Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1862-07-18

who were shareholders from their very
t youth. As for the South, they were
boastful people, and had received from
the North courtesies and considerations
they had sadly requited. He had
right to say here to-day that he and 9th
ers of the party to which he belonged,
had yielded to the South more than they
had right to ask, but now was no time
to debate extremes either way. We
must learn some lessons in the school in
which we are now being tried, and he
hoped that we should all be wiser and
better able to protect constitutional liber-
ty everywhere. Mr. Colby closed with
some facetious remarks in regard to the
distinction of races, hardly believing in
any such distinction but was willing to
admit that many of the Southern chiyat-
ry were descendants of mothers who had
run across, or been run across by, some
of the boastful aristocrats.
Hon. D. e. Nicholson of Wallingrord
was then called out, and made one of his
characteristic speeches. He had no new
sentiments to utter-they were senti-
ments of twenty-five years standing, ut
tered in the light of such teachings as
those of Thomas Jefferson. He had
been denounced as fanatic, but he be-
lieved his sentiments were not fanaticism
to-day. We will not attempt to follow
Mr.. n. in his peculiar style of oratory,
as our vocabulary is not so replete in ad-
j"ctiyes as is his, but the sum Of the whole
was that as surely as causes produced
results, so surely should we ultimately
triumph and transmit to our posterity
nation dedicated to freedom.
Hon. Daniel Roberts, chairman of the
Committee on resolutions, then reported
the following for the consideration of the
Convention:
ReSolved, That the issues involved in
the nations struggle with armed rebel
lion are of higher moment than any
questions of ordinary policy. 1t is a
conflict in which is involved freedom and
the perpetuity of the free institutions left
us by our fathers.
ReSotUed, That it is the paramount
duty of the administration to maintain
the national government by suppressing
this rebellion speedily and effectually,
and that the property and slaves of rebels
should be used without scruple, so far as
may be necessary to this end
Res0ived, That we tender our hearty
thanks and gratitude to our brave and
patriotic soldiers in the field, who have
SO nobly perilled their lives for the coun-
try and the cause.
ReS0tved, That we commend TO the
freemen of Vermont the ticket this day
nominated for State officers, as nomina-
lions both fit to be made and to be unan-
imousy supported.
The report of the Committee was ac-
cepted, and the question was upon the
adoption of the resolutions.
Hon. c. W. Willard offered as an
amendment the following resolution,
which he desired to be inserted as the
fourth in the series:
Resolred, That we accept the emanci-
patton resolutions recommended by the
President, and adopted by more than a
wo-thirds vote of both houses of Con-
5ress,-the abolition of slavery in the
District of Co!umbia,-the prohibition of
lavery henceforward, forever, in the
charlottesville Seward-Lyons Treaty
or the more effectual suppression of the
Infamous slave-trade, as pledges that the
Government has cut itself free from all
with slave,y, and will hereaf-
er, in no partizan sense, but according
0 ,he true Interpretation of the Consti-
ution, administer the Government in the
interests Of freedom; and we hope, at
ONE future and not distant day, to see
his country delivered forever from the
urse of slavery.
Mr.. Willard said that we had had two
peeches here to-day from Democrats,
9th indorsing the sentiments of this res
luton, and he thought we should not
estate to put upon the record, the dis
net avowal of the opinions of the peo-
le of Vermont. He believed that if
iere was any one measure more than all
hers TO which the administration of
braham Lincoln was welded, it was
at of freeing this country from the
rse of slavery. The emancipation and
lti-slavery measures were the great dis
lguishiug features of Mr.. Lincoln's ad-
and he believed that they
Ould be endorsed specifically, and not
any vague generalities which may be
nstrued 10 mean either the one thing