Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1851-05-15

lSLAVE than to make KING; no more pow
or to institute or establish SLAVERY than to
institute or establish MONARCHY; no such
power can be found among those specifically
conferred by the Constitution, derived by Just
implication from them
RssolyeL That it is the Duty of the Federal
Government to relieve itself from all response.
biitv for the existence or continuance of slave
nv wherever that Government possesses Consti-
tutional authority to legislate on that subject
and is thus responsible for its existence.
ResOlved, Fiat the true, and, in the judgement
of this Convention, the only safe means of pre-
venting the extension of slavery into territory
now tree, is to prohibit its existence in all such
territory by an acl Of Congress.
Resolved That we accept the issue which the
Slave Power has forced upon us, and to their
demand for more Slave States and mole Slave
Territories our calm but final answer is, no
more Slave States and no Slave Territory. Let
the soil of our extensive domains be ever kept
Free for the hardy pioneers of our own land,
and the oppressed and banished of other lands,
seeking homes of comfort and fields Of enter
Prise in the New World.
Resolved That the bill lately reported by the
Committee of Eight in the Senate of the United
States, was no compromise, but an absolute sur
render of the rights of the non Shareholders OF
all the States and while we rejoice to know
that measure which, while opening the door for
the introduction Of slavery into territories now
free, would also have opened the door to litiga-
ton and strife among the future inhabitants
thereof to the ruin of their peace and prosperity,
was defeated in the House OF Representatives
its passage, in a hot haste, by majority, en-
bracing seYesal Senators who voted in open vi
citation Gr " yall known will of their constitu-
cuts, shoNldN larn the People to see to it, that
their representatives be not suffered to betray
them There must be no more compromises
with Slavery; and if made, they must be re-
pealed.
ReSOlved, That we demand Freedom and es-
tabshed institutions for our brethren in Oregon,
now exposed to haTdships, peril and massacre,
by the reckless hostility of the Slave Power to
the establishment Of Free Government for Free
Teuitories-and not only for them, but for our
new brethren in California and New Mexico.
find whereas it is due, not only to this occca-
sion, but the whole People of the United States,
that we should also declare ourselves on certain
other questions of national policy, therefore,
ResOlUed, That we demand CHEAP POST
AGE for the people retrenchment of the ex-
penses and patronage of the Federal Govern
ment the abolition of all unnecessary offices
and salaries and the election by the People
of all civil officers in the service Of the Gov
ernment SO far as the same may be practicable.
RESOLVED, That riVcr and la, Dor Improvements,
when demanded by the safety and convenience
OF commerce with foreign nations or among the
several States, are objects OF national concern
and that 1t is the duty of Congress, in the ex.
ercise of its constitutional powers, to provide
therefor
Resolved, That the FREE GRANT to AC-
TUAL SETTLERS, in consideration of the
expenses they incur in making settlement in the
Wilderness, which are usually fully equal to their
actual cost. and of the public benefits resulting
therefrom, of reasonables portions of the public
lands, under suitable limitations, is wise and
Just measure of public policy, which will pro-
mote, in various ways, the interest of oil the
States OF this Unlon and we therefore recon-
mend it to the favorable consideration of the
American People.
ResolUed, That the obligations of honor and
patriotism require the earliest practicable pay
nent OF the national debt, and we are therefore
n favor of such a tariff of duties as will raise
'evenue adequate to defray the necessary ex-
'enses of the Federal Government, and to pay
annual instalments of our debt and the interest
hereon.
ResotUed, That we inscribe on our banner,
FREE SOIL, FREE SPEECH, FREE LA
Dor, and FREE MEN," and under it we will
light on and fight ever, until triumphant VIC
orv sball ksEn u ouE exertinns
MURDER IN GUTLDHALI, VT.-!Two brothers
famed Pelon, lately quarreled about the owner