Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1858-02-27
BRATTLEBORO, w.: FEB. 27, 1853.

lhclclH, 10 likc pld'e ON inc bVln uly OF NIdfCI,
1859, and directed how the same should be con-
ductcd, and the returns made to him agrceably
to the law establishing said Territory. On the
day OF election large bodies of armed men from
the State of Missouri appeared at the polls in
most Of tho districts, and by most violent and tu-
multous carriage and domcanor overawcd the
deiensclcSs Inhabitants, and by their own votes
elected "A large majority of the members of 10th
Houses of said Assembly On the returns of
SAID election being made to the Governor, pro-
e'is and objections were made to him in rela-
tion TO a part of SAID districts; and, as TO them,
he sci aside such, and such only, as by the re-
turns appeared to he bad. In relation to 9TH
ers, covering, in all, a majority OF the two llou-
ses, equally vicious i'll fact, but apparently good
10y formal returns, the inhabitants thereof, borne
down by said violence and intimidation, scatter
red and discouraged, and aborng under appre-
tensions of personal violence, rclrancd and de-
sisted from presenting any protest to the Gov
ernor in relation thereto, issued certificates to
the members who appeared by said formal re-
turns to have been elected.
In relation to those districts which the Gov
crnor so set aside, orders were bv him issued for
new elections In one of these districts the same
proceedings were repeated by men from Mis-
souri, and in others moi, and certificates were is
sued tn the persons elected.
This Legislative Assembly. so elected, assem-
blcd at Pdwnee on the 81 dav of july, 1858.
that being ihc time and place for holding sad
meeting, rs fixed by the Governor hy authority
Of law On assembling the said Houses pro-
cceded to set aside and reject those members so
elected on said second election, except in the
district where the men from Missouri had, at
said election, chosen the same persons they had
elected at the said first election, and they admit
Al l.tt a A. 4 H. II L
A Legislative Assembly so created by militia
~ force, by foreign invasion, in violation Of the
organic law, was but a usurpatpn No act of
it, own. no act or neglect oi tho Gov, rnui, ,pull
csalize or sancjfy it, lis own decisions as to
It's own legality are, like it, laws, but the fruits
OF its own usurpallrn. which no Governor could
legitimate That Territorial Legislature passed
the following law:
"Src. II. If any person print, write, introduce
into, publish on circulate, or cause to be brought
into, printed, written, published or circulated, or
shall knowingly aid or assist in bringing into,
printing, publishing orcircuatug within this Ter
ritory, any book, paper, pamphlet, magazine,
handbill or circular, containing any statements,
arguments, opinions, sentiments, doctrines, advice
or innuendo, calculated to promote a disorderly,
dangerous or rcbclous dislilcction, among the
slaves in this Territory, or to induce such slaves
TO escape from the service Of their masters or to re-
sist their authority he shall he guilty Of felony
anu oc pu"'9nyi oy l'' 'sohl''n' anu nara Aoor
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write circulate. or cause 10 be introduced nto ,his
Territory. written, printed, published or circula
ted in this Territory, any book, paper magazine.
pamphlet or circular, containing any denial Of the
right Of persons TO hold Slaves in this Territory,
such person shall be deemed guilty Of felony, and
punished hy imprisonment at hard labor for "A term
oil not le's 'hah TWO years
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