The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-30
pTs a FO n M
or the National Republican Party,
Adopted at Philadelphia.

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or the National Republican Party,
Adopted at Philadelphia.
RESOLVED, Z hat the maintenance of the prin
ciples promulgated in the Declaration of lnde-
peAtlencc, and embodied in the Federal Con-
| situion. are essential to the preservation of
our lepublican institutions; and that the Fed
eral Constitution, the rights of the States, and
the Union of the States, must and shall be pre-
served
RESOLVED, That, with our Republican fathers,
we hold it to be elfevdent truth that all men
are endowed with inalienable right to life, hh
erty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that
the primary object and ulteror design of our
Federal Government were to secure these rights
to all persons within its exclusive jurisdictions:
that as our republican fathers, when they abol-
ished slavery in all our National Territory,
ordained, that no person shall be deprived OF
| life. liberty or property without due process of
| law, it becomes our duty to maintain this pro-
vision Of the Constitution against all attempts
to violate it for the purpose of establishing
slavery in the Territories Of the United
States, by positive egislation--prohibit-
ing is existence or extension therein
hat we deny the authority 1of Congress. or ora
Territorial Legislature, or of any individual o,
association of individuals, to give legal exist
encc to slavery in any Territory Of the United
maintained.
RESOLVED, That the Constitution confer
upon Congress sovereign power over the Ter
ritories of the United States for their govern
| ment and that in the exercise of this power
it is both the right and the duty Of Congress to
prohibit in the territories. those twin relics OF
barbarism, polygamy and slavery.
| The United States was ordained and established
! by the people, in order 'to form more perGec5
| Union, establish Justice, insure domestic tran
GUILTY., provide for the common defence, to
| promote the general welfare, secure the bles;
sings of liberty" and contains ample provs
ions for the protection Of the life, liberty and
property of every citizen, the dearest consti
tutional rights of the people of Kansas, have
been fruudu!ently and violently taken from
them;
Their territory has been invaded by armed
| force; ~
Spurious and pretended Legislative, Judi.
cial aud Executive officers have been set over
them, by whose usurped authority, sustained
BY the military power of the Government ty
rannical and unconstitutional laws have beer
enacted and enforced
The right of the people to keep and bear arms
has been infringcd;
Test oaths of ar extraordinalv and entang-
ling nature have been imposed as a condition
of exercising the right of suffrage and holding
office;
The right of an accased person to a speedy
and public trial by an impartial jur, has been
denied;
The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers, and effects, against
unreasonable searches and seizures has been
violated
They have been deprived of life, liberty and
property without due process OF law;
That the freedom of speech and of the press
has been abridged;
The right to choose their representatives has
been made of 10 effect;
Murders, robberics and arson have been in
stigated and encouraged, and the offenders
have been allowed to go unpunished
That all these things have been done with the
knowledge, sanction and procurement of the
present Administration: and that for this high
crime against the Constitution, the Union and
| humanity, we arraign that Administration, the
! President his advisers, agents, supporters, ap-
biologists and accessories, bott, before the coun-
Try and before the world, and that it is our fixed
purpose to bring the actual perpetrators of
these atrocious outraSes and their acconpliceS
10 a sure and condigi, punishment hereafter.
RESOLVED, That Kansas should be immedi
ately admitted as State of the Union " it'll
her present Free Constitution, as at once the
most effeetual way of securing to her citizens
the enjoyment of the rights and privileges to
which they are entitled, and of ending the civi
strife raging in her Territory.
RESOLVED, That the highwayman's plea that
might makes right embodied in theOstend cir
cular, vas every respect, unworthy of Ameri
can diplomacy, and would bring shame and
dishonor upon any Government or people that
gave 1t their sanct on,
RESOLVED, That a railroad to the Pacific
Ocean by the most central and practic.bl
route is imperatively demanded by the inter
ests of the whole country, and that the Federal
Government ought to render immediate and eff
cient aid to its construction. and as an auxllia
ry thereto, the immediate construction of an
EN- grant road on the line of the railroad
RESOLVED, THAI appropriations by Congress
for the improvement of river and harbers of a
National character. required for the accommo-
! dation and security of our existing commerce.
are authorized by the Constitution, and justified
by the obligation of the Government to protect
the lives and property of its citizens.
RESOLVED, That we invite tie affiliation and
cooperation of MN of all parties, however
differing from US in other respects IN thesuppor
of the principles herein declared; and believ-
ing that the spirit of institutions, as we'll as
the Constitution of our country, guarantees lib
erty of conscience, and equality of rights
among citizens we oppose all legislation i'm
pairing their security.