Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-08-26

! such States are the sole and proper judges of
everything appertaining to their own affairs, not
prohibited by the constitution that dH Efforts o.
The aboLitionists or others, made to induce Con
gress 10 interfere tOah questions Of sfaUety Or 10
lake i'lc,pient steps in relation thereto ARE CAL
CULATED TO LEAD TO THE MOST ALARMING AND
DANGEROUS CONSEQUENCES and that all sucii
efforts have an inevitable tendency TO diminish
the happiness of the people, and endangef 'ne
stability and pemaneney OF the Ohloh' anu
OUGHT NOT TO BE COUNTERNANCED Dy any
friend of our political institutions.
Resolved That the foregoing proposition COW
ers, and was intended to embrace, THE WHOLE
SUBJECT OF SLAVERY AGITATION IN
! CONGESS; and therefore TIE DEMOCkAI-
&c PARTY OF THE UNION, standing upon
the national platform, WILL ABIDE Ely AND
ADHERE TO A FAITHFUL EXECUTION or
THE ACTS KNOWN AS THE COAPkOM-
Use MEASURES, settled by the last Congress
THE ACT FOR THE RECLAIMiNG or
FuGITIVES FROM SERVICE OR LABOR
INCLUDED, WHICH ACT being designed
to carry out an express provision OF the Consll.
tuition CANNOT, with fidelity thereto, BE
REPEALED OR so CHANGED AS TO De
STROY OR IMPAIR IT'S EFFICIENCY.
Resolved That the Democratic party WILL RE
SYST ALL ATTEMPTS At RENEWING, IN Congress
or out of it, THE AGITATION OF THE SLAVERY
QUESTION, Wadcr lghdteUer shape or cotOr the al
Tempt mag be made.
ReSolued That the proceeds of the public
lands ought to be sacEedly applied to The nauona
objects specified in the constitution ; and thG
we are opposed to any law for the distribution o
such proceeds among the States as alike mex
pedient IN policy and repugnant to the consiiiu
ton.
RESOLVED, That we are decidedly opposed tC
taking from the President the qualified veto pow
err, by which he is enabled under restriction:
and responsibilities amply sufficient to guarc
the public interest, to suspend the passage of L
bill whose merits cannot secure the approval Of
two-thirds Of the Senate and House Of Repre-
sentaives until the judgment of the people cat
be obtained thereon, and which has savod the
American people from the corrupt and tyrannc
al domination Of the Bank Of The United States
aud from corupting system Of general nterna
Improvements.
Rrso'red, That the Democratic party mWjmth
fully abide BY and uphoid The prineiptes t1id domf
in he Kentucky and VUginia solution Of l796
ai,d in the report of M Madison 10 the VUgiaio
Lcgisiatlrc in 1899 that it adopts those prn
cirlcs as constituting one Of the main toHnda
tons Of its political creed, and is resolved tt
carry them out in their obvious meaning and i'm
port
ResoUed That Tic ,oar tcH .Ueric0, upon al
the principles of patriotism and the laws Of ma
tons, tcaS just Gnd necessary Uar on our part
in which every American citizen should have
shown himself on the side of his country, ant
neither morally nor physically, BY word Or deed
have given aid and comfort to the enemy.
Resoued, That we rejoice at the restoration
of friendly relation with our sister republic Of
Mexico, and earnestly desire for her all the
blessings and prosperity which VIC enjoy under
republican institutions, and zoe congratulate M
.imencan people upon The results Of that war
which have 50 manesuy justified the policy anc
couduct of the Democratic parry, aud insured tt
the United States indemnity or the past ans
security for the future"
ResOuled, That in view of the condition o
popular institution in the old world, high anc
sacred duty is devovcd with increased respons!
bllity upon the Democratic party Of this country
as the party of the people, to uphold and main
tain tho rights OF every State, and thereby The
Union of the States, and to sustain and advance
among US constitutional liberty, by Contlnulu!
to resist all mouopoes and exclusive Legislation
for the benefit Of the few at the expense OF til,
many, and by yigiant and constant adherence
to those principles and compromises Of the con
sltuiion which are broad enough and stron'
enough to uphold the Union as it is, and tht
Union Is it shall be, in the full expansion Of thc
energies and capacities Of this great and pro
gressec people.