The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-06-21
REPUBLICAN PLATFORM

The following is the Platform adopted at the
Republican Convention held at Philadelphia:
This convention of delegates, assembled in
pursuance of a call addressed to the people of
the United States, without regard to past pc
itical differences or divisions, who are opposed
TO the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to
the policy Of the present administration, to the
extension Of slavery into free Territory; in ia
vor Of the admission Of Kansas as a free State,
and OF restoring the action of the federal gov
ernmcnt to the principles of Washington and
jefferson and for the purpose of presenting
candidates for the offices Of President and Vice
President, do
ResoIce, That the maintenance Of the prtr-
ciplcs promulgated in the Declaration ofinde-
pendcnce and embodied in the Fcders{ Constl-
tuition, are essential TO the prcser'dtlon OF our
republican institutions, and *hat the ederal
Constitution, the rights 0I the States and the
union of the States must, and shall be pre-
served.
Reao5rol, That with our republican fathers,
we hold it to be self evident rdth that all
men are endowed with the unahenable right OF
life liberty, and the pursuit Of happiness. and
that the primary object and Interior design of
our Federal Government was to secure these
rights to all persons within its exclusive juris-
diction; that as our repub lean fathers, when
they had abolished slavery IN all our national
territory, ordained chat DO person shall be de
lpriyed of life, liberty, or property, without due
process Of law it becomes our duty to maintain
| this provision of the cOLsttut on against all
attempts to violate ;t for the purpose Of estab-
| fishing slavery in the United States by positive
! legislation prohibiting its existence or extern
sion therein; that we deny the authority of
Congress, of territorial legislature, of any in
dviduaI or association Of individuals to give
! legal assistance to slavery in any territory OF
the United States while the present constitu-
ton shall be maintained.
Re8olUei, That the constitution confers upon
Congress sovereign poweroye the Territories
of the United States for government, and that,
in the exercise Of this power, it. is both right
and the duty of Congress to prohibit in the
Territories those twin relics Of barbarism, sla-
very and polygamy.
Reso3Ued, That while the constitution of the
United States was ordained and established by
the people in order to form a more perfect
| Union, establish justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the common defence, pro-
mote the general welfare, and secure the bles-
sings Of liberty, and contains ample provisions
for the protection Of the life liberty, and prop
erty ofevery citizen the dearest constitutional
rights of the people Of Kansas have been frau
dulently and violently taken from them, their
territory has been invaded by an armed force,
spurious and pretended legislative, judicial, and
executive officers have been set over them, by
whose usurped authority, sustained by the mil
lltary power of the government, tyranncal and
unconstitutional laws have been enacted and
'elforced, the rights Of the people 10 keep and