Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-11-25
foregoing Report, do not endorse the whole.
j. Q. HAWKINS,
ii. Henry powERs.
JOINT INSTALLATIONS

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.
ResOiped, by the Senate and House of Reprc-
sertdtoes, That the Constitution of the limited
States invests Congress with the sole power To
govern the torritories-a power also exercised,
and never questioned by any department of the
government, for more than sixty years after The
adoption of the Constitution
Resoloed, further, That in the exercise of
this power, Congress has the same right to ex-
clude slavery, or any other evil, from the Ter
ritories of the United States, that the States
have, BY State legislation, to prohibit the same
in the States; and, us guardians of the public
interests, it is the duty of Congress to exercise
this right.
Resotped, That Congress has no power, by
the Constitution, to create or sanction slavery,
or to recognise its existence in any form and,
consequently, has no right to establish or pro-
tect slavery in the Territories, or to admit new
States into the Union whose constitutions toler-
ate domestic slavery.
Resolred, That Vermont will continue to re-
sist the admission of new slave States into this
Union, and the extension of slavery into tho
Territories Of the United States, and, now as
ever, will seek the abolition of slavery at the
national capital, and in all places under federal
jurisdiction.
RESOLVED, That all laws of Congress which
recognize the right of property in man, or de-
priye any person of liberty without due process
OF law and jury trial, or provide that any
person shall be delivered up, as owing service
to another, without such trial, as unconstitu-
tional, void, and of no effect
Resolced, That property in slaves exists only
by the positive law of force in the States Great
ing it, The moment it passes from under the
operation of these laws, it is property no longer
And whereas the present Federal Administra
tioRand Judiciary have denied to the govern
nent and the people of the United States the
right, which the Constitution guarantees to
them, of prohibiting the introduction of slave
~ into Territories; and have denied the right
of the citizens of the independent States of this
Union to protect their liberties or property, by
instituting suits in the Courts of the United
States therefore,
Resolved, further, Ly the Senate and House of
Representatives. That the doctrine maintained
by majority of the Judges of the Supreme
Court, in the case of bred Scott, that slavery
now exists, by virtue of the Constitution of the
United States, in all the Territories, and in all
places where the Federal Government has iuris-
diction--that the Constitution carries slavery
wherever it cxtends-has no warrant in the
Constitution, or in the legislative or judicial
history of this country
Resolued, That these extra judicial opinions
of the Supreme Court of the United States are
a dangerous usurpation OF power, and have no
binding authority upon Vermont, or the people
of the United States.
Resolued, That no ingenious sophistry of the
judges of that Court can make it appear that
the citizens of each State are not citizens of the
United States, and are citizens aohea in other
States; and entitled, as such, to all rights and
privileges of citizens in the several States.
Reso'ued, That whenever the Government or
Judiciary of the United States refuses or neg
lects TO protect the citizens Of each State, in
their lives or liberty, when IN another State or
Territory, it becomes the duty of sovereign and
independent States Of this Union to protect
their own citizens, at whatever hazard or cost
RESOLVED, That the Senators in Congress from
this State be directed, and our Representatives
requested, to use there utmost indeavors to in
duce Congress to propose amendments to the
Constitution of the United States, limiting the
term of Office of the Judges Of the Supreme
Court of the United States to four years and
that said Judges, togethe rwith the President and
Vice President of the United States, be elect
ted every fourth year, by the ballots of the legal
voters IN the States--a ma ority of all the votes
cast at said election, in all the States, constitu
ting choice.
Reso1ped, That in case of no election Of Pres
ident or Vice President, in the manner prescrib-
ed in the preceding resolution, they should then
be chosen, as such officers are now chosen, by
Congress and in case of no election of such
Judges by the people, then to be chosen in the
same manner the President is chosen in case OF
no election of President by voters of the States;
and in case of no election Of Judges. in the
manner last prescribed, then the Judges hold
ing Office shall continue in the same until the
next election by the voters of the States.
Resolued, That the Governor of the State be.
and he is hereby requested, to transmit a copy
of the House Report on Slavery, aud these Res
olutions, to the Governors of the several States,
and to each of our Senators and Representatives
in Congress.
AN ACT TO SECURE FREEDOM TO ALL PERSON WITHIN
THIS STATE.
IL as hereby enacted, DC.
Sec. |. No person within this State shall be
considered as property, or subject, as such, to
sale, purchase OF delivery nor shall any person
within the limits of this State, at any time, be
deprived of liberty or property without due pro-
cess of law.
Sec. 2. One process of law, mentioned in the
where an attempt is made to restrain or deprive
any person of liberty, be defined to mean the
usual process and forms in force by the laws of
this State, and issued by the Courts thereof and
under such process such person shall be entitled
to trial by jury.
Sec. 3. Whenever any person in this State
SHALL be deprived of liberty, arrested or detained,
on the ground chat such person owes service or
labor to another person, not an inhabitant of
this State, either party may claim a trial by
Jury; and, in such case, challenges shall be al
lowed to the defendant, agreeably to sections
fur and FIVE of chapter one hundred and eleven
of the Compiled Statutes.
l Sec. 4. Every person who shall deprive, or at
tompt to deprive, any other person of his or hel
liberty, contrary to the provisions of the pre-
eodmg sections Of this act, shall, on conviction
thereof, forfeit and pay fine, not exceeding
two thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred
dollars, or be punished by imprisonment in the
State prison for term not exceeding ten years
provided that nothing in said preceding sections
shall apply to, or affect the right to arrest OF
imprison, under existing laws, for contempt o
Court.
Sec s. Neither descent, near or remote from
an African, whether such African is or may
have been slave or not, nor color of skin
or complexion, shall disqualify any person from
being, or prevent any person from becoming, 1
citizen of this State, nor deprive such person o
the rights and privileges thereof.
Sec 6. Every slave who shall come, or bro
Or be in this State, with the consent of his O.
her master or MISTRESS or who shall come, or b.
brought or be involuntarily in this State, shall
be free
Sec. 7, Every person who shall hold, or at
tempt to hold, in this State, in Slavery, or as
slave, any person mentioned as a slave in tn
sixth section Of this act, or any free person O
color, in any form or under any pretence, or 70
any time however short, shall, on conviction