Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-06-28

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The following persons were nominated
Joseph Bartlett, Maine. VIM. S. Baily, Ky.
Geo. q. Fogg, N. II. Thos Spooner, Ohio.
| Lawrence Brainard, Vt. Jas. Richie, la.
Hon. ]. 2. Goodrich, Mass. Hon. Norman s. Judd Ill.
Wm. W. Chase. X. i. z. Chandler, Mich.
| Gideon Wells Conn. John II. Tweedy, Wis.
Hon. L. &. Morgan, n. Y. Andrew J. SteAens, Iowa.
| Jas. I. Sherman, n. J. Cornelius Cole Cal.
| Thos. Williams Penn. Lewis Cephane, d. C.
+. ID. Williams, Del. Judge III. +. Conway Kansas
| George Harris, Md. NJ s. Wilkinson, Minnesota.
George Rye, Va. ii. Shields, Nebraska.
The Hon. DAVID WILMor of Pennsylvania
Chairman of the Committee on Platform, an
nounced that the Committee were ready to re-
| port.
The announcement was received with loud
cheers
Mr. WIIMor then submitted the following
report:
THE PLATFORM
This Convention of Delegates, assembled in
pursuance of a call addressed to the people of
the United States without regard to past po-
litical differences or divisions, who are opDos-
ed to the repeal of the Missouri Compromise !;
to the policy of the present Administration
to the extension of slavery into free Terrific
ry, irffavor of the admission Of Kansas as
| Free State of restoring the action of the Fe-
! deral Government to the principles of Wash
ington and Jefferson and for the purpose of
presenting candidates for the offices of Presi-
dent and Vice President, do
| l. ReSOtre, 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, shall be preserved
2. ResOtred, That with our Republican fa-
| theirs we hold it to be self-eFldent truth that
all men are endowed with the unalicnable right
to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,
and that the primary object and Interior de-
| sign of our Federal Government were to secure
| those rights to all persons within its exclusive
! jurisdiction that as our Republican fathers,
when they had abolished Slavery in all our
| National Territory, ordained that no person
should be deprived of life, liberty, or property,
without due process Of law it becomes our du-
| ty to maintain this provision of the Constitu-
tion against all attempts to violate it for the
purpose of establishing Slavery in the United
States by positive legislation, prohibiting its
existence or extension therein. That we de-
ny the authority of Congress, of Territorial
Legislature, of any individual or association of
in any Territory of the United States, while
| the present Constitution shall be maintained
3. Resoired That the Constitution confers
upon Congress sovereign power over the Ter
riterics 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-Polygamy and Slavery
| Not NH -haT ;fr,4;o Of
| the United States was ordained aud establish
ed by the people in order to "form more
perfect union, establish justice, insure do
"mestic tranquility, provide for the common
" defense, and secure the blessings of Liberty"
and contains ample provisions for the protec-
ton of the life, liberty and property of every
citizen, the dearest constitutional rights of the
people of Kansas have been fraudueutly and
violently taken from them;
Their Territory has been invaded by an arm
ed 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 rights of the people to keep and bear
arms nave Oeen lnringeu
Test oathS of an extraordinary and entang-
ling nature have been imposed as a condition
of exercising the right of suffrage and holding
! office
The right of an accused person to a speedy
and public trial by an impartial jury has been
denied
The right of the people to be secure in their
persons, houses, papers aud effects against I'M
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lated
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 arSons have been
instigated and encouraged, and the offenders
have been allowed to 60 unpuniShed /;
| That all these things have been doue with
| the knowledge, sanction and procurement of
the present Administration, and that for this
| high crime against the Constitution, the Tn
| ion, and humanity, We arraign that Admins
| tration. the President, his advisers, agents,
supporters, apoiosists and accessories either he
fore or after the facts-before the country
and before the world !; and that it is our fixed
purpose to bring the actual perpetrators of
these atrociouS outrsges, and their aecompli-
ces, to sure and condign punishment hereafter
5. Resoire{ That Kansas should be ilnme-
dately admitted as State of the Union, with
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 arc entitled and of ending the ci-
vl strife BOW raging in her Territory
O. Resoiroi, That the highwayman's plea
that might makes right" embodied in the
0Stend Circular, was in every respect nnwor-
thy OF American diplomacy, aud would bring