Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
State Politics,

They certainly present quite contrast to the
wishy -washy Resolutions of lat year. But the
question, it seems to me must force itself unon
every reader of those resolutions, Are they
true? Has Vermont never sanctioned the gull
ty fantasy that there can be property in man
1t seems to me if she has never by laD or con-
stitution sanctioned that guilty fantasy, she has
by her practice-certainly by her Platforms
Take the resolution passed by the Wing party
in 1882 as published in the last Freeman, as
an illustration RESOLVED, "That the series of
acts of the thirty-frst Congress, the Fugitive
Slave Law included, are received and acquisced
in by the Wing party-that we will maintain
them and insist upon their strict enforcement
and we deprecate all further agitation of the
questions thus settled as dangerous to our
peace" &c.
The Democratic Party, of course, did the
same the two parties vieing with each other to
see which should fam, and cratol, and lOallow
most " cheertuHy" in the slime and filth at the
feet of the Slave Power. What have we here
but a sanction of the guilty fantasy" that
there can be property in man, and pledge to
defend that guilty fantasy to throw around
the Slave hunter, as he prowls among tho Green
Mountains, their protection and sympathy, and
defence. Sir, had almost forgotten those res
olutions-would that they could be forgotten
that they could be banished or expugned from
the record of our State.
But has not Vermont in her legislative capacity
at least taCitly sanctioned the " fantasy" of
property in man? Has Vermont ever yet de-
MED the right of the Slave hunter to chase his
victim with blood hounds among the green hills,
and drag him back to interminable bondage
And when, last year, bill was introduced
which looked toward the carrying out of the
doctrine of no property in man, but sixty-six
men could be found in the Legislature of YER
mont-the State that boasts that she has never
sanctioned such guilty fantasy-to vote for it.,
and how many of the men, think you, who vot-
ed for the resolution of SO, and also to dismiss
the Personal Liberty Bill of last year, voted for
the resolutions this year? There must certain
ly have been many such, aud some of them are
candidates for important Offices. Will you, or
some of you're or respondents tell me how an
Abolitionist can consistently vote for them? If
we vote for them it must be with the assurance,
or at least the hope, that they will do better in
future, and of this the resolutions at Montpel-
Ter are an omen.
By-the-way, let the people give them fair
chance to carry out those resolutions by sending
in petitions for the passage of law which
shall show plainly to the world that Vermont
denies the right of man to hold property in
man. Let the Green Mountain State nail her
flag to the masthead, and inscribe upon it
" liberty for all, whether black or white" On
this subject Massachusetts, is taking the lead
shall not Vermont follow? By-the-way, will
you not publish the petition which is being cir
culated in Massachusetts, or something of the
kind, in the Freeman, hoping that the true
hearted men in the different towns will see to
the matter, and send in their petitions to the
Legislature Yours for Freedom,
s. M SEAvER.
P.S. Would it not be well to publish the
{" yeas and nays" on the dismissal of the Per-
sonal Liberty Bill in the last legislature? Few
of your readers have access to the Journal of
the Legislature, and it would seem very proper
when candidates are up for important offices,
that the people should know something of their
antecedents.
I am much pleased with the way you deal
with those old Wing Editors. That's right,
drive them along s.
Happening to have the yeas and nays at hand,
we give them below:
YEAs-Messrs, Ainsworth, Atwood, Baker of
Barton, Baldwin, Bartlett, Bascomb of Milton,
Baxter, Bellows, Bill, Billings, Blaisdell, Blake
Blodgett, Bradley Bradley, Bridgman, Brigham,
Bristol, Brooks, Burdett, Bush, Butterfeld
Byard, Campbell, Carpenter, Chamberlain of
Brookfeld, Chapman, Coburn, Cole, Collins,
Cotton, Congdon, Crossett, Cummings, Davis,
Dean of Barnard, Deane of Cavendish, Dean
of Grafton, Derby, Doane, Dow, Durkee, Dyer,
Elkins of CRANKY, Estabrooks, Farmam, Far
rand, Ferrin, Fisk, George, Gilmore, Graves,
Griffith, Hail. Hamilton, Harding, Hart, Harris
horn, Haselton, Hill, Holllster, Hubbard of
Guidhall, Hyde, jenkins, Jillson, Jones,
johnson of Bartlett, Joy, Kellogg Knowlton,
Lewis, Little, Lynde, McGaffey, Martin of Chel-
sea, Mather, Matteson, Merrill of Montpelier,
Nelson, Olmstead, Paul, Pierpoint, Pitts,
Plympton, Pope, Rich, Riford, Robinson Of
Stowe, Root, Rounds, Sanborn of Sheffield,
Scott, Shoh, Smith of Barre, .Smth of Newark,
Spalding, SPEAKER, Stearns, Stewart, Stoddard,
Taft, Taylor, Thompson, Tibbets, Topliff, Ira
cy, Tucker, UHord, Wordsworth, Walker of
Clarendon, Walter, Warner of Cambridge,
Warren Of Newfane, Weeks, Wells, White of
Londonderry, White of Washington, White of
Windsor, Whitney,
| NAYs-Messrs, Abbott, Aldrich, Barney, Bar
nard, Barton, Boyce, Brown, Burton, Chase,
Cochrane, Colby, Copeland, Day, Drake, Ea-
ton, Edison, Field, Fish of Ira, Flint, Frost,
Goodspeed, Green, Grout, Hebard, Hemenway,
Holmes, Horskin, Howe of Dover, Hunt of
Worcester, Ingalls,, Joyslin of Bloomington,
Joslyn of Pttsfeld, Kneeland, Ladd, Lawton,
Leavens, Lille, Mack, Marsh, Marshfeld, Need
ham, Pollard Post, Prindle, Reed, Renfew,
Robinson of Underhill, Sanborn of Peacham,
Sawyer, Shorwin, Silver, Simonds, Smith of
Greensboro Smith of Ludlow, Smith of Wa
terbury, Snow, Stevens of Walden, Stickney,
Stone, Walker of jay, Warner of Pittsford,
Weber, Westoyer, Wicker, Wiley, Woolson
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