Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1855-11-22
AMERICAN MEETING.

At meeting of the American Party and
such as sympathise with them, at No. 7, in
the State House, Nov. IA, 1855, B. Daven.
port in the chair,
James M. Slade, ESQ., introduced the fol-
flowing resolutions : ~''.t ~, -H ~
l. ResotUed, That in the principles pro.
mulgated by the seeding delegates Of the
American Party-representing nearly every
free state--at Philadelphia, on the 14th day
of June last, we recognize a comprehensive
platform, on which true patriots, throug bout
the land. should cordially and earnestly unite
as presenting the great leading and living
political issue of the time.
2. Resoived, That we regard the mainte.
nance of the Union of the States to be, in
the language of WASHINGTON, "the primary
object of patriotic desire;' aud that it
can be preserved and made perpetual only
BY faithful adherance to the principles EN-.
bodied in the Declaration Of Independence
confirmed by the Constitution, aud expound.
ed and proclaimed by the great patriots and
statesmen of earlier days.
8, Resoiued That the prohibition of Slave.
ry within the limits embraced by the present
territories of Kansas and Nebraska, as ex.
pressly deereed by the time-bonored and
sacred compact known as the Missouri Com
promise, was annulled in gross violation Of
plighted faith, and in utter disregard of the
popular will that no lapse of time can pal.
late, and no plea for its continuance can jus.
tify this outrageous act that the positive
guarantee of that compact should be uncon.
ditionally restored and that VIC will never
in any event consent to the admission oil
Kansas and Nebraska, or of any part thereof
az Slave States.
4. Resoired, That the rights Of the set.
tiers in territories to the free and undisturbed
exercise of the elective franchise, guaranteed
to them by the laws under which they are
organized, should be promptly protected by
the national executive, whenever violated or
threatened.
5. R,soiped, That we hold it to be the
duty of the federal Government, to free it.
self from all responsibility for the existence
of slavery, and that we adopt the motto
1"No MORE SLAVE STATss,- AND NO MoRr
SLAVE TERHrroaY."
6. Resoiced, That we iud in the Consti
tuition no provision which requires such leg
islation as the Fugitive Slave Law Of 1856
and that as, during seventy years, all cohsti'
tutiouul obligations were able to be fulfilled
without its aid, and may be equally so still
we demand its unconditional repeal.
| 7. Rrsolvcd, That we are determined t.
use all honorable efforts to secure such q
modification of our naturalization laws, aided
by such an elevation of public sentiment, al
will preserve the true interests of the nation
and will guarantee the three vital principles
of Republican Government: SPIRITUAL
PRESTON, FREE BIBLE, AND FREE Schools
thereby promoting the great work of Amsr
icanizing Am'riea.
8. Resoiucd, That we invoke the arm o
legislation to arrest that growing evil, thu
deportation, by ioregh authorities, Of pau
pers and convicts to our shores, and that a
our national constitution requires the chic
Executive of our country to be OF natiy,
birth, we deem it equally important that 9th
er high official functonaries, and especially
our diplomatic representatives abroad, shoulC
also possess no foreign principles to bias thei
judgment or to influence their official ae
ton.
8. Resoiped, That zoe are not opposed t
the emigration of foreigners to our shore fror
tie Old World, who come imbued with th
spirit of Republican Freedom, who seek no
to impose upon as the DEGREES of foreig
ecclesiastical hierarchy, SO eminently foreig
#Hpd hostile to the spirit of our republican il
Situations, but who are willing to labor wit
US in extending and perpetuating the blessing
of civil and religious liberty, until from on
end of our land to the other, all shall be ac