The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-06-21

his advisers, agents, supporters, apologists,
and access cries, either before or after the
facts, before the country and before the
v orld and that u u our 6xed purpose to
bring the actual perpetrators 81 the atrocious
outrages and their accomplices TO sure and
conlixn punishment hereafter.
Resolved, That Kansas shall be admitted
rs State Of the Union with her present free
as at once the most eGectual
way of securing to her citizens the enjoyment
of the rights and privileges to which they are
and of ending the civil strife now
raging in her Territory.
Resolved, That tho highwayman's plea,
that might makes right, embodied in the os-
tend circular, was IN every respect unworthy
of American diplomacy, and would bring
shame AMI dishonor upon any government or
neoplc thac gave it their sanction.
Resolved. That Railroad to the Pacific
Ocean. by the most central and practical
route, is lmperatively demanded by the inter
csts uf The whole country, and that the Fede-
raj Government ought to render Immediate
and e!fectual aid in its construction, and as
an auxiliary thereto. the immediate construc-
ton Of TN emigrant route on the line OF Rail-
road.
Resolved, That appropriations by Con-
gress for the improvement OF rivers aud har-
Dor. of n national character, required for the
accommodation and security of our existing
con- ~ncrce are authorized by the constitution
and justified by the obligations OF Govern
ment to %, ptect the lives and property OF its
citizens.
Resolved. That we invite the afhliation and
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ever differ mt from Vi in other respects, IN
support of the principles herein declared
ana believing that the spirit Of our institu-
tons ms we'll "a the constitution OF our coun-
try, ruara ntee liberty Of conscience and
equality OF rights among the citizens, We op
pose ali legislation impairing their security
Platform OF the PrO-Slasery De-
m0cracy.
Below il the correct and authentlcatet
Platform ado ted by the great Ebo-shir
Convention, with the exception Of the re
- .ions If 1852, which prefaced it. and arr
in every b,dy's memory:
ASp WHEREAS, Since the foregoing de-
claration was uniformly adopted by our pre-
dccessors "a National Convention, an adverse
political aud religious test has been secretl,
organized by party claiming to be exclu
| sively Amrlcan, i. is proper that that tn
! American Democracy should clearly defn
/ its relations thereto, and declare its deter
mined or osition TO all secret political so
! cieties, BY whatever name they may b.
/ called.
Resolt'e6, That tn, foundation OF thi
! Union OF States having been laid in, an
J its prosperits, expansion, and pre-em,nen
examples a free governments built upon EN-
tire freedom ia matters Of religious concern
ment, aud no respect Of person in regard t
rank or place Of birth. no party can justl
| be deemed national, constitutional, or In &C
| cordance with national principles, whic
bases lis exclusive organization upon re
| ligious opinions and accidental birth place
And hence n political crusade in the nine
teenth century, and in the United States 0
America, ganst Cath olics and foreign borr
is neither justified by the past history G
the future prospects Of the country, ror /
unison win the spirit of federation and er
arged freedom whh peculiarly .hsrr
guishcs tie American system OF popuia
government.
Resoitsl, That we reltcratc With renewe
energy OF purpose, the weli-considered d.
caratlons Of former Conventions upon ii
sectional issue Of Domestic Slavery, an
concerning the reserved right of States,
/. That Congress has no power under tn
. Constitution, 10 interfere with or control II
domestic institutions of the several State
and that such States are the sole and prop,
!. judges Of every thing appertaining to the
own affairs, not prohibited by the Constis,
ton that all efforts Of the abolirionists
, others, made to induce Congress to interior
with questions Of slavery, or to take incipi
ent steps in relation thereto, are cal cuat,
, to lead TO the most alarming and dangero'
Consequences: and that all such efforts ha,
an inevitable tendency to diminish the ha]
. pness of the people, and sndangcr the st
blitv ana permanency Of the Union, Al
, ought not TO be countenanced by any frier
|, Of our pol teal institutions.
: ,. Tint the foregoing proposition cover
and was intended TO embrace. the whole su
n jeet of slavery agitation in Congress n,
therefore, the Democratic party of {
Union. standing on this national platior
n will abide by and adhere to faithful exec
n ton Of ths acts knoS n rs the Compromi
d Measures. settled by the Congress Of lS5
r 81 the act FOR reclaim NJ fugitives from SC
! vice or labor insluled; which bel
n designed to carry out an express provision
! the Constitution, cannot, with fidelity, the,
d TO, be repealed, or so changed as to destr
!. or impair its effciency.
i 3. That the Democra party, in Congr,
or out Of it, the agitation OF the slave
n question, under whatever shape or color Z
i attempt may be made,
! 1. That the Dem ocratic party will fat
is fully abid, by and uphold the principles la
o down in the kentucy and Virginia resolutie
d of 1898, aud in the report of Mr.. Madison
the Virginia Legislature in 1899; that it
If dopts those principles as constituting one
). the main foundations of its political ere
,r obyioas meaning and import.
ar And that we may more distinctly meet