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


have quoted above.
You abandon, in the first place, all opposition
to the extension of slavery into the territories of
New Mexico and Utah. Why' Because the
I4aaets organizing territorial governments in them
are compromise acts, and BY their provisions the
people of those territories are prohibited from
Isgisloting on the subject of slavery, and are
tkus prevented from keeping it out from among
blem, or abolishing it, if it obtains footing
eeeAaong them; and these acts, by supporting the
kBaltlmore platform and Gen. Pierce, you bind
4 yourselves TO maintain as they are! You violate
platform when you ask Congress to prevent,
aw, the Introduction of slavery into those
giefritores, and Gen. Pierce, if he is an honest
man, and carries out the platform, if elected, is
oulnd no VETO any act of Congress prohibiting
slavery from gong into those sstana,.
exists there nov, and neither tde Pe6pfe fIot !
Congress, if this platform is adhered 10, can
drive i. out!
You abandon, in the next place, all opposition
to the admission into the Union of slave States
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formed out of those territories Why! Because
the before mentioned compromise acts, expressly
provide, that any State formed out of these ter
ritories shall be admitted into the Union, with
or without Slavery" as they shall elect
You abandon, in the next place, all attempts
to procure the abolition of Slavery int the District
of Coumbia Why? Because the platform
binds you to " resist all agitation of the slavery
question, " in or out of Congress-"
You pledge yourselves, in the next place, to
enforce the fugitive slave law, to go against lis
repeal and against all notification of it which
will impair as efficiency! You are bound by the
platform to become slave catchers and the abct-
ters of the greatest outrage ever perpetmtcd
upon civil libelty in the form Of law You
may make it more tyrannical, but you must not
labor to alter it SO as to make the STAKEHOLDER
less certain of his victim! And this you arc
bound to do as democrats, carrying out demo-
cratic creed What PROCLAMATION What an
insult!
And, to crown the degradation to which you
ore bound to submit, by this platform, the beck
of Shareholders, you are required to set yourselves
in battle array against the feedo m of speech and
of The press to "reSiSt the agitation of all
questions relating to human bondage in this free
Republic Can any thing be more insulting to
professed democratic follower of Jefferson
and Madison-than such requirement as that
Did not the democratic party Of old, with those
champions at its head, overthrow the fedora
party, because they ntringed the guarantees o
the Constitution in relation to the liberty o
speech and of the press, in the old sediton law
And now, as democrats, you are requested 10 d.
greurer -y'orunvo' rnose uuraoeOs- uY -tsetenpt
ing to put down the right TO discuss the questio
Of liberty against slavery, and free institution
against slave institutions
Can you support patty which adopts such
creed? Can you support candidate to sit i
the chair occupied by Jefferson, who avows thu
such principles as those command the appro
baton of his judgment"? Can you thus bell
and lrampe under foot your own dehberatel
recorded and deliberately supported doctrines
| beg of you, before you do such violence 10 you
principles your own consistency, and 10 tn
name and honor Of democracy, to pause an
consider whittier your adherence to the Bait
more Platform and to the nomination of Frankli
Pierce is leading you Look at your own resc
lulons as above quoted. and compare them wit
; the principles you must necessarily sustain i
sustaining Pierce and the creed he proclaims a
his own
=, But perhaps you may be told that these doc
trines, in relation to slavery extension, the abo
lion of slavery in the District of Columbia, til
repeal of the Fugitive Slave law and the admis
, sion of more slave states into the Union, hav
been foised into the Democratic creed in thi
State, BY other influences than those strict
Democratic, and that the Democratic party, i
its strong holds, never adopted them in the
primary meetings, lfany such pretencc is mad
it is wholly untrue.
The Uilmot ProUjSo was adopted by tw
Democratic State Conventions in lS47, bef0r
the free soil movement which followed Ger
> Cass' nomination, The men most efficient
procuring lis passage in those conventions, wcr
PAUL DILLINGHAM and JoHN G. SAKE
In 1913 the Democratic State Convention re
affirmed the policy and necessity of the Wlmc
Proyiso in the most explicit manner, The Den
ocratic State Convention Of l649 adopted all
l' the above doctrines, except the one in reato
E to the Fugitive Slave law which was not the
+ passed, acting entirely independent of the Ere
F.. Soil Convention. In addition TO this, if you wi
refer to the proceedings of the Democrat
y County Conventions in Washington, Orang
/. and Gale donia Counties the strongest DEM
E cratic counties in the States, in 1913 and l65
= you will find all these doctrines Of the platform
the 3lst of May, l849, we're fully and unequ
,s ocally endorsed by those Conventions TT
Y Democrats in all their primary meetings rece
l. ed them as sound aud fundamental Democrat
doctrines But will 90 further and refer 20
: to the proceedings of some of the strong Dem
cratic counties in 1851, since the passage Of tt
= Compromise measures, and since the o
t liners " hare set up their support, as test
= Democratic orthodoxy.
:; The Democratic County Convention for Wasl
e ingtoa County in 1851, ot which Dinsow u
Y ham presided, appointed committee on resol'
tons consisting of The following persons, viz
i Roderick Richardson, Jacob Scott, CHARLIE
II G, EASTMAN, NJ. H. Sessions and CHARLIE
Il REED, who reported, among others, the resolr
II tons gwen below In the published procee'
i ings find the following:
d "The resolutions were taken up, read, ar
e after remarks by Maj. Eastman, Judge Scott,
n P. Redield and Hon. yazeI Spalding, were UNAl