The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-08-14
PL LATF O R NJ
sOf the National Republican Party,
Adopted at Philadelphia.


RESOLVED, That the maintenance of the prin
ciples promulgated in the Declaration of Inde
pendence, and embodied in the Federal Con
stitution, are essential to the preservation o
our republican institutions; and that the Fed
! eral Constitution, the rights of the States, ant
the Union of the States, must and shall be pre-
served.
Resolved, That, with our Republican fathers
we hold il to be self-evident truth that all mel
are endowed with inalienable right to llfe, iIo
erty, and the pursuit of happiness, ana ina
the primary object and Interior oes'gn Oh 1u
Federal Government were to secure these righe
10 all persons within its exclusive jurisdiction
tha, as our republican fathers. when they abol
ished slavery in all our National Territory
ordained that no person shall be deprived
life. liberty or property without due process o
law, it becomes our duty &c MAINTAIN tins pro
vision of the Constitution against all attempts
to violate it for the purpose OF establishing
Slavery in the United States, by positive leg
islation- prohibiting lis extension therein
that we deny the authority of Congress, or OF
Territorial Legislature, or of any individual o.
association of individuals, to give legal exist
ence TO slavery in any Territory of the Unitec
States, while The present Constitution shall hi
maintained.
RESOLVED, That the Constitution confers
upon Congress sovereign power over the Ter
u
ment. and that in the exercise of this powe
IL is both the right and the duty OF Congress t
prohibit in the territories, those twin relics o
barbarism, polygamy and slavery
Resolved. That while the Constitution o
the United States wes ordained and established
by the people, in order 'to form more perfec
Union, establish justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the common defence, t
promote the general welfare, secure the bles
sings of liberty, and contains ample provls
ions for the protection of the life, liberty anc
property of every citizen, the dearest consti
tutionai rights of the people of Kansas, have
been fraudulently and violently taken from
them;
Their territory has been invaded by an armed
force;
Spurious and pretended Legislative, Judi
cial and Executive officers h I'VE been set owe
them, by whose usurped authority, sustained
by the militar 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 infringed;
Test oaths of ar extraordinary and entang
ling nature have been imposed as condition
of exercising the right of suffrage and holding
office;
The ri ght of an accused person to a speedy
and public trial by an impartial jur] has beer
denied;
The right of the people to be secure in thei
persons, houses, papers, and effects. agalns
unreasonable searches and seizures has beer
violated;
They have been deprived of life, liberty anc
property without due process of law;
That the freedom of speech and of the pres:
has been abridged;
The right to choose their representatives ha:
been made of no effect;
Murders, robberies, and arson have been in
stigated and encouraged, and the offenders
have been allowed to 60 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, botE before the coun
try and before the world, and that it is our fixed
purpose to bring the actual perpetrators o.
these atrocious outraSes and their accomplices
to a sure and condign punishment hereafter
RESOLVED, That Kansas should be immedi
ately admitted as a State of the Union, W it'll
her present Free Constitution, as at once the
most effectual way of securing to her citizens
the enjoyment of the rights and privileges to
which they are entitled, and of ending the civil
strife now raging in her Territory.
RESOLVED, That the highwayman' s plea. that
'InlRnb TlSuI5 eHlDOQleu III UneOSUenQ clr-
cular, was in every espect,unworthy of Ameri
can diplomacy, and would bring shame and
dishonor upon any Government or people that
gave 1t their sanction,
RESOLVED, That a railroad to the Pacific
Ocean by the most central and practicable
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 auxilia
ry thereto, the immediate construction of an
emigrant road on the line of the railroad
RESOLVED, That appropriations by Congress
for the improvement of river and harbors 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 the afiliation and
cooperation of men of all parties, however
differing from us in other respects, lin thesupport
of the principles herein declared; and believ-
ing that the spirit of our 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.