Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1859-07-08
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The New Hampshire House Of Represen-
ta'ives held an evening session on Friday, and
discussed and passed the following good reso-
lutions upon the slavery question
Whereas, Our fathers, in rearing the mag
nliicent structure of free Republic, laid its
foundations broad and deep in the eternal
principles Of right and justicc--declaring as
self evident truths that ALL MEN are created
equal, and endowed by their Creator with the
inalienable right to life, Liberty and the pur-
suit Of happiness and whereas, there is a
growing tendency on the part Of those who
control the powers of the general government
to overlook these great and fundamental
truths, and to depart from the early princi-
pie upon which the government was based
therefore,
RESOLVED, That the people of New Hamp-
shire, through their representatives in Legis-
lature assembled, declare their firm and de-
voted attachment to the principles embodied
in the Declaration of ndependence-princi-
pies which triumphed in the Revolution and
fashioned the Constitution and that, in ac-
cordance with the exhortation of James Mad
ison, they will ever remember that the rights
for which America contended "wRRE THE
RIGHTS OF HUMAN NATURE"
2 ResotCed That the government of the
United States was formed to establish JUS
tlce' insure domestic tranquility, provide for
the common defense, promote the general
welfare, and secure the blessings of Liberty )"
that the institution of domestic slavery,
which the trainers Of the Constitution regard
ed as an evil, temporary in its nature, is di-
rcotly opposed to all these endg, inasmuch as
1t violates the first principles Of justice is
fruitful source Of domestic dscord, and an
element of national weakness. tramping un-
der foot not only the rights Of the slave, but
endangering the liberties of freemen; that it
is anti-Republiean, at war with the interests
of free labor, upon which the growth, deve-
opment and prosperity Of our country mainly
depends.
3. Resolvea, In the language of the Legis-
lature of New Hampshire in lS4S. "that we
are firmly and unalterably opposed to the ex-
tension of slavery" and to the further in
crease of slave representation. believing, as
we do, that Freedom is the eternal and para
mount law; that it is stamped upon the ter
ritories of the nation, and should be protected
and maintained there by the Constitution and
all authority under the Constitution.
4. Resolved, That the doctrine of the
United States Supreme Court in the bred
Scott decision, and maintained by the Dem
ocratic" administration, that slavery legally
exists in all the national territories under the
Constitution, and which if carried to its le-
gitimate results, would establish slavery in
all the States, is subversive of the we'll es-
tablished principles of the common law, and
is in direct conflict with all the earlier decis-
ions Of the Supreme Court itself; and that
hp nf Har
hor the guilty fantasy therein contained, that
the Constitution authorizes man to hold prop
erty in man.
D. hesotUed, That we regard all sugges-
tons and propositions of every kind, by
whomsoever made, for revival of the Afri-
can slave trade, as shocking to the moral sem
timents of the enlightened portion of man
kind; F.; and that any action on the part of the
government or people, conniving at or legal
lzing that horrid and inhuman traffic, would
Justly subject the government and citizens Of
the United States to the reproach and execra-
ton of all civilized and Christian people.
g. Resolved, That the development of ex-
travagance and corruption in the administra-
tion of the national affairs, impose upon the
people the important duty Of casting out
those who have proved faithless, and placing
N power men who can be relied upon to re-
luce the public expenditures, lessen the bur-
iens of taxation, and protect the treasury.
T. Resotved, That we regard the usurpaton
md abuse of power by the executive, mani
ested by the present and preceding national
as tending to centralized
iespotism, alike dangerous to the liberties of
he people and the rights of the States and
We warn the people to watch with jealous
'yes the present tendencies TO steal power
rom the many and deposit it with the few
8, Resolved, That no people can long
'e free happy and prosperous, unless labor
inds ready employment and suitable reward,
md believing that the gold taken from our
mines could be better employed in paying our
'wn laborers than to be sent abroad to pay
or the productions of foreign labor, we re-
,ard the encouragement of home industry
nd home products by the fostering hand of
government, as an object eminently worthy
# American craftsmanship,
Q. Resoiued, That we cordially invite all
nen Of all parties to join with us in earnest
ndeavors to prevent the extension of slavery,
nd to restore the government to its original
urity, and to preserve the proud heritage of
american rights and institutions transmitted
D us by our fathers, complete and unimpaired
D those who may come after us.