Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-01-10

convince all our teiloW culZenS, ny aEgu-
ments addressed to their understandings
and consciences, that slaveholding is sim
full in the sight of God, and that the duty,
safety, and best interests of all concerned,
require It's immediate abandonment. But
this society will by no means encourage
or countenance the enslaved, in vindicat-
ing their rights by physical force.
ART III. Any person who consents, by |
subscribing this preamble & constitution, |
to the principles therein set forth, and who |
is not STAKEHOLDER, may be member of
the Society.
ART ". The officers of this Society
shall be President, Vice-Presidents and
Secretary, Treasurer, and an Executive
Committee, composed of the above and
eight other member. of the Society, who
shall be chosen annually.
ART. V. The Executive Committee
shall meet on their own adjournments,
make their own bylaws, and fill their
own vacancies. They shall have power
to devise and execute such plans as they
may think proper, consistently with the
principles of this constitution, for the fur
therance of the Soeiety's object; and it
shall be their duty 20 circulate anti-slavery
publications, to appoint meetings, and
80 procure the delivering of addresses, and
: in all suitable ways 10 difuse such Intor-
e nation as will tend to produce correct
: state of public opinion on the subject OF
slavery.
ART. vi. The Society shall transmit to
the Corresponding Secretary ofthe Amerl-
can Anti-Slavery Society, an annual re-
= port of the proceedings of the Executive
b bers embraced in this Society.
ART. VII The Treasurer shall have
: charge Of all moneys belonging to the
society, subject to the order of the Execu-
, tive Committee; whose duty it shall be,
u from time to time, to direct the transmits
t sion of all surplus funds to the Treas
e urer Of the American Society.
n ART. VIII. This Society shall meet at
) least once in three months, and have an
o address or information on the subject Of
slavery. The annual meeting shall be
= held on the seventh day of November, at
: which addresses will be made, the annual
l. report presented, the officers chosen and
: all necessary business transacted.
: ART. XII. AT any stated meeting, op-
v portunity shall be given for such as may
: wish it, to enrol their names as members
:. of the Society.
IL ART. x. This constitution may be
If amended by vote of two thirds Of the
k members present at any annual meeting
v provided such amendments have been
e proposed in writing to the Executive
Committee ten days previous to the an
nual meeting.
RESOLUTIONS.
l. Resolved, That the freedom of opin-
ion, of speech, and OF the press, guar
antied by our Constitution and laws, is the
h right of every citizen for the abuse of
@ which he is responsible only to the legal
tribunals of his country; and that all at
a. tempts to abridge this right or to restrain,
a. by force, any citizen from fully speaking,
ID writing, or publishing his sentiments on
l. any subject ought to receive the unquali-
l. fed reprobatlon and united resistance of
e, the people.
2. Resolved, That we view with grief
" and alarm the practice ofresorting to law
IN less violence for the suppression of un-
1T popular doctrines, which, encouraged by
It. men of high standing and influence, and
to even by some of the official guardians of
the public press, is fast becoming the
lis habit of the American people; that we
re regard this practice as tending to the
ne entire subversion of our liberties; and
ct that we believe it to be the duty of all who
ne value the privileges of freemen and the
Id blessings of government, to give their
firm support to the supremacy of the laws
y, 8. Resolved, That inasmuch as slave
of nv, when assailed, naturally appeals to
mt brute force, because it cannot be defended
H. by sound argument and inasmuch as the
,s- object of the mobs has generally been to
e. shield slavery from investigation, as if
nd this were its chosen and appropriate
is business, Therefore, we believe the spirit
of of mobocratic violence to be closely allied
n to the spirit of slavery, and that the ire
,s- mendous power which the former has
he acquired in this country, may Justly be
nd ascribed to the influence of the latter.
al, 4. Resolved, That in the recent out
ges at Alton, resulting in the murder of
le- Elijah P. Lovejoy, devoted and faith
is full minister Of Jesus Christ, for no offence
re- but that of asserting the inalienable rights
of man, we have an exhibition of the true
ur character, spirit, and tendency Of slavery,
an and proofthat regardless of comp lex,
w. ion. of state boundaries, of constitutional
ly guarantees, of national honor, and of the
on laws of God, it grasps at unlimited do
minion. and aims to crush all who will
ur not subserve its interests, unde: its bloody
hs, and iron sway.
va 5. Resolved, That a deed so unex-
he ampled in the history of our country, SC
nj pregnant with destruction to our free in
IA Arhuoreiun Of oil ln,,r nj