The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1843-08-10
Liberty Party Convention.
FIRST CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

DISTRICT.
Pursuant TO call, the Liberty Party of
the First Congressional District met at the
Congregational Meeting House in Manches-
ter, on Tuesday, lst inst, at II, A. M.
The Convention was called TO order by
DR.. J. w. HALE, and
On motion Of Reuben r. Thral, E,q
Hon. Judge SKATER was appointed Chair
man, and D. S. MURRAY, Secretary.
On motion of Timothy Goodae, prayer
was offered by Rev. J. w. Sawyer.
On motion of r. r. Thral, the follow
ing gentlemen were appointed Committee
on Resolutions :-DanI Roberts, Jr, r. r.
Thral, ID. S. Murray, and r. Goodale.
On motion of ]. w. Hale, committee
of five were appointed from each County
! to nominate candidate for Representative
to Congress.
On motion of r. R. Thrall, the Conven.
ton adjourned to 2 o'clock, P. M.
At 3 P. NJ. the Convention convened,
agreeably to adjournment.
The Committee on Nomination for Rep
resentative to Congress, reported the name
of REUBEN r. TuRALL, Esq, and the report
was unanimously adopted.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
as follows:
ResOlced, That slavery, as the most
outrageous invasion upon the rights OF
the slave, and through him upon the rights
of The whole brotherhood of mankind, as
the most cruel OF all possible expressions,
as the rankeSt conceivable insult to Heav-
en-, as system of heathenism the most
heathenish, should be opposed by the hu-
name, the religious, the good Of all lands.
ResoIced, That the slavery of the Unlt.
ed States requires of all Americans pc
culiar opposition, as it is at inconceivabe
war with the foundation principles OF our
free institutions, and threatens to cit out
The heart of liberty.
ReSolced, That the aggressons of the
slave power upon the rehs and interests
of the free North, demanding a sacrifice
of the freedom Of speech, Of debate, Of The
press, of the mails, and of locomoton, IAN
immoation OF the right of petition, an
exclusion from office in the government,
surrender of the right Of proper rep
restntalon of the free, a moulding of all
governmental policy and administration
to the end of fattenng itself upon free
labor demand OF the North a united and
universal oppostion--socially ,religiousy,
politically.
Rcs0lced, That there is an inconsistent
cy, which ingenuity can not reconcile, in
those who profess hostility to the growth
o. the slave power, and yet are eager TO
place the reigns of government in the
hands Of the stakeholder, or his abetor.
ReS0'ued, That in this Inconsistency,
bringing discredit upon such mems pro-
fssions and neuralizing their influence,
lies an invncibe argument for the organ
izltion OF the Liberty Party; and if the
great political parties of the North would
deprive US of the apology for distinct
organization, they must square their prac
tice by their protested antl-sIavery princi-
plies.
Resolved, That as both of the great
political parties of the country are in their
composition and inherent Structure, pro-
slavery, courling slavery, conceding to it
and relying upon it FOR their victories, in
order TO exert an efeclual influence against
slavery, aboIilionists 10 be uncontaminated
by it are obliged 10 separate from the par
ties which sustain it.
ReSotced, That no true republican can
consistently support for the first, or any
Office in this nation, the man who holds
Ito be "a visionary dogma" that man
can not hold property in man, who advo-
Gates the impious doctrine that, "that is
properly which the law makes property
and regards the legislation of two hum
dred years as sanclifying Of crime; who
is "opposed to emancipation immediate
or prospective" and in his own person
illustrates the wickedness of his princi.
pies by holding in bondage sixty men as
:. good as himself
Resoloed, That we heartily commend
to the freemen of Vermont for election,
Chgrles X Williams for Governor, aaron
Angler for Lieut.. Governor, Hurry Hall
for Treasurer; and to the lreemen of the
lst Congressional District, Reuben Il.
+ TArG{L as their Representative to Con-
gress.
Resolpcd, That we commend 10 the
National Convention of the Liberty Par
tv. for nomination as Vice President o
the United States, Hon Tins Hutchinson
OF Woodstock, in this State.
Resotvcd, That we approve the system
Y attempted by our Central Committee, of