Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-07-14

which report was accepted.
The resolutions were supported by the
Hon. Solomon Foot, Hon. WIN. P. Briggs,
Hon. Robert Pierpoint. and Edward Kirk
land, Esq, and were unanimously adopted,
as follows:
RESOLUTIONS.
ResoIred, That the Wing party Of YER
mont feel the most entire confidence in the
soundness of the great principles which they
have heretofore so frequently set forth, and
under whose sign" they have so long "con-
quered" that they again, with hope that
is founded in this consciousness of political
recttude, fling 10 the breeze the banner up
on whose folds is inscribed: A Protective
Tariff; A sound and uniform Notionai
Currency, under the control Of Congress /;
An equitable distribution Lop one Presi-
Dental Term; an atridgemenf of the Veto
l'orer, and Of Erecutire Patronage gcnsr-
ally; Republican Economy: the freedom
and purity Of elections; and the great cause
Of Popular Education and .atirancement.
Rcsoiced, That the primary end, aud the
first great duty Of all civil government is
Protection, and that while we look TO our
state authorities for defence against domes-
tic violence and wrong, we have a right to
demand from the National Government Pro-
lection, no. only against iorcible aggression
from abroad, but against the exercise, with
IN our limits, of any privileges prejudicial TO
our rights and interests, by the subjects of
foreign powers.
ResOired, That the only mode of securing
TO American citizens their natural right 10
the profits arising from the production Of
the raw material, aud It's conversion, by
their own labor, into the manufactured ware,
IS by imposing prohibitory or restrictive reg
ulations upon the importation of such mate
rails as our own soil and climate produce
and Of the goods manufactured therefrom.
Resotoed, That as the several States have
surrendered to Congress the power of repu-
laiIng Commerce, both internal aud foreign,
and OF laying duties or imposts on imporia-
tons, the power of protecting the laborer
and manufacturer, by commercial restric-
tons, has passed from the legislatures of the
States TO that of the Union; and therefore,
that to deny to Congress the power OF i'm
posing duties for The specific purpose OF pro-
lection. involves the absurdity of maintain
ing, that such power has passed from the
grantor, without lodging in the grantee.
RsSofced, That the power of specific pro-
lection, inherent in all independent sove-
reigniies, upon being surrendered by the
several States, vested in Congress; and
therefore that Congress unquestonabIy does
possess such power, and that the free labor
ing and producing classes, who personally
contribute TO the support and defence of the
Government, have clear right to demand
its exercise.
ResOfred, That we regard the plan recent
" shadowed forth, of arranging" the great
interest of Protection by means Of the subtle
machinery of diplomacy, as not only incom-
pailble with the obvious provisions of the
Constitution, but in the highest degree Wis
ionary and impracticable.
ReSoloed, That the system of domestic
slavery is unnatural, unjust and repugnant
TO the spirit of our institutions; that, like
all injustice, it is hostile to the trne interests
ofihose who support it, and that as il is
highly preludicial to the rights of that por-
ton of the Union, which is free from the
curse Of lis immediate presence, its discon-
iinuance ought to be demanded, and its cx-
tension resisted
Rcsoired, That the original assent of the
Northern States to the existence of this sys-
TEN was designed and understood to be tenn
porary only, and that reasonable period
having now elapsed for its extinction, the
people of the free states have right TO avail
themselves of petition, remonstrance, leois-
latlon, constitutional amendment, and all
other means consistent with natural law, for
the removal Of this most oppressive evil and
most monstrous and disgracelul wrong.
ResolUed. That the threatened annexation
of Texas 10 the United States, by the action
OF Congress, 'sa measure justified neither