The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1856-10-09
.PL AT F O R M
OF the National Republican Party,
Adopted at Philadelphia.

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or the National Republican Party,
Adopted at Philadelphia.
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RESOLVED That the maintenance of the prin
ciples promulgated in the Declaration of indie
pendence, and embodied in the Federal Con
stitution, are essential to the preservation o
our republican institutions; and that the Fed
eral Constitution, the rights of the States, ant
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 mer
are endowed with inalienable right to life, lib
erty, and the pursuit of happiness, and thai
the primary object and ulterior design of oul
Federal Government were to secure these rights
to all persons within its exclusive jurisdiction
that as our republican fathers, when they abol
shed slavery in all our National Territory
ordained that no person shall be deprived o
life, liberty or property without due process OF
law, it becomes our duty to maintain this pro
vision of the Constitution against all attempts
| to violate it for the purpose of establishing
Slavery in the Territories of the United
States, by positive gislation--prohibit.
| ing is existence or extension therein
that we deny the authority of Congress, or Of q
Territorial Legislature, or of any individual oil
association of individuals, to give legal exist
ence to slavery in any Territory of the United
States, while the present Constitution shall be
maintained. r- fsa 81 rar
RESOLVED, That the Constitution confers
upon Congress sovereign power over the Ter
ritories 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 oi
barbarism, polygamy and slavery.
RESOLVED. That while the Constitution o
the United States was ordained and established
by 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 ano
property of every citizen, the dearest consti
tutional rights of the people of Kansas, have
been fraudulently and violently taken from
them; s
Their territory has been invaded by an armed
force;
Spurious and pretended Legislative, Judi
cial and Executive officers have been set owe
them, by whose usurped authority, sustained
by the military power of the Government, ty
rannical and Unconstitutional laws have beer
enacted and enforced;
The right of the people to keep and bear arm
has been infringed; A .e
Test oaths of ar extraordinary and entang
ling nature have been imposed as condition
of exercising the right of suffrage and holding
Office; = - fs@G
The right of an accused person to speed,
and public trial by an impartial jury has beer
denied; ,7tl,t .f #s-#
The right of the people to be secure in thei
persons, houses, papers, and effects. agains
unreasonable searches and seizures has beer
violated
They have been deprived of life, liberty ant
property, without due process of law;
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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 unpunished;
! 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, arraign that Administration, the
President, his advisers, agents, supporters, ap
biologists and accessories, both before the coun
try and before the world, and that it is our fixed
purpose TO bring the actual perpetrators oi
these atrocious outrases and their accolnplices
| to a sure and condign punishment hereafter
RESOLVED, That Kansas should be immedi.
ately admitted as State of the Union, " itl
her present Free Constitution, as at once the
most effectual way of securing to her citizens
the enjoyment 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, was in every respect, UNIV orthY of Ameri
can diplomacy, and would bring shame and
dishonor upon any Government or people that
gave it their sanction, @ sl - f
RESOLVED, That a 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 eff
cient 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 a
National character, required for the accommo-
dation and security of our existing commerce,
are authorized by the Constitution, and justified
by the obligation of the Government to protect
the lives and property of its citizens. -
RESOLVED, That we invite the affiliation and
cooperation of men of all parties, however
differing from us in other respectsl in thesupport
of the principles herein declared; and believ-
ing that the spirit of our institutions, as we'll as
the Constitution of our country, guarantees lib.
erty of conscience, and equality of rights
among citizens we oppose all legislation i'm.
pairing their security. ..f
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