The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-06-14
President.
HON. WIN. HEBARD.
I1cc PreS3CfcntS !

Hon. LEONARD SARGEANri
Gen. p. Z KwnALL
Secretaries:
Q. H. HAYDEN. CuAs. CUMMINGS,
{. W. WILLARD.
Hon Geo II. Hodges. of Rutland,
then made some very complimentary re-
marks in reference to Hon. Erastus
Fairbanks, and afterwards read a letter
from that gentleman declining re-nom-
nation,
On motion the Chair appointed the
following gentlemen COMMITTEE to
draft resolutions
E. 2. WALTON, Jr., Tuos. HALE, Jos
II. BARRErr, f. B. WnlrlNG and o. Ii.
PLATr
d Kirkland, Esq, offered resolution
that the Convention be resolved into
County Conventions for the purpose of
appointing Committee to present to
the Convention candidates for State OF.
fcers, and State Central Committee !;
said Committee to consist of thirty, and
each County to have the number on the
Committee equal to its represents tives
in the State Senate.
On motion of Hon. Chas Adams, of
Burlington, this resolution was laid on
the table.
Mr.. Adams then offered resolution
that the Convention adjourn till July 4th,
before the nomination of State Officers.
Opposed by Hon. Orlando Stevens, of
ST. Adams, and David Hazard, Esq, of
Forrisburgh. This resolution was laid
on the table and the previous one called
up and adopted. Whcreupon tho Con-
vention adjourned 80 minutes.
f. p. Walton. Jr., in behalf of the
Committee on Resolutions reported the
following
RESOLUTIONS.
/. Resolved, That while we retain our
attachment to tho general principles and
policy which have hitherto distinguished
us, we recognize the issues presented by
the repeal of the 9Th section OF Nilsson.
ri Comproise, as matters of surprising
importance, which demand tho instant
aud earnest attention of every lover Of
freedom.
=. Resolved, That the virtual repeal
of the Sth section of the Missouri Com.
promise demands and receives our ut,
/ ter condemnation, as palpablc perfdy to
solemn Pledge Of Freedom, designed
to be sacred and irrepealable-a pledge
made by the Government to the people,
and by the South to tho North, the VIC
lation Of which forfeits all claim of the
South to the faith Of the North in their
fidelity, and confidence Of the people in
the stability of all compromises, Of all
laws, and of tho Constitution and Union
itself
8. ReSolvcd, That We have regarded
the Missouri Compromise as perpotually
binding in law and consci onoc, and the
violation of it, in the passage of the Ne
braska bill, wo look upon as impairing
the obligations of solemn contracts and
therefore hagrantly unjust in itself; as
treacherous to tho interests of freedom
for the country at largo; as cruel in its
bearing upon the Indian tribes as hos
tile to the peace, charity, and unity of
the country as emincutly ungcntlsman-
ly and dishonoiable in the spirit in
which it was conceived in the pledges
by which personal responsibility was
sought to be, and was broken down,
through sectional prejudices and in the
hot haste which would neither calm
ly listen to the voice of the country
through petitions, nor dare to await for
an appeal to the people through the elOc-
tions; and we will, in all ways, testify aud
struggle, as we may be able, agaIns.
transaction so iniquitous in its character,
and so injurious in its effects.
A. Resolged, That regarding this act
as violation Of the plighted faith Of the
Government, that Government must be
reformed, and we pledge ourselves to
the work of Reform regarding it al
measure of the National Administra
ton, enforced BY the power and patron,
age of the President, in violation alike
of his pledges and his duty, the Admin.
istration must be changed, and executive
power be rebuked and restrained re-.
garding it as reputation and annulmont
by the South of the Compromises of
1850, aud Baltimore Platform of 1852
so far as they relate to Slavery, 1.-THE act
for the recovery of fugitives from labor
included I've pledge ourselves for the
repeal of that act, and to resist the ad-
mission of Utah and New Mexico as
States without constitutions excluding
Slavery and, finally, regarding it as a
violation of the plightod faith of the
South, for the purpose of extending
Slavery against our will, our conscience,
and our rights, we hereby pledge our
selves TO the defence Of Freedom, by
the restriction of Slavery to the States
in which it exists--by the exclusion of
Slavery at the earliest practicable mo-
ment, and by all constitutional means,
from all federal territory-Nebraska,
Kansas, and the District of Columbia
inclusiyo-by opposing the admission in
to the Union of any new State tolerat-
ing Slavery, whether it be formed from
territory belonging to Texas or else
whore-and by resisting the requirement.
Of any new territory wherein Slavery