Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1843-11-10

improvements in agriculture, and the incrcas- !
ing facilities for transportation, that we recog-
Mise, as the only means of creating and perpet-
uatng a market for our surplus produce, the
paramount Importance Of Protective Tariff,
and the permanent continuance of the Protec-
tive policy, as regards the encouragement of
Manufactures, Agriculture, and the various
Mechanic Arts.
Resolved, That the existing tariff, therefore,
meets our appreciation and firm support, not as
the best which might be devised, but as the
best which the patriotism and perseverng eff
forts of a Wing Congress could extort from
traitorous Executive and factous minority.
That in this tariff are already TO be traced the
restoration of confidence, the revival of BUSH
ness, the dimnution of foreign imports and the
accession from abroad of twenty millions Of the
precious metals ~ meet the balance of trade in
favor of this country; and that we do most
earnestly deprecate and demonstrate against its
meditated repeal, or reduction, as a measure of
an alarming character, calculated TO destroy
our present encouraging prospects of the re-
newed improvement and prosperity of the peo
pie of this State and the United States.
Resolved, That the several States Of this
Union have a clear and ncontestible right to
the proceeds of the sales of the public terrific
W; that any appropriation Of those proceeds
for any purpose short of the general welfare
breach of the trust under which these lands
were originally coded and that an application
OF them to delray the ordinary expenses of
the Government, as demanded by those who
clamor for Free Trade, is but one of the meth
DDS devised by an opposition, skillul in all the
arts Of deceit, to undermine and overthrow
the Protective Policy, and to substitute the
principles of direct taxation.
Resolved That we deprecate the contem-
plated annexation of Texas to the Union
We regard the movement TO that end as origi-
nating IN purpose to perpetuate the slave
power; and deem il our duty to declare that
such annexation, if effected, will be a virtual
dissolution of the Union, introducing as it will,
into the confederacy, parties entirely beyond
the anticipation OF the constitution,-thereby
abolishing the old, by the constitution OF new
political family, and thus breaking up the foun-
dations OF our Federal Union.
Resolved, That in view of the past and the
threatened encroachments of the slave power,
il is the manifest duty of the North to speak
out earnestly and decidedly upon the subject Of
slavery, to the end that the South shall feel the
pressure OF the moral influence which steady,
firm and persevering PRONUNCIATION OF truth will
exert.
Resolved, That it is the duty Of the North,
and it is bound in justice to itself, TO resist the
encroachmentS of slavery to the full extent of
IFS constitutional power; and we trust that,
under the influence of steady and persevering
incubation of truth, there will be finally bro't
into Congress a body of men who will thus
act and that they will act the more efficiently
and with more enduring effect, as the public
mind shall have gradually come to a thorough
appreciation of the real Importance of the sub
ject, and shall have become sufficiently matur-
ed to sustain right action upon it. But while
public sentiment is being thus formed, which
shall in due time, be able to act efficiently and
with permanent effect through all branches OF
the government, we do not feel at liberty Ia
lay aside, in the approaching Presidential con-
test, all regard to the interests more Immediate
ly and directly involved in it but we deem il
our solemn duty to maintain, and do intend to
maintain them, in the spirit OF conservation tC
what we consider to be the greatest present
practical, political good Of our country. And
10 the highest efforts we are capable of making
in that contest we feel impelled, not only by
motives drawn from the intrinsic Importance Of
the questions involved in il, but by an abiding
sense of the base betrayal of his friends and
abandonment of his principles by the acting
President of the United States. In the prlnci
Piles for which we commended when he wa
elevated to power, we have lost no confidence
His perfidy, rather, has made them more dea
to us, and inspired US with more determined
purpose to sustain them in the great struggle
which is approaching.
Wings Of the State of Vermont, we repose en-
tire confidence in the collective wisdom ant
patriotism of the Wing National Convention
TO be assembled in Baltimore, in May next -
that we entertain no doubt that the individual
selected by that Convention, for the high ofic
of President of the United States, will be on
whose exalted character, and eminent publi
services will Justify the confidence, and com
mand the support Of the great Wing Party.
Resolved, Therefore, that we hold ourselve
pledged to render such nominee our cordial ap
probation and support.
Resolved, That in selecting a candidate 70
Vice President we simply desire TO commen
TO the Wing National Convention the exercs
Of that wisdom which is the natural result Of
dear-bought experience.
Resolved, That we enter upon the campaig
OF 1874, with confidence in the soundness I
our principles, and in the necessity of our pol
cy to the prosperity of the whole country
which is unimpaired by pertinacious treacher,
or by temporary defeat. We look Soutl
and Georgia shows her beacon-light triumph
anty blazing on the Wing citadel We loo
West, and Tennessee and Ohio are ghtin
the skies with the glow of their patriotic
achievements, and we promise that Vernon
shall send back her greeting from the SUNNI
OF her unconquered mountains.
On motion Of. Mr.. Allen, the Convention al
journed sine die.