Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1838-07-11

,ession--its friends being afraid Of lean 1,
majority on its passage,-for the alarm
had already been taken by many of the |
members who otherwise, would have ia
vored il. From this time, till the election
in the succeeding autumn, the subject was
much agitated in Massachusetts. The alb
olitionists again petitioned the Legislature
at its session begun in January, 1887
that it should demonstrate a.
gainst the Resolution of Mr. Halves, adopt
ed by the House of Representatives in
Con gress, by which all memorials, &C., in
relation TO slavery were laid, and to be laid
on the table, without further action on them.
The abolitionists were again heard in be-
half of their petitions before the proper
Committee.* The result was the passage
of the following resolutions with only Is
dissenting voices to 378 in the House of
Representatives, and in the Senate, with
not more than one or two dissentients on
any one Of them. - -
Whereas, the House of Representa-
tives of the United States, in the month of
January, in the year Of our Lori one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven,
did adopt resolution, whereby it was or
dered that all petitions, memorials, resolu-
tons, propositions, or papers, relating in
any way, or to any extent whatever, to
the subject of slavery, or the abolition of
slavery, without being either printed or
referred, should be laid upon the table,
and that no further action whatever should
be had thereon and whereas such dis
position Of petitions, then or thereafter to
be received, is virtual denial of the right
itself; and whereas, by the resolution
aforesaid, which is adopted as a. standing
rule in the present House Of Representa-
Ives, the petitions of large number OF
the people of this Commonwealth, pray
ing for the removal of a great socia NOR
al, and political evil, have been sighted
and condemned: therefore,
Resolved, That the resolution above
named is an assumption of power and au
thority at variance with the spirit and in
tent of the Constitution of the United
States, and injurious to the cause Of free
dom and free Institutions; that it does vi
olence to the inherent, absolute, and inaI
Ienable rights Of man; and that it tends
essentially to impair those Fundamental
prlnclp les OF natural justice and natura
law, which are antecedent to any writer
constitutions of government, inlependen
Of them all, and essential to the securit,
Of freedom in state.
Resolved, That our Senators an
Representatives in Congress, in maintain
ing and advocating the right of petition
have entitled themselves to the cordial ap
probation of the people of this common
wealth.
Resolved, That Congress, having ex
} elusive Legislation in the District of Co
Iumbia, possess the right to abolish slave
nv in said district, and that its exercis
should only be restrained by regard t
the public good"
That you may Judge for yourself whs
influence the abolition question exercise
in the elections in Massachusetts, last al
f tumn,-I send you three numbers of tn
Liberator containing copies of letters aid
dressed to many OF the candidates, an
, their respective replies.
The Legislature have passed, wman
!. mousty, at its present session, resolution
, preceded by report of gieat ability
, protesting D." earnestly g. solemnty again.
, the annexation Of TEXAS 10 this Uniom''-
and declaring that, ono act done, or CON
,, pact made, for such purpose, By the gor
ernment Of the u. s. aoitt be binding o
/ the states, or the people"t
Two years ago, Governor Marcy {
this state showed himself willing. at tn
; d;ctaton of the South, to aid in passin
laws for restraining and furnishing the al
olitionists, whenever the extremity of tn
. case might call for it. Two weeks ago
:. at the request of the Young Mems Ant
1 Slavery Society of Albany, the Assem-
bly, chamber, by vote of the House Tor
;, ~ two d'ssentlent) was granted to AIva
Stewart Esq. distinguished lawyer, t
lecture on the sub ject of abolition.
Resolutions against the annexation c
: Texas have already been passed by ma
:, nv of the Free States. All the rest c
: them will probably have passed simila
: resolutions before the end of the year.
kentucky is assuming an attitude G
h great interest 10 the friends of liberty an
the Constitution. The blessings OF g theI
= that are ready to PERISH throughout tn
*The gentleman who had been chairman of til
;, committee the preceding year. was supposed, i
y consequence Of the change in public opinion
relation to aboonists, to have injured his polite,
O standing much, even to be nominated as a cal
didate for reelection.
: The following resolves were passed by the L,
gislature of Massachusetts, in April, almost unal
= imously: ', : . r.
j. !. Resolved, That Congress has, by the Const
in the District of Columbia; and that there is not
ing in the terms circumstances of the acts
cession by Virginia and Maryland or otherwise. in
posing any legal or moral restraint upon its exc
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