The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1854-08-23
Saratoga Anti.Nebraslsa Convention.


appointed.
Mr.. Thayer. of Worcester Mass, ex-
planned the objects of the Massachusetts,
Kansas Emigrant Aid Society. He
spoke 9or nearly half an hour.
The Business Committee reported the
following permanent officers President.
n. 7 McKoon, of Queens County; Vice
Presidents. r. N. IIavens, Edward Per.
ry, +. p. Bellinger, Luke Hitchcock,
Lewis Kingsley, Freeman Clark, George
S Benedict Secretaries, j. J. Cham.
bers William Stewart. J II Kimberly
J. H. Howell, L. p. Noble,
A prayer was then offered by Rev.
DR.. Bushnell, of Hartford.
The roll was then called.
Adjourned till 81 o'clock
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr. Greeley. from the Business Com
mittee, reported the following:
Whereas, The present Congress, BY a
vote of IA minority Of the member elect
ed to tho House has deliberately and
wautonly reopened the controversy res
pecting the extension of Slavery under
our National jurisdiction, which major.
ity Of the people had understood to be
closed forever by the successive Com.
promises of 1920 aud 1850; and.
Whereas, This Congress, aided and
impelled by the Federal Executive, has,
by the act currently known as the Ne.
braska bill, designcdly subverted SO
IN n .,,,l, i
tho Missouri COMPROMISED as excluded
Slavery from the vast region Of our Con-
tincnt, stretching from the Mississippi
to tho Rocky Mountains, and from the
parallel Of 36o so to the northern
boundary of our Union, the State Of Mis-
souri, alone being excepted, and
whereas, The people Of our State
through an unbroken series of seventy
years, during the former half of which
they were themselves a Slaveholding
communicative solemnly tested through
every channel of popular and legislative
action their determined and emphatic
purpose that the extension of Slavery
shall be forbidden, obstructed and pre-
vented by positive action
Resolrc,i That the State of New.
| York, now, as ever, aflirms and main
tains the right and the duty of the gen.
eral Government TO prohibit and pre-
cluds the extension. establishment, or
perpetuation of hnman Slavery in any
and every Territory of the United States,
and in any Territory. possession. and
country over which this Union now has.
or may hereafter acquire, exclusive juris-
dlc'ion, ard in support of this position
we appeal to the uniform opinions, OK.
pressions and acts of our statesmen, leg.
islators and people, from 1884 till this
day
ReS0}Ced, That the doctrine affirmed
By the Nebraska bill, ard gilded over by
its advocates with the splcious phrases
of mon intervention" and popular SOW
ereignty," is really and clearly n com.
plcte surrender of all the ground hitler.
to asserted and maintained by the FREQ
States with respect to the limitation of
Slavcry,is plain confession of the rights
of Shareholders to transfer their human
chattels to any part of the public domain,
and there hold them as slaves so long rs
cupidity may tempt and force shall suf-
flee TO detain them in servitude.
Resoirel, That unbroken experience
attes;s that free labor and slave labor
canno. coexist on The same soil-that
wherever Slavery is tolerated, there free
labor dies out or sinks into mere satel.
II IN nd Of hn
and its master-so that the admission of
Slavery into Kansas and Nebraska in.
wolves the practical exclusion therefrom
of ourselves and our children through all
coming time, with that paralysis of in
vention, Introduction of industrial prog.
ress, aud degradation of the Slavchold.
ing system
Resolrea, That against the doctrines
tendencies and natural consequences in.
volved in the Nebraska bill, so calculat.
ed to dishonor our country in the eyes
Of mankind, and to discourage and con-
found tho champions Of liberty aud prog
ress throughout the world, we declare
uncompromising war, aud in the spirit
aud faith of our fathers, will struggle to
tho last for the reconstruction of Ne
braska and Kansas to the eunobling NC.
cupation and use of free labor and free.
/ men.
ReSo(red, That we denounce the alb.
use of the term "non-intervention, (which
is intended to uphold the Intervention
OF the State between the oppressor and
his victim. In behalf of the Slaye-pow-
er, we denounce that abuse of tho phrase
popular sovereignty" which makes it a
cloak for legalizing the absolute subjuga.
tion Of part Of the human race TO the
will and pleasure Of others; and we de.
mand of Government, as primary duty
perpetual Intervention on the side Of
justice, equality aud liberty, aud in win,
dIcation of each innocent mans sover.
eighty over himself.
ReSOlreCl, That deliberate repuda.
tion by the slave power on the very first
opportunity orthe solemn compact fore,
ed upon our fathers by its representa-.
tiyes, whereby the territories now known
as Nebraska and Kansas were consecrat.
ed forever to freedom, has absolved us
from all compacts or agreements outside
the Federal Constitution with reference
to Slavery, and we now take our stand
distinctly on the principle that all tarri
tory of the United States must hence
forth be free territory, and all States
hereafter must come in as Free States
Nine cheers
Resolved, That We heartily approve
the course of the freemen of Come cticut
Vermont, Iowa, Ohio, Indiana, Wiscou'
sin and Michigan, postponing or disre,
garding their minor differences of OPT
MON or preference, and acting together