Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-07-14

1856. n must take its place with other SUBJ
ordinate questions. Doubtless it will be an
element of the elections in Pennsylvania, but
in majority of the States, men will be chos-
en- to Congress with little or no reference to
ii. 1t will not form a party question-better
that it should not.
The Position of the Black Republic
can Party.
The Black Republican State Convention,
which met on the 10Th ult, at Montpelier,
Vermont, adopted the following resolutions
unanimously. We copy them for the purpose
of posting our readers touching the Fl, ture
course of this party, which it appears is deter
mined to give the South no peace:
Resotred That as a branch of the great
Republican party of the nation. we renewed
ly avow our adherence and fidelity to the
platform of principles adopted at the Nation
al Convention at Philadelphia, On The 18th of
June, 1856. ssere
Resolced That as representatives of the
Republican party of Vermont, we glory in
the record which our State holds up to the
world upon those questions which concern
the natural rights and liberties of man--that
she has never for a moment by constitution
or laws, sanctioned 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 Indepen-
dence, sneered at by some and impiously de-
rided by Others, have been to our people
solemn and living reality.
RESOLVED, That it is the crying scandal of
the age, that the National Government in all
its appointments legislative judicial and exc
cutive has been usurped and is controlled by
an oligarchy confined to exalt Slavery at
the expense of Freedom; manifesting of late
its injustice and desperation in the fraudulent
breach of time-honored compromises; in its
forcing by armed invasion and fraud upon an
unwilling people the curse of Slavery and
Government which they abhor; its schemes of
fillibustering and the plumber of weaker ma
tons to open new fields for human bondage.
and in that browning shame upon law. reli-
gion and history. crimsoning the records of
the Supreme Court of the United States in
the bred Scott decision.
Resotred, That the denial by the National
Government of the citizenship of men of
color-citizens of the several States, in pro-
hibiting them from entering citizens upon
the public domein-in refusing passports to
such persons travelling abroad, while recog-
nized as of the State citizens at home, and
in refusing customs registers to vessels own
ed by such citizens-is sad departure from
the principles of our fathers and by its uncon-
stltutlonallty adds the meanness OF gratult-
Gus oppression.
ResolUed, That required by the claims
of humanity and citizenship in defense of
human nature outraged, of the interests of
free labor stricken down. of the free institu-
tons b. queathed to us by our fathers, and in
defense of our own liberty, to resist them and
like aggressions at all times and at all hazards.
Resolced That we accept as the mission of
the Republican party the restoration Of the
-
consistent purity, and to restore to liberty its
lost nationality, TO vndicate'for free labor, for
free men, for man as man their God-given
rights.