The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-03-08
Feb. &c, 1854.

Agreeably to public call the citi,
zcns of Brandon assembled prospect
i've of party, at the Congregational
Church on Monday evening Feb. Goth,
to express their opposition to the Ne
braska Bill.
President, Hon. E. N. Briggs,
Vice Presidents, John Conant, n. T.
Spraguc, Justus Hyatt, Ezra June.
Secretary, A. A. Nicholson.
The following Resolu tons were dis
cussed by Messrs. Dana, r. V. Marsh,
f. b. Wheeler, B. Davenport, O. NJ.
Smith, N. D. Parker, e. N, Briggs,
John Conant, and Justus Hyatt. At
ter a spirited discussion they were un-
animously adopted.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS.
Whereas, The Bill now pending before
Congress, for the organization and
government Of the Territory of Ne
bra5ka, provides, among other
things, for the atrogation Of the
Missouri Compromise Act of 1920,
by declaring that the same shall be
imperative aud void,' thereby
authorizing the introduction of
Slavery into said Territory, now
free: ther fore
Reso}ced. That we do most solemn
i protest against the passage Of said
Bill, or any other measure, which shall
drecd or constructively abrogate. or
in an, manner iml air or weaken the
full force aud effect Of that sacred Gem.
pact known as the Missouri Comprom.
Use which declares that Slavery or in.
voluntary scrvitudc, shall be torecer
excluded from all territory north of
80 dess. so minis included in the
Louisiana purchase
,. That the constitutionaltv Of said
Compromise Act having been recently
called in question by some who man.
iIest an ardent zeal for its aLrogation,
we would respectfully suggest that the
Judicial and not the Legislative, de,
partinent Of the Government, is the
constitutional tribunal to which the
settlement Of that question rightfuily
belongs and that the long acquiesence
of the country in that measure. ought,
in the language of the late eminent
and learned jurist, Mr.. Justice Story,
" to entitle the question to be consid-
cred at at rest unless indeed the in
depreciation of the Constitution is to
be delivered over to interminablc doubt
throughout the whole progress of leg
islation, and Of national operations. "
3. That if the people in this vicin-
ity have been somewhat tardy in Civ
ing utterance to their united voice Of
remonstrance against this odious meas
ure, the true reason for the delay was
assigned by their able and faithful Rep
resentative, the Hon. James Meacham,
in his recent speech in Congress, that
"the people were struck dumb by the
atrocity of the proposition"
4. That the sentiments expressed in
the published resolutions adopted by a
large and intelligent neutrality-suspicious.
distinction of party-recently held in
the city Of Chicago, the residence Of
the author Of the proposition in ques-
ton: meet with the cordial and unan-
lmous response of the people in this hi:
native town.
3. That the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise, thereby discarding the
solemn moral pledges whichit contains
after the Slave States have been made
secure in perpctuity of the lions share
Of that measure, in the admission Of
the two large Slave States Missouri and
Arkansas, would, in our opinion, prove
more disastrous experiment in it,
consequences upon the forbearance Of
the North, than has ever yet been at
tempted by Congress.-That the adop-
ton of the proposed measure, in viola
ton of plghted faith, opening as i
would to slavery that vast territory nov
free, and which Congress declared
thirty four years ago should forever re.
main free, would, in our opinion, arouse
such feelings of indignation in the PEG,
pie Of the Free States, as would prove
most conclusively that with Christians
there was on this question, but oNI
FAITH, and in politics but ONE PARTY