The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-07-17
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NATIONAL REPUBLICAN,
PL a r. o R NJ.
Adopted at Philadeiphia, June IS, 1s5


The Hon. DAVID WILMoT, of Pennsylvania,
Chairman of the Committe on Platform, an
that the Committee were ready to
report.
The announcement was received with loud
cheers.
Mr.. W1LMor then submitted the following
report:
THE PLATFORM.
"This convention of delegates, assem-
bled in pursuance Of call addressed to
the people Of the United States without
regard to past political differences or di-
visions, who are opposed to the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise; to the policy
of the present Administration; to the ex.
tension Of Slavery into free Territory; in
favor of the admission of Kansas as a
Free State; of restoring the action of the
Federal Government to the principles of
Washington and Jefferson; and for the
purpose of presenting candidates for the
offices of President and Vice President, do
81 Resolve, That the maintenance of
the principles promul gated in the decla-
ration of Independence and embodied in
the Federal Constitution, are essential to
the preservation of our Republican insti-
tutions, and that the Federal Constitution,
the rights of the States, and the Union
of the States. shall be preserved.
"2 Resolyed, That with our Republi-
can fathers we hold it to be a self-cvi-
dent truth that all men are endowed with
the unalienable right of life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness. and that the
primary object and ulterior design of our
Federal Government were to secure those
rights to all persons within its exclusive
jurisdiction; that as our Republican faith
ers, when they had abolished Slavery in
all our National Territory. ordained that
no person should be deprived of life. lib
erty, or property, without due process oi
law, it becomes our juty to maintain this
provision of the Constitution against all
attempts to violate it, to prevent the es-
tablishment of Slavery in the territories
of the United States by positive legisla-
ton, prohibiting its existence therein -
And we deny the authority of Congress,
of Territorial Legislature, or of any in.
dividual or association of individuals, to
give legal existence to Slavery in any
Territory of the United States while the
present Constitution shall be maintained
"3. Resolved, That the Constitution
confers upon Congress sovereign power
over the Territories of the United States
for their government, and that in the ex
ercise of this power it is both the righ
and the duty of Congress to prohibit il
the Territories those twin relics of bar
barism-Polygamy and Slavery.
"a. Resotoed, That while the Consti
tuition of the United States was ordained
and established by the people in orde
to form more perfect union, establisl
justice, insure domestic tranquility, pro
vide for the common defense. and secur
the blessings of liberty and contains am
pie provisions for the protection of the life
liberty and property of every citizen. th
dearest constitutional rights of the peo
, pie of Kansas have been fraudulently an
violently taken from them /;
r Their Territory has been invaded b
an armed force
Spurious and pretended Legislative
Judicial and Executive officers have bee
q set over them, by whose usurped author
: ity, sustained by the military power {
+ the Government, tyrannical aud uncou
stitutional laws have been enacted an
enforced:
r The right Of the people to keep an
bear arms has been infringed;
). Test oaths of an extraordinary and ei