Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-05-13
FREE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION.
held at Montpelier, Juiy2, $780,

After the organization of the Convention. ID,
following gentlemen were appointed Commit
tee to draft resolutions expressive Of the sens
&c ,ko conva-.:.--, 49, S.E. nidder, Jepth'
Bradley, E. A Stansbury, Theron Howard E
M. Brown, e. G. Eastman, and A. o. Adds
Alter retiring, the Committee re.appeared. an,
Col. j. Kldler, Chairman of the committee
on resolutions, reported tho following, whcI
were read and adopted
ResoiUed That we adhere with unwaver
Ing consistency to the Jeff|rsonian proviso, and
Notwithstanding its abandonment by many O
those who have heretofore claimed to be Its ex
elusive friends, we will insist on it's application
to all territory of which the United States nov
have or shall hereafter have jurisdiction.
z ReSOiUed, That Cong ess possess the powe
to prohibit slavery in the territories and tina
lis uninterrupted exercises since the formauo,
OF the government, under all administrators.
from Washington to Polk, has established il n,
an admitted rule OF practice.
3, RESOLVED, That slavery does not bv Law
now exist in the Territory conquered or acouir
ed from Mexlco-and that we stand and shal
stand opposed to the admission ofany slave stat,
into the Union that shall be formed out OF an,
part OF that Territory, by whomsoever, anc
wheresnever slavery shall be therein established
4. ReSo!red, That slavery does not depend OF
lines OF latitude OF points Of compass, or upoI
Physical Geography, but upon the unholy en-
pldlty OF men to enjoy the fruit OF the labor O
oh9rs
5. ReSOlued, That the existence of SLAYER,
and the slave trade in our National Capto
Is dreadful Inconsistency which calls loudly fo
cosrecton, and that we insist on the abolition
OF both by acts of Congress.
g, ReSolced, That Congress should leave the
question OF the reclamation of fugitive slave,
where 1t is lett under the constitution but if #
undertakes to pass an act TO aid the slavebolde,
In the pursuit OF his victim, we protest gaipsl
any aw on thatsubject which does not fuIIy
provide for a trial by jury for everv person
claimed IS fugitive slave, in the State where
he may be arrested.
z. ReSotUed, That California ought immedi.
ately to be admitted into the Union as State
without the admission being coupled in any
way, with any other measure.
3. hesotUed, That we hail with deem saisfac.
ton the announcement that the people of New
Mexico by forming State constitution and nro
hibtng slavery. have done for themselves wbo,
the politicians have prevented Congress- from
doing foI them, and we regard their action in the
premises as pointed rebuke of the pretence
that no direct prohibition is needed to exclude
slavery from the Territories. NN>
3. Resolved, That the Taylor party of this State
by giving their support to the present admins
ration and Its policy of non action have aban
doned their former professions of adherence r.
positive prohibition, repudlated the Wimot plovi.
So and gone over 10 the non intervention doctrine
which they formerly denounced.
III. HeSotUed, That we are sincerely devoted
to the union OF the States and to the Constitution
that we have no apprehension that any consid
cradle portion Of the American people can he
induced to abandon the lawful exercise of can
stllutlonal rights by jurisdiction or TO diSso ve
Union fraught with innumerable blessings for
the sake Of sustaining slavery traught with in.
Vulnerable evils
II ReSolced, That The Taylor party in the last
legislature of this State, by dstranchsins Ger
tain co intrIes, in violation of long established
usage, and the most obvious Principles of rem
sentative government, to secure the "loaves and
fishes for a sci Of hungry parasites, have
shown how sincerely they reverance popular
rights, and given the lie to all their professions
OF liberal principles.
IL. Reso!ufd, That the Independent Treasury
having been adopted by the nation and being
now IN operation under the present adminlstra-
ton, without any serious attempt to repeal it by
the party once so ferceIy opposed to it, we will
resist any effort 10 change 1t, except by such
as experience may show to be
necessary.
IL. ResOLVed, That in common with the mass