Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-10-28


and that we stand and shall stand opposedin the
admission of any slave States into the Union
that shall be formed out of any part Of that Ter
rtory by whomsoever and wheresoeyeE SlaYery
shall be therein established"
That the existence of Slavery and tho alaa
trade in our National Capital is q dreadful ia h
consistency which calls loudly for GsFrectiosI
and that we insist on the abolition c both bt>
acts of Congress-"
That Congress should leave the reclamation
Of fNgitSUe SLAVES tohere IL is left under thec0nsti-
luton but it it undertakes to pass an act te
aid the slayeholer in the pursuit of hisEctinE
zoe protest against any law on that subject whicR
does not fully provide for trial by jMyfar ayt4
Fy person claimed as a fugitive slave, iHtheA S4ss
where he may be arrested"
"That we hail with deep satisfacttR EeM Y
nouncoment that the people of New ~ NJ btu
forming State Constitution and Essaf6itinpA
Slavery, have done for themselves WI the
politicians have prevented Congress from e5ing
iorthen, and weFregardY their actpH in .rtc
Prr1HlsCs, as pSintod rzt,psL~ ~-.-r ric ftttia
TENCE that no direct prohibition is needed to
exclude slavery from the Territories"
"That the Taylor party Of this state BY CIV
ing their support to the present administration
and its policy Of non-actiOn, have abandoned
their former professions of adherence to positive
prohibition, repudated the Wllmot proviso, and
gone ouer to the non-nteryention doctrine which
they formerly denounced"
Let US call your attention to the fact that
these resolutions re-allirm the principal doctrines
ofhe Buffalo Platform, and insist upon the pro-
hibition Of Slavery in the Territories; the abo-
htion of Slavery in the District of Columbia !;
and protest against the enactment of any fugit-
i've Slave law by Congress, ani especially any
one that does not provide for a trial by jury, in
the state where the fugitive is arrested and
this too while The very compromise measures and
fugitive slave law which you are now called up
on to receive and maintain as "FINALITY,"
were before Congress!
At the Democratic State Convention, holden
at Burlington, May %, 1851, after re affirming
the old democratic doctrines in relation to other
question than slavery. resolutions were passed
asserting the doctrines
That Congress ought to relieve itself from all
responsibility for slavery and to abolish it wher-
ever it exists under the jurisdiction of Congress,
That the only safe way to prevent the exen-
sion Of slavery is TO prohibit it in the Territories
by act OF Congress:
That no more slave states ought to be admit
ted into the Union:
That the fugitive slave law is in derogaton oil
2 the fundamental maXlms of free government a nd
OUGHT TO BE SPEEDILY AND FOREVER REPEAL.
ED.
That all hopes of the final overthrow of slave
dominion in this nation are based upon The
: fGeity Of The democratic masses to the sublime
: principles OF their creed, and that those cannot
, be regarded Gas TRUE INTERPRETERS OF DE
M0CRACY who would introduce adherence TO The
compromise measures OF the last Congress-. AS A
. TEST OF DEMOCRATIC ORTHODOXY >
7 THAT the present administration, through the
laEssRGa at the nrnslhani and thFonah st lai.a-s
and speeches of Its chlet Secretary, (havlng
pledged itself to the malntalnance Of the com
; promise measures, without modification or al
: terltion," no person can directly uphold thai
administration. without upholdlng the policy o
leaving the Territories open 10 the introduction
> OF s'auery ofaImiiiiag nelo SlnUe states into The
union, and of enforcing That gigantic outrage on
+ cjUlH liberty, the fugitive slave law"
= Hon. Timohy.P. RedfeId, whom you sup
5 ported for Governor that year, was on the Com
a uittee that drafted the resolutions adopted BY
n the State Convention, and gave them his sane
ton.
Slch are the deliberate and oft-rcpeeted de
II carations of fundamental democratic doctrines,
T. promulgated and supported by the deH,,gcrai'
party of Vermont. They contain the meet une
IS quiyocal condemnation of the policy of support
e ing the compromise measures, mud the Fugtiv
s Slave law, as ga test Of democratic orthodoxy
1t and repudale those "as true interpreters Of de
e mocrocy" who adopt any such test. These res
er oIutions were adopted while the old fihers
ir were putting forth that very test to be adoptc
it by democrats, and those Of you who refused t
l. join with them and support their candidates
ii most directly rejected the fnality of the com
A. promise" and its supporters. Were you de
re ceWed when you did this? Were you wron
d. when you did it; Were you dishonest whe
ne you did it? No. You did 1t with full know
We edge Of the full force aud effect of The sentiment
is you were supporting. They were then yo,t
ic sentiments and they are, doubt not, yOr sen
ly imcnts noo. How then can you deberatel
abandon and denounco them all, which you d.
IN if You support Pierce g. King, and which,
IS, think, will be made plain to you all by the 70
IL lowing considerations.
Y, The Convention which nominated Piesoe an
n, King, adopted, as a " test of democratic orth,
III doXy," the following resolution:
F. "That the democratic party of the Uniol
ID standing upon the national platform, WILL ABID
n BY AND ADHERE TO a FAITHFUL EXECUTION o
-, THE ACTS KNOWN AS THE COMPRON
. ISE MEASURES. settled by the last Congress-
a. THE ACT FOR THE RECLAlMlNG 0
in FUGITIVES FROM SERVICE OR LABOl
- INCLUDED, WHICH ACT being designe
to carry out an express provision OF the Const
p tuition, CANNOT, with fidelity thereto, B
lat REPEALED OR so CHANGED AS TO Dl
III STROY OR IMPAIR IT'S EFFICIENCY"
,u "That the Democratic party WILL RI
sIsr ALL ATTEMPTS AT RENEWING, IN Congre
''' or out of it, THE AGITATION OF THE SLAYER
lat QUESTION, under VhateUer shape or color The a
tempt may be made"
tie Gen. Pierce in his letter accepting the nom
IL nation for President says:
"I accept the nomination UPON THE PLA'
les FORM adopted by the Convention, not becausl
mt is expected of me as candidate, but becau'
ed the principles which it contains COMMAND TIL
of APPRECIATION OF MY JUDGMENT
l." and with them think can safely say that the
has been NO WORD OR ACTION Of n
:" life to conflict"
. Gen. Pierce, in the above, adopts the prime
y" pies" ofthe platform as his oor as those whic
ID lis Judgment APPROVES, and as those upOp whic
= - he has acted all his life. No man cans ssppo
- him for President, without supporting h'S prime
80 pies, and his principles are those above quote
~" ~ from the PLATFORM He is pledged to them
o, is bound to carry them out in the admn4rati(