The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-18

thus publicly sssaled and overfhfown and has upor
not entirely sabserysent to those bad dssisns
aud, sss4-ess-s4sss-s7ss.ss -
Whereas, The right Of citizens OF slaveholdina
the free States has of late been asssred and the sci
ATTEMPTED, and In consequence thereof citizen Of
sister Staso has been put In prison under the usuped
or grossly perverted power of federal Judge; There
fore, it q BY the Senate and House Of Represents
tives Of the State of Vermont
Resolved, That the fugitive slave act Of 1850 %
states in subverson of the rights, and fragrant out
rage upon the spirit Of ffee people; and that the
snme ought to be Immediately repealed.
fne territorial code of 1854 which abroeated the
Client prohibition of slavery in said territories and
opened them to the wicked acts and calamitous re-
suits OF that institution gross fraud upon the
Just rights of the peoplea fathless breach of
Tenn public compact of which the slayeholding in
terest had already reaped the full benefit insult to
the free States and in violation of the natural rghta
civilized world.
Resolved, That the armed and unawfu invasion OF
Kansas by citizens of Missouri and their illegal and
forcbe exclusion of the people of that territory from
All the political rights to which they entitled in
ishing slavery therein under the semblance of law
was an act of atrocty unequaed in the political his
tory OF this nation and directly subversve ofthe fun
damental principles of republican government and
that the State of Missouri will be justly chargenbe
as party to that wrong unless she publicly and dis
cry means In her power to prevent a recurrence
thereof. :
Resolved, That the non nnterference of the federal
sdm,inistraton to prevent or punish said outrages
sorry thereto, and unworthy of the confidence re.
spect of freemen
Resolved, That Vermont. while she will in no way
assai the constitutional or domestic rights of the
slavehoding States wil to the utmost of her power
upnoid and sustain the people of the territories in
their lawful effort to exclude slavery therefrom
she will at all hazards and to the last extremity re-
nst All encroachmens upon the constitutional rights
OF the States-that to the extent of her ability she
viii oppose the extension Of slavery into and the ex-
tence thereof in the territories of the United States
and the admission into the Union of any State whose
constitution does not perpetually prohibit slavery
therein.
Resolved, That the slave, who treads the soil of a
thereby Mt and forever free, and entitled the
exercise of the whole power of the State, when ne
cessary, in the defence of his freedom.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this General As.
risdction TO issue wts of habeas corpus render
Judgment thereon, except when necessary to the
deriy proceeding of suits pending therein, in
der to inquire into the legality of commitments made
under color OF its authority and therefore, that the
imprisonment of Passmore Williamson, under the
authority of the district court of the United States
for the Eastern District of PENNSYLVANIA, was not
warranted by law, and void
Resolved That our Senators be, and they are here
by instructed to- and Congress
are to do all in their power to carry out the
spirit and intent of the foregoing resolutions.
Resolved, That the Governor be requested to cause
copy of these resolutions, properly certified, to be
sent to each of Senators and Representatives
be by them communicated to Congress-; and that a
copy of the same be also sent to the Governor OF
each State in the Union with request that they be
laid before the Legislature thereof
In House of Representatives, Nov r. 1855:
GEO. 3. THOMPSON, Asst Clerk.
Read and adopted, in concurrence.
e. Caryrv