Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1856-06-28

PLATFORM. .oR 1asH RErpsLIcAB PARTY.
The following resolutions Of the Republican
Party, must commend themselves to the approval
Of every lover Of his country. They are saim.
hrm and dignifed, clearly asserting what tho
North has long been contending for and what she
will fight most desperately to achieve during the
coming campaign. It 10 . platform upon which
all Anti Nebraska, Ants Pierce, Anti Douglas,
Anti-"Border Rufian" men can unite to put
down the desolating march of unrrincipled pol
iticans, to purify our Government of the cor
ruption that now broods over it. Men Of soul
and lovers of fight! study the sentiments put
forth in the Republican Platform.
THE PLATFORM.
Whereas, this Convention of Delegates, assem-
bled in pursuance Of call addressed to the peo-
pie Of the United States, without regard to party
political differences or divisions, who are opposed
to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise, to the
Policy OF the present Administration, to the ex-
tension Of slavery in Kansas, and in favor of the
admission of Kansas, for restoring the action of
the Federal Government to the principles of
Washington and Jefferson, and for the purpose
of presenting candidates for the Offices of Presi-
dent and Vice. President
Resolved, That the maintenance of the princi-
plies Of the Declaration of Independence and
embodied in the Federal Constitution, are essen
tia to the preservation of our Republican insti-
buttons. The Federal Constitution, the rights of
the States md the Union of the States shall be
preserved.
Resolved, That, with our Republican Fathers,
we hold it to be a self evident truththat all men
are endowed with the inalicnable right of Liber-
| ty and pursuit of happiness; that the primary
object and Interior des gn of our federal Govern
ment was to secure such rights to all persons
| within its exclusive jurisdiction that as our
| Republican Fathers, when they had abolished
| slavery in our national territory ordained that
| no person should be deprived Of life, liberty or
property, without process of law, it becomes our
| duty to maintain this provision in the Constitu-
ton against all attempts to violate it for the pur-
pose Of establishing slavery in the U. S., by pos
tive legislation. prohibiting its extension therein;
that we deny the authority of Congress, of anv
Territorial Legislature, of any individuals or
socation of individuals,to give legal existence to
slavery in any territory Of she U. s., while the
| Constitution confers on Congress sovereign pow
err the territories OF the U. s. for their Gov
eminent, and in the exercise of this power, it. is
the right of Congress to prohibit in the terrific
ries both Polygamy and Slavery.
Resolved, That while the Constitution of the
| U. S. was ordained and established in order to
establish more perfect union, to promote just
ice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defence, and secure the blessings of lib
erty, and contains ample provisions for the pro-
lection IF liberty and property of every citizen,
the dearest constitutional rights of the people Of
Kansas have been sraudulently and violently Ia
| ken from them; their Territory has been lava
ded by an armed force; spurious and pretended
| judicial and Xecltive h.ers have been set over
| them, by whose usurped authority, sustained bv
the military power OF the government ,tyrannical
and unconstitutional laws have been enacted and
enforced, the rights OF the people to keep and
bear arms have been infrnged; the right Of suf-
frage and holding Offices, the right Of an accused
person TO speedy trial by an impartial jury,
have been denied: the right of the people to Sc
cure in their houses, papers and effects against
unreasonable searches and I'M uries, has been vi
olatei; they have been deprived of Life, Liber-
tv and Property without due process of law; tn It
the freedom Of speech and the press has been
| abrdged; the right to choose their representa-
tves has been made of no effect; murders, ROB-
berries and arson have been instIgated and en-
| couraged, and the offenders have been allowed to
20 unpunished;- ali these things have b en-
done tn the knowledge, sanction and procure
m mt Of the present Administration, and that for
thes, high crimes against the Constitution, the
Union and humanity, We arraign the Administra-
tina, the President, his advisers, agents, apollo
gi>ts and accessories, either before or after the
facts, before the country and before the world,
and TINT 1t is our fixed purpose to bring the ac-
tua perpetrators of the atroeiOus ou,rages, and
their acc ompliccs to a sure and condign punish
| ment hereafter.
Resolved, That Kansas slso,lld be a,laittcd as a
State of the Union, with her present Free Con-
| stliution, at once. us the most efcctuil way of
securing to her citizens the enjoyment Of the
rights and privileges to which they are entitled
and Of ending the civil strife DOW raging in the
| Territory.
Resolved, Ibat the highwayman's plea that
might makes r: ght, embodied in the Ostepd Cir
eular, was in every respect unworthy of Ameri-
can diplomacy, and would bring shame and dis
honor upon any government Of People that gave
| j. their sanction.
| Resolved, That 4 Railroad ~ the Pacific, by
the most central and practical route, is impera-
lively demanded by the interests Of the whole
| country, and that the Fedora. Government ought
to render immediate and efficient aid in its inme-
diate contraction, and as an auxiliary thereto,
| the immediate construction Of an emigrant route
| ON the line of the railroad.
Resolved, That appropriations Ivy Congress for
| the Improvement of Rivers and Harbors of M
tional character, required for the accommodate
and security of our extending commerce, au-
thorzed by the Constitution and justified by the
obligation of Government to protect the lives and
| property of our citizens.
l. Resolved, That we invite the utilization and CO.
operation of the men OF all parties, however diff
ferent from US in other respects, in support of the
principles herein declared, and believing that the
spirit Of our institutions, well as the coDstiu-
4 ton OF our country, guarantee liberty of con-
science nnd equality of rights among all citizens,
We oppose all legislation impairing their security.