Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-14

such law, can In any possible degree
tend to the welfare of the Union.
That however unequal andopprcssive
the operation of this last act may have
been on your mcmorialists and the ia
habitants of this District generally, yet
still they retain a becoming confidence
i'm the measures of adninistra ton
neither harboring nor exciting 3 pirt
of Improper disquietude.
And your memorialists feel it duty
which they owe to themselves and to
the good people of this District to de-
clare on this occasion that in no part of
the Union do the citizens entertain
more just and noble sentiments of civil
liberty more ardent and undertaking
attachment of the true principles of Re-
publican Government, or gre ter ven
Grafton for the majesty of the laws that
the burdens under which they labor,
still they are mindful of their duty as
citizens. That with whatever solici-
tude they may regard their property.
the hard eaSnings of their industry and
labor, and with whatever sensibility
they may feel its depreciation or its
destruction, yet to them the merited APP
pell tiOn of TRUE AND FAITHFUL CITI-
ZENS is far more valuable, more dear
and sacred. That therefore. with ncao
and unspeakabte astonishment have
they read the Presidents Proclamation
of the 10Th of April last; by which he
appears to have considered the inh abb
tants of this District as in state of in
surrec ton and rebellion against the
laws of the Union! Your mcmorialists
positively and unequivocally declare
that, in their opinion, the conduct of
the citizens of this District had furnish
ed NO cause for such PROCLAIM alton, and
that the same must have been issued in
consequence of erroneous and unfOund-
ed representations, made and transmit
ted to the Executive Depai tment of the
United States by some evil-minded
person or persons. That if individuals,
finding themselves and their families
on the verge of ruin and wretchedness,
have attempted to evade the embargo
restrict ions, and have actually accom-
plished their purpose, this could never
furnish just cause for proclaiming to
the world that instruction and rebel
lion were cha rgeable on the good people
of this District; and with confidence your
memorialists declare their belief that
nothing more than thi: had taken
place.
Your memorialists further state that,
to people who stand as q FRONT GUARD
between their country and foreign
kingdom, between the heritage of free
men and the territory of monarc /, the
unmerited imputation of instruction
and rebellion is of all things the most
degrading, the most insupportable, cs-
pecially when it is considered that DUR
Ing the revolutionary struggles with
Great Britain, and on all occasions since,
when called on by the Government, the
Green Mountain Boys have manifested
an alacrity of spirit, and promptitude
of exertion that Justly and incontestably
characterize them as the true support
ers of Government and law.
In fine, since Congress have confidel
to the wisdom and prudence of the Ex-
ecutive of the United States discre-
tionary power to remove the restric-
lions of which your me.norialists COM
plain, they present to himtheir ardent
request, that the aforemention ed law of
March AZ may be Immediately discon-
tinued, pursuant to the power in him
reposed. And your memorialists, as in
duty bound, will ever pray.
Resolved That the foregoing memo
rial be signed by the Selcctmen in be-
half of the Town, and published in the
st. Adams advertiser, and that print
ed copy thereof be transmitted az soon
as may he, to the Executive Of the Uni
ted States.
A JOHN rGS ArHs,' sclectmcn.
AZk RIAH BROOI.S
attest, Seth Wetmore, Clerk.