Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-01-09
From the Voice Of Freedom.
PETITIONS.

From the Voice of Freedom.
PETITIONS.
Mr. Editor:-I hope we shall ,.,J
something in your first number upouS.
petitions 10 Congress. know not W.,
may be doing In other towns, but "
state what is going on in Wailsfeld 4 d
the eighth instant copies of a blank pg.
ton were taken from the post-office. ar
Immediately put in circulation. Tbsv
have a.rcady received three hundred SD.
natures, male and female The numb,
OF voters in the town may be about ons
hundred and eighty. Two-thirds of rs,
number have signed the petition. tn.
circulation is nearly finished, and hop.
Congress will hear from US soon.
A Citizen of WaifsfsQ
December oath. 1885,.
The example of IYaiisfeld should L
followed. Petitions for abolition in ,bs
District against Texas, for the RECON-;
ton Of fIaytien independence, &c, sboDg
be forwarded, as heretofore, only in Zen
fold greater numbers But, s:nce he
adoption of the gag on the I2lh Decem.
Der, 1t seems to US especially important
that the voice of our England free.
men should be heard at once. Let "
speak, now, in the language of RExox.
STRANGE, and
---"wh whisper no longer,
But speak as the tempest does-sternerC stronger
Annexed is the form OF a remonstrancs
furnished to our hands by the Emancips.
tor. VIII not our friends, in every town
see that the work is commenced al oncel
To the House Of Representatives. ofthe US
Your memorialists, voters in tie Com.
ty and Safe of New York, respectful,
represent, that they have learned viii
amazement and alarm, tha; on the l2A
day of December. 1888, your honorsb.
body passed the following resolutions:
Resolved, That petitions for the abof
ton of slavery in the District of Colur.
bia, and the Territories of the u. Stale
and against The removal Of slaves ffo-
one state 10 another, are part Of a pal
OF operations set on foot To affect the H.
stltuuon Of slavery in the several stats
aud thus indirectly TO destroy that ins.iE
ton within their several limits.
" Resolved, That Congress has r.
! right TO 60 that indirectly which !, carre
do directly; and that the agitation NJ I5.
subject of slavery in the District 81 c.
lumhla. or in the Territories, as means
or with the view of disturbing or orr.
throwing tina; incii;uiion in The sever
states, Is against the true meaning of III.
Constitution, an infringement of the rigb,
OF the states affected, and breach ofl5s
public faith On which they entered ina
this confederacy
Resolved, That the Constitution ress
on the broad principles of equality anon.
the members ofthis confederacy: and lbs
Congress IN the exercise of lis acknou-
edged powers, has no right 10 discriminss
between the institutions of one portion
the states or another, with view OF abb.
lshlng the one, or promoting the Other.
" Resolved, therefore, That all at,emF.
on the part of Congress to abolish slaver
IN the District of Columbia, or the Te:
rltorles. or to prohibit the removal
slaves from Safe TO State, or TO discria
mate between the constitutions of O..
portion of the confederacy and ano.ke-
with the views aforesaid, are in vioIa!ia
OF the constitutional principles on wha.
the Union of these States rests. AMI Il.
yond the jurisdiction of Congress: AL
that every petition, memorial, resolai,1
proposition, or paper, touching or rsl!s
ing: 10 any way, or to any extent wiz
ever to slavery as aforesaid, or the ab5E
hon thereof, shall, on The presenlalia
thereet, without any further action Their
on, be LAID on the table, without prin,:E:
reading. debate, or reference"
our memorialists, regarding the aba
resolutions as false in principle, All
republican in character. utterly subversa
OF all that is precious in the sacred ri.5
of petition, and therefore exceediagI
alarming as precedent; and, esperisig
as your nemorialists conceive them Da
based upon an understandable impeact
lheht o. The motives Of your CONSUMES
VINO have signed such petitions, in ascE:
ing to them "lhe views of Disturbing
Overlooking an institution of the seven
states, "agains; the true spiri,ani mes
ing OF The ConStitution;" and above 9.
as they were urged through the Hos2
ey an enforcement of tie previous que
tion, cutting off all debate or reply; d
most earnestly request your honorat5
BODY Immediately to reconsider and r.
send the above resolutions.
H. On the first of January the seHs
'ary OF each town society should forEl.
report Of the doings Of the society b
the year to the sec retary of the cOG'l
society, stating The number of its msa' 4
oers; the names ofiis officers; lheam55S
OF funds raised the number Of meeia9
held. and of al ressnc hnl;ro-,I LnLnrs -