The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-06-27

CLOCK, L. vi.
Convention met pursuant to adjournment
MIR Farr from the committee on resolutions
made the following report, (which was unan'
imously adopted.
Whereas we arc assembled to select can.
ddates to be presented to the people for
their sulfrages to represent this county IN
the Senate, at the approaching session OF
the Legislature, we as portion OF the pco-
pie deem it fit occasion to express our
opinions relative to some of the leading
principles of State Legislation. Therefore,
ReSolred, That as all have to bear a
proportion, according to their ability, Of
the bur,hens of Government, all are cnti-
tied in an equal degree to its benefits; and
as equal rights is fundamental principle
in republican form of government, all
legislative enactments should be i'll accor-
dance with this principle.
Resolced, That in n republican govern
ment all corporations should be subject to
the public will and liable to be controlled
as the public good shall at any time re-
quire; for as private interest should never
be made paramount, to the p1blic welfare,
so, no Legislature can Justly be deprived OF
the power, or excused from the duty,of pro-
noting that public welfare Of which they
are made the proper guardians
Resolccd, That while we are in favor of
national policy of protecting by dscrim-
mating duties on foreign imports, the in
dustry in an equal degree, Of our own
country, we deem it incXpcdient for our
State Legislature to confer acts Of incor-
poration which arc merely private in their
character if 1t is Just TO 9 i've special ia
vors to one class of our citizens, the in
nucnce of whose operations are local
and the income of whose business accrucs
wholly to themselves; it would be equal
ly so to confer the same favor upon all
lift is Just to exempt by acts of incorpor-
alton the private property of any partcu-
lar class in the community, from the dis
charge of their corporate liabilities, it
would be equally so to confer the same
boon upon the mechanic, the merchant
and the farmer.
Resolccd, That we do not object TO acts
OF incorporation where the public interest
is to be promoted; but in comforting such
acts where the income accrues to private
individuals, private property shouldbc so far
holden, as TO compel such corporators, to
discharge faithfully, all their liabilities and
secure the public against loss or damage
Resoiped, That the school fund of this
state, which amounts at this time to near
5000 600. having grown up from funds set
apart by an act ofthe Legislature to encour-
AGE common schools, has all the sacred
ness of vested right, which it is in the
power of the legislature TO confer; and
while we approve the wisdom and patriot
ism Of those who projected the benefclent
plan of bringing the benefits of ia common
school education within the means of the
humblest citizen, we view with deep solicit
tude and alarm the efforts that have been
made for several years past, to annihlate
this fund which belongs as much to the
children of the poor as the rich, and parcel
it out between the colleges and for the pay
ment of state debt which has accumula.
lated by prodigal acts of appropriation.
ReSoived, That as it has been said
that "Naional debt is national bless