. the Legislators and executives OF the same
- y Resolved, That no candidate for tn
). national or state legislatures, or for the e,
: ecutive Offices of the state or nation, VIII
4 Is not heartily in favor of the imrnediat
- ana unconditional emancipation of th
: slaves. can be duly qualified to receiv
:, the vote either of an honest man or of
ireeman-because he gives evidence thu
!, ne is not practically a repu6lican-is nc
: In favor of laws against robbery and the
} Cannot be depended upon to defend III
weak against the strong-the wronoe
:. against the wrong-doer-th oprresse
r against the oppressor-the many again,
'e the fsw-the people against the despot-
al and Is therefore unfit to be the ruler of
. lree people, and incapable of carrying int
81 execution the very objects for which al
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