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

Mr.. Clay, of Alabama, reported bill
for graduating the price of public lands.
by this bill, unsold lands are divided
into four classes, the price ofthe highest
class being 81 per acre, of the lowest Is
cents r..-4s-z-
Mr.. Benton offered resolution calling
upon the Secretary of the Treasury to re-
porto the Senate what amount of specie
has been received into the Treasury since
the suspension of specie payments in May
last, and what amount of specie has been
paid out of the Treasury, giving the ag-
gregate amount since the suspension.
Mr.. Clay expressed a desire that the
resolution might be modified so es to. pre-
sent not only the aggregates, but the spe-
clfic biects of the several payments, so as
to show to whom the specie had been
paid.
Mr.. Benton accepted the modification.
Mr.. Upton offered resolution, author
izing the committee for the District to in
quire into the expediency of providing for
the indigen: deaf and dumb in the District
of Columbia
Mr.. Calhoun presented the following
resolutions, which were ordered to be
printed -
ResoLUed, that in the adoption of the
federal constitution, the states adopting the
same acted severally as free, independent
and sovereign states !; and that each, for it,
self, BY its own voluntary assent, entered
the Union with the view to its increased
security against all dangers domestic as
well as foreign, and the more perfect and
secure enjoyment gifts advantages, natu-
raj, political and social.
ResoIued, That in delegating portion
Of their powers to be exercised by the fed
eral government, the states retained, sever
ally, the exclusive and sole right over their
own domestic institutions and police, and
are alone responsible for them, and that
any intermeddling ofany or more states,
or combination oftheir citizens, with the
domestic institutions and police Of the 9TH
ers, on any ground or under any pretext
whatever, political, moral or religious,
with view to their alteration or su bver-
sion, is an assumption of superiority not
warranted by the constitution; insulting to
the states interfered with, tending to en-
danger their domestic peace and tranquil
lity, subversive of the objects for which
the constitution was formed. and, by ne
cessary consequence, tending to weaken
and destroy the Union itself.
ResoIued, That this Government was
Instituted and adopted by the several states
of this Union, as a common agent, 10 order
to carry into effect the powers which they
had delegated by the constitution for their
mutual security and prosperity and that,
in fulflment of this hi gh and sacred trust,
this Government is bound so to exercise
its powers as to give, as far as may be
! practicable, increased stability and securi-
| ty to the domestic institutions of the states
that compose the Union; and that 1t Is the
| solemn duty of the Government TO resist
all attempts by one portion ofthe Union to
use il as an instrument to attack the do
nestle institutions of another, or to weak
en- or destroy such institutions, instead of
strengthening and upholding them, as it is
in duty bound to do.
ResOLred, That domestic slavery, as it
exists in the Southern and Western States
of this Union, composes an important
part of their domestic institutions, inherit
I'd from their ancestors, and existing at
the adoption of the constitution, by which
it is recognised as constituting an essen
tial element in the distribution of the pow.
erS among the states; aud that no change
of opinion, or feeling, on the part of the
other states of the Union 10 relation to it
can Justify them or their citizens in oper
and systematic attacks thereon, with the
view to its overthrow; and that all such
attacks are in manifest violation of thu
mutual and solemn pledge to protec: anc
defend each other, given by the states, re
spectively, on entering into the constitu
tional compact which formed the Union
: and as such is manifest breach of faith
/ and violation of the most solemn obi
, cations, moral and religious.
Resolved, That the interneddling O
any state or states, or their citizens, tt
abolish slavery in this district, or any o
the territories, on the ground, or undo
the pretext, that it is immoral or SINFUL
: or the passage of any act or measure Q
Congress, with that view, would be di
e rect and dangerous attack on the institu
: tons of all the slaveholding states.
e Resolccd, That the union of thes
states rests on an equality of rights an
d advantages among its members; aud tina
: whatever destroys that equality, tends t
It destroy the Union itself; and that it
the solemn duty of all, and more especia
+ y of this body, which represents the state
IF in their corporate capacity, to resist a
e attempts to discriminate between thes state
d in extending the benefits of the govern
ment % the several portions of the Uniol
J. and that to refuse to extend 70 the South
W ern and Western states any advantag
A. which would tend to strengthen, or