The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-12-11
PL A T F O R M
OF the National Republican Party,
Adopted at Philadelphia.

RESOLVED, I hat the maintenance of the prin
ciples promulgated inthe Declaration of Inde
pendence. and embodied in the Federal Con-
stitution. are essential to the preservation of
our republican 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 self-evident truth that all men
are endowed with inalienable right to life, lih
ertv, and the pursuit of happiness, and that
he primary object and ulterior design of oul
Federal Government were TO secure these right
TO all persons within its exclusive jurisdiction;
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 te maintain this pro
vision of the Constitution against all attempts
70 violate it for the purpose of establishing
Slavery in the Territories of the United
States, by positive egislation--prohibit
ing its existence or extension therein; :;
that we denv the authority of Congress or OF a
Territorial Legislature, or of any individual or
association of individuals, to give legal exist
ence to slavery in any Territory of the United
States, while he present Constitution shall he
maintained.
RESOLVED, That the Constitution confers
upon Congress sovereign power over the Ter
! rtories 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 polvgamy and slavery.
| RESOLVED. That while the Constitution OF
| the United States was ordained and established
hv the people. in order ''to form more perfect
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 provis-
ions for the protection of the life, liberty and
property of every citizen. the dearest consti.
futional 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 have been set over
them, by whose usurped authority, sustained
| by the military power of the Government, ty-
rannical and unconstitutional laws have been
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 a condition
| of exercising the right of suffrage and holding
office;
The ri ght of an accused person to speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury 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 no effect;
Murders, robberies. and arson have been in
stigated and encouraged, and the offenders
have been allowed to go unpunlshed;
| 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-
noIoo;sts and accessories, both before the coun-
try and before the world, and that it is our fixed
pnrpose to bring the actual perpetrators of
these atrocious outrases and their accornPlces
tn a sure and condign punishment hereafter.
RFso1yEp. That Kansas should be immedi-
atelv admitted as State of the Union. " ith
her present Free Constitution, as at once the
most effectual way of SECURING to her citizens
tbe enioyment 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' plea. that
might makes right. embodied in theOstend cir
cular, vas in 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 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 efl-
cent aid to its construction. and as an auxllia-
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 q
National character. required for the accommo-
dation and security of our existing commerce,
| are authorized by the Constitution. and justified