Daily national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1854, 1854-06-16

At the Wing State Convention held at Rut-
land on the 7th instant the following letter
from Hon. ]. Meacham, of the United States
House of Representatives, was read:
WAsHINGToN, May 81, 1854.
FRIEND HARRIS have delayed an answer
to your letter, in the hope that should be able
to announce that Senator Foot, or Mr.. Tracy,
or Mr.. Sabin, would attend the State Conven-
ton. Previous engagements need not name
them-will deprive me of that pleasure.
feel anxious that some Of those men, ADLER
than myself to describe the scenes of the Ne
braska struggle, should be in your Convention.
And vet, | know that it is impossible for even
An eyewitness to give an exact impression of
the contest The alienation OF hopes and
fears of the phalanx that 30 long resisted the
needless, and unauthorized, and Infamous vio-
lation of plighted faith, can never be given
The Missouri Compromise is repealed Do
you ask how it was done? will tell you
/. Without the request and against the wish
Of every man who petitioned Congress on the
subject
2. By crowding out Of place all the most i'm
portant business of the session, and crowding
an measure to which an overwhelming ma
jority Of the people were opposed.
8. By bringing do not say bribing--to it's
support, through Executive influence and pat
ronage, men who acted against their own de-
clared judgments and the known will Of their
constituents.
4. By trampling under foot the rules Of the
House Of Representatives, made in accordance
with the Constitution, and thus violently de-
priving the minority Of their legal rights and
Just privileges
D. - IL. Al l..
their decision on the question, lest--as Senator
Petit, of Indiana, declared-the people should
refuse il now, or for years TO come, and per-
haps forever.
IL the will Of the people had been obeyed,
the act could not hare passed. IL it had taken
it's legal place in the order Of business, it could
not have passed. If the Executive power had
not unrighteously interposed its influence, il
could not have passed. IL the rules Of the
House and the rights Of the minority had not
been crushed, it could not have passed
The Missouri Compromise, therefore, was re-
pealed, not only without authority and with
out Law, but in known and acknowledged vio-
lation Of both
The Missouri Compromise being repealed,
the question Of Slavery is re-opcned in all the
Territories Of the Union.
Tho Baltimore Platform being violated by all
parties except Northern Wings, il will not be
expected that that body of men will any lon
ger be held by the fragments of a broken and
abandoned truce.
Ia this posture Of affairs trust that the
Wings Of Vermont holding the first State Con.
vention since the passage Of the Nebraska bill,
will take ground wisely and firmly.
/. There shall be no more territory acquired
by the funds of freemen, unless on the express
condition that Slavery shall be forever excluded
from IT,
O. That on no condition shall another slave
State ever be added to this Union.
3. That Slavery shall be wiped out Of every
part of the Republic, except whore shielded by
positive municipal Law.
hope the Wings Of Vermont will take that
position, not only for themselves but for their
children after them; and when they haze taken
il, tkat they iciH nail their colors to the mast
Very truly yours, j. MEAcHAM.
Among the resolutions adopted were the fol-
lowing
Resolved, That while we retain our attach
ment TO tho general principles and policy which
have hitherto distinguished us, We recognise
the issues presented by the repeal of the Sth