Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1853-02-24
Maine State Convention and its
Resolutions.

The Annual State Convention of the Free
Democracy Of Maine wes held at Augusta on
the 10th instant. The Convention was we'll at
tended. All past differences growing out of
side issues or local questions, which they seem
to have permitted to distract them were happily
adjusted and the proceedings were marked with
harmony and spirit. Hon. Ezekiel Holmes was
nominated for Governor; and the following ex-
cellent general resolves we're adopted:
/. Resolved That this Couventon adopts as
the basis Of action for the Free Democracy of
tins State, the platform Of prinep es and course
OF policy laid down by the Free Democracy of
the Union in ils National Convention held in
the CITY of Pittsburgh in Angus, 1852
z. ReSoiUed, That the institution of slavery by
the very means which i. is obliged to take to
defend and MAINTAIN itself, is gradually but
surely emasculatng the spirit of liberty and the
mora integrity of tn Republic debauching Its
literature, debaslngi ls religion, smotherng its
humanity. and, In fine, sappIng in all directions
OF the foundations of that stern virtue on which,
under God, the stability of free institutions re-
poses.
| 6. Resolued, That in view of tendencies and
effects SO disastrous, Il becomes the Free Dem
ocracy to bend all its energies to the work of
increasing its numbers and consolidating its
strength, as the only effectual stay to the further
inhux OF moral corruption which threatens TO
sweep over all the heghhst and hottest intere. Is
of the country.
a. Resotred That the pivot of the late Pres-
GENIAL contest was the question Of slavery, and
that the success OF the party fraudulent,e l.112l
itself democratic, while it isthe faysM.i
and instrument OF the slave inters'
cally denies the dootrirIo OF the ihd'Rueu
of man, s not a triumph of Democracy Dxg'e'
an unholy and relentless despotsm
s. Resolved, That the Wing party in its ser
vih'y to the slave power wades through deeper
aoysses of contempt than lis brother the sc
called Democracy, because to crafty its lust o.
tp'ace and pay. tralnples On the most sacred con
vlctlons of truth and dny protested for many
years IN the must solemn and public manner
and that it has been defeated only because there
are still those in ITS ranks capable OF dong /
degree of mischief to the sIave interest, although
they have neither the nerve nor the nanAyod Il
pate themselves from the despotsm 0
party tyrants by whom they are used, dene'
and despised
g. Reso'ved, That the brood, fundamental
principle %hlcn totally separates the Free lie
u,cracy from the copar,nerships of the slav'
mower, Is this We MAINTAIN that Llberty-nn
Slavery, is national. They declare The supreme
Nationality of Slavery and branJ us as ''sec
journalists" and disunlonls,s." The issue i
for the People, and IN deciding it they decid
lns future destiny of the Republic
7. RESOLVED, Tina, The monstrous contracts O
the old parties With the slave power at Baltimore
to put down the tree dlcussion of liberty m thu
Country and to place the press at the Nnrt
where it is in France and in The South, full
proves that those parties AS such are not Amer
cn bu Aussran; and we call upon all goo
chizohs his they would save the dearest right O
r'di, to abandon thuse allies OF despoisln AM
put them down.
s. Resotved, That recent prescription u
srvrra Senators Oh the Senate OF the Unte'
Safes by that body on the ground that lhe.
belonged to sn unhealthy political organize
ton" Is base ilisnIt to the individual Senator
aud is gross Indlgnl;y to the States represented
BY those Senators. and is in violation of tn
principles upon which our government Is found
ed, and Should be reprooatetl by every friend O
a free and Republic government.