Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1855-12-13
THURSDAY. DECEMBER IS. 1855.


/ No. 43 3-Resolulion for the collection Q
, taxes in AREA.
, WHEREAS, it appears by report Of th
, treasurer Of this State, that number Q
towns are in arrears for taxes previous t
the first day Of June, A. d. 1855, there
fore,
Resolred, BY The Senate and House Of Rep
, reseniaiiceS, That the treasurer be directed
f forthwith TO issue eXtents, agreeabiy to tht
= provisions of the statutes in such cases pro
vided, against such delinquent towns 50 il
f arrears for lakes, and thereby seedlly co!IeC
the same
In House of Representatives., Nov. Il, 1865.
Read aud adopted
JEDD P. C. COTTRILL, AssY CIcrk
In Senale, Nov. II, 1850,
Read and adopted ia concurrence.
CLARK II. CHAPMAN, Sect'y.
No. 44.-ReSolutions on so much CT the
Governors ) Message as relates to Kansas.
WhereaS, tho power and influence Of tie
SIavehoIdlng States in this Union has been.
from an early period, successfully e&er'ed IN
extending and strengthening the institution
OF human slavery, contrary to the clear IL
tent of the founders of the government, and
in violation Of the spirit Of the Constitution:
aud
Whereaj, in order still further to extend
slavery and to establish it in the free terri
tories of the United States, there have been
passed the fugitive slave law, so called. and
! the code establishing territorial government
in tho free territories of Kansas and NcOras-
ka, with provisions Inviting the establishment
of slavery therein; and in lurtherance of this
purpose, the citizens Of Missouri have been
suffered TO invade the territory Of Kansas, IN
armed bands, and 70 prevent thereby the
people Of said Kansas from making their
own laws, or elec,ng their own representa-
tives, and by lawlcss iurce to exclude them
from exercising any voce III the government
of said territory and
Whereas, the present administration o! Ih"
general government has lent itself to these
illegal and unjust schemes; and has either
openly aided therein, or secretly connlved
thereat and has taken no steps to execute
the laws, or to protect the people Of said ter
ri,ory in the exercise Of their own conslltu-
tiona rights thusl lpubIcaly assailed and over
thrown, and has, upon false Preiens"s, re-
moved such of its own officers as we're not
entirely suhse:gient TO those bad designs;
and '''
Uhereas, the right Of citizens Of slavehold-
| ing states to hold slaves in, and transport
Il them through, the free states, has Of late
been asserted, and tho act attempted. and IN
Consequence thereof citizen OF Il sister
state has been put in prison under the usurp-
ed or grossly perverted power of federal
Judge; therefore it is by the Senate and
House of Representatives. OF the State d!
Vernon,
Resolred, that the fugitive slave act OF
| 1850 is contrary to the spirit of the consIIIu-
ton o. the United States, in subve'tlon OF
the rights, and Aagrant outrage upon the
spirit Of a free people; and that the same
ought to be Immediately y repealed.
Resolred, that the enactment Of the pro-
Visions of the territorial code oi 1854, wAich
abrogated the ancient prohibition ol slavery
in said territories, aud opened them to tho
wicked acts and caamItous results Ct that
institution, was gross fraud upon the Jusi
rights Of the peopc,-a tathIcss breach OF
solemn pubic compact, o! witch the slave
hoIdln, interest had already reaped the full
benefit, AN Insult to the free states, and IN
violation of the natural rights Of man; and
tina, it merits the condemnation Of tie civil
izcd world.
/ Resolred, that the armed ard unlawful in
yasion of Kansas, by citizens Of Missouri,
and their illegal and torclble exclusion OF the
people OF that territory from all the political
itights to which they were entitled IN the
government thereof, tor the sole purpose q
establishing slavery therein, under the sem
blnucc of law, vas an act of a,roclty une-
oualIcd in the political history OF tins nation,
ard directly subverslve Of the tundamrnai
principles of republican government, aud that
the state Of Missouri win be justly charEea-
Bile as a party 10 that wrong, unless she pub
cIy and distinctly diS0vow said act OF her
citizens, and use every means IN her power
to prevent recurrence thereof.
Resolred that the non-lnterierancs o. inc
federal administration, to prevent OF pVh's"
SAID outrases, justly makes ii, ~ the esI'ha-
ton of mankind, accessory thereto, ana uh-
worthy of the confidence or respect OF Tree
men.
Resolved, that Vermont, whio she will IN
no way assall the constitutional or domestic
rights Of the sIavehoIdng states, VIII 10 inc
utmost of her power, uphold and SUSTAIN 'As
people Of the territories in their lawful ohoFts
tosexcudc slavery thereirom, that she VIII,
at all hazards, and to the last extremity re-
sist all encroachmcnts upon the constitutions
al rights of the states, that to the e$'e"'
Of her ability, she will oppose the extension
of slavery into, and the existence Thereon,
in the territories of the United States, ana
the admission into the Union ot any state
whose constitution does not perpetuaIIy pro-
hib, slavery therein.
Resolved that the slave, who treaos Tue
soil of free state by the consent OF ms '''S'-
ter becomes thereby at once ana forever
A., ~ i,e ayprrISp OF the whole