The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1851-07-09
Windham County.

The Wings Of Windham County had a
noble gulhering at Newfane, on the LIST inst.
at which the following excellent county ticks
ct was put in nomination:
For Senator's,
ASA WENTWORTH, Jr.. JONI r. BLAKE,
Ira GooDHUE.
For County Judges,
ELLERY ALBEE, Horace ALvoRD.
For .Sdte's Attorney,
r. w. CLARKE.
For Sheriff,
CYRUS CARPENTER.
Far High RaME
ABNER II. JOHNSON.
For Judges Of Probate.
ABIsHAI SToDpARD, Dist. OF Westminster
ROYAL TYLER, Dist. of Marlboro.
An able series OF Resolutions was reported
by EDWARD KIRKLAND, Esq, chairman OF
the committee appointed for the purpose
and unanimously adopted by the convention
After expressing continued devotion to
Wing principles, and attachment to the Con-
siltulion, they say:
ReSoiced, That though the acts of the last
Congress, Tor the settlement of the bounda-
ries Of Texas the territorial govern.
menis OF Utah and New Mexico,-for the
abolition OF the slave trade in The District of
Columbia, for the admission of California in
to this Union with constitution excluding
| slavery, as well MS that which enforces the
constitutional duty of surrendcring persons
held TO service. are not in all their parts such
as we could have wished. or could have APP
proved yet in view of the difficulties with
which those measures were surrounded the
dangerous and threatening agitation OF The
public mind which preceded their enactment,
tile patriotic and unparalleled exeriions OF
the eminent statesmen who labored for the
| adjustment, and regarding Them as great
| scheme for the termination of bitter contro-
versies, the restoration of national harmony
| and the preservation of the Union, we feel
it 10 be our duty TO abide by and support
Them all, as an amicable, and in principle
aud substance. a final settlement of the whole
matter that the so.called Compromise meas
ures having become the supreme law OF the
land, and deprecaiing farther agitation OF
the questions settled by them az unwise, un-
patriotic and iraueht with imminent peril to
the peace, prosperity and union of our com
mon country, we shall yield TO them our i'm
plicii obedience, SO long as they remain the
law of the land
ReS0irtd, That our rights and duties, our
obligations and responsibilities as citizens.
under the General Government, are meas
ures regulated by the constitution and the
laws made in pursuance thereof; and so far
as our mere civil relations and duties under
that constitution aud laws made in pursuance
thereof are concerned, We know of no 'high-
er law" than the Constitution itself
ReSolred, That when Jaw authorized bv
the Constitution has been duly enacted il is
obligatory and binding upon all, that wheth-
err il had the appreciation and assent of US,
or of our immediate representatives, wheth-
er il was passed by greater or less ma joli-
ty, is lmma'erlal, but having once passed each
House If Congress and been approved by
the Executive, il is the law Of the land, le.
gally and consitutionally binding, emitted
TO our obedience, obligatory upon Us as n
rule of conduct TO which We are bound 10
submit and to support
Resoired. That the consttutionaity, or un-
constltutionalily Of any law legally enacted
is a question not TO be decided by every in
dSidual citizen, or collective body Of cili,
zens, according to his OF their own will or
sense of right, but by the judicial tribunals
constituted for that purpose that to them
should the appeal in all cases be made, and
to their decision every good citizen will
cheerfully bow.
RESOLVED, That we have entire confidence
in the present National Administration, con-
posed as il is Of Wings long tried and emi.
nent in the public service, that its policy