Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1846-07-16
FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT

FOURTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT
CONVENTION.
The District Convention met pursuant TO call at
Danvillc, Wednesday July 8, and organized by
the following appointments:
President, PORTUS BANTER.
Vice Presidents, CHARLES STOREY, ERAsrUs
FAIRBANKS.
Secretaries, F. A. Garfield II. II. Deming
On motion Of Mr. Fairbanks, voted, that the del
cgates of each County in the District meet and
appoint from their number committee double
their Senatorial representations, to nominate can
ddate for representative to Congress.
Voted, that committee of five on resolutions
be appointed. The chair appointed the following:
-Messrs. Chadwick, of st. Johnsbury, Boynton,
of Danville, Willard of Lyndon, Garfield of Glover,
and Mattocks of Peacham.
Adjourned to meet at half past one.
AFTERNOON. The Committee on Resolutions
reported the following, which, after able and spr-
tied addresses from Mcssrs. Chandler, Fairbanks,
Morrill, and Baxter, were passed:
Resolved, That firm adherence to Protective
Tariff to the distribution OF the avails of the public
lands to the extinction Of slavery by the progress
i've influence of the principles of freedom, justice
and humanity, and limiting it within strict consti-
tutional boundaries. and Of opposition to the eX-
tension and perpetuaton of the slave power by the
annexation Of foreign territory to erect into slave
states are, they have ever been, the fundamental
principles of The Wing party.
! Resoire9, That oul confidence in The Wing Tar
if of 1912 remains unshaken and that, as it has
furnished abundant evidence, that it amply protects
all the great interests of the country when its pro-
visions have been properly and legally administer
ct, VIC deprecate any alteration or modification of
its essential protective principles
! ReSolred, That the attempt made to destroy the
Tariff of 1872 by the present administration, should
arouse the people of this state to further and full
expression Of public sentiment, upon this vital
question.
ReSoired That unless the officers appointed un-
der the present administration shall more strictly
| execute the duties of their office relating to the
Tariff on coarse wool, so that its Importation may
be checked as it was when their offices were filed
| by Wings, we recommend that they be turned out.
RcSO'rea That the object of government should
be the greatest good of ALL and that is sordid and
selfish spirit which would prompt our rulers TO az
grandlzc themselves at the expense of the people.
| ReSOlred That the darling measure of the pres
ent administration, the sub-treasury law, providing
one currency for tie Office holders and another for
the people, receives as it deserves our unqualified
condemnation.
Resoired, That the great Wing party of the u
Mon is the only party from which the least hopes
of any practical and efficient opposition to slavery
can be expected. That for twenty years past they
have uniformly breasted themselves against the en-
croachmenls OF the South upon the North, and the
extension Of the slave power, as has been recently
most strkingly evnced in the vote of every north
ern Wing and nearly every Wing in Congress,
against the annexation of Texas, and had other
parties at the North voted and acted on tho same
principle we should not at this time be cursed with
sayeholding Texas and the other grevlous evils
attendant upon its annexation.
Resoired, That we are opposed to wars of offence
and aggression, but that, when our country is in
voved in such, whether by the injustice OF a for
eign nation, or the lmprudence Of our own national
executive, we hold the enemies of our country our
enemies, and shall contend with them as such, till
an honorable peace shall be obtained.
Resolved, That the thanks of the American pco-
pie are due to Gen. Taylor and his army for the
bravery and courage they displayed in the achieve
ment of the two brilliant victories upon the Rio
Grande on the 9Th and OH days of May.
RESOLVED, That we cordially approve of the nom-
nations made by the State Convention, at Wood
stock, of Horace Eaton for Governor, Leonard Sar-
geant for Lieut.. Governor, and Il. +. Jewett for
Treasurer, and that we hereby pledge ourselves to