Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-08

mont, and upon which as platform, (if its au-
thors had been of any consequence our worthy
Governor would have felt himself called upon to
decline an election. But the people determined
that no such unmeaning declaration of princi~
pics should go out this year, and hence we have
the noble resolutions drafted and presented at
our State Convention by one of the best selected
committees we have had for years
The whole of these resolutions were given last
week. The first and second ones are as follows
81. Resolced, That as a branch of the great
Republican Party of tho nation, we renewedly
avow our adherence and fidelity to the platform
OF principles adopted at the National Conven-
ton at Philadelphia on the 18th of June, 1856.
2 ResotUed, That as Representatives of the
Republican Party of Vermont, we glory in the
record which our State holds up to the world
upon the questions which concern the natural
rights and liberties of man-that she has never
for one moment, by Constitution or law. sane
toned the guilty fantasy that there can be
property in man that the claim of superiority
by birth, prescription, or law, finds no warrant
in her annals but that the great truths of the
Declaration of Independence, sneered at by
some and impiously denied by others, have been
to our people, solemn and living reality"
This is Republlcanism in this State, and if
the Ph@nir and Times are not now satisfied that
the people of the State mediate no modification
of their high and honorable position upon the
"questions which concern the natural rights
and liberties of man, then we advise them to
attempt another modification. Now what is Re-
publicanism in the Nation? The effect of the
Republican principles will be good indication
of what 1t is. by their fruits ye shall know
them" RepuAicanism profosses to bebuta re-
affirmation of the principles of the Declaration
of Independence by our forefathers, and as such
is known in both State and Nation by explicit
terms. Now what are those principles, and
what have they always done? What but those
principles abolished Slavery in all the Northern
of the original thirteen States years ago? What
but these principles applied the ordinance of
1887 to all the North Western Territory? What
but these principles prohibited the Slave Trade ?
What but these principles prevented the extern
sion of Slavery to California and by what but
by these, and these alone, will Slavery now ex-
listing in Kansas by virtue of President Buchan-
ans construction of tho Constitution, be aboL
ished? Is it rot there, and must it not be aboE-
ished if Kansas ever becomes free State? And
what but Republicanism will abolish it? What
but these principles, and their operation in the
Northern States for the last three years, has
commenced a series of demonstrations which
will abolish Slavery in Observation-Disclosures Slave
ry in Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
and, ultimately, wherever under the light Of
heaven 1t exists? Was it not these principles
which gave us Republican victory away down
in Virginia, recorded few weeks ago? Who
then, says Republicanism is not Abolitionism
Surely the PhGnir and Times must be asleep
and their thinkingcaps upon the heads of Ounce
blocks
And who shall protect and maintain those
principles inviolate, but the States, the town'
and the little rural hamlets among the noun
tains, where Morality and Freedom love to Turk
Let us then turn our backs upon by-gones
knowing no men, but contending manfully TO-
the eternal principles of our forefathers and o
true Republicanism.