Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-01
Rennhlican State Convention.


State Committee. The following Officers of the
Convention were then chosen:
For President,
Hon. LAWRENCE BRAINERD, st. Adams
NATHANIEL EATON, of Calais,
JACOB BENNETT, of E. Montpelier, ". Pres.
GEO. L. HODGES. of Rutland,
G. c. BENEDICT, Burlington
W. P. DAVIS, Windsor, Secretaries.
G. ii. CHAPMAN, Ludlow,
Mr.. Brainerd, on taking the Chair, made
some very appropriate remarks.
On motion, the President appointed COM
mittee of five-consisting of Daniel Roberts of
Burlington, E. N. Briggs of Brandon, Daniel
Ncedham of Hartford, A. L. Miner of Man
chester, and B. N. Davis of Danville-to pre-
sent resolutions for the consideration of the
Convention.
A resolution providing for delegate Conven-
tions in future, was referred to the Committee
on Resolutions.
On motion, the Convention voted that each
County meet separately, Immediately on the
adjournment of this Convention, to choose del
egates equal to twice its number of Senators, to
form Nominating Committee to nominate
list of State Officers and also State Commit
tee, and that said Committee report on the re-
assembling of the Convention in the afternoon.
Adjourned till half-past one o'clock, P. NJ.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment
and listened to some very able remarks from
Honorable Jacob Colamer.
The Committee on Resolutions reported
through their Chairman, Mr.. Roberts-as fol-
lows
l. Resolved, That as branch of the great
Republican Party Of the 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 juno, 1856
q ResOIUed, 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 impously denied by others, have been
to our people solemn and living reality.
3. Resolucd, That it is the crying scandal of
che age, that the National Government in all
its partments--Legislative Judicial and Ex-
eeutive-has been usurped and is controlled by
an Oligarchy, combined to exact Slavery at the
expense of Freedom; manifested of late in its
injustice and duplicity 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; in its schemes of fillibuster-
ing and the plumber of weaker nations, to open
new fields for human bondage; and in that
GROWING shame upon Law, Religion and His
tory, crimsoning the records of the Supreme
Court of the United States-the bred Scott de
cison.
Resolred That the denial by the Ma,
tional Government of the rights of citizenship
to men of Color citizens OF the several States,
in prohibiting them from entering as citizens up
on the public domain-in refusing passports to
such persons travelling abroad while recognized
as citizens of the States at home and in refusing
custom registers to vessels owned by such cit-
zen, IS sad departure from the principles of
our .thers-and to its unconstitutionality adds
the noanness Of a gratuitous oppression.
g. Resolved, That we are 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 institutions be-
queathed us by our fathers, and in defense of
our own Liberty to resist these and like aggress
ion at all times and at all hazards.
=. Resolved, That We accept, az the mission
of the Republican party, the restoration of the
government, in law and administration, to its
ancient purty-to restore to liberty its lost ma
tionaliy-to vindicate for free labor free men
and for man as man their God given rights.
Laid upon the table.
The Committee on Nominations reported -
For Governor,
INLAND HALL, of Bennington.
For Lieut.. Governor,
BURNAM MARTIN, of Chelsea.
For Treasurer,
HENRY M. BATES, of Mortified.
For State Committee
l.. E. CHITTENDEN,
CHARLES. CUMMINGS,
: +. E. WOODBRIDGE,
. ELISHA WHITE,
A. l.. MINER,
ALEXANDER RIDDLE,
DANIEL NEEDHAM.
Accepted and adopted
After remarks from Mr.. Howard of Michigan
one of the Kansas Investigating Committee
the resolutions were called up and unanimousl
adopted.
The following resolution was shaped by tn
G Committee and reported without any expression
-. Of opinion:
. Resolved, That the State Committee be il
e structed in calling future State Conventions, t
# call them by delegates from the several town
i in the manner following
i One delegate from each town, and an add
d tional one for every 1000 inhabitants of sue
10 town, or fraction exceeding 500.
: After considerable discussion, it was referre
a to the State Committee, with instructions to L
d port at the next Convention.
1T Adjourned.
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= Washington County Convention.
: The Republicans of Washington County are reques
h to meet in Convention, the Court House in Montpel
on Saturday, July 3d. at 10 O'clock A. NJ for the purpo
of nominating candidates for the several County Office
to be supported at the September election, and for
transaction of any other necessary business.
f.. PUTNAM,
ALVIN BRAILY, County
IF II A HANCOCK,
" JOSEPH BRADIsH, Commit
I'd ASA GEORGE,
June s, 1853
y Orange County Convention.
or INC Nepup''"as '' orange county are requested