Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1856-07-24

thus erected, they may 60"
Those whom he called i" timid, protesting
Democrats " he now calls @ former democrats's
To go further, and show that it is not these
Democrats who now give their adherence to the
Republican party who have departed from the
principles of Democracy, we give couple of
resolutions from the Cincinnati platform, still
further cmbodyng the sentiment Of this Black
Democracy upon the former Democratic
principles. The resolutions areas follows
Resolved, That claiming fellowship with and
desiring the corporation of all who regard the
preservation of the Union under the Constitu-
ton as the paramount issue, and repudiating all
sectional parties and platforms concerning do
nestle Slavery which seek to embroil tho States,
and incte to treason and armed resistance to law
in the territories. and whose avowed purposes,
if contaminated, must end in civil war and dis
union the American Democracy recognize and
adopt the principles contained in the organic
laws establishing the territories of Kansas and
Nebraska as embodying the only sound and safe
solution OF the slavery question upon which the
great national idea of the people of the whole
ICouuGJ Cdu lCpOoC III lto CUllSBTft-
tism of the Union non-interlerence by Con-
gress with slavery in state or territory, or in
the District of Columbia
Resolved, That the ADMINISTRATION Of Frank
lin Pierce has been true to Democratic prnci-
Piles, and therefore true to the great interests of
the country; in the face of violent opposition
he has maintained the laws at home, and vind-
Gated the rights of American citizens abroad
and therefore we proclaim our unqualified ad
miration of his measures and policy"
While the above is the acknowledged plat
form and principles of those who are shouting,
g Beware of former Democrats ~ we will add
u part of the resolutions from the platform of
the Convention which placed Col. j G FIRE.
mont in nomination. We hope the author of
the article in the Patriot will take especial pains
to compare them with those Of the Democracy
in 1913, 40, and 50. They are as follows:
Resolved, That the maintenance of the prin-
ciples promulgated in the Declaration Of indie
pendence and embodied in the Federal Constitu-
ton, are essential to the preservation of our
republican institutions, and that the Federal
Constitution, the rights of the States, and the
, Union of the States, shall be preserved
ResotUcd, That, with our Republican fathers,
we hold it to be self evident truth that all
: men are endowed with the undenable right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and
that the primary object and Interior design of
our Federal Government were to secure these
rights to all persons within it's exclusive iuris-
dlctlon-that as our Republican fathers, when
they had abolished Slavery in all our National
Territory, ordained that no person should be de-
prived Of life, liberty and property without due
process Of law it becomes our duty to main
tain this provision of the Constitution against
all attempts to violate it for the purpose of es-
n tablishing slavery in the United States by posi-
tive legislation prohibiting its existence or ex-
tension therein that we deny the authority OF
: Congress, of Territorial Legislature, of any
y individual or association Of individuals. to give
= legal assistance to Slavery in any Territory OF
the United States, while the present Constitu-
ton shall be maintained.
s Resolred, That the Constitution confers upon
Congress sovereign power over the territories OF
= The United States for their Government and
that in the exercise Of this power, it is both the
right and the duty Of Congress to prohibit in
. the Territory these twin relics of barbarism-
l. polygamy and slavery.
= What is this but reiteration of the princi-
pies of Democracy, as held since the Declara-
ton of orr Independence
j In the face and eyes of these faots-lacts the
r truth of which no one can for moment doubt
we ask, what, in the name of Heaven, is De-
F mocracy! Is it the Democracy of three years
standlng-a Democracy whose principles are in
r direct warfare and antagonism to Freedom or
f Is 1t the Democracy of our Fathers-the De-
O mocracy of the Declaration of Independence,
where it expressly declares that " ALL MEN ARE
CREATED FREE AND EQUAL, which is most en-
titled to the name of Democracy! Then, in the
name of Him who rules the earth, We ask, why
are the thousands who now 60 to make up the
Republican party-go to make up the Democra-
cy of the Peoplc-of Freedom of Justice, and,
r above all, for the maintenance of Equal Rights,
and who are continuing, as they have done for
their whole lives, in the support of principles
s declaring that all men were free and equal
why, we repeat, are they to be branded as " for
mer Democrats " Aye, they ARE "former
, Democrats and present ones also ! = one and the
same united and indivisabe
By the blood Of Ethan Allen, of Warner, of
Chittcnden, and of Harrington, which still
courses through the veins Of the Green Mountain
Boys; by the blood ofStark, which still pulses
in the healthy frames of the bold Yeomanry of
New Hampshire; aye, by the blood of those
who round the watch-frcs of our Revolution.
3 watched our country's glory when the tutsar
star Of Liberty had nearly set-tbosc who with
c their shoeless feet and blood-stained tracks
marched over the SHOWS and through the forests
8 to their winter quarters; by the remembrance
. of these whose martyr blood flowed as free as
; the crystal fountains from our mountain sides
+ and, above all, by the Great Jehovah, who has
o declared that " thou shalt love thy neighbor as
myself let US wage eternal war upon these
e ypocrites-wage battle upon base principles
wherever found, and march, if we must, over
their corrupted bodies to the redemption of our
c country, and the frecdom Of our enslaved broth
, rem
The VEToEs 1T affords the black republican
prints infinite sailsiacton To parade the tacl be
fore their readers that the President veto of the
ST. Clan Flats improvement bills were oyeruled
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