Demoine courier., 1856-08-07

dIIesteu lot staOOlng one oil The com
miitee's policemen while making an
arrest.
The Committee was firmly establish
Johnson remains at Sacra-
Notwithstanding from the mines are
sncouraging-agricul.ural prospects good
-skirmishes in Oregon continue. Col.
Wright 10 not dead-he had a fgh. al
Big Meadows in which 40 Indians and
10 whites were killed. The Oregon
election returns were not all in bu, the
Stale has probably gone Democrat.
CO Owing to our inability 10 attend TO bus
mess last week, and trusting 10 the correctness
of the copy, which we obtained from the
Gieenrood Times, some alteration were made
in the Republican Platform, which were not
noticed until after the publication Of the paper
We again publish the genuine document, taken
from the Washing on National Era. and re-
quest our patrons TO preserve this No. for fu-
ture reference.
THE REPUBLICAN PLATFORM
"1his Convention of Delegates, assembled
III pursuance of .all addressed TO the people
Of the United States. without regard 10 past
political differences or divisions, who are OPP
posed to the repeal Of the Missouri Compro-
mise; TO the policy of the present Administra-
ton; to the extension Of Slavery into free Ter
ritory. in favor of the admission of Kansas as
a free state; OF restoring the action of the Fed
eral Government to the principles Of Washing
ton and Jefferson, and for the purpose of pre-
senting candidates for the Offices Of President
and Vice President, do
Il. Resolre, That the maintenance of the
principles promulgated in the Declar alton OF
independence, and embodied in tue Federal
Constitution, are essential 10 the preservation
of our Republican Institutions; aud that the
Federal Constitution, the rights of the States,
and the union of the States, shall be preserved.
30. Resolred, That, with our Republican
fathers, We hold 1t to be a self evident truth
that all men are endowed with the unalienable
right to life, liberty, and the pursuit OF happi-
ness; and that the primary object and Interior
design of our Fed .ral Government were 10 Sc
curethose rights to all persons within its ex-
elusive jurisdiction; that as our Republican
fathers, when they had abolished Slavery in all
our National Territory, ordained that no per-
son should be deprived Of life, liberty, proper
ty, without due process Of law, it becomes our
duty to maintain this provision of the Consti-
tuition against all attempts 10 violate it, to pre-
vent the establishment of Slavery in the Ter
ritories OF the United States by positive legis-
latlon prohibiting its existence therein. And
We deny the authority Of Congress, Of a Ter
riforial Legislature, or any individual or as
ISOLATION of individuals, to give legal existence
to Slavery in any Territory of the United States,
while the present Constitution shall be main
tanned"
$50. Resolred, That the Constitution confers
upon c 'ngress sovereign power over the Ter.
ritories of the United States for thor govern
ment, and that in the exercise Of this power it
is both the right and the duty of Congress to
prohibit il, its Territories those win relics of
barbarisn,, Polygamy and Slavery.
~. Resotred, That while the Constitution
of the United States was ordained and estab-
lished by the people in order TO sform a more
perfect union, establish justice, insure domes-
TIC tranquility, provide for the common de-
fence, and secure the blessings OF liberty, and
contains ample provisions for the protection Of
the life, liberty, and property, Of every citizen,
the dearest constitutional 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
W 10 uAALltoIy pOWcI Cl Tie JOVef0LQe0Is Nv.
and unconstitutional laws haze been |
and enfoI ced;
.'The rights Of the people to keep and bear
have been infringed;
TEST oaths OF an extraordinary and entan-
Cling nature have been imposed, as a condition |
Of exercising the right Of suffrage and holding
Office;
sThe right Of an accused person to . speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury has been
''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;
"rhe right 10 choose their Representatives
been made Of no effect.
"Murders, Iobberies, and arsons, have been |
instigated. and encouraged, and the offenders
have been allowed to go uppunished;
t'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 AdmiDis:ra-
ton, the President, his advisers, agents, sup
apoirgists, and accessories either be-
fore or after the facts, before the country and
before the world, aid that il is our fixed pur-
pose TO bring the actual perpetrators of these
a~trocious outrages, and their accompliccs, to q
sure and condigh punishment hereafter.
IS. Resolred, That Kansas should be imme-
iiately admitted ~ a State Of the Union, with
Der present Free Constitution, ~ ut once the
most ~effectual way Of securing to her citizens
The enjoyment of the rights and privileges to
they are entitled, and Of the civil
now raging in her Territory. %
sc. Resolred, That The b~ighwayman's plea