The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-06-25
Republican National Convention.

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Republican National Convention.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1.-THE Re-
publican Convention was called to order
about noop. Hon. Robert Emmett of
New York, temporary Chairman.
The Convention appointed a committee
of one from each State ON Credentials.
The delegation from each State and Ter
ritory naming the member of the Com
mittee.
Mr.. Wilmot offered a resolution for the
appointment of a committee of one from
each State to report a platform, end no
balloting to be had until a platform is
adopted. Agreed to, and the committee
appointed.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The convention re-assembled at four
o'clock, and the reports of the committees
being announced as first in order. The
on organization reported the
following officers:
President--Henry S. Lane, of Ind.
Vice Presidents-A. II. Morrow, Me-;
H. Carpenter, Va; j. Babcock, r. L.;
Jno. R. King, N. Y; Jno. Retner, Pa;
F. F. Cobb, Md; j. D. Beckett, KY;
j. Beard, Ind; R. S. Bingham, Mich;
Jacob Bigelow, D. c.; F.. E. Pomeroy,
Kansas; 81. E. Bennett, Nebraska; A.
Tubbs, n. H.; G. J: Adams, Mass; G..
Cleveland, CT; j. C. Hornblower, n. j.;
S. Barr, Del; G.. Rice, Va; r. P.
Spaulding, Ohio; w. b. Archer, H.; w.
D. Mcknight, Wis; F. Springer, Iowa;
T. w. Folger, Cal.;-and twenty-four
Secretaries.
A committee of three was appointed to
conductthe PRESIDENT to the Chair. When
Mr.. Lane went upon the platform, three
cheers were given to the hoosier State.
He then addressed the convention at some
length. Calls were then made for Ray
mond, Wilson, Pomerey, and Others, but
no one answered. A motion was then
made that Mr.. Wilson be invited to adj
dress the convention. Mr.. Wilson not
being present, Mr.. Smith was called on
by imitation to address the assembly, on
the nationality Of the Republican party.
PLATFORM.
This Convention of delegates assem-
bled in pursuance of a call addressed to
the people of the United States, with
out regard to party. political differences
or divisions, who are opposed to the re-
peal of the Missouri compromise, to the
policy of the present administration, to
the extention of slavery into free terrific
~, in favor of the admission of Kansas as
a free State, of 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 President and Vice Presidtnt, do
Resoiue, That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declaration
of Independence, and embodied in the
federal constitution, are essential to the
preservation of our republican institutions;
and that the federal constitution, the rights
of the States, and the Union of the States
must and shall be preserved.
Resolued, That, with our republican
fathers, we hold it a self evident truth
that all men are endowed with the %inalien-
able right to life, liberty and pursuit of
happiness, and that the primary object and
Interior design of our Federal Government
were to secure these rights to all persons
within it's exclusive Jurisdiction; that as
our republican fathers, when they had
abolished Slavery in all our National Ter
ritory, ordained that no person shall be-
deprived Of life, liberty or property with
out due process of law, it becomes our
duty to maintain this provision of the Cou-
stitution against all attempts to violate it
for the purpose of establishing Slavery in
the United States, by positive legislation
prohibiting its existence or exertion
therein; that we deny the authority of
Congress, oraof a Territorial Legislature,
or of any individuals, or association of IN
dividuals, to give legal existence to Slave
Try in any Territory of the United States,
while the present Constitution shall be
maintained. s
Resolued, That the Constitution confers
upon Congress sovereign power over the
Territories ofthe United States for their
government, and that in the exercise OF
Ethic power, it is both the right and the
duty Of Congress to prohibit in the
Territories, those twin relics of %barbarism,
preligamy and slavery.
Resotced, That while the constitution
of the limited States was ordained and es.
tablishedby the people, inSorderto forms
perfect Union, establish justice and insure
domestic tranquility and. provide for the
common defence, and t~opromotesthe gen
eral welfare, and secure the blessings ol
liberty, ~itcentains ample provisions fol
the protection Of the life, libcrtya and pros.