Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1851-03-20

tary TO the divine law, and must not be done, al
though required by ga law of the Government
which rules over us"
This we take it, is fairly inferrible from res
olutons 2, 3 and 4, and the 5th goes to confirm
this construction.
Well. then, ,rhnt sort Of State Intervention is
ooniemPlated} Evidently it is, TO PREVENT The
slaue from being given up--nothng more nor less
than that They contemplate, then, deliberate
rioidiion ofthc Constitution, which contains these
words:
No person held to service or labor in one
state, under the laws thereof, escaping into an
other, shall, III consequence Of any law or repu-
ahon therein, be discharged from such service
or labor, but shall be delivered up. on claim of
the party TO whom such service or labor may be
duen
If this is not Notification, equal TO any ever
preached in South Carolina, we are mistaken
Il looks like notification ofthe supreme law of the
land; and we venture to think that it viii never
be sustained in Vermont "3ut, Mr. Walton
If the law Of God is against giving up slaves,
VIII YOU obey the Constitution and violate the
law Of God y We don't mean to violate either,
and we don't wish to have Vermont violate eth
er. When any body asks Vermont as a state or
oursof as an individual, to catch fugitive slaves
our answer would be--do your owa s'ave-caici-
ing. We don't 20 for state Intervention cih siapes
which .s, to our notion quito different from
Intervention 10 protect frccmen 0gaiasf .Slarerv
Oh well-you think Slavery wrong, and
yol, won'tcatch slaves won't YOU have any thing
done to make this wrong right?" Most GER
tainly the divine law giver has provided His own
way Of doing all this Let that way be pursued,
earnestly, constantly, and in the spirit of the d.
vine Reiormer. He did not preach Notification,
by long shot. As Tor US politicians, let lis,
as politicians be content to do all the good we
may, within the limits prescribed by our own SUI
preme political law, which is the Constitution
Happily the Constitution permits us to do, or TO
attempt to do, much that is good and we are for
improving the privilege to the full extent Of the
Constitution That has been, is, and we trust al
ways will be- the position Of the Wing party of
Vermont 1t Is both practical and patriotc--e-
qually free from the proslayeryism Of the Dem
ocratic purity and the notification OF the Coalit-
ion-snd subyersivo Of no law. human or divine
6. R,sor.d That oar recent State law, IN re-
ference TO fuguvc Slaves, was not only war
,'l'' 1'. ID ''',.'Se o. ue p'.''Ie 81 'ne
te onr o,n cit,l, ems IN ,be svsrciso eff ,boi, no
turl nrhts end moral duties: and ,rc pledge
ourselves to sustain b. so long that odious en-
acimeul OF Congress IS made to Disgrace our Ma
toMl statute books.
hg0'rcf, That the present administration
hrs rendered itself ON ob5ect oi odum ana con-
tempt M the eyes OF every lover of freedom, by
it' base subseTlency TO tae slave holding inter-
cst-by ITS unblushlng interference 80 State
ieecions-by ITS reckless disregard Of all its
professions m favor OF Justice and humanity
by IT'S Shameless attempts to muzzle and snbsi-
l'4i ,''J ',,s ,'T esiI'a e " ilang lealy
site to receive favor at is hands.
g. Reso'rtd, That we believe Liberty to be
an Indispensable element OF Democracy, and
'.'..11i''y W VI un e9'el'la agelh OF nu,lial,
! In looking IN The free democracy nj The conn,r,
to bring b,cl, o,r ,rovcrnmeni n ,bosc ,rroa,
! first rrlucinlcs of liberty and trne deno,ra,,
wlTci, we're So, forth in the Deciarstion Of In
deneudence. and constantlv tanrbt and epoinad
upon ,ls hv The ilustrions author EFF that yacrod
instrument, and the founder Of the democratic
] uarty.