Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1852-10-28
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TO perpetual slavery without due process OF
law is Of dangerous precedent
I" That In proportion as personal liberty rises
to importance above property, ought the right OF
persons on trial for their liberty, to be guarded
and protecled-and that, unless the provisions
of that law be speedily modified so that man
on trial for the right of his oVn LOdy enjoys
privileges under it equal to party whose prop
erty to the amount of twenty five cents is IN
volved, REPEAL should continue to be
sounded from the Green Mountains Of Vermont
andssyery other state"
@g'llat the nelO tests set up by portion of our
friends claiming to be Democrats, and the at
tempt now being made by them to denounce and
read out of the party, all who do not with closed
ps sqbgeElAs ia lAsr aPatFRGGs FG 9ar tRe JEagye !
thdt close 6dherance to the creed Of the fathers
is better and safer and wiser, than to follow the
blind guides who, under the direction of Daniel
Webster and Millard Fillmore, are seeking to
engraft upon the creed of the party doctrines
repudiated and denounced by the apostles of de.
mocTacy since the government was organized"
At the Democratic County Convention holden
at Chelsea, for Orange County, on the 10th day
of July, 1851, over which GGoRGE P. BALDWIN
presided, the following persons were appointed
Ia committee on resolutions, viz: j. P. KDDER,
STEPHEN THOMAS, Charles B. Leslie, S. N.
B.gelow and John Lynde, which committee,
through ]. P. KIDDER, Chairman, reported,
among others, The same resolutions above quoted
which were passed.
Such are the recorded sentiments of the de-
mocracy of Washington and Orange Counties
only about one short year ago! These
sentiments were promulgated, after the Com.
promise measures were passed and set up by
Wings and old line Democrats as hnality
and as a test of Wing and Democratic oltho-
doxy Those Compromise measures and that
: Fugitive Slave law, are now precisely what they
were when these resolutions were passed
And now, Democrats of Washington and Or
ange Counties, what is required Of you in the
pending election? 1t is to endorse and main
tain those very Compromise measures-to en-
force that very Fugitive Slave Law which
twelve months ago you soemnly resolved ought
! to be met by the cry Of repeal from The Green
Mountains and every other state 1T is to adopt
those new tests " and " subscribe TO that Flu.
gitlve Slave law" which you then Indignantly
repudiaed and repeed it is to ABANDON " the
creed of the fathers" and TO follow those Sbyind
q gudeS, who order the direction of Daniel Web
4 ster and Mllard Fillmore" were seeking
f 'to engralt upon the democratic creed, doc
II trines repudiated and denounced by the apostles
? of democracy since the the government was or
u ganzed Ut is, in short, by endorsing the
nl.:--a pa tf-~s s-.I a..rr>-t;..e- -n;~--a-a.A
m King, to belle and vote down every one of the
,s principles above. proclaimed to be yours, as
well as the old and time hono-ed principles of
the democratic faith, and to follow those very
men who read you out of the Democratic party
l. because you would not subscribe to doctrines
which you then rejected with loathing and
scorn Was ever such degracation required of
independent freemen before And you are
y, urged thus 10 desert the creed Of the
fathers" and support doctrines denounced by
= them since the foundation of government,
y by Charles G. Eastman, Charles Reed, jefferson
, p. Kidaer, and Stephen Thomas, who helped to
frame those resolutions, and at that time asked
you to Indignantly "repudiate and repe" the
:, 3" new tests" and the blind guides" they now
" ask you TO adopt and follow The " new
J." tests" then set up by the " old liners" those
- men "claiming to be democrats are the
Identical tests Incorporated into the Baltimore
Platform and supported by Pierce & King, and
fit was then acting under the direction of
Daniel Webster, and Millard Fillmore, to ask
you to engraft upon the creed of the party such
- doctrines, it is equally so now Do not the
men who urge you to pursue such course insult
' both your intelligence and integrity? Do they
" not act as though they looked upon you, as mere
- cattle, to be herded and driven one way, one
- year, and another way, the nex? Is it not
time to teach such men that you will treat them
as the "bIind guides" who, obeyng the instiga-
cation OF the federal leaders, are striving to lead
you to an open and shameless abandonment Of
the doctrines OF the apostles of democracy
The Democratic State Convention of 1851
= which nominated Timothy P. Redield f)r Gov
~ ernor, after the declension of Lucius B Peck
n passed resolutions similar to the above which
of were drafted by Mr.. Rodfeld himself in which
- the fugitive slave law is characterized as I" in
m frlnging the guarantees of the constitution" "
- and Sin which the wings were charged with en-.
N dorsing the fugitive Slave law, and rendering an
=. issue upon it, and recommending to the demo-
Gratis and "all the friends of freedom and human
, ity' TO accept the issue 'at every political gather
zo ing and at the polls" The Vermomt Patriot
oe in commenting upon the proceedings, Of this
Convention and its resolutions, held the follow
hs ing language:
:. Zone resolution fastens the wings of the
" State TO the present position of subservencv to
c WebSter ted dliSm and 10 the pro Sldrey doctrines
~ Of the administration and plainly places the posi-
TO- ton of the two parties in the State before the
bo people-tc WsbSterites standing upon The old
~ jederai doctrines of consolidation, The erIenSlon
ia and perpetuiB Of human StdUery, and The democ'
Of rdcy, standing UPON THE PRINCIPLES OF THoM'
AS JEFFERSON AND THE DOCTRINES OF FREE
DOM"
IL Now what will you think of the consistency
r and integrity of the editor of the Patriot when
" you find him now supporting, and urging you to
"' support platform which is identicaly the same
60 as the whig platform of 1851, which he then de.
10 clared was Webster federalism" and embraced
" the " old federal doctrine of consolidation. and
the extension and perpetuity of human slavery?'
od And for the purpose Of supporting such federal
m doctrines and the candidates who endorse them
:, he asks you to forsake the very ground, which
the democracy" occupied in 1851, which he
then said was standing upon the principles of
Thomas Jefferson and the doctrines of freodom!'
u, u, Can you follow the example and teachings Of
in. such leader aud guide2