Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1845-07-31
ESSEX COuN1,Y

ESSEX COUNTY
Convention met at Lunenburg, July 10, ls45.
Elijah Weare, President; Levi A Moore, Secretary.
AFRO Burton, of Guildhall, was nominated for the
Senate. Chose John L Snow, james Steel, and
Ansel Hannum; County Committee. Vermont
Observer requested to copy
RESOLUTIONS.
/. Resolved That the self styled Wing and
Democratic parties of the north, are, and always
have been, inseparably connected with the same
slave holding parties of the SOUTH and therefore
the curse of slavery has been from one admins
tration to another, and from year to year, aug
mented not only in power but in vast territories.
2. Resolved, That the Liberty party is the off
spring, as we'll of the ant-slavery societies as of
the imperative injunctons of Jesus Christ, to wit,
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as myself, And
as ye would that men should do unto you, do We
also to them likewise Lev 10: 49, Matte: 10,
and 22:S9. Mark, IL: 81. Luke 6: 81.
s. Resolve, That inasmuch as the sin and
wckedness of slavery is admitted by all political
parties, and by all denominations of professed
christians in our land, NO freeman can honestly or
conscientlousy deposit his suffrage directly or in
directly, for STAKEHOLDER, or his abettors, who are
amenable for such fugitious tyranny.
d. Resolved, That the continuation of robbng
the children of God, through their whole lives, of
their privilege to worship him, Of their liberty,
Va luoh hoiu CdTuluBSj duu VI bhCH
rights, is more attrOcious than grand larceny, or
highway robbery for a paltry sum of money.
5. Resolved, That the amentable fact, that
ministers VINO profess to preach the gospel, deG-
cons, and myriads of protested christians and fol-
lowers of Christ, for the contaminated lyrant
and duelist, whose hands are stained with the
blood of the innocent slave, to elevate them, not
the gallows but to the highest office of the nation
is the greatest reproach upon the christian char
Reter, and speaks louder than seven thunders, of
their hypocrisy and fottenness Of their hearts.
6. Resolved, That the man of intelligence whose
mind has been exusitated to see the usurped pow
er-deformity, and vert the sin of slavery, and
still unbushingy votes for its extension, instead
of its extinction, as did the Hon Senator of Essex
County, at the last session of our legislature, is not
worthy Of the name of Christian, a patriot, an
honest man, or the suffrages of freemen.
7. Resolved That the northern members of
Congress, with some honorable exceptions, ore
rightly named, dough faces by southern mem
bers. and that they cover in the presence of the
slave tyrants like little spanies before the larger of
the same specles &we look with more utter contempt
upon such servility than on the STAKEHOLDER himself
8. Resolved, That the doctrine of the immortal
Washington, that there is only one proper and
effectual mode by which the abolition of slavery
can be accomp lished, and that is by legislative au
thorty, and this, SO far as my suffrage will go,
shall not be wanting
nat VI OdIuu6l ElOpkIHS VI 10 i nat slavery
is wrong, unrighteous and oppressive, very
great and crying sin, there being nothing of the
kind equal 10 it on the face of the earth,-and the
declaration of Grotius-those are men steaers,
who abduct, keep, sell or buy slaves or freemen'
comedies, and is in strict accordance with the
doctrine of the Old and New Testaments, and the
unequivocal mandates of the great Eternal a small
portion of which are as follows
Remember them that are in bonds as bound
with them.' Heb 49, 8. Plea the cause of the
poor and needy Prov 81: 9. FLet the oppress-
ed 60 free and that ye break every yoke lisa 50;
6. Break the jaws of the wicked, and pluck the
spoil out of his teeth Job 90: II. Proclaim
Liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhab-
itants thereof Lev 95: TO- 'InasInuch as We
did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not
10 me-. Mat 25:45.
9. Resolved, That if God had designed the
blacks TO be outcasts of society and treated as
eternally Infamous, St Paul would not have gone
to Ethiopia and established the first christian
church there and elevated Simeon the black to be
deacon in his own chUrch-Therefore we ough,
to hold in detestaion the evil principle which
dares change millions of human beings made If
the image OF God, TO the nature of brues
10. Resolved, That the present dominant po
lltical party Of the north has forever quit clamed&
sold themselves to the south for the purpose of ell
evating tyrant pauper to the highest office il
their gift and for an unconstitutional acquisition
of Territory and extension of tyrants power; ant
which has already greatly advanced the value an,
multiplied the brutal sales under the hammer O
our fellow man, as goods and chateIs.
H. Resolved, That the second Washington
the great champion Of Liberty, James G.. Brney
has gwen US a correct version of the Constitution
and has with much propriety shown the unconsli
tutionality Of slavery and of the annexation o
Texas.-That he is worthy of the confidence O
American freemen- Therefore; we will use al
honorable means and unwearied exertions fror
year to year, until that chosen man of God is eS
allied to the Presidential chair.
Voted, that we will use all proper means to Pre-
mote the election of the gentlemen put in nominS
ton for Senator