The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1848-08-02
OUR STATE CONVENTION

formed last week, at Woodstock on the 10th uit.
! The Convention is said to have been the largest
ever assembled for such purposes in the State, and
what is of more consequence the highest dignity
and authority were impaired to its deliberations, by
the presence of full and able representation, en-
bracing q host of eminent, talented and trusted
Wings from all parts of the Sovereign State in be-
half of large majority of whose citizens it was
called to act.
The results to which they arrived were given in
last and stand at the head of our columns where
they will continue doubtless to stand, till the owners
of those honored names shall stand respectively at
the head of our nation and State
1t remains only publish the Resolutions and the
names of the Officers. Among the former, it will
be observed that the Sd and 18th arc simply trans
cripts of certain resolutions adopted by the Burning
ton Wings not long since, and undoubtedly adopted
by the Committee from conviction that their in
r imitable excellence derived if we not much
mistaken from the mastery pen of Gen. CLARKE)
could undergo no improvement or substitution.
Mr. Walton from the committee on Resolutions
submitted the following, which were unanimously
adopted:
/. Resolved, That the Wings of Vermont,
by their delegates in Convention assembled
do now renewedly declare steadfast and I'M
wavering adherence to all the great princi-
pies and measures that have hitherto charac-
terized us as party, to the pure and lofty
principles which have been handed down to
us by the Wings of the Revolution, and to
the policy that was established by the found
ers of the Republic, and which, so long as
our rulers have been content to adhere to it,
has ever led our country OH in the ways of
peace and prosperity, and proved the sure
rock of safety in every time of trouble.
2. Resolved, That the doctrines of protec-
ton to American labor and capital in rails
| ing revenue for the support of the Govern
ment-of a system of fair and equal internal
! Improvements, embracing all the states, as
well for our navigablc lakes and rivers as the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts,--of a sound and
uniform currency for the people as well as
for the Government; and unyielding hostli |
ty to the fragrant misuse of the Veto power
to Presidential usurpatlon ofpowers specially !
belonging to Congress,-to the corrupt be-
stowment offcderal patronage as the reward
of party services, and the prescription Of
! faithful public servants as a penalty for hon
est political independence,-to all Wars,
gotten up by whatever pretexts, resulting in
permanent compassionate to the extension
! or permission of Slavery in territory now free
are now, as they have been, cardinal prin-
ciples with the Wings of Vermont for the
success of which they will labor, and for
which they hope.
g. Resolved That VIC desire on this occa-
sion explicitly to rcaffirm our determined
hostility to the extension of Slavery into the
Free Territories of the Union,-that while
we would in no wise interfere with Slavery
as it exists within the limits Of the several
states, We are embarked in an uncompromis-
inc war against its introduction into the Ma
tional Territories, the common property of
| the whole people, which will never termin-
ate but with success that we sOlemnly in
yoke Congress in the exercise Of their well-set-
tied authority over those Territories to apply to
their soil the noble principle originated by
the ordinance of 1887 and sanctioned by re-
peated acts of Congress for the government
of our territories. That, unlike Mr.. Van
Buren,, who stands pledged to veto any act
for the abolition of Slavery in the District of
Columbia; and wide as the poles from Gen.
Cass, who stands pledged to veto any act for
preservation of Freedom in the Territories,
the gallant old hero and patriot Of Monterey
and Buena Vista, has given the people his
word of honor-the honor Of an old soldier
which has never been impeached or tarnish
ed--and which is far dcarer to him than po-
litical success or party preferment-that he
will not interpose the executive veto "where
questions of constitutional power have been
settled by the various departments of the
Government and acquiesced in by the peo-
r rla:"
:. Resolved, That the principles upon
which Gen, Taylor is pledged to conduct the
Administration of the government, as laid
down in lis Allison Letto,, are sound and
conservative Wing Principles, anu meet with
our entire concurrence. We repose perfect
confidence in the honesty, purity and firm
ness of his character: And in his repeated !
declarations that he is a Whig-that his eff (
forts as the Chief Executive Of the Union
will be to restore the administration to the
standard Of the earlier Presidents of the Re-
public that he would be the President of
the Country and not the proscriptlve head of
a party-that the power given by the Con- t
stitution to the Executive to nterpose his +
veto is high conservative power and should t
never be used except in cases Of clear viola h
ton of the Constitution, or manifest haste
and want of consideration by Congress -
" that upon the subject Of the Tariff, the |
currency, tne Improvement ol our great
highways, rivers, lakes and harbors, the will \
of the people as expressed by their represent il
tatives in Congress ought to be respected and p
carried out by the Executive that Il" war i
is at all times and under all circumstances
national calamity that the principles of >
our government, as well as its true policy, l
are opposed to the subjugStion of other ma
tons, and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of other coun- n
tries by conquest;" in these declarations we Y
recognize the great principles for which we c
have ever contended and which have receiv- Il
ed the explicit sanction of the Wing Party.
And for the maintenance of these principles :
in the Administration Of Gen. Taylor " we
have soldiers word of honor, and life of t