Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-08-14
THE REPUBLICAN, PLATFORM.

This convention Of delegates assembled in pursuance
of call addressed to the people If the United States
without regard to past political differences divisions
who opposed to the repeal of the Missouri Compro
mise; the policy Of the present Administration; TO the
ext nson of slavery into free territory; in favor Of the
admission Of Hangs AS Free State; OF restoring the
ton OF the Federal Government to the principles of Wash
ingon andJeerson; and for the purpose of presenting
candidates for the offices Of President and Vice President
do
L Resoiue That the maintenance of the principles
promulgated in the Declaration of Independence, and
embodied in the Federal Constitution, essential to the
preservation CT our Republican institutions; ami that the
Federal Constitution, the rights Of the States, and the
union Of the States, shall be preserved
3 ReSoiUsd, That, with our Republican fathers, we
hold to be self evident truth that all men endowed
with the nalicnable right Of life, liberty, aud the pursuit
Of happiness; and that the primary object and Interior
desn Of our federal government were to secure those
rights to all parties within lis exclusive jurisdiction; that
as oar Republican fathers when they had abolished slave
cry in all our national territory ordained that person
shall deprived of life, liberty, property, without due
process Of law, it becomes duty to maintain this pro-
vision Of the Constitution against all attempts to violate
it for the purpose Of establishing slavery in the United
States by positive legislation prohibiting its existence or
extension thereini that we deny the authority OF Con-
gress, of territorial legislature OF any individual
ISOLATION individuals give legal assistance to slavery
in any territory Of the United States while the present
Constitution shall be maintained.
3. ResO}UeG, That the Constitution coHers upon Con
gress sovereign power the territories of the United
States for their government ard that in the exercise Of
this power is both the right and the duy CT Congress
TO prohibit in the territories these twin relics Of barbarsm,
poygamy and slavery.
T. Reso{ued That while the Constitution Of the United
States ordained and established by the people in
der to form perfect unon establish justice insure
domestic tranquility provide for the defence and
secure the blessings Of lberty and contains ample pro-
visions for the protection othe life, liberty and property
Of every citizen, the deares constitutional rights Of the
people Of Kanzas have been frauduenty and violently
taken from them;
Their territory has been Invaded by armed force;
Spurious and pretended legislative, judicial and
utYe officers have been set HEN, by whose usurped
authority sustained by the military power of the govern
ment, yrannical and unconstitutional laws have been
enac ed and enforced;
The rights of the people to keep and bear arms have
been infrnged;
Test oaths Of an extraordinary aud entangng nature
have been imposed condition OF exercising the rights
OF suffrage and holding Office;
The right of accused person to speedy and public
trial by an impartial jury has been denied;
Therght Of the people to be in their persons,
hous papers, and effects against unreasonable searches
aud seizures, has been vioated
They have been deprived Of life, liberty and property
without due pr0cess Of lev;
That the freedom Of speech and of the press has been
abridged;
The right TO choose er Representatives has been made
Of 10 effect;
Murders, robberes, and arsous have been instga!el
and encouraged and the offenders have been allowed to
so unpunished
That all these things have been done with the knowl-
edge SANCTION and procurement of the presen! Admins
tatOn and that for this high crime against the Coustu
ton the Union aud humanity we arraign that Admins
ratOn the President his advisers, agents, supporters
apOcgss and accessories either before after the facts
before the country and before The world and that it is
our purpose bring the actual perpetrators Of these
outrages, and their accomplces, and
condign punishment hereafter.
5. ResOlCed, That Kanzas should be distely
mited State Of the Union, with her present free
sution, at the most eeotual way of securing to
her citizens the enjoyment Of the rights and privileges to
which they ntted and OF ending the civil strife
raging ia her Territory,
6. Res0lUed That the highwayman's plea that might
makes right, embodied in the 0send circular in
ry respect unworthy of American dI lomacy, and would
bring shame AMI dishjnor upoa any government that
gave it their sanction
T. ReSoiUed, That railroad to the Pacific Ocean, by
the most Central and practical route mperatiyey de-
manded By The interests Of the Whole country, and that
the Federal Government ought to render Immediate and
efficient aid in It's construction, and auxiliary there
20, the immediate construction nf enigrant on
the line OF the railroad
ResoiUed, That appropriations by Congress for the
improvement of rivers and harbors national charac-
required for the accommodation and security Of our
existing authorized by the Constitution and
justified by the obligation Of government to protect the
lives and property OF its citizens.
o. ReSOiUed, That invite the afation and cooper
alton Of the Of al parties, however differing from us
in other respects, in support Of the principles herein de
clared aud believing that the spirit Of institutions,
well the Constitution Of country, guarantees lib
ery Of conscience md equayof rights among citizens,
We oppose I'll legislation imparing their security