Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-08-28

rnn DnHp scorr pNoIsIoN
a BLAST FOR THE DEMOCRATS

ed the doctrine Of the majority Of the T. S.
Supreme Court We record the names of
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''''s' NNi''" hLl' ana 'uoBe 1ohN ~ Oo"-
WINE.
lnasmuch as the Sham Democracy Of Yer
mont have committed tbomselvcs =, Tho Otio
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terms-Wc copy the following able letter.
published bv Judge WARDrN.
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on THE Nr,y crtrr or rf,r ..,,,for,,,ric p,sr,,
or ONO
The Democratic Party. I'm Convention. last
Thursday. not only indorscd the Dred Scott
Decision, but declared the concurrence of
the Supreme Court Of Che United St,tes IN
2 the doctrines with regard 20 the constf aiionaf
Powers and Political Rights Of the States
and Territories. which have been maintained
by the Democratic parity" The fourth and
fifth resolutions arc in tlcso words:
"1 B@oieed. That the great doctrine of
popular sovereignty, first proclaimed to the
world in the Declaration Of Independence
reiterated by Mr. jefferson in his resolves Of
1781,-indorsed by the Kansas and Nebraska
Act. and reaflirmod in the Cincinnati platform,
If fairly carried out. viii rid the country alike
of Northern and Southern fanatcism. and fix
es IN perpetuity the existence Of our glorious,
Union
"5 Heo'ced That while we look to no au-
thorlty but reason for our political opinions
we deem it proper to express deep gratiGca-
ton az the concurrence of the Supreme Court
Of the United States in the doctrines with re-
gard to the Constitutional Powers and Poht-
cal Rights of the states and Territories.
WHICH have been maintained by the Democrat
lc Party and formally ayowed by it in three
National Conventions.
The National Convention of June, 1856
recognized and adopted the principles
contained in the organic laws establishing
the Territories of Kansas and Nebraska as
cmbodyius the only sound and safe solution
Of the slavery question: upon which the
great National idea Of the people of this
whole country cam repase in It's determined
by Congress with slavery in State and Terri
tory. or in the District of Columbia.
The "principlcs in the Organic Laws es-
tabiishing the Territories OF Kansas and Ne
braska, were summed up in the Organic Act
as follows 1T being the true intent and
meaning Of this act, not to legislate slavery
into any State or Territory. nor to exclude it
therefrom. but to leave the people thereof
perfectly free to form and regulate their do
nestle institutions in their own way. subject
only TO the Constitution of the United States.
Whom the Kansas act was passed. it was
explained by an the oracles of tile Democratic
party at the North AS comforting on the squat
ters the settlcrs in Kansas, through Torrj-
torial Legislature, full power to allow or to
prohibit the Introduction of slavery; every
, S'f'"ern ioe'noeF"tie Isees. ovgrs Nerthern
De1'oG'a atlc orator insisting tha' no slave
coI'u oe no'I 'li Aansas except uhaer direct
alu e4 press iesls,a'iDn !" 'he IeIu'gry' bu'
now IL seems th9 doctrines WIN regard to
Wy we ''is N'I9.''l owe ana Ioi'llcai
nights ~ 'u1 o'4''S anu territories, pro-
nouic'o ~. oy 'le supreme Court OF 'ne On''ea
N'a''' '5ueUI "-,H 'H'7o "n'ch nave naeh
I'1,l l'''neo 10y 'he ~ 'ihocralie party, ana i'r-
many a'o"ou oy IL IN 'hfee National Con1en-
"oHs
ILL., 'ASn' we "ouiu Ano" the feai meaning
% '"e lang u"Se ci'eu rom inc hahsas Act.
ana Vhe Ie.u meaning OF the recognition
ana ADOPTION Oh its principles by the
Jone convention OF 1906 at Cincinnati we
nave only 20 READ the following sentences
from the syllabus IN the Dred scott case
Ill.,