Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-11-23
ANTI-sLAVERY RESOLUTIONS OF THE
LEGISLATURE.


ry Resolutions reported by the Select Committee
raised on the part Of the Governors Message
relating to the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, which were passed on the last night of
the Session, but which were not entertained by
the Senate, which, it was alleged, had closed
their business for the Session. The majority
report and resolutions coming from the Wing
part of the Committee and signed by AIR. Kirk
land, were at first laid TN the table, and the
minority report and resolutions signed by Messrs.
Beecher, Barton and Brtton, the Free Soil por-
ton Of the Committee were on motion of Mr..
Judevinc taken up and adopted. The majority
report, with its extended preamble giving a his
tory of the various Compromises, and the gen.
eral sentiment Of Vermont on the subject Of
Slavery (which preamble not being acted on in
reality at all by the House, we omit,) was then
taken up, and the resolutions, after some dis
cussion, and good deal of delay on account
of getting quorum, finally passed. There was
also another minority report signed by Calvin
Drury, the Administration member of Commit
tee disagreeing with the majority both as to the
principles, and practical results of the Nebraska
Bill; but it was not we believe acted on at all
BY the House.
Leaving our Anti-Savery readers to make their
own determinations between the two sets Of
resolutions, and comments thereon, we give
them as follows
RESOLUTIONS REPORTED BY THE MAJORITY, AND
PISSED BY THE HOUSE.
Resasrsd, IN the Senate aud House Of
Representatives,, That the repeal Of the " Mis-
souri, Compromise was gross breach Of a
solemn compact, a fragrant violation of plight
cd faith, "a trampling on the expressed will Of
the people; that it has wholly impaired the
confidence of the North in the integrity Of
the South, and destroyed all faith in the per-
manency of the past or future compromises on
the subject of Slavery, or any other
Resoiued, That to those members Of Con-
gress, whether from the North or from the
South, who, in the late contest for right, have
been true to their honor and to their o,ths,
their country and their God, the just rights OF
the North and the national welfare, and es-
pecialy to our own Senator and Representa-
tives in that body, do we give our warmest
thanks, and Cur most cordial appreciation !;
rejoicing. that though foul stigma has been
affixed to our national honor, the integrity of
Vermont has peen safe in their keeping, and
no stain has furnished her fair fame
Resoiutd, That for those members of Con-
gress from the Free States, who, seduced by
brides. or deluded by sophistries, have abetted
the Nebraska iniquity, and betrayed the
mighty interests and destinies entrusted to
their keeping, words are wanting to express
our contempt and Indignation that we SOL
emily declare, that no man who voted to re-
pent the &" Missouri Compromise" or to our
knowledge has aided its repeal, directly or in
directly shall ever receive our vote for auy
Office in the peoples gift.
Resoired, That our Senators in Congress
be instructed and our Representatives reques-
ted to use their influence, by voice and vote,
to abolish slavery in the District of Column
bia, and the slave trade between the different
States to repeal the "fagitiUc siave iaw" OF
1850, and so much Of the act admitting Tex
as into this Union as authorizes the admission
of any State formed out OF her territory,
whose constitution permits slavery to forbid
slavery in any territory which now belongs to-,
or may hereafter be acquired by, the General
Governments TO oppose the admission of any
new slaveholling State into this conlederacy.
or The annexation OF any STATE thereto whose
constitution authorizes slavery to keep slave
ry confined within the limits originally fixed
by the constitution and to prevent, by every
constitutional means, the extension of slavery
Oh the increase of the slave power in this
Union. EDWARD KIRKLAND,
for Committee.
REPORT AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE MINORITY, PAS
SEQ BY THE HOUSE.
TO the House of Representations. noo in
session: The Undersigned, minority of the
select committee Of seven, to which was re-
ferred so much of the Governors message as
relates to the repeal Of the Missouri Compro-
mise, and sundfy resolutions relating to the
same subject, have carefully considered the
matters committed to them, and respectfully
report the following resolutions, and recon.
mend their adoption:
RcsoiDed, That slavery is wrong which
cannot legally exist except by positiue tar i;
that the very idea OF property IN man was re-
pudiated by tbs trainers OF the Federal Con-
stitution, who actually excluded the words,
starc and siaorry from that instrument; that
itrequires Congress to guaranty to every State
in the Union republican form of government,
and was adopted in order to establish iust. &c,
and secure the Blessings Of iberty to the peo-
pie; therefore, slavery is unauthorized by the
Constitution.
Rssotvsd, That the Act of Congress Of
May Both, 1854 entitled, "An act to crgau-
ize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas"
by which the Missouri Compromise, so called,
became void and imperative, is violation Of
solemn national compact of perpetual obi
cation, and that this violation Of plighed
faith on tho part of the South, fully absolves
the North from the constitutional force of all
compromises entered into in behalf of slavery
Resotvcd, That the Nebraska BILL so called,
is in derogation Of the Constitution of the
United States; that it denies the privilege of
the writ Of Ha5saS Corpus to those who may
be claimed and unlawfully arrested in said
territories as fugitives from slavery that this
BILL which denies the intention of legislating
slavery into these territories, is national
fa'sehood that it not only egslates slavery
into these territories, and provides for its pro-
lection, but denies the foreign cmigrant the
right of suffrage, and Of holding office, I'M
less he shall make oath to support it with all
its unconstitutional provisions; that the
quisitve of this oath is daring invasion Of
the rights of fraanen